I was assigned to Engine 901 last week for 144 hours.  One call.  Odor of electrical burning at a military building.  Nothing to it.  But, being assigned to the Engine got me a lot of time behind the wheel, and a lot of practice time at the pump during drills.  I am back on dispatch this week, but thanks to four new arrivals on Friday, I am most ( Read more... )

It was another productive week at the resort.  I was assigned to night dispatch all week, which wasn't as bad as last time.  I sacrificed a little daytime sleep to keep up with the two other guys I am working out with, but it'll pay off later.  One of the guys bought the first five seasons of South Park, so I enjoyed some mind-numbing entertainment ( Read more... )

This was a really good week, I must say. I only spent 3 days on dispatch, the other days I was assigned to either the Rescue or the Tanker. Yesterday I spent the entire day driver training on the Tanker. This was interesting... The last time I drove something even close to that size was last December, and unfortunately that was only once. ( Read more... )

Well, night dispatch wasn't horrible, but it was far from the time of my life. I was assigned to it Wednesday night through Sunday night. Being that there isn't much to do over the 12 hour shift aside from 15 minutes of chores; I watched a ton of movies and did some reading. A lot more movies than reading, I will admit, but it's hard from me to ( Read more... )

98Rock (a radio station in Baltimore, for all of you out-of-towners) has a feature that allows you to listen to a live stream of their broadcast over the Internet. I've enjoyed listening to it on my time off when I can get to the Internet Center. It's nice to be able to listen to local news, weather, even traffic reports... not that any of that ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was pretty productive after 5 days of radio duty.  I was assigned to the Rescue for my half-shift day.  The Crew Boss and I went through all of the compartments and toyed with ways to make the Rescue unit operate more efficiently.  We ended up switching the locations of some of the tools, as well as made adjustments to some of the pre- ( Read more... )

Another day, another sunset, another X on the ol' calendar. Does anyone want to guess what I did today? For those of you who guessed 'dispatch,' you were correct. For those who guessed incorrectly, you obviously haven't been keeping up on your reading. We got a call towards the end of my shift, the generator behind the main building caught fire ( Read more... )

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Today I went to the Internet Center to plug my laptop in and upload some pictures. As luck would have it, my laptop decided it was going to not recognize the Internet connection and therefore not allow me to upload pictures. Sorry. I will try again tomorrow. This isn't the best place in the world to need technical support ( Read more... )