but what about idle feet?
stuck on the sofa fielding phone calls and listening to the scanner as our boys respond to an auto accident. The chief, the assistant chief, the captain, and two firefighters all work at a family auto body/paint shop 1/4 mile from the firehall. This morning at work they all heard a big crash, looked out the shop door and saw a car that had been rearended by a pickup - boy, talk about quick response time!
Anyway, here I sit when the asst chief calls me about my Mack fire truck.
It origionally had two booster reels on it (large garden hose style hoses that spin off an electric reel and typically are used for brush fires - the heavy rubber hoses are much more impervious to nicks and heat than the larger fabric covered fire hoses that we pull off the back of the fire truck for building fires. When the Mack was brought down from Jersey, the two reels were removed and one put atop a tanker truck and the other used to create a brush truck out of a pickup truck. I have lobbied for the chief to consider returning the booster reels to me when we replace or sell the old tanker or brush unit.
So the asst chief calls to tell me that nearby there is an old Ford fire truck for sale with two booster reels and that he knows the guy who owns it - he is a contractor with a yard filled with older trucks he has bought and salvaged, or bought and scavanged parts off of and then sells them. He MIGHT consider donating the truck or I might be able to buy is for the price of the reels alone.
So, am I about to double the size of the Hooker Hose Company? Stay tuned!
