So it has been a busy week. Sunday I was on shift it starte dout quiet but got busy real quick. We had a wind storm. No rain, the sun was out, a lot of wind. The wind literally blew me off of my feet 4 or 5 times that day. There were trees going down everywhere. They were blocking roads hitting people, and coming down on top of cars. We started at 10am with our first run and we finally got back in station at 1130pm. We were running nonstop all day.
I was driving down State Road 64 and a tree branch fell on the engine. It dented the officer (passenger) side of the truck and took out a marker light and one of our strobes.
The whole county was out of power. We got power at home on Tuesday. Thankfully we had a generator to keep the fridge and the deep freeze going. There are still a few places around here without power. We have been doing clean up all week. I finally was able to get around to fixing the shingles and flashing that I lost on the house.
Tuesday B-crew got dispatched to a house fire. The address was right down the street so I responded. Chief asked to stop at the address and check it out. I got there. It was a 2 story, woodframe structure with brick veneer. Nothing showing. I entered the structure to find light smoke and the homeowner panicking in the hallway. I asked the homeowner where the fire was and sent her outside. She said in the kitchen. It turned out to be the vent hood for the stove was on fire. I put it out with an ABC extinguisher (which irritated B-crew). To bad for them. They were cool with it because if I hadn't put it out Chief would have because he arrived on scene right after I put it out. Regardless.......I caught some fire.
Not much else going on................Running is good. I got free shoes from Pearl Izumi. Go to saverun.org Great online community about RUNNING!!! I am not training for anything currently. I had planned on training for a couple different races but I decided to hold of until the colder weather and run some winter races. I have been keeping my milage up and have really started incorporating more tempo runs into my schedule. I am starting to see a differnce in my times. Well time to go.
TTFN!!!
