Tuesday, February 17, 2009

New Me....


















Ok so.... Its been A while!! But I am back... I need to post more blogs; I know.. Well I have some new pictures I wanna add; actually I have a TON of new pictures I wanna add... So here are some pics..Ok so this picture above was a van fire!!! I am the one behind the person on the nozzle.. when we showed up to this fire it was cookin! there were about seven to eight people in the van when it "mysteriously" started! who really knows how it started but it was totaled.. and everyone got out safely.. our rookie that we have at our station is on the nozzle!




The pictures to the left and below was a first alarm house fire.. This was most likely arson. It is actually close to where Jens and Kristin live! This fire was very hotttt! We could see the plume of smoke leaving our station! Look at all the foam surrounding our truck! It is foam that we use to suppress fire... It works great but gets everywhere...SO... We had to search the house next door for fire extension so my captain told me to force the door open.. when I tried to donkey kick the door it did not budge (the door was huge!) so I thought OK this time I am going to kick the piss out of it.... When I did; I kicked so hard that my helmet flew off and it still did not budge... so I said enough was enough and I took my axe and busted my way through!! Kinda like the shining "HERE'S JOHNNY!!"





Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

A long Morning


So it is about 4:40 in the a.m. and I'm trying to get out of cruise control so I can make it to north Scottsdale to work on time (by 7). I teach cpr and other classes for the red cross. And to start the morning off I have to drive to a storage unit where we pick all of our gear up (manikins, books, t.v., etc...). It was about five by the time I Left the apartment and headed for the storage unit. well come to find out the storage unit gate is shut down until 6 am. so i sit in my car and wait while listening to my favorite radio show. Well Finally 6 rolls around and I gather my stuff up as quickly as possible so I can get stuck in the morning gridlock on the 101 N. O.K. so now its6:30 and I am trying to find this company (Centex Homes).... (there is one problem, I ran out of computer paper the night before and forgot to bring the post it note that I wrote the map quest directions on) So as stubborn as I am I will not call for directions unless I am desperate. Well after 20 minutes of driving around I called my coworker who was meeting me there and come to find out I am about 10 miles off target.

So I show up fashionably late and hurry up and bring three full bags of manikins up two flights of stairs. my coworker and I are putting together all the manikins when I check My watch and class was supposed to start. So I am wondering where the heck all these people are!!! I send my coworker to investigate and he finds out that the class had cancelled. haha so we take apart all the manikins and I lug it all back to my car.

When I got home I decided to hit the road on the new trek bike my bro gave me. Well I gear up and head outside to start my ride. The ride was good until the last mile or so. Well I thought I had mastered the "clip in take off" and found out quickly that I am a rookie. I Pull up to a Red light and unclip the right foot. well for what ever reason I start to tip to the left in which my left foot is still clipped in. I totally lose my balance and proceed to get into a wrestling match with trek! All the while The lady in a brown mini van is watching the battle unfold next to her... I felt really dumb...just dumb!! So after I TAKE OFF FINALLY there is about a mile back home and I start to sprint on the bike... when something does not feel right I look down and see a flat on the front tire! I am ROOKIE I don't know how to change a flat. so I decided to save the frustration and I picked trek up and carried her home. I will repair the flat before this weekend. But for now its just strictly spin classes at the gym.

Thursday, July 5, 2007

J Dunford


HELLO. HELLO. HELLO. I am new to this whole blog spot deal. but I was clever enough to figure out how to put a picture on my page! This Is My girlfriend tiffany and I in germany (oh, and my big sis in the back).