Michael Sykes
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Sitting here... watching the Lakers and Heat battle on the hardwood... lights flicker... loud crash (explosive-like) casues the house to rattle. Hmmm... Last time that happened two years ago there was a vehicle rollover right outside my house. Put on my jacket and went outside to check it out. SUV into a powe pole at such a high rate of speed that the pole he collided into was splintered into too many pieces to count. Power lines all over the road on a really bad section of road with a bad blind uncontrolled intersection where people go way to fast (duh). No injures, but plenty of ETOH. Off duty Highway Patroller on scene. We shut down the road with our own vehicles and isolated the section of road the lines were acrosss until the FF's I called for arrived 10 minutes latter... Of course, the 18 y/o FFs were in such a rush they completely ignored the Highway Patroller and myself, and almost ran right into the lines. "Wanna stop and think about scene safety? Whatever... See Ya!" Back, sitting here, watching the Lakers and Heat battle on the hardwood.
Yep, I've seen more than one wonder why we stopped them from spraying water on a burning transformer. Sometimes, ya just gotta pull yer head outta yer @ss, that's why!