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Aug. 13th, 2016 09:10 amBack in the early 70s I worked in Western Fresno County as a Fire Apparatus Engineer with CDF. I left in 75' for paramedic training in metro and continued to work as an FAE on the structure protection side of things.
The scenery out there is still pretty much the same now as then. My old station was damaged in the Coalinga Earthquake in 81' and was rebuilt more toward I-5. The wildland station on the edge of town has been renovated; the town has grown a bit (new prison); but the entire area is still on the far side of the moon.
I mention this in the context of this week's full deck: the oldest went to work for CalFire this year. Life has been a bit full for him. His duty station had been busy, but a couple of weeks back he'd been reassigned to the westside (about nine miles south of my old station). After a run back across the county on a cover assignment and ending up first-in on the Goose Fire in Prather (2000 acres), his crew was released back to Coalinga after a week+. That was around 1000 on Monday morning; at 2230 that night they pulled a call for a grass fire west of town. The next morning a NWS planner captured this shot on the way to the incident:
( Photos below. )
The scenery out there is still pretty much the same now as then. My old station was damaged in the Coalinga Earthquake in 81' and was rebuilt more toward I-5. The wildland station on the edge of town has been renovated; the town has grown a bit (new prison); but the entire area is still on the far side of the moon.
I mention this in the context of this week's full deck: the oldest went to work for CalFire this year. Life has been a bit full for him. His duty station had been busy, but a couple of weeks back he'd been reassigned to the westside (about nine miles south of my old station). After a run back across the county on a cover assignment and ending up first-in on the Goose Fire in Prather (2000 acres), his crew was released back to Coalinga after a week+. That was around 1000 on Monday morning; at 2230 that night they pulled a call for a grass fire west of town. The next morning a NWS planner captured this shot on the way to the incident:
( Photos below. )
