It was a normal, rather quiet shift at Station 53.  You know these shifts.  The nondescript routine days where you are just minutes away fro...

Overheard: (tones) Engine 24, Automatic Fire Alarm, 4359 West 88th Ave..... at Station 24. Engine 24, Automatic Fire Alarm, smoke detector a...

Some great stuff from the Backstep Firefighter , worth a good chuckle, and should be required reading for the new, wet-behind-the-ears young...

Working together means sharing the credit instead of hogging it all for yourself. Update @ 14:25: I've been posting periodic fire and E...

That actually went by a lot faster than I thought it would. I'm not sure I can stand another year of me, though. Oh well.  Onward.