At 6pm on Thursday May 24, I was dispatched to a brush fire in North Port. "They say, its the biggest one we've had in at least 5 years!" It was wickedly intense. My tanker was the third truck on scene. My partner and I tried to hit the fire at its head, but it soon engulfed us. We were surrounded 360 degrees by fire. It was an "OH SH*T" moment. We called for 4 tactical response units, a total 0f 30 trucks and 2 helicopters responded. It took 6 hours to control the fire and all we lost was a boat, trampoline, and a pool cage. It was an aggressive fire with a large fuel load and strong winds which made it difficult to control. Good times. You can find news footage here
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2 comments:
Ran, you forgot to tell the part about how you lost your keys out there and had to call the locksmith to make a new key. and as the locksmith was making the new key a tanker truck showed up with the set of keys you lost but they looked like they had been run over by 5 fire trucks!!! And Steve, remember how I said it would stink to have to do #2 in the middle of a fire? It happened - just not to Randy thank goodness!
EWW! Who had to do a #2?
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