Sorry I haven't blogged in quite a while. Just haven't had much to write about. But now I do!
You know those registration bracelets which people give you to mark you as having paid or whatever?
I've just broken mine off from what I called "fire camp". Technically it's IFSI's Explorer Cadet Fire School, but when I'm trying to explain what the hell I came back from (yes, I'm still talking about it) last weekend, the easiest way to explain what it was is "fire camp". Unfortunately, my friend's mom got confused by that term and thought that I was out in the wilderness actually fighting fires.
Here's the link to their website: http://www.fsi.illinois.edu/
Anyway, remember Wednesday night's tornado warning and severe thunderstorms? We were supposed to be in our basements waiting out the storm. But where was I? I....
CRUD. My writing style STINKS. This is completely too dramatic and self-focused.
Here's a list of highlights:
1. Meeting George Clooney (an instructor who looked like him)
2. Eating Blazin' wings at Buffalo Wild Wings.
3. Live fire-we were doing a primary and secondary search on Saturday in a "taxpayer," ("commercial occupancy on the first-floor and living quarters on the second") where they have fires burning in grates. I actually had a panic attack because I was going way faster than I've moved in gear and it was REALLY hot in there, so I had to sit out for the rest of the night and Sunday.
4. Sitting on top of a 2-story building.
5. Food. Gotta love having food served out cafeteria style when you're exhausted.
6. Praying as a group of about 200? students, parents, and instructors for firefighters who've died while on the job.
We also did a bunch of other drills such as rope-tying, throwing ladders, an SCBA maze (where you have to go in tight spaces and climb over things in your bunker gear and with your self-contained breathing apparatus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-contained_breathing_apparatus) on.)
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