52 Things I've Learned
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606 Sunrise
Oct
24
606 Sunrise
I’m stuck.  Engine 33 has come to a halt and fire fills the view out the windshield, but I can’t move.  Which is gonna be a problem because I’m the one who is supposed to do the GPM on the BTU thing.    As Brewers nation sleeps up one game to none, the pager pre-alert shrieks at 3:55 AM.  Roll...
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Chief 1
Oct
10
Chief 1
I don’t think I ever had a vertical leap of forty inches, but I sure as hell don’t have one today: at sixtyish years old with sixtyish pounds of firefighting gear on.  The back of the still-smoking semi-trailer brought to a halt by fire on I-90 is open, and the Arlington chief wants us to go in to...
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Still Life
Aug
24
Still Life
I was admonished.  Riding in back with Maeve, rear-facing and buckled into her car seat, Amanda requested I keep the frivolity at a level compatible with Maeve’s temporary state of digestive certitude.  Which meant small giggles and smiles were ok, but not the hilarity of last night’s physical...
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