Aug. 18th, 2009 10:27 am
Man's first tool
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muckefuckSecond consecutive day of a planned system outage, so they hustled us out to the lakeside for some hands-on fire extinguisher training. The most smoking hot thing there was not, however, the burning pan of grease but the retired firefighter polar bear daddy presenter. Bad form to chat up someone in front of your colleagues during a staff development exercise, so I contented myself with a manly handshake.
It took a while for the logs to catch enough that we could turn the water on them, so I asked for fire-fighting stories. RFPBD recounted a residential fire that still wasn't out after two solid hose blasts. Only then did he realise that the fire was on the other side of the room and he was spraying a mirror. The observer from the local fire department told us about a residential fire last week that started when a man set some oil on the stove to make french fries and then went to take a shower. "Who does that?" asked a co-worker. "Oh, you'd be surprised," replied Firefighter Dave.
It took a while for the logs to catch enough that we could turn the water on them, so I asked for fire-fighting stories. RFPBD recounted a residential fire that still wasn't out after two solid hose blasts. Only then did he realise that the fire was on the other side of the room and he was spraying a mirror. The observer from the local fire department told us about a residential fire last week that started when a man set some oil on the stove to make french fries and then went to take a shower. "Who does that?" asked a co-worker. "Oh, you'd be surprised," replied Firefighter Dave.
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