We always look forward to Thanksgiving Day…not just for the turkey, stuffing, and gravy, but for the Black Friday Ads!!! Thursday is traditionally spent studying the ads and strategizing the […]
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Colton’s Gone World Wide…
…On the Web, that is! Brad’s been working diligently to give the Colton Rural Fire Department their first ever website. Jodi has been helping out behind the scenes with some […]
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Back to High School….Friday Night Football games!
As part of Colton Fire’s community services, the department provides EMT coverage for the high school varisty football games. Wanting to be first on call for any emergencies Halloween night, […]
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Study Partners
Brad and Jodi started EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) school, which means lots of extra hours studying. Nermal has been very supportive by ensuring we get our much needed sleep!
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Monitor Burn To Learn
Brad and Justin had the opportunity to participate in Monitor’s burn to learn. They needed to use Colton’s air trailer and were very gracious in including our Colton crew in […]
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Timbeeeeerrrrrrr!
We have 2 trees near the barn that block sun to the vegetable garden and make it difficult to use the tractor to clean out the stalls so we decided […]
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Preparing for the Winter
As part of our summer chores, chopping wood is always a high priority….
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Jodi’s Ride-Along with Molalla Ambulance
Brad and Jodi are starting the EMT program in September at Clackamas Community College and wanted to get some exposure to medical calls before classes start. We have volunteered for […]
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Lightening Storm leads to Brush Fire
The pager toned out at 6am Sunday morning for a mutual aid brush fire in Estacada. Brad and I quickly made our way to the Elwood station, got all geared […]
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Brad’s First Serious Medical Call
Today Brad had his first experience with a major medical problem. About 11:30am a page came out for a gunshot wound to the head and, since the only other person […]