That night though there was a call. We had to attend a house. After the call when we were packing up we had to re-rack the 'High Vol' hose on the back of the Engine. We didn't need to use it, so it didn't have to be drained. The officer decided rather then break it at the couplings, we'd just have the Engine backup and the crew would pass it to the guys on top. This is easy when the roads are clear. But 2 inches of snow with ice underneath made it tricky. I was the first guy off the truck, passing hose to the guy on the back. A couple of times walking backwards I almost wiped out, which would result in the engine driving over me. It was tense. But we live for that stuff.
Today, there was a Motor Vehicle Collision (MVC) - accident is the wrong term. In today's event, one pickup decided STOP signs were optional. And drove into an SUV which then drove into a power pole. The roads were icy.
I was doing traffic. We do traffic to allow the police to do their documentation and take pictures.
I was standing there, looking good of course in bunker gear, I had a STOP/Slow hand held sign.
A black pickup was coming towards me, I had the STOP side facing him. I could see that the driver had a camera on top of his steering wheel as he drove, and he was looking for the best shot of the MVC. It was obvious his viewfinder did not include a fireman with a red sign, as he kept coming. I had to walk into his viewfinder for him to see me. The old guy didn't want to stop. He thought he could get through, the tow trucks blocking the road were not an issue to him.
When I spoke to him, he decided to turn around and go the other way. In mid turnaround he decided to sit there blocking off the road taking more pictures. He didn't see the vehicle coming up behind him. He saw me point and took off. I was nice to him, I could have had one of the officers come and get his personal information.
I like living in a small town, the other night I left the garage open. I live in the middle of town. When I went to go to work I saw the garage door was open. I immediately checked for mountain bike. It was there. So was everything else. Whew!
At work there was an issue with an email I left on a file. A privacy request was made on the file. The Privacy person read the email and had concerns. They asked why I had left it there. I said I used it to make a decision. I never read the complete email, there was an opinion in there. I did not use the opinion in my decision. But everyone, including my boss had an issue with it.
The suggestion was I should have edited the email. I am not an editing kind of person. This is old school I guess. But to me, if you edit, where do you stop. Do you document what you edit? Do you change a positive to a negative? This is a slippery slope. I think I am safe, my decision was statutory, not discretionary. This is what I envision a Romney America being
I watched the storm with firefighters, we were amazed at the 20,000 911 calls an hour. How do you deal with that.? Who is doing the rating? Later a 311 service was used for really really urgent calls.
One guy, a GOP operative in New York City used twitter to report a fire at a Hospital. This is pretty major, in the Big Picture. FDNY responded and it was a false alarm. A blogger managed to track the guy. He resigned from his communications post at GOP. But, he should have been charged by NYPD in my opinion. Those firefighters were unavailable for a real emergency.
Nothing on the jobs I applied for yet. I could read this to be a goo thing, I figure I may have passed initial screening. I am still up in the air on whether I'd take either.
An App doesn't work on my iPhone. It is an app that Rogers created so that I could track my data usage. The internet method of checking was not working either. When I called Rogers they could not give me the information. Due to issues on the iPhone and iPad with iOS6 I was nervous about data usage and Rogers was not helping.
I put in a trouble report on the App on Monday. Wednesday a tech guy called me. He was a specialist and he told me just to restore my phone and it would work. Having done this in an attempt to fix it before (both devices) I told him that didn't work. He then said, do it again, that is the fix. I said ok. Then he sent me a text message saying the problem was fixed.
I did the restore on the iPad and the App still did not work. I then called Rogers back, of course it would be another couple of days to get a tech guy to call again.
I went to the TELUS and Virgin sites and found better data plans. I called Rogers back to ask how much to cancel my service with them. The guy wound offering me a plan which doubled my data to 6GB and it would cost $60 a month including all the phone stuff. This was half what I was paying before. I couldn't say no. I said go ahead. I am not tied into a contract. The app still does not work, but I have enough data to allow for iOS 6 oopses
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