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the Los Fresnos volunteer fire

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department was formed in 1948 after a

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devastating fire at the Tandy cotton gin

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community leaders were no longer going

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to rely on surrounding towns for fire

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protection I joined in 1956 well it was

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just a little hustle a little community

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and everybody tried to pull together we

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had most of the businessmen in Los

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Fresnos were members and I moved into

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town in 55 and wanted to join the

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department but never had the guts to go

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over to the fire station and I finally I

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was asked if I wanted to join the fire

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department so I went over and of course

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it's kind of like it is everywhere in

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the fire department I guess volunteer if

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you went you were accepted and voted in

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and that's how my career started as a

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long pier five apartment our procedure

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was we reported to the fire station and

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our chief was definitely which was Jake

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royal was definitely against people

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jumping into automobiles and following

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the fire trucks so we reported to the

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station and then we went to the fire and

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course we had our fire hats and our

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bunkers and we were supposed to have all

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them all when we hit the hit the fire

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but sometimes through the excitement we

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didn't the worst part about going to the

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fire that I ever had was trying to keep

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let's see my right foot from shaking

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it's the one that stood on accelerator

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and it was just hard to keep that truck

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we ran a wide open which was very fast

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but we were wide open well we got first

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we would ask if it was a property owner

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calling

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because them days we were short of funds

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and we didn't go just because somebody

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called in a fire we found out if it was

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the landowner or someone's house in

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danger and then we went and when we got

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there we had all kinds of means to fire

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them we had flappers toll sacks and of

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course the water on the trucks we didn't

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have a truck we could drive and pump at

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the same time so we use the red lines

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and we didn't like to pull all the red

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lines in because we didn't have electric

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reels when you got through with a fire

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you had to crank call them up and clean

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them hoses up and the cleaning was bad

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enough but the cranking was worse so

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that's about the way we took care of

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grass fires when I was in the prior

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department we always set aside one day

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and we had open house and the kids would

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come and play we take them for rides and

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have a little weenie roast or hamburgers

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whatever this deal was for food and the

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whole community I think they enjoyed it

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very much I joined the department in

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early 60s until late seventies or early

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eighties I'm not exactly sure when and

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we had four or five fire phones

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stationed throughout the city at various

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members houses and when the call would

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come in to those fire phones whoever

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answered would

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determine whether it was a good call or

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not and if it was a good call then they

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in turn would press the button which

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would ring CERN at the fire station and

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the firemen would go to the fire station

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and answer the phone in the fire station

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and then the person that answered the

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phone originally would then convey the

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location and would say ok we've got

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enough people to roll or if we didn't

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have enough people to roll would say

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stay on the button and we were really

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shocked on Dayton firemen a lot of times

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I remember I'd I just pulled down a door

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in the front of my shop and took off for

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the fire station I had a phone in my

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shop also and there was another old

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gentleman that lived around this area

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that was retired and he was almost

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always in my shop keeping me company his

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name was Paul German he was also a

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member of the fire department and I

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remember many fires we went on that it

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was just Paul and myself and this

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particular truck that we used for grass

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fires had a platform on the front of it

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with the railing to hold on to and I

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would drive the truck and Paul would get

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on that platform and we'd go tearing out

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through the brush on fire and a lot of

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times I singed his hair I know but

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that's the way we did it I joined the

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department in 1982 and I stayed in until

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we moved out of this area in 1985

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if we hadn't moved I might still be in

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today well we had a fire phone in our

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house

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and when it would ring during the day I

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would answer it and I could stand there

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till I had a dent in the end of my thumb

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ringing the alarm because there was a

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shortage of men in town to fight fires

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so I decided that if I ever needed the

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fire department I wanted to know that

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somebody was coming so I decided to join

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the department and I talked about five

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other women in to join the department

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with me well when we first tried to get

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in the department they weren't real

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enthusiastic about having women in the

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fire department but we did eventually

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prove to them that we were there and we

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were serious about being there the

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training my husband trained me on how to

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drive a fire truck and it was very

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extensive I had to learn how not just to

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drive it but how to draft it out of the

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Resaca to fill the tank how to hook it

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up to a fire hydrant to pump off of it

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how to pump he was going to make sure

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that if I needed to drive that truck

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there weren't going to be any mistakes

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and pretty much we trained real

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extensively on operate truck operations

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because that was the big thing if we

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needed extra firefighters we had him at

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the high school but because of their age

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they couldn't drive the trucks so there

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had to be somebody in town to drive the

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fire truck

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I started in 1978 to present my dad was

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in the department for as long as I could

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ever remember and I just thought it was

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kind of neat being around fire trucks in

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the fire station and he was chief for a

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period of time and I always thought I

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wanted to be and that's why I did it

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the worst I think you seemed to stick in

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your mind better than the good ones we

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had just gotten a the jaws and at that

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time South Padre Island didn't have any

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my wife and I had just gotten in from

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from being on the island out eating

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dinner and whatever they called and

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there was an accident on the top of the

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causeway

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somebody had gone in the causeway the

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wrong way and it was a head-on at the

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time I think Bob Middleton was chief

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then so it was

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it was fairly early on to think when we

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we rode in the same vehicle Bob and I we

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met the fire trucks there I believe when

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we got there all we could see was a hole

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in the - the the dashboard had folded up

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over the driver and you could see

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through a hole about six inches you

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could see somebody's high looking at you

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so with with very little training it

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started from there

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and we learned a lot in a short period

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of time

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any any fire that you go to that you

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face save somebody's property your life

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well the one that I'll never forget was

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we had a dwelling south of highway 100

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and it was a two-story dwelling

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apartment building and they caught fire

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and there was a little kid trapped on

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the top floor and we got the call and we

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rescued the little boy but unfortunately

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it was too late and we had donations and

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flew him to Galveston to the burn

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hospital but he passed away while he was

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there that was one of the worst and the

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one that sticks in my memory the loss

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the protection and safety of children

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has always occupied a special place in

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the hearts of firefighters open houses

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the education of the public and reaching

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out to the schoolchildren consistently

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has been an important part of the Los

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Fresnos volunteer fire department

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over the years the department has

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touched the lives of many children

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all right

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good morning my name is Sheldon and I'm

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the fire marshal for the city of Fresno

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and we're with the Las Terrenas

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volunteer fire department and I have a

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couple of my firemen with me here today

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I've got firefighter Jason and

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firefighter Derek and we're here to talk

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to you about fire prevention when the

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truck stopped in front of your house and

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there's a fire this fireman is going to

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come on okay can you see this he's got

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the fire hose Solomon gave up our

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luminol in Sanyo and then he's got the

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mask try la mascota father RasPi died

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right here okay LUMO is looking metallic

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anything so he's got to have a mass to

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breathe air like what you're breathing

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right now it's the same air he's

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breathing but if he goes inside a fire

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this is going to protect him the smoke

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is what kills people a little more

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looking mental efforts on average it's

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moving and also smoke is very poisonous

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and it kills people so he's got to wear

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all this

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he's got a helmet to protect his head

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and then he's got gloves to protect his

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hands here let me have this he's got

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gloves to protect his hands and then

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he's got this thing to protect him from

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the fire this thing will burn mr. robot

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season came on one foot of club full of

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tequila and saying yo mom and then he's

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got a tank a store this is what he's

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breathing from that Massey's got up

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front he's taking air out of this bottle

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to breathe because if you were to go

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inside a smoke-filled house when I got

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sick Italian of the Omo no play out of

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speed up what's a quaver more leads so

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is the idea

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go ahead turn around take your mask off

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this and then he's got this on his head

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to protect his ears and is here because

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if he were to go inside a house fire

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without that his ears that start to burn

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they'd goats and then they get real red

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and a blister up and burn see no time

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let's take Wilson I got something like I

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yes I see they came on that's what it

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has for you no lieutenant Miller huh

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you're not afraid amp all right take

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your tank all this don't let him see

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here take it often this is very heavy

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what he has on weighs about 65 pounds

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that's more than some of you guys let's

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look at various state businesses in

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particular okay

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okay let's move if you have a house fire

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and all of a sudden you see this farmer

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coming into your house don't be refer to

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him because he's there to help you he's

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there to put your fire out in the house

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so make sure you're not afraid of him

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sometimes your mom and dad barbecues

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right and they have a grill they're

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cooking chicken or something like that

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and all of a sudden eivin is looking up

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at the tree year and airplane going by

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and sometimes the wind picks up and fire

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comes out of the grill and catches his

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clothes on fire can you scream Arvin la

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la long okay very good

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that's what it's going to sound like but

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can you all scream for Oliver very good

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when your clothes catch on fire you

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don't run around go ahead and scream

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Ireland yeah you don't run around back

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and forth I'm on fire I'm on fire the

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more the more you want the more your

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clothes burn and then this is going to

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catch on fire and burn his shirts going

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to catch on fire and you can't put it

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out you can't reach the fire back there

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so what you do is you stop okay

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you drop don't throw yourself on the

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ground because you might knock yourself

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out so you drop and then you roll but

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when you roll you've got to cover your

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face like this in case you have fire on

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your back or if it is on fire when you

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start rolling you don't get fire on your

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face so let's stop drop head and drop

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lay on the blanket okay roll keep going

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keep going

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stop okay come back this way you gotta

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keep rolling keep rolling till the fire

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is out all right let's give our in a big

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hand here

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[Applause]

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with the arrival of the 50th anniversary

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of the Los Fresnos volunteer fire

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department firefighters from several

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eras got together to look at pictures

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swap stories and talk about the progress

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that has been made during the

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department's first half-century the

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changes have been remarkable the main

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deal is on the trucks they have electric

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reels and communications which we didn't

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have radios and that was a big that's a

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big item right there and other than that

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I don't know we were always short of

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fire hose that I think we're in good

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shape now bass technologically there's

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absolutely no comparison to what the

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department is now as to what it was back

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in the 50s and 60s and 70s now they have

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radios and telephone tanker trucks to

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carry the water portable pumps

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generators blowers and a heck of a lot

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more people and then what we ever had

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well I think it's it's like a family in

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a lot of ways and that the longer that

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you're there the more personalities that

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you know you go through some experiences

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together some of them real good and

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funny and some of them kind of tragic

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and frightening but all the way you feel

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like you're accomplishing something good

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in in the department like a family

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sometimes we'll bicker I mean we'll

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argue about the color of a truck or or

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whether we should buy this or whether we

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spending too much money on that or

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whether people are coming to the fires

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properly or too fast or coming directly

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in their personal vehicles all those

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kinds of things and so we'll we'll

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wrangle that through but in the end we

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usually pull together and

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sometimes feathers get ruffled a little

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bit but most of the time were real happy

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and comfortable I don't want any real

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big significant things we had radios in

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the trucks now they everybody seems like

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has a radio or at least access to one

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the communication wasn't always clear

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but we were able to at least talk to

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dispatch in town if we needed help I

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don't think they had that well of

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communication when I first got in the

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department that has changed a lot from

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from when I from when I started I don't

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we don't have any trucks that we had

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back when I first started somewhere

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along the line in that 20 years the

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emergency services district started and

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we were able to get some funding for

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fighting rule fires County County fires

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that's where most of our our monies come

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from the purchase of the equipment that

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we have we I don't know of many

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state-of-the-art pieces of equipment

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that we don't have again we do this

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volunteer basis the if we can get the

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best equipment it's less time that we

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have to spend here the less time we

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spend here the more time we have at home

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or at work and my in a lot of cases

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anywhere from the trucks to to the Scott

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air packs that we use self-contained

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breathing apparatuses

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it's there's nothing no comparison from

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old to today

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