More live fire training

This morning I went to a training for the new livescan fingerprinting system at the jail. That went for about two hours for classroom training. Then they went into the jail to do some hands on training. But I had to get to work. So I headed to Pullman.

I was at work for about an hour when Ryan and I went to Rancho for lunch. We talked about his new job that he got an offer for. He will be moving to Spokane in about three weeks. I am not very happy about it. I will rarely if ever see him now.

I went to the fire station to talk to Heston about my idea for recruiting new firefighters. I want to make some small flyers and business card sized advertisements to hand out to people. They would include the URL for the reserve website. He likes the idea and is going to go over my proposed wording.

I also picked up the equipment for working the WSU baseball game this evening. While I was doing that I learned they are going to do an afternoon session of burning the house. I went to work and found out the dev meeting was cancelled. So I E-mailed an update to Chris and left to go to the live burn. I got there as Engine Thirty-One was going to go en route and take care of the fire like they would in a real call. The fire was really starting to get going when I got there.

There were people all around watching the whole thing. I got a pack and was assigned to the RIT team. So we hung out by our equipment. Once everyone was pulled out of the building they decided to use the PL’s bucket to spray some water on the fire. Howell and James went up into the bucket to do that. I was in RIT with James. So I traded roles with Howell and I became the staging officer. That was my role for the remainder of the fire. We got the fire put out.

Following that we did a quick critique on the site and when we left the critique the college students next door gave us a round of applause. They had a BBQ set up and all sort of chairs. This was their afternoon entertainment. It was really hot outside. Probably the hottest day so far this year.

I helped get some stuff cleaned up and then I had to go the WSU baseball game. I got some dinner and pop and headed to the stadium. I was working the game alone. I staked out my spot in the stadium. Frank from the Tax Dodgers was there. He sat next to me. Bryce was also there working the game. He was assigned to the area I was. We all talked softball for most of the game. The Cougs were playing USC. The Cougs got spanked. Once the game was done I dropped off my stuff at station one and went to the office. I spent the next couple hours on the computer.