Weather: -11.c, wind chill -24.c
Volleyball in neg -28.c anyone?
They breed them tough down here.
So a bunch of us gathered together to knock a ball around for a couple of hours last night, actually i can't kid no more, we were in a heated gymnasium! but it was a blast.
Back on shift again this morning at 7.45am. I'm on engine one today, the big burly yellow machine. I love riding on these american beasts.
The day has flown by with all the training, building inspections, hydrant testing, and most importantly eating a real american cheeseburger for lunch.
Now for some housekeeping. Our shift system here runs 24hrs on 24 off, with shift change at 7.45am each day. I have what they call a kelly day once every fortnight giving me 3 consecutive days off (that's on fridays). At station one, situated in Mctown are two engines (yellow fire trucks), two abulances, and what they call a tanker which holds an unbelievable 3700 gallons of water, a rescue vehicle and a "scat" passenger people mover. Down on station 2 which is located on the sea ice runway, we have 3 rescue 550 vehicles on mat tracks, and one mighty big beast called R1 which has an agent capacity of 1000 gallons. She has personality.
Sweet as.
1 comment:
Gidday little Liz great to see your well settled in down there. You look great in that yankee uniform....lol. I had to laugh about the (torch) episode they probably think we have some weird words. Oh and by the way have you played any pool yet? bet you cant find that special partner!!! Anyway keep up the good work down there and keep the blog coming in.
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