'Tis the season...

Dude.
I just led an interior attack for the first time. I'm still drooling a little bit.
There we were, in the grocery store picking up our dinner for the evening when the page went out. We booked it, first due engine, my officer (Danny) threw me a radio and told me to grab a preconnect while he grabbed another line. I went and stood by at the door with my partner and waited for my officer. He didn't come. Command yells at me to "make entry already!" So I did.
From what I hear, this is how the exterior conversation went:
Chief: Hey are you having commo problems? I keep hearing Jess answer for interior.
Danny: That's because Jess is interior.
Chief: You're not with her?
Danny: No... I sent her in with Tim.
Chief: ....*dumbfounded look*.... In the future, you should go in with your crew.
They let me stay! It. Was. So. Cool.
Ok, granted... The fire wasn't very big and it was pretty much all on the exterior. . . But we didn't know that until I told them!
YES!

In other news, that's the second structure fire within a week... Structure fire season has begun! The unfortunate side of the first structure fire is that it happened to be someone who goes to my parent's church and I know fairly well. On the one hand, the house was nearly destroyed, we salvaged one bedroom and the garage, but on the other hand our response time was extremely fast, if it had been any longer the whole house would have been a loss. They did lose a cat, but the family was safe. They were home at the time. That's the curse of fighting fire in the city you grew up in, while our borough is approximately the size of West Virginia, it's still got a small town feel to it. It definitely won't be the last time I fight fire in someone I know's home.

F.D. Biz aside, life is good! School is going well, my EMT class is awesome! My Anatomy and Physiology class on the other hand really sucks. I have a hard time learning things that I can't see and touch. So when we start talking about things on a molecular level I have the desire to stand up and shout "I want to put sick people in an ambulance and take them to the hospital... I don't need to know about the twists and turns of the double helix!!" But whatever. One good thing about A&P is the cool videos my lecture professor shows us! Please geek out with me on this video, it's the inner-workings of a cell animated and set to really neat music!
http://aimediaserver4.com/studiodaily/videoplayer/?src=ai4/harvard/harvard.swf&width=640&height=520

Well... That's about it. I'm sure if I searched my soul I'd be able to find something more interesting, but why bother.
-Jess