What was going to be a normal day at work after having a couple of weeks off on vacation on the West Coast, it certainly didn’t finish off that way.
First thing this morning started with a pager test as it is the first day of my 7 days on call as Safety Officer for the Metropolitan Fire Service. A quick check of the lights and siren on the Camry then through the car wash to rinse off a couple of weeks of grime from sitting in the driveway.
There were a couple of packages at the Post Office to pick up. They came from the US. One was a box of travel bugs from Reno and the other was an Every Trail T-shirt. I got the T-shirt for tagging photos on the Every Trail website a few weeks ago.
Getting into work and it was a little hard as the builders next door had blocked our back driveway to put the sign up on the new Police HQ building.
I was asked to trial a few speed apps for the iPhone but there doesn’t seem to be any decent ones around.
Spent the day doing the paperwork it takes to run a Fire Service, before heading home for the day.
Wednesday night is “Night Owls” Lawn Bowls at the Blackwood Bowling Club. I was heading up to the Club when I got my first callout for the night – to a Shop Fire at Gawler (58 kms away). I was turned back quickly and went back to the Bowling Club.
I was about to take my first bowl when the pager went again – this time for a Hospital Fire at Victor Harbor (88 kms away).
I thought I would have got turned back on this call but I was requested to attend the scene and report back to the On-Call Commander and the Deputy Chief.
After attending the fire at Victor, I managed a few geocache finds on the way home.
Again, another very different 12 of 12.
