It's all about plumbing.......

I worked yesterday and we were busy.  My head wasn't quite in the game.  Although I was feeling ok, I was recovering from the stomach flu from the day before - with all of its attendant lower body complications.  Eating light and Immodium saved the day.  I had been feeling proud of myself; the kids and the wife have been fighting off colds and the flu all winter - and I have been perfectly healthy - until Thursday or D-Day as I like to call it.

In any case, it was a typical day.  We ran a small fire in the morning; a couple of undocumented (in all senses of the word) plumbers had caused fire in a wall cavity while sweating pipes.  They were gamely fighting the fire with a garden hose as we arrived but gratefully allowed themselves to be shooed out.  Some quick overhaul and a soaking with compressed air foam allowed us to go back in service quickly.  

In the afternoon we did some pump training and caused some unintentional alarm.  Our technical rescue team was practicing confined space rescue in the storm water vaults to the rear of the station; my feeble brain didn't connect this with the effects of pouring gallons of water into the drains to the front of the station.  I thought that the drains connected with the storm water system downstream of where the fellas were practicing - turns out I was wrong.  Other than being alarmed by the sounds of gushing water and then getting their ankles wet the technical rescue guys were fortunately ok.  I like to think I taught them a valuable lesson in the necessity for lock out / tag out.