At the Station

It's been a nice slow Sunday today at the station.

Had a business fire alarm and a cardiac arrest. Also went to help a kid that fell off his bike.

First Fire Fatality

I had my first fire fatality early this morning. Engine 4 was initially assigned Rapid Intervention. Once the fire was put out we went in for the secondary search, that's when we discovered the body.

Here's a few links with a little video also. (I'm in one of the videos on the ladder pulling eves of the house down with a pike pole)


http://www.newson6.com/global/video/popup/pop_playerLaunch.asp?vt1=v&clipFormat=flv&clipId1=2687334&at1=News&h1=Person Killed In House Fire

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080713_11_Ahou803771

River Rescue

July 3rd, 2008

Rescue Task Force was sent to the Arkansas River for a 14 year old boy in the river. I was in Boat 4 and we were able to get him out safely. It was really intense for a few minutes, since we were operating about ten feet from the low water dam. It is the coolest thing I've done so far.

Here's a few links to the story.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080703_11_Ateen68740


http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=8616207


http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0708/533127.html

Gotta get better

I've got to get better about staying up to date with this thing! I'm really bad about starting something and not finishing it.

Anyways

Alot has gone on the past couple of weeks. I had my first house fire. We were third engine in so we didn't get to do much. We got assigned to assist with fire attack, so I got to pull hose and pull some ceiling and a door down. It wasn't much, but at least I got to dull down that bright bunker gear of mine.

I also had my first code and fatality. So that's not good news...

Station life is great. We've been given our material to study for the end of probation test, so I've been studing as much as I can.

And I'm gonna get better about posting on here...hopefully

Lil Brosef!

My sister, who also has a blog, beat me to the blog about my lil brother. My bro, Brandon is in the Marine Corps and he is currently stationed overseas in Japan and Korea and all over. He sent in some pictures to my familys website we have and I thought they were pretty sweet.

This was the coastline of Japan as they were flying in.

This is what the helicopter looks like he flies in...freakin big!

I guess they had a "hard landing"...I call it a crash

My lil bro...looks just like me.

And this is his new tatoo, which I think if SWEET!

Graduation Photos

Here are some of those pics I meant to put on here.

Dad was able to come down for graduation and brought

my little sister and Addison, my niece.

Me and the parental units

Me and the family...of course the kids are looking at other things

And of course mom cried...she always does

This is my chief after the graduation...telling me not to be late!

My trucks

So I've been really bad about keeping up with this thing.

Anyways, I realized I didn't have any pictures of my truck(s) up so here
they are. The first is Rescue 4, which we cross man along with the
ladder guys. The second is "Engine 4" until we get a new E 4.
Nick Cates