Remote Control Cars and Trash Can Fires.... This is the life.

We've had some funny calls lately... My duty shift the other night made sure that I was tired!
The evening started out well enough, we got our chores done, hung around the station a bit, and then it came in... A trash can fire at the local lake. We laughed to ourselves about stupid kids, jumped in the truck and ran down there with an APW. (Air Pressured Water extinguisher for you newbs.) "So there I was, fire all around me..." We saved the "structure", aka pavilion, and went on our way. Upon arrival back at the station, I barely had enough time to refill the APW when the page went out, "...to respond to the park for a trash can on fire..." You have got to be kidding me. So we went back. Not so funny this time! We put out the fire in a different trash can. Har dee har. (As a side note, the trash can fires continued for the next few days, but stopped for this evening...)
It was fairly obvious it was going to be one of those nights.
On our way back we got a page for the rescue truck to respond to a person who was run over... by a remote control car. We though dispatch was playing a joke on us. Rescue for an MVA involving a remote control car?? Get out the jaws! Crib it! Grab the struts! Come to find out, we were actually quite useful as the patient was in need of transport. But still...
So we headed back to the station. I was exhausted, went to bed. And the curse struck. Asleep for 5 minutes and the tones went out to go to an "out of control" bon-fire. Come to find out it was perfectly under control and a camp fire.

Anyway, thought I would share those little adventurous tid-bits with you! Luckily the night ended there and I was able to get a little bit of sleep!
As many know, today marks the beginning of Fire Safety Month! I hope everyone is doing their part and checking their smoke alarms as the season for structure fire is upon us.

Personally, not a lot is up. I'm in the rescue class, so when I finish the Rescue Tech I course, I will automatically be an RT II because I've already got all the other certs I need for that. So that's neat! College classes are going reasonably well, I didn't fail my A&P test like I thought I would, so that's great news! Only a few more months and Florida, here we come!
-Jess