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Best Wishes for a quick and full recovery

If a call is anywhere but on the interstate, the ff's can respond in their pov's BUT unless your'e already driving on the highway you have to go to the firehouse and go on the apparatus. the restriction on pov's on highway calls has only been in effect for a couple years. Great idea, though.

Again, Congrats! When is she do?

Congrats and good luck!!!!! =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

Yeah OK let it all fall where you are. DUH

NO NO NO We don't need ANY snow!!!!!!!! [-X [-X

WELL SAID, mikeinet!!!!!!!

Congrats, Ken, Rick and Shawn! I know that BFD is in good hands with you guys at the helm! Best wishes!

From The Secret List: Hey... 2 firefighters in NC were injured during a live burn training exercise at was reported as a former "open-air market" in Dunn yesterday. Reports are that the most seriously injured was an instructor. He was taken to a nearby burn center with 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns to his arm and hand. Another firefighter with minor blistering was taken to the hospital as well. Both were treated and released. Investigators say the materials being used to start the fire accidentally reached ignition temperature while the instructor was nearby. Any additional information will be posted at www.FirefighterCloseCalls.com as it becomes available. While not specifically referring to this incident since all the facts are not yet available, we are still reminded of how critical the strict following of NFPA #1403 is to manage the risk of live training fires. Take Care-BE CAREFUL, BillyG The Secret List 1-9-04 www.FirefighterCloseCalls.com Just a reminder---PLEASE Be careful Don't let this happen to you!

GREAT PICTURES!!!!!!! =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

Congrats and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

Well, C'mon now Jeff let's get with the program, dammit!LOL But it does sound interesting so when you can try 453.5625. I hear more on that one than I do on 46.26.

No problem with anybody who rants about this one cause you're ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! This a&&h*!@ should be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible!!!!!

I'll go with Mike's call and say the Eagles!

Has anybody had any problems with their NEXTEL Direct Connect? Service restricted or not completing on a DC call?

With the possible overload of calls at Midnight New Years Eve, Service has been great here too, as far as I know.

Sounds like you're doing your best at a good time in spite of how you feel. Enjoy the rest of your trip and FEEL BETTER, DAMMIT!

I'll buy 2 double X shirts. Be safe over there and we all wish you a safe and speedy return home.

This was in the Journal News on Tuesday 12/28/04, gives a whole new meaning to the old "Twas the night before Christmas Squirrel makes an unwelcome Yuletide visit By ROB RYSER THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original publication: December 28, 2004) BEDFORD — It was all set: the shrimp with barbecue sauce, the linguini and clams, the lobster tails and the scallops wrapped in bacon. It was going to be a traditional Italian Christmas Eve feast, plus a few modern touches, with the best friends that Janet and Nick Hayden have. And then things got squirrelly. For the next two hours, Christmas Eve at the Haydens was more like Christmas Eve with the Griswolds in the Chevy Chase comedy "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation." "I was stirring something on top of the stove when my friend came in and said, 'We have a problem. There is a squirrel in your son's room,' " said Nick Hayden, recalling the Dec. 24 debacle. "He was about to shut the door when all of a sudden this squirrel bolts out of my son's room in full gallop, sees me, and makes a beeline for the Christmas tree in the living room," Hayden said. "He jumped over the presents, climbed up the trunk and parked himself next to the star." The kids downstairs were oblivious, and that was good because this creature could easily be rabid, the parents agreed. And there were enough minds already collaborating on how to coax the squirrel down the lighted tree and out of the house. Opening all the doors only made the house cold. Janet Hayden placed a fat walnut by the door, shelled of course. Nothing. Nick Hayden poked the critter with a pole, provoking a growl that he said sounded like an Ewok from "Star Wars." Let the dogs out of the bedroom, suggested the guests, Janet and Keith Henderson, who had driven up from Farmingdale, N.Y. "One of our dogs is an 85-pound Labrador, and the other is a 65-pound mix, and I figured that 150 pounds of dog chasing two pounds of squirrel through the house wasn't a good idea," said Nick Hayden. Hayden pictured a Disney cartoon his son, Nicky, had watched in which Pluto tore up the house trying to catch chipmunks hidden in a Christmas tree. That's when Hayden called Bedford police. At first, the sergeant referred him to animal control experts. Ammonia, one expert said. Squirrels don't like ammonia. But all the Haydens had was Windex, which the squirrel didn't seem to mind. After another call to police, Bedford Police Officer Billy Smith arrived. "This is like the Chevy Chase movie," he said. Yes, we know, Hayden told him. In the movie, Chase's character runs after a squirrel, electrocutes a cat and has a host of misadventures in pursuit of a traditional Christmas Eve. And no, Hayden told the officer, we don't know if he came down the chimney or how he got in. Meanwhile in the basement of the Haydens' ranch house on Cherry Street, 6-year-old Nicky Hayden and the Henderson kids — Rachel and Reis — were begging to be let up to see the squirrel. No way, said Nick Hayden, who was fitting a wire noose on the end of the pole to lasso the gray critter. "At first, we didn't want to hurt him, but by the end, we were ready to have him for dinner," Hayden said. Working with the officer, all Hayden got with the lasso was a patch of gray tail fur; again, the squirrel didn't seem to mind, Hayden said. "We finally unplugged the tree, took out all the presents and dragged the tree across my living room floor to the outside, and he ran out," Hayden said. "He is probably still running." It was only after the squirrel was gone, and the tree was plugged back in, with the presents put back in place, that the kids were allowed upstairs. Janet Hayden took pictures and thanked Officer Smith. And then came the feast that everyone had planned. "No Christmas will ever be the same," Nick Hayden said.

Hope you bring some sunshine out there with you!

Anybody know anything about the Olympus E-300 DSLR? I have an Olympus SLR with 2 lenses now. Question: would I be better offunloading the olympus and going with another brand such as the D-REB?

Have a SAFE trip and a GREAT time out there! Enjoy and be safe!!!!!

We keep ours on the Recue cause that's gonna go on just about every call we do. If it doesn't get on the road we just have the tones dropped for it. Works well for us.

Congrats and Best Wishes to the New Incomming Officers at CCVAC