Judkins is a pyro

Here is Halladay on the buffer.

CO Poisining

We had chores to do for the day and it was cleaning the tile floors. We started with a floor buffer and that was working o.k. but not to Walsh's liking, so he brought his power washer in from his truck. Although the ride on the buffer was fun it didn't get nearly as clean as the power washer.

Now here is the funny thing. The Fire Dept responds on CO (carbon monoxide)alarms all of the time so you would think that we know better then to run a gas engine in the station. Walsh started in the bathroom while the rest of the crew ran the buffer in the kitchen and hallway. We thought after ten minutes we should check on Walsh. We went into the bathroom with our CO monitor and couldn't believe he wasn't dead. The CO levels were at 230 parts per million. We make people evacuate their homes at 35. Walsh is a lunger, he has been a firefighter for 34 years so smoke is like fresh air to him. He wanted to keep going so we locked him in the bathroom with his SCBA and he went to town. I must say the floors were spotless. It was one of the funniest thing that have happened for a while at the fire house. We did get a lot of flack from our other stations.

Playing with Fire

We were experimenting with different types of kitchen products to see what burns the best. Paramedic Halladay in the middle, Engineer Walsh on the right and the Greek God on the left.

Sorry it's been so long since I have written. My computer has been in the shop for a while. Last week the crew and I were eating breakfast at Virg's when we ran into the Ballou's. It was good to see them. We talked for a while because Ben did a ride along with us so he knows the gang. Ben and CAMILLE bought our breakfast. The crew says thank you, that was so nice.
Earlier this month we went to a home in the Ivory home subdivision on 6200 south on an emergency baby delivery. The mom delivered the baby on the floor before we arrived and she was doing CPR when we walked in. It was very chaotic and disturbing trying to take care of the mother and the baby at the same time. The mother had not delivered the after birth yet so it was a concern to us. We tried everything we could to save the baby, but everywhere we touched him his skin would tare apart because he wasn't fully developed. We along with the neonatal flight nurses pronounced the baby dead at the scene and the mother was taken by our Kearns ambulance to the hospital. Bad day again. Tiffany Anderson knew of the family through her dad. I'm not sure how the family is doing but I pray for them.
I will have a few more posts soon. My dad might do a ride along with me and we will see how that go's.