Thunder and Lightning begins at Part One HERE.
Part Seven
In a kind of a daze, I walked up stairs and into the meeting room where I had spent so many evenings debating the merits of rapid water, RIT teams and dozens of other modern day firefighting tools and techniques.
What I found on the second floor astounded me. The room had long been the repository of numerous chiefs portraits, plaques, trophies and mementos from years gone by. It was difficult to even SEE the wall in places because of all the history that hung there, but now the walls were completely bare and the old glazed tiles gleamed like they were brand new. I knew this room now. I had spent countless hours looking through my department’s scrapbooks. I had seen this site before. It was exactly what the company’s meeting room looked like the day the station was dedicated.
Read Part Eight HERE.
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