Last night was providing academic advising to a couple of 4th Battalion B-shifters that are enrolled in the university.
Also visited with an old friend, “Senior Fire Official.”
We got talking about unique features of life in the Nation’s Capital.
HARLEY-DAVIDSON THUNDER
Newly admitted university students know that they are getting acclimated when they no longer call their parents every time a motorcade blasts by the urban campus.
A unique aspect of a presidential motorcade are the full-throated Harley-Davidson police motorcycles.
This link takes you to a December 23, 2008, Frederick News Post video interview with Michael J. Vantucci, owner of Harley Davidson/Buell of Frederick (here).
Ike Wilson’s related FNP article (HERE).
DCFD “Report of fire in the building”
The Washington D. C. Fire Department has a tradition of aggressive interior fire attack.
“Senior Fire Official” and I have experienced the arrival of a box alarm assignment to a reported structure fire in Washington DC. It is an awe-inspiring performance.
Smoke showing or not, the fabric hits the street and aerials go up. Every time.
This helmet video from Truck 17′s tillerman gives you a feeling of what we were talking about:
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Both the Presidential motocades and response to a possible structure fire are organized chaos evolutions where each response is handled as “the real thing.”
Or, as “Raising Ladders” blogger and recently off-probation DC paramedic/firefighter points out:
From "Raising Ladders" blog
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To see more of Raising Ladders Demotivational Posters, click HERE.
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Mike “FossilMedic” Ward
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