Lots of cleaning

November 13th, 2005

I slept until about two o’clock pm when I received a phone call from Pete. He had a few questions about my field report from my last case. After clearing it up for him. I decided it was time to get up. I made some lunch and watched TV for a couple hours. I was going to go to Colfax fire and hang out, but I decided to stay at home until I had to go to Pullman for vehicle maintenance.

I wanted to get to the fire station a little early and get a start on my work. I knew it would take a while because we needed to take all the equipment out and clean them and the compartments then put everything back. The compartments were horrible. The middle one where we keep a larger number of hand tools had hydraulic fluid on the floor of the compartment where a sixteen ounce bottle spilled. It took almost a half hour to just get it cleaned up, let alone the tools that are kept in the one compartment. After doing just one side of the rescue I helped with the cab. That took a total of nearly two and a half hours. Normally it would take two and a half hours, give or take, to do the whole rig.

After we were done cleaning, we had to go to station one and get some supplies. Then we went to the hospital where I got my yearly TB test read. Negative again.

When we got back I hung out for a while at the station. I was starving so I was about to leave when we got a call. It was up at the rec center. We did not transport. So we went back to the station and that was it for calls for the night.

I decided to write another entry in the Palousitics blog. It is a local political blog that I was asked to join last week. It can be seen at http://palousitics.blogspot.com/.


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