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July 18, 2008
An Open Message To Arsonists...
...Cut it out!
Simple. Concise. To the point.
Whatever your motivations are, either sickness, some sort of joy is derived, whatever, please cease and desist all fire causing activities.
Why?
Well, besides the obvious reasons, potential loss of life, property, insurance rates skyrocketing, you cause Firefighters to become tired.
Very tired.
We had, what I believe to be an arson fire today. It was at least a mile from the road. We had to walk to the fire, then drag thousands of feet of hose through thick brush, and then we had to extinguish the fire. Then it rained on us. A lot. Then, we had to go back to the Station, and clean all that hose.
The house was very old, and so it had no power to it. It was sunny out, so lightning could not be the culprit. We worked hard to extinguish the house and surrounding woods fire, despite the high, high, super extra moist humidity we were working in. Your goals were reached: house burned to the ground. Sweaty Firefighters. (If that was a goal of yours, though I have no idea why it would be...)
I am tired right now. I took the worlds longest shower, and now I am going to bed.
Please, arsonist, keep your urges in check.
No one got hurt, this time.
See you tomorrow...
Posted by Jon at July 18, 2008 11:07 PM