Christmas Cookies!

Since I go back to the station tomorrow, we made cookies for Santa and
some to take to the guys. We got them all cooked and then turned the
kids loose on decorating a few of them.

--Nick Cates

End of Probatation

So yesterday I took my End of Probatation test. I passed with a 99%!! Now that all the studing for that is over, and I thought I would have some more time at the station...I was WRONG! Now I get to start studing for relief driver. I have to start reading a couple of books and learn everything about pumping, which is alot of math...so I'm screwed! I'm pretty excited to get started, and I'm gonna hit it hard so I can try to be one of the first to get my relief driver certification.

"Engine 4, District 1 House Fire"

So yesterday we had a pretty busy shift. I had my first, true first in house fire. It was a detached garage they converted into a small apartment. It wasn't much of a fire, but it gave us something to do. All total we had two working fires yesterday and a couple that were fires but we never got out of the truck. It was one of the busiest shifts I've had since I've been out.

Most of the calls came in through the night. So, we didn't get much sleep last night. Which seems to be happening alot latly.

On other news Landon has pneumonia, but it isn't too bad. Melissa took him to the doctor yesterday and said he is in the begining stages of it. So he's on some antiboditics for 3 days and some cough medicine. He seems to be feeling alot better today than he did yesterday, so seems the medicine is working.