You Gotta Be In It To Win It
I was stimulated when I got there. There were rumors that we were either current to the burn trailer or to Sugar Ridge to practice conduit extrication, and whichever way it went for A Shift was fine with me because I'd at length be responsible for doing real firefighter duties.
We sat far the classroom joking while the Chief and Mike were in the assist planning what we'd be doing. I was trying to visualize how I'd use the spreaders to pop a door, upsetting to remember how heavy that tool was when Rob took me out on 44 that day in the winter, worrisome to guess which other tools we might use. I was psyching myself into a cracked-out-ferret focus be of anxiety when finally Mike called my VIP, the names of the two other rookies, and Shawn's name, and told us all to go cog-wheel up. He sent a few more out and we loaded onto 44, the four of us riding in the no hope together. I was sitting next to Shawn and I noticed that he kept looking at my appliances. He yanked on the nomex hood that I had tucked tipsy the collar of my turn-out coat as if to make sure it was as a matter of fact my hood, and then leaned forward to address the other rookies.
"Rookies, mat up all the way. Neither of you two have your hoods on. When we go out on drills, we strain all our gear." One of them was still trying to get his coat on. The guy next to me asked how to put the hood on, how to rub off last it. That I had done it right and that they had to ask me for pinch was the ego stroke I needed to go into the evening's exercises and from the corner of the eye I could distinguish that I had climbed up a peg in Shawn's estimation.
We arrived and climbed out of the sundries. Carlisle Twp. was at the junk yard doing the same drills we were affluent to be doing, there were probably 15 of them. You don't burden your helmet on the truck, so when I climbed out my chairlady was uncovered and it's pretty obvious that I'm a girl when I don't from anything covering my head. I could see the Carlisle guys looking at me, and granted I don't know for...
