SNOW DAY!

Ok, snow day, no classes, no nothing....except LOTS of accidents.

Popped over to the firehouse to ride the BLS unit for a couple of hours before "class" and JUST missed a great call for accident with injury, possible entrapment. Yeah, key word there MISSED. damnit, i'll have to try again. Those calls come around only once in a blue moon for a BLS unit in our jurisdiction. Oh well c'est la vie.

The county wanted our brush truck and plow in service last night so we tried a little preventative maintenance, mounted the plow and the career guys set out plowing the back lot. No sooner than the engine got toned out then one of the fire guys told us the "plow wouldnt move". Great the public service call center was calling every 5 minutes to see if we could put our plow in emergency service, and now its broken. WONDERFUL.

Well "C" and I pull the brush truck into the bay and start trying to figure out what's wrong with the damned thing. We download the troubleshooting guide, pound on it, get the multimeter out and check the electric connections. No luck! Our company president took the truck and plow over to the apparatus shop last night, seems we need to take better care of our toys when we're not using them. One of the pistons rusted and locked up over the summer.

Got to run a need call on our canteen unit last night though. Started off as an odor in a building callled in by a passer-by, turned into a building fire, then a "oh my god we found a weapon" type dealy, then finally morphed into a hazardous materials call. Took a LONG time, but getting thanked by the firefighters for bringing out the canteen was pretty cool.