Running calls all over

Starting with a call around eleven in the morning Wilcox and I ran a lot of calls today. We did some daytime responses. The first call we actually get on location as the ambulance went en route to the hospital. Van Ness asked us to come to station one to do some stuff with the hose on Rescue. Just as we pulled into the parking lot we went on a second call on campus.

We went to the hospital with them. Then we headed back to station one for the hose stuff. We had to pull it off and put it in the bay. Then we got all the hose from the hose tower and rolled it up. This is the stuff from Monday when we were washing it. We took it up the tower for storage.

It was pretty quiet allowing me to get some work done. I got a message that they wanted to me to do a special side project at work. I got a start on it, but ran into a small wall. So I sent an e-mail to the boss who gave me further direction much later on.

I went down to the station around five forty-five for rig checks. We did not really even get started when we were toned out to a fire alarm at Terrell Library. We got on location and started the building search. It took a while for us to make it through to where we needed to go, but we couldn’t quite get far enough because the doors were locked and we could not get through them all. The alarm was reset by command while we were still looking for the source. Because it stayed reset we called it good.

We waited for an alarm tech to come to the location for about twenty minutes. After a while command made some calls and we cleared the library. Wilcox and I talked about the greek system and some of the issue with it.

We went to station one and loaded a bunch of the hose that needed to be on Rescue. That took some time to get it all on. We went to The Deuce and started to go through the firefighter one books the guys have to do. I got them signed off as I could see they knew what they were doing. We finished off with doing scene lighting and using the different things on Rescue. We were doing different things with the lighting for about thirty minutes.

We got back into the bay do to rig checks. We found a couple problems with different things. One was the bypass value was not working on an SCBA system. We drove down to station one. Just as we were going inside I could hear the pre-tones. We got sent on an injury accident. It was on one-ninety-five at the North Pullman Bypass. We got on location. There were four people, but only one injured. We ended up not transporting anyone.

While on scene I said we need to get a fire alarm now. We headed back to the station to fill our low air bottles and put one out of service when the tones went out for a fire alarm. It turned into nothing at all.

Following the fire alarm we went to get fuel, and headed to the station. It wasn’t all that late, but Wilcox and I had put in almost ten hours at the FD today.

When I got home I saw the reply from my boss about what I should do with the task I got assigned. I spent some time before going to bed, getting the task completed and turned in.