Wow… the last day of the month. That’s payday here, and now we’re heading into the summer doldrums. I’ve got a few odds’n'ends sitting on the desktop that I could dispose of here to help close things out.
First of all, since we brought up the Billy Mays story the other day, the coroner says that it’s most likely that he died from the effects of hypertensive heart disease. He can’t say that officially until the toxicology tests are completed, but he’s certain that’s what the outcome will be. He found no evidence of any head trauma as a result of the airplane accident the day before. I’m wondering if that illness is so hard to detect that a good physical exam wouldn’t find it? What a shame.
Firefighter Nation (http://www.firefighternation.com/ ) is closing in on 40,000 members. They’ll hit the mark sometime in the next few days. Now that is truly a remarkable achievement.
One of those “We had a call like that, once.” stories popped up yesterday from Waterville, Maine. It’s more of a police story, but since they did call the ambulance for this guy, I can stretch the relevency of the topic to be included here. I’ll just link to the newspaper account and let you read it, but it has to do with a young man jumping up and down on the hood of a car while wearing nothing but his underpants and covered with “…a pink substance believed to be Pepto-Bismol.” I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the Happy Medic that ran the call. Here’s the STORY.
Speaking of the Happy Medic, you’ll probably enjoy reading his brief history of why the FD’s use “bugles” as a sign of rank HERE.
When we guided you to the revamped Western Pennsylvania Firefighting website the other day (HERE), we wondered aloud why they call it “Hoopie World.” Well, Jeff decided to tell the tale of how that name came about. It has to do with some folks referring to Hoopies and Whackers. Read the background on this regional slang HERE and be sure you read far enough to catch the “You know you might be a Whacker when…..” listing.
Before we start getting ready for the July 4th weekend, we’d better get this equipment checked out now. I’m going to start a fresh pot. We’ll meet back in the day room in a little while.
