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For Colton standards, the last three weeks have been a little slow, but we’ve still had the opportunity to make it on a few calls. We arrived at the station […]

Since we live on the far side of town, we know that we’re not always going to make it to the station in time to get on a rig. So, […]

  Our last step in the fire academy was to actually fight a real fire in a house. This exercise is commonly referred to as a “Burn to Learn”. Because […]

We were scheduled to burn our practice house on April 5th but, unfortunately, the house “mysteriously” burned down prematurely about 2 hours after the department practiced some fire drills in […]

The Colton Fire Department will be burning a house on April 5 as a “Burn To Learn” practice drill. As part of our fire academy, we had the chance to […]

We decided to join the local Colton fire department, made up of nearly 100% volunteers. On February 14th, we kicked off the academy and had to pass a rather grueling […]

Brad attended the Oregon Firearms Academy, defensive handguns class in Brownsville. The instructors were retired police officers, and one still leads the shooting academy for the County Sherriff’s department. Midway […]

Our neighbors Rhonda and Lance needed help getting out of their front drive, so Brad and Bob headed out at lunch time to plow the roads. Rhonda and Lindey took […]