May 7th/8th

This first post is about my first two days of senior project. On saturday Zach asked me if I would like to help him fill some pools at about noon. I thought it would be a great opportunity to do some pump operations. Sam called me just as I was getting to the station and so I said he should come along. Zach showed up with one of his friends so there were the four of us which doesn't really work in the three seater truck. Zach said I should call the Chief and see if I can take the tanker. He said yes so it really worked out in my favor. It is all ways good to get in more driving practice just incase I take that to a Scene or are just moving it around. We were out about 3 hours and filled two loads of water in one of the pools and one load in the other. Then we took the tanker over to Proctor to test if the dump gates were working after sitting all winter they tend to rust shut. Also it is good to change the water in the tank because it gets quite gross after a while. When we went to open the first gate it would open a small amount with someone pulling really hard on it so we opened the other two and were letting them drain and got the rubber mallet out and with a little force got the rust broken off.

Today after a week of no calls we had a med call in the afternoon. It was an unknown type medical problem. With a little trouble finding the actual patient i helped get some information while he was packaged and with a full crew in the ambulance I didn't ride to the hospital. Later about 8 I met up with Andrew and he had picked up the wire to mount the Mechanical siren his dad had donated to for our new 1965 International forestry truck. I have kind of made that truck my little project in my spare time. About a week ago I mounted an electrical siren in it so tonight I took on the project of mounting this siren. It was supprisingly simple. just power two wires to run and one hole to drill. I got it done in about an hour after doing my usual mistakes of butt connecting things and then realizing it is wrong or I put it on the wrong side of the hole i got it done and could not stop playing with the thing. Now I just can't wait to try it out going to the next outside fire. It still hasnt been out all season yet which is good but it will be fun to test it. The Next project in it is mounting the Radio but I might need some help with that one so we will see I'm sure there will be a description of it later in this blog. Tomarrow is the first shift at Franklin hope it goes well.