Archive for the 'Fire Fighting' Category

Firefighting Full Circle

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Fourteen years ago in a small town called Dammeron Valley, Utah, a 16 year old starting hanging around the fire station on training nights. Chief Kyle Talbot wasn’t quite sure what to do with this exhuberant young man that wouldn’t go away. After months of putting up with my presence and my yearning to be [...]

The January Flood of 2005

Friday, March 24th, 2006

Part of my job as a volunteer firefighter is to respond to emergencies. Last year on January 12th an unexpected warm rain on top of record snowpack in the Southern Utah mountains caused the local tributaries to overflow there bounds. In all 20 homes were swept into the raging rivers and dozens more were condemned [...]