It’s with a heavy heart that I post this super early am. I had another post planned but I will hit that later in the day.
My husband was a volunteer for 8 years before getting hired on. He had the privilege of working pretty closely in the early years with the town next to us that is all volunteer except for their Chief. The Chief is awesome, I mean he’s super awesome. His department rocks, performs incredibly and is very professional. Chief even went to my husbands academy graduation with another good friend, they were truly integral in helping him become the FF he is today. No we didn’t lose the Chief, OMG I would not be able to post about that so quickly.
But I’m just setting up the story that these guys are tight group and on Friday they lost someone to a car accident in Cali of all things. A car accident? REALLY? I didn’t know her, but by the texting that went back and forth with my buddy I’m pretty sure she’d been there a while. I only got a last name and hubby hadn’t worked with them for a while, but I have a feeling he will know her as well when we find out more info. Does this mean I have to go to another FF funeral? arghhh, tears already thinking of it. I will, I totally will. I need to go if only because my good friend needs someone there with him to be more of a support system as he goes through this. I was so worried about him last night, but he was with a friend watching a movie so I was very happy to hear that. He’s a total brother to me.
But then on facebook he posts that a Seattle Police Officer has been killed. I’m hoping it’s not someone he knows, but he’s in the general area and has been for 20 years as a deputy so it could very well be two in two days. If not then my other buddy in same field may know him. Either way it doesn’t matter as you know how it hits you in the heart when it is someone doing their job that goes down.
All my heart goes out to both departments and surrounding departments in this time of grief. I know next week will be one with a very heavy heart as I help some brothers if needed. Have whiskey, will travel.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:07 pm
I know the pain! A very close friend of mine that I worked with in the FD was killed along with his wife on vacation in Louisiana. He had just bought a brand new Harley Davidson Firefighter Edition Bike. He had planned on traveling out to the west coast on the bike with his wife. They got as far Shreveport, A car pulled out in the front of the on the Interstate and there was nothing he could have done. They were both flown tot he Trauma Center. His wife lived for 3 days. He Passed that night. I still remember that night like it was yesterday.
I was the one who called the Call from the Louisiana Police to make Notification to next of Kin. I don’t ever want to have to get another call like that as long as I’m in the FD. There isn’t a day that goes but that we don’t talk of him here at work. He is one person who has been greatly missed.
We Have a memorial page on our Union Website.
http://www.iafflocalf151.org/dsp/slideshow.cfm?catid=49
My heart goes out to all the brothers and sisters out there and both departments and surrounding departments in there time of grief.
I am praying for them.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:13 pm
David, we understand your pain. If you have read in my blog a bit at all (not assuming) then you see that we lost our Chief in July 08. It’s a call that is never wanted. I’m very sorry that it was a couple you were friends with, deeply sorry. As when the page went out for the general meeting to explain that was my main worry of what family it was.
We are a tight family. It doesn’t matter what shift it is, we are only allowed to pick on each other, you can’t pick on us from the outside. lmbo
I am a personal trainer and I train some cops. One of them is SWAT. I mean way high up SWAT, his crew can’t make it, they call military. I worry and worry. I wonder if I worry more than his ex ever did. Some women never get it. Again, it’s why I get “I wish I could find a woman like you” a lot. It’s a lot to bear and I worry about the ideal I set and I hope that they do find someone that understands like I do.
If my hubby goes I will be devastated, truly devastated. But my only thing to cling to is that he loved his life in EVERY single aspect. That and the fact that he loves his job and has saved so many. I wish I could track the baby they saved that fell out the window. I’d love to track the kids life and I know that sounds stalkerish, but really, if not for him and his partner the kid would be gone and everyone even said the baby was dead.
November 5th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
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