fire fighters life
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I have been on the fire department for a little over a year now and have seen some crazy things. None stick out more in my mind than when the middle school caught on fire this past December. See our little town hasn't ever seen a fire that big. The community has always supported the fire department, but after the school fire it was behind us even more.
It was a Saturday night and I had just got in at about 2:30. I let the dog out to go to the bathroom and then we would go to bed. Not 10 minutes after we went to bed my pager went off like the piercing sound of fingernails scraping against a black board. The dispatcher comes across "Attention all Columbia fire department personnel; we have smoke coming out of the Middle school." We didn't have many calls that were not false alarms so not many people showed up for the first call. Not to long after I heard the dispatcher come across again "Attention all Columbia Fire Department Personnel; we have a fully involved structure Fire in the gymnasium at the middle school...