It’s Thursday Jan 17th 2008 at 20:30hrs central time and it’s very cold outside and it’s going to get F#@*ing cold this weekend. Glad I’m staying inside… wait, I’m a Firefighter and I have shifts Friday and Sunday. Shit!!! Is it too late to call in sick? Can’t! ‘Cause we don’t get sick day’s. Maybe we’ll get a house fire or better yet a strip mall fire. That would keep us warm. Never will happen, we can’t even get a car fire here.

This is what I wrote on Thursday. The above photo is the house fire we went to on Friday. Well it’s a Trailer Home on fire and It’s not our fire. Lake Johanna had the fire and we were mutual aid for them. We were 2nd due to a Trailer Home fire. COOL! We stayed warm for a little while. My crew did a Great job. I got stuck at the hydrant then I went to RIT (Rapid Intervention Team). I stayed in the cold. Does anyone care?

Sunday Jan 20th 2008 04:30 hrs the tones go off for a fire at a chemical waste treatment plant. The temp was -14 with the wind chill at -26. The fire was small but being a possible HazMat site, everything went slow. At 07:30 hrs everyone started returning back to the station. The first due Engine was frozen; it took the rest of the day to thaw out. The rest of the day was busy with busted pipe calls and false alarms, add in 5 or so medical runs and you start to dream of summer in the Keys’ or winter in the Keys’. It should be in the 20’s by Friday. Everyone will be in shorts by then. This is Minnesota in January, donch know.

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