The wait is over. 7/18/01 at 00:04 hours,tones went out for a report of fire in second story of a home. I had just left the station 45 minutes earlier from a training session on fae. I caught the second truck out and upon arrival,was told by the chief to pull a second line and follow first crew in. This may not mean anything to most of you,but this was alot of responsibility for me,because I'm the newest p.o.c. member of the dept. of seven months and was my first structure fire.
The adrenilin was pumping and the gremlin in my stomach was tring to get out to the point I felt sick. After I calmed myself and breathing down I went to work with the help of other FF. What a rush! Just as the excitment of the first one came the second. 7/24/01 at 19:39 hours report of fire in a home and unknown if persons was out. This one hit close to home,because this home was owned by a close friend of several of the ff's on our dept. Owner was not home,thank god,but the home was a total loss. To make things worse the owner did not have insurance on home or contents.

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