Fire

[mywifeknowseverythin]

Been Working on this since Monday.....Locating Water Services, Fixing Places in our Cannals that Fire Dozers went through, Fixing Main Lines that PG&E are Digging Through to set new Power Poles(LOTS OF THEM).... Anyway,,,,Sad and Tragic...Cant believe people are Freaking Blaming the Fire Fighters for a poor responce!!!!

Auburn Wildfire Tears Path Of Destruction - Sacramento News Story - KCRA Sacramento

[Sc0tt]

God be with you and all of the others that are fighting those fires. I hope you get some help via Mother Nature or something soon.

[wylde1]

I have an uncle who is a career firefighter and though he has never faced anything like what you are I learned from him that heroes are only human and in stressful situations normal people become idiots. If that makes any sense to you. Whether those people realize or not you are heroes.

[wheeler0801]

i agree...MWKE you are an amazing person. keep the chin up, you may not know how many people you're helping by just smiling at them....

[DirtDemon]

That looks absolutely nuts, take care of yourself out there man, and don't worry about people thinking you guys aren't doing your job well, you know that's a bunch of crap and so do most of the rest of us. If it weren't for firefighters, it would be so much worse, they just can't see that because they are upset about losing their home or car, and some of them are just jealous because they aren't as much of a man as you guys are. Good luck to you and your fellow firefighters.

[mywifeknowseverythin]

Ummmmm,,,,,Sorry I gave you guys the Wrong Impression!!!!! I USED TO BE a Fireman....Fought allot of Wild Land and House Fires, Traffic accidents, Welfare Checks and Such for California Dept. Of Forestry.....My Dad Retired CDF after 30 + Yrs....Now I am just a Heavy Equipment Operator for the State Water Agency....I was there while they were putting out the Fire, shutting and locating Water Lines...

I have been on the receiving end of allot of things During my Career as a Fireman....Its often a Thankless Job....

[ALLYRATT]

well MWKE... thanks for all that u have done. My cousin is a Firefighter too(in Illinois) and yes it sometimes seems noone is thankful for what is done.

[DirtDemon]

Ummmmm,,,,,Sorry I gave you guys the Wrong Impression!!!!! I USED TO BE a Fireman....Fought allot of Wild Land and House Fires, Traffic accidents, Welfare Checks and Such for California Dept. Of Forestry.....My Dad Retired CDF after 30 + Yrs....Now I am just a Heavy Equipment Operator for the State Water Agency....I was there while they were putting out the Fire, shutting and locating Water Lines...

I have been on the receiving end of allot of things During my Career as a Fireman....Its often a Thankless Job....

I see, I was wondering why a fireman would be messing with water services. It makes alot more sense that utility workers would be handling stuff like that. I just broke a 4 inch water service that had an unlocated offset a couple of weeks ago. It was feeding a Coast Guard facility in Seattle. It made a huge mess in no time flat. Turns out it was one of three services feeding the base, so when we shut the valve, water was feeding back from the service side and we had to wait about 30 min for an escort so we could get to the valve on the other side of the gate. Water ended up making its way into the basement of one of their buildings so the fire dept had to come and pump the basement out.