Air Evacuation Training

Since joining the fire department, I have had the opportunity to do some interesting training. On this day, the Air Evacuation team flew to our station to do some training. They taught us how to scope our scenes in order to help them find the safest landing zones and much more. Monday night we are all going to a seminar on storm spotting. I am registered to take two 8 hour training sessions this month. The first one is called mass causality incident triage and the second one is fatality management during a pandemic and other emergency events. I thoroughly enjoy working with the fire department. I am glad they provide this kind of training, but I hope we never have to use it. In last night's training, we were given information on what to do if a satellite re-entered the earth's atmosphere. There is a portion of a satellite which is full of fuel that might be re-entering our atmosphere in the next couple of weeks and it could be anywhere in the world but they have to let all first responders know about it so we know what to do under such circumstances.

Color Blind

I really enjoy working with kids. On a lot of my school tours, a few of the 4th graders decide they want to stick by my side during the entire day. This was one such day and these three boys were so cute. They asked their mom to take a picture of them with their tour guide. Since I had really been enjoying these particular kids' company that day, I asked the mom to take a picture for me also. It wasn't until later when I downloaded some pictures off my cell phone that I realized these three boys were from different races. To me they were just great kids and I never paid any attention to race. This is how I live my life. I always say my one prejudice is prejudice people. I will admit that at times I am disappointed with individuals and find that stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason. However, I do not think we can judge individuals when we first meet them based on hair styles, tattoos, color of skin or anything like that. Embracing the differences in people makes each day interesting and I love that.

Anniversary Present

My Dad and Step Mother went to Hawaii to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. The pictures they took were breath taking so making them a scrapbook was actually very challenging. It was hard because I didn't want to do anything to detract from the pictures. I wanted to share a few of the pages from this scrapbook. The last picture is a card I made to go with the book. I hope they love it.

Wanna see my bruise?

Believe it or not, this looks much better than it did two days ago. I was shooting my compound bow on Sunday and I snapped my arm when I sent the arrow flying. Ouch!!