{"id":2099,"date":"2008-03-08T01:31:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T05:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2012-04-17T01:36:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T05:36:40","slug":"jodi-brad-join-the-colton-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/?p=2099","title":{"rendered":"Jodi &#038; Brad join the Colton Fire Department!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 feet, carry a hose up and down a flight of stairs twice, drag a 175 pound body 50 feet, climb a 24 foot ladder twice, and drag a charged hose 50 feet&#8230;..all under 14 minutes! Jodi completed her tasks in 8 and a half minutes, and Brad completed his in just over 8! We met with the Fire Chief every Tuesday and Thursday for a month, and now spend most of our Saturdays with Kent, one of the lieutenants\/trainers completing practice drills. We should be able to complete the academy within the next few weeks and will be ready to participate in a &#8220;Burn and Learn&#8221; drill, where the department intentionally burns a house and has the volunteers practice. Once we successfully complete the academy, we will also be issued pagers and will start responding to calls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2100\" title=\"coltonfire_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2101\" title=\"coltonfire_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2102\" title=\"coltonfire_3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2103\" title=\"coltonfire_4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2104\" title=\"coltonfire_5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2105\" title=\"coltonfire_6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_6.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2106\" title=\"coltonfire_7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_7.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2107\" title=\"coltonfire_9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_9.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coltonfire_9-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}