Well..I'm Back!!! It has been pretty quiet. Yesterday we rescued a lady from a snake. It was a 4 foot long black snake. It was harmless,but she was scared. We also had a small brush fire. It burned an area about 30 feet in diameter. It could have been a lot worse. It was in a small field surrounded by houses. With as dry as it has been if had gotten out of control it could have been a lot worse.
Over the weekend an 11 year old boy got hurt at the drive-in. He was on the swing set and decided he wanted to get off while he was 15 feet in the air. He hit the wall below the screen. He broke his radius, his clavicle, and had some decent size lacerations. Well the county contracts with a private ambulance service (They aren't worth a darn). It took the ambulance 27 minutes to get there. That was inexcusable. We (the fire department) had him splinted and immobilized waiting on the ambulance. There were some people who were not happy.
Anyhow.... I have had sme good runs lately. I ran 4 miles on saturday and 3.25 on sunday. I used Monday as a rest day. Tuesday and today I ran on the treadmill. I ran 3.5 miles both days. Tommorrow i have a long run planned. I don't have any firm plans on when the next race that i want to run in is but i will soon.
Be Safe.
TTFNSP!!!

Well it has been a few days since I wrote. Last Friday we spent most of the day at the elementary school showing the truck to all the kids. We were showing the last class when we got knocked on a med run. It turned out to be a woman having difficulty breathing. About 5 minutes after we cleared that run we got knocked on another med. run. That one was an elderly lady having a stroke. Yeehaw! We finally got back to the station and finished the reports. I had literally just filed the reports when the tones dropped for a 4 car MVA in front of Polly's with children involved. I thought for sure someone had flipped the car through Polly's parking lot taking out a bunch of people. It turned out to be a 3 car just down the street from Polly's. The children were ok. The meat wagon took one lady to the hospital to be checked out. Nothing major. It looked worse than it really was. No extrication. Not even to pop a door. Oh Well, maybe next time.

It has been pretty quiet this week. We have only had 1 med. run. We went out Monday afternoon and road-blocked for the Crusade For Children. We did pretty good for just being out for an houar and a half.

Not much running news. I have been running almost everyday. I did a speed workout yesterday and i did hills on Monday. Hills suck. Tonight I have a Medium distance pace run planned.
TTFN!

Hey!! We had a 3 car MVA first thing this morning. 2 patients. 1 extrication. Nothing real major we had to take off the door to get the patient out. Two of the vehicles were totaled the third was just missing its bumper and it's brand new 5 X 8 trailer. We were on scene for 10 minutes and we got knocked out for another accident 3/4 of a mile up the road. thankfully we had 2 units on scene so i sent the other unit up the road. That one turned out to be a 2 car MVA with 2 patients. We were busy for about 2 hours on both of these. It made for an interesting morning. BE SAFE!!

Well it has been a good few days. We had a rockin' MVA (Motor Vehicle Accident) on Friday. It was a 2 car, no entrapment, 1 vehicle on fire, 2 patients. We got the fire out in the cargo van pretty quickly. We saved the van, but the engines compartment was shot. 1 patient had a decent head laceration, with some minor scrapes and cuts. the other patient had minor cuts. It wasn't too bad for a friday afternoon. Nothing else exciting, just a couple minor med. runs. We had some bad storms last night but nothing happened in our district. Everyone else was running their butts off. We didn't have a thing.

I finished my week with 23.5 miles. I Took a nice 5 mile run on saturday around some of the backroads. Sunday I finished with a 3 miler around the block. There are a couple races I am thinking of running this summer. Nothing to long or anything. A 10K and a 5K. Then probably nothing until Fast Freddies on Thanksgiving Day.
Well until next time. TTFN!

Well, HELLO ALL!!!!
This is my first blog. You will have to excuse any spelling or grammatical errors because i can't type worth a darn. Anyhow.....I have been a Firefighter/EMT as a volunteer since 2003. I recently became a Career/Paid FF in March. I must say I like it. I work with some really good guys who really know there stuff. We have made a couple good car wrecks but no good fires. A lot of med. runs though.

I also am a runner. I average 20 to 25 miles a week. I have also been in a few races. You see a picture from my last race here ------>
http://www.fleetfeetlouisville.com/images/racephotos/Frostbike%205k%2007/Data/page.htm?43,0
I came in 52nd out of 543. I think I could have done a little better, but thats everyone right? i am planning on running a couple more races this summer and then Fast Freddies Five Mile Foot Feast on Thanksgiving Day. I ran it this past Thanksgiving and came in 150th out of over 500 people. i thought that was pretty good considering it was my first race. AnyWay.... More to come later.