Sometimes being a volunteer firefighter isn’t all that it is cracked up to be. Sure, we get to be the ones that can save your burning house, rescue someone from a car crash and be the first responder when someone calls 911, but there are times when our job is less glamorous.
This past weekend we had an incident occur at our firehall sometime in the evening. Our tanker truck is old and while we knew the tank was rusting on the inside, we would never have expected that it would fail. But when the fire chief walked up to the building early Sunday morning, he knew there was a problem. Water was leaking out from the garage doors on the front of the building, but when he checked inside, he discovered that it had flooded the basement as well.
It was potentially a big problem.
Instead of trying to figure out this situation on our own, he called a company that specialized in flood repair to see what we should do about the problem. We needed to make sure that all of the water was removed properly and any damage repaired as we couldn’t afford to be in a situation where the volunteers could have health problems in the future.
It was the right thing to do.
We are expecting to hear what the game plan is to deal with this problem when the come by in the morning. Hopefully it won’t be too hard for us to fix without a lot of problems.
