The Friendship Manor Express!!

It's day one of the cycle for A shift and we are plumb up against it. Started out the usual stuff, checking off the trucks...cleaning up the house then going to the store for the meals. We decide to make the engine "parade ready". Spending a couple hours cleaning up the diamond plate, brushed aluminum, tires, washing it even painting the exhaust pipe I then remembered...we are in north west...we won't even be anywhere near the St. Patrick's Day Parade....lol. Oh well, the engine looked alot better anyways. After some delicious Drew Abel chili for lunch(then shipping him off to 9) we decide to do a bit of hydrolic and friction loss training. Which then lead to engine ops....look at the Fire Stix in action!!! Nothing beats the Combination Utility pumper Non arial Truck. After a slow morning and afternoon we finally got our first call on the engine....a fire alarm at Friendship Manor. Here's the newly installed Dash Cam 3 taking us on the call.
Note....blogger.com isn't uploading my vid. Maybe next time.





Sorry the first Dash Cam 3 vid is so boring, but that's the roll of the dice.



The second and so far final call of the day was back to Friendship Manor(hence the name of this post) to assist Medic 3 with a difficulty breathing patient. After loading them on the box, we headed back to relax and let the fried chicken we had for dinner settle in our guts.


Well it's official, Battalion chief Ricky Troutt is retiring and I have the proof...here is a pic of the finished tattoo. Note the hire/ retire year on it. 1975-2009. He better retire now of that tattoo will be kinda dumb...lol. Not sure when this year he'll be going but he will be missed. Company 3 at the Green House here will always be there for him...mainly because he lives on Crittendon and his bike shop is on Trinkle and both streets are our first due...lol.

I had to actually take a picture from the picture on my cell phone hence the poor quality, but I promise it says 2009.

As for St. Patrick's Day, people from 3,9,1 and 6 have expressed interest about getting together, enjoying some Paddy's traditions and brotherly fellowship. if anyone has some ideas...let us know. Maybe just meet up downtown in the afternoon or something.

Well, that's about it for tonight. I'll update if we do anything worth updating about. Be safe out there my Brothers and Sisters. Good Night.