06-17-2010, 08:33 AM
Gary S Wrote:Dave, thanks for posting the proto photos and the progress reports. Do you ever get the chance to work on your models when you are on duty? My Uncle was a fireman in Houston, and they often played ping pong or basketball or just watched TV between alarms. Would be cool if you could get some modeling done.
Unfortunately no. The firehouse I work at is one of the busiest in the nation, it doesn't leave us much time for extra curricular activity. Our drills, clean ups, meals, morning work out, etc. are all usually interrupted by alarms, to the point that sometimes you don't even reap the intended benefit of the drill or work out because the interruptions were too numerous. One of the guys did the math last year, between the Battalion Chief, Engine Co., Truck Co., and Ambulance we had 17,700 responses, for an average of one response for a unit in our house every 29 minutes. The average run takes longer than 30 minutes so you can see that we can have multiple units out at the same time, and don't have much time in quarters before the next response. Incidentally, we are also first due to the White House.
More updates tonight I hope.
-Dave