Posts Tagged: Christmas
Quick Takes
Monday's Quick Takes includes lots of new stuff and what you missed during the holiday from STATter911.com.
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What did you do on Christmas? Some additional scenes from around the country.
More fires and videos from this most recent Christmas past.
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Christmas “Feast”
FossilMedic remembers an on-duty Christmas feast.
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Merry Christmas From the Fire Critic
The Fire Critic had to work tonight, Christmas Eve. It isn't a big deal, I don't have the seniority to get this cycle off. That is the life we lead. Luckily I have Christmas Day off. Actually, I get to enjoy a four day break starting Christmas Day. I will be spending the day at home with my family. I cannot make it to Nashville to spend Christmas with my extended family, but we will make it to Richmond on Saturday/Sunday with my wives family.
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At work this Christmas?
What I am grateful for though, is that I have yet to witness grief and loss on the one day that is meant to be for celebration and family. I do not miss having to tell a family that "your father/mother/brother/sister/ son or daughter has died" and watch their world and every future Christmas day fall apart before my eyes. I do not want to be part of that memory.
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Winter’s Fuel
While I am not knocking the fact that today I am getting paid double time and a half holiday pay, I think you can make the arguement that our work in EMS is not the work of material advancement, but the work of mankind. There is a certain privledge in looking out over the community, in being its protector, particularly on Christmas Day.
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We wish you a Merry Walmart and a Happy Best Buy. Not so fast… Enter Kiva.
Enough! Here’s one way to get back to the true meaning of the holidays…
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UPDATED – Firefighter takes tumble after Santa arrives. Lancaster, Pennsylvania captain loses footing at Christmas Tree lighting ceremony and winds up in the hospital.
Fire captain delivers Santa just fine but takes a spill off ladder truck.
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Thanksgiving Call
Today, there are many who will be observing the day without their loved one, who they may have recently lost. It will be bittersweet as they gather and try to share their day.
While the focus of the news is how well sales will do on the day after, I w…
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It’s Happened…AGAIN!
Where I live, 2008 will always be remembered as the year that our downtown changed dramatically, due to fire loss.
On February 2nd, we fought Van Getson’s fire to a stalemate. Our fire department held the fire to the building of origin, when the po…
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Staph Germs/Staph Infections Are Not New
First Published 10/26/07
I have been reading a lot about staph infections lately and the articles are written in such a way that, you would think this is something new. Well, it’s not.
In February of 1970, I went into the hospital for right knee…
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8:45 am, December 25 @ Walgreens
IT WAS A TRADITION BORN FROM PROCRASTINATING TEENAGERS.
My brother and I would wrap the Christmas presents the night of December 24th. The gift was still warm from whatever store it was sitting in hours ago.
I was thinking about that tradition ye…
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Christmas Eve: Fifteen on the Scale
It's Christmas eve. We get called to one of the local nursing homes for rib pain. The room number sounds familiar. As we wheel our stretcher through the lobby, "Good King Wencelous" plays through the speakers.
Gently shone the moon that night, thou…
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