52 Things I've Learned
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O Six Hundred
Jan
04
O Six Hundred
Six in the morning, Sunday. There are 180 gradations on the Fahrenheit O’meter between water being a solid or a vapor. Apparently, it takes only one of the water-is-a-solid degrees for a collection of state and local officials to muster for a firefighting rite of passage.   Firefighter One...
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None Too Slick
Dec
29
None Too Slick
Schroeckenthal (sp?).  “Shrek”, for short.  Captain 2 Zach’s nickname.  But Schroeckenthal, in full, on the “butt tag”.  Butt tags are the last name tag that hangs off the bottom of the back of a firefighter’s jacket.  In theory, they are there so you know who is in front of you at a fire.  So you...
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Beasts of Burden
Dec
09
Beasts of Burden
Uh-oh.  I just had a negative thought about the fire department.  Let me sit down and try to figure this out.  Is it about somebody at the fire department?  No.  Is it about something at the fire department?  Well, no (the radio thing seems to be moving in the right direction).  Is it about the...
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