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Alaska Trip Day 4 – Skagway
We woke up this morning in Skagway, our second stop on the inland passage. Today we both took the same excursion; a trip to a dog sled camp. One of the other popular trips was a train ride up through the white pass and it was cool to see that the train picked up right […]
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Alaska Trip Day 3 – Juneau
After a full day at sea (Day 2), we docked in Juneau on Tuesday at 2:00pm. We split up to participate in different excursions while on shore…Brad on a photo tour and Jodi on a tree canopy zip line tour. Here are some of the great pictures we took: Juneau from the cruise ship…Although […]
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Our trip to Alaska – Send Off
We boarded the Norwegan Pearl Saturday around 1:30pm. Once on board we made our way to our stateroom where we found a wonderful Birthday surprise from Cindi & Jean (thanks, Moms!!!!) We then watched the staff load our luggage and took a tour of the rest of the ship before our mandatory safety drill […]
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Our trip to Alaska – Kick Off
We started our vacation a day early by driving into Seattle and taking in some of the sights. We took the Duck Tour and saw our ship We then watched the ferry load and stopped by the fire station to check out our peeps
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Our first 3 weeks of calls
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 a little too late to make the apparatus on the first few calls, but then we got organized (gear in the truck, parking nose out, […]
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Bound and determined to make it on a call!
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, we decided to camp out overnight…and it worked! We were first on site for 2 calls the last two weekends!
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Brad & Jodi are OFFICIAL firefighters now!!!
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 the Colton’s Burn to Learn house burned down prematurely, we were invited to participate in Canby’s (a neigboring department) exercise. Here we are at Canby’s […]
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Our Burn House Burned Down!
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 one of the rooms. News like this is sure to make the Molalla Pioneer!
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Skills Testing at the Burn House
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 play in the burn house most of the day, practicing search & rescue while using the SCBAs, forcible entry, ladders, and rapid egress through walls. […]
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Jodi & Brad join the Colton Fire Department!
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 fitness test: in full gear with SCBA tanks, we had to walk 4 large laps at a brisk pace, carry 2 fifty pound containers 100 […]
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