Back on duty with Pullman

July 24th, 2005

The day started off with my alarm clock going off getting me out of bed to go to Pullman for vehicle maintenance at eight o’clock am. I went to Colfax and grabbed my turn-outs. Then I headed to Pullman. As the other did maintenance on the Engine, Nick and I went on a drive in Rescue thirty-two to get my checked off on that. We spent about twenty minutes driving around.

We went back to the station and knocked out the maintenance on Rescue thirty-two. We also cleaned the floor in the bay. Then we went to station one to fill the cascade system. Following that we headed to the training tower. I worked with the Junk Yard Dawgs to get some training on those. I had seen them the other night but I did not have hands on training on those.

Then we did some stuff with the hoses and flowing water. We did a few different things, such as using a two and a half in line and did the method where you would sit on it and one person could use it to flow water. Mainly it would be used in a surround and drown operation.

Then we cleaned up the hoses and reloaded one of the cross lays. Then we headed back to the station. I went to my office and grabbed my engineer packet. I was going to go out with Brian and get some time driving and pumping.

Shane was driving the engine and he forgot a tire chalk. So we went and got ice cream for us. We all had that at the station. Most everyone left and Brian and I went out in the engine. I was doing really well. I was not hitting curbs or anything. We went down to the end of Illinois street where there is a tight area. I went to take the road with a wide left hand turn around because going the right hand way had a vehicle parked in the way and I thought a left hand turn would have been better. As it turned out I rubbed against a large jagged rock and punctured the outside tire on the engine. I was horrified. Air was leaking like crazy. We stopped the engine and looked at the damage. It was bad.

We called Rudy who was the acting on duty. He came up in the other engine to look. After failing to get a hold of Les Schwab we emptied the water tank and limped it on the remaining tire to ERD. They followed along in the other engine to pick us up there. On the way there I heard the second alarm tone go off. I was thinking some big MCI was going to be called out. It turns out they were toning out that our engine was going to be out of service. I was again horrified. Now everyone knew there was a problem and people knew I was out driving it in. So I knew they would think I did something to it.

When we got back to the station I filled out the paperwork that needed to be filled out. Rudy was pretty cool about it. He said stuff happens. I watched TV for a while. Then I got a call from Nick. He asked what happened to the engine. I told him it got a flat time. It was not the whole story, but it was the bottom line.

I stayed at the station until about eight-thirty. Then I went to Ryans. Joanne was there. We watched a couple episodes of SouthPark that Ryan rented. I had some dinner there. Then I went to my office. I was so tired. I checked my E-mail then I headed to sleep.


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