Crazy Week

What a crazy week!

It all started last Monday - we got paged out to a vehicle fire with a possible trapped occupant. Upon arrival, we discovered at we had a trapped occupant in the vehicle and it was well to late to do anything.

The car fuel was leaking from the gas tank & it was extreemly stubborn to put out. We ended up filling the gas tank with water and it was finally put out. It took us the better part of the day to actually put out the fire. Almost 2 full hours.

On top of that, I ended up answering 6 calls that day, including 2 medical call. We had the car fire, a punctured gas line, a medical call, a punctured gas line again (same location), another medical call & the last one, I don't remember.

Well, all in all, by the Sunday, I had answered 17 calls for the week. That's not too bad considering that I've only been back for 3 weeks.

And then there's yesterday - we where called out to a possible 10-85, accident with death. Well, on our way, we ended up getting an update saying that it was a cement truck that had fallen on a vehicle.

Well, turns out it was a cement wall that had fallen on a construction worker. The poor guy was 27, married & had a 2yr old at home. We also ended up having a crazy number of calls come in too yesterday. The accident, a father accidently drove over his child, another motor vehicle accident and a medical call.

WOW!!!

That's all I can say. I ended up not anwering a "smell of gas" call that came in last night at approx 2030 - cause I wanted to relaxe & spend some time with Allison.

So, all in all, I've answered 25 calls in 3 weeks - that's more then what St-Leonard had when I had left there!

I also heard that Dieppe may be looking to expand it's ranks. I know that there are currently 2 potential openings, but the Chief also said that he'd like to expand to 4 guys per shift. That would mean that there could be 6 openings in the very near futur!

My goal by summers end is also to step up & try to get a promotion. I would like to be considered for at least a casual position and that would mean that I need to figure out what they want from me in order to put me back in the ranks.

Well, that's my crazy week - 'til the next one!