Personal Narrative-My Husband, The Dedicated Fireman

I went to my living room to ask my mom a question, to see she wasn’t there. I asked my brother “where’s mom?” and he replied with “shes at the hospital, grandpa got burnt.” I would never have expected “grandpa got burnt” to be as severe as it was. I remember my mom coming home around two in the morning. I got up and out of bed to ask some questions. She said “I don’t wanna talk about it right now. Pack some stuff up, we’re going to Waterloo tomorrow.” So I listened and packed up a bag.

The child who died is considered a gift to the parents and family, and they are forced to give up that gift. Yet, as parents, they also strive to let their child's life, no matter how short, be seen as a gift to others. These parents seek to find ways to continue to love, honor, and value the lives of their children and continue to make the child's presence known and felt in the lives of family and friends. Bereaved parents often try to live their lives more fully and generously because of this painful experience.

I was born into a First Responder family, both my parents were certified in different aspects of the job. My father was and still is an EMT, Paramedic, and the Fire Chief of our local fire department, and my mother was an EMT for ten years. Being born into this lifestyle I didn’t really view it any differently than other families. Around the age of 5, when 9/11 occurred, this changed. My father at the time worked for a company that contracted fire apparatus to the NYPD for 9/11 relief. Due to this he was called out to New York during 9/11 and our whole family relocated there for a few months. This was the first time in which I realized that my parents job is quite different from many others. Instead of running away from New York like many families

In 2012 I joined the Harlan Fire Department continuing my long standing commitment to my community as a volunteer firefighter EMT.  As a member of the fire department I respond to many different types of calls.  Some of these calls include but are not limited to wildland fires, structure fires, car accidents, and medical calls.  As an active member I was qualified as a Firefighter/EMT, confined space rescue technician, and technical rope rescue technician.   We have a wide range of equipment ranging from type one to type six engines, a heavy rescue truck, UTV, and a 75' ladder truck. With the equipment and training I was a part of a successful grain bin rescue saving the life of one local farmer and part of a successful rescue of a trapped

WHERAS, not only is this a loss of a devoted mother, but also a confident counselor and closest of friends. A wife, who was always available to share an encouraging word and demonstrate strong support.

You inform the dispatcher that you’re en-route to the location responding in code three which is lights and sirens. When you arrive on the scene, you can see two seriously damaged vehicles and all you see is chaos. The two vehicles appear to be stuck together because they hit each other so hard. The coolant and oil is splattered all over the road and burning and boiling off of the still hot engines. You’re trained to give first aid and basic life support, you are silently thankful that an ambulance is already on the scene. You see a paramedic talking with a driver who is pinned inside the vehicle trying to keep them awake. You notice that the driver is covered in blood and has severe cuts all over his or her body. Firefighters arrive on the scene to use Jaws of Life to cut out the pinned in driver. The other driver in the other vehicle appears to be unresponsive and you see paramedics pulling the driver out of the vehicle to conduct CPR on the driver. The paramedics dispatch that they need flight care to pick up one of the seriously injured drivers. The ambulance takes the other driver to the hospital after being cut out of the vehicle. Flight care arrives on scene to pick up the severely injured driver. One of your main duties is to guard flight care from people and vehicles. Flight care

As a first responder who arrived to respond to a small fire downtown. Upon my arrival, I see 20 people with foam-like substance emanating from their mouth. The first thing I would do is to make sure that I’m secured with the proper equipment and using my proper training that I’ve learned as a first responder before entering a contaminated area and before approaching the people who have already being exposed to hazardous material. Also, you want to make sure you test what type of substance it is to determine how dangerous it is before approaching the people. However, it’s human nature to be more cautious on how you going to approach the situation. It’s very important as a first responder to ask questions and have the full understanding of what

As Brittany arrives at the forest the sight of the bright flames roaring in front of her eyes makes her feel as though she just got punched in the gut, she never expected it to be this big . As she steps into the forest she feels a tug on her shirt when she turns around a firefighter is holding onto her shirt

I woke up after, what felt like, 4 hours of sleep. I regretted not going to bed at a decent hour the night before, because as soon as my alarm went off, I instantly wanted to hit the snooze button. I headed out the door, a quarter after 6 AM, and with the dark skies and chilly breeze, it really had me frazzled on how it was supposed to turn out to be a “beautiful” day. As I headed North on 35W, I arrived at the fire station, in Minneapolis, around 7:45 AM. I called Firemen Kevin Taaffe from my car. Kevin has been a family friend of ours since I was born, he used to babysit me and now in return I babysit his children. He met me in the lobby outside of the secured doors of the station and within minutes,

As someone who has no working experience as a clerk, especially in a library, I feel that I am sufficiently qualified to perform well in this position. First, I have had customer service experience during my job as a dietary technician, where one of the main duties of my job was interacting with our customers and performing tasks that they requested from us. I also have several years of experience working small increments on a winery where some of my duties required helping new customers find what they were looking for and explaining winemaking processes.

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading~William Styron”. This quote is one of my earliest associations of Abu (grandpa) and Ammi’s (grandma’s) house. I remember, the quote was carved into a thick slab of wood that rested on Abu’s study table. Abu was, and still is a bookworm. He is the most intelligent man I know; he had the answers to all my questions and the knowledge about every subject. When I was about five or six, I still remember tiptoeing into his study room to scare him; I noticed he was reading In The line of Fire: A Memoir. I tried to come in as quietly as possible but somehow he would always know, and scare me first. But not this time. This time, he was so involved in reading Pakistan’s current President, Pervez Musharraf’s memoir that he didn’t even notice that I was standing next to him. I stood in awe of how focused he was. Soon, I broke the silence.“Abu, why are you always reading?” Startled, he put his cigar in the ashtray and looked towards me with a smile. He put me on his lap, and pointed towards the thick slab of wood, Abu: “ I want to live my life to the fullest, I want to live several lives”.

Becoming a Firefighter is one of the most rigorous careers on the planet, it takes dedication and special type of person to do that career. They must pass an extremely rigorous physical fitness test as part of the requirements to be a firefighter, they need to have excellent cardiovascular fitness, upper body strength and endurance abilities for this career. Passing the physical fitness test is an important component of firefighting, so they must train to be able to run distances, climb stairs and lift as much as 200 pounds. There are steps to become a firefighter, one step is EMT training which is the second most important training, first step being the obvious; 90% of station require EMT, due to 70% of the calls are medical related. Another step is to volunteer their time at a local station to gain some experience in the field and the departments looking for individuals with desire and ability to work in community service, it also builds their resume at the same time. Knowing the hiring process, keeping a clean record and be truthful on the background check, and having thorough physical exam done because excellent

How a person recounts an event is affected by who they are. In the two eyewitness accounts by Harry Senior and Mrs. D. H. Bishop and the article by Hanson W. Baldwin, different stories about the sinking of the Titanic are shared. These various sources give vivid descriptions about what it was like as a passenger, a boat crew member, and a survivor on a lifeboat. The author’s perspectives affect the details that they include in their accounts of the sinking of the Titanic.

My husband and I started a family and built a house which comes with chores and responsibilities. Some feel like it is a wife duty to keep the household up while the husband works. Keep in mind this is just something older generations say. So I have married a wonderful man who is willing to make a compromise. Using strategic solutions a situation that requires interdependence is the game theory (Thomas & Maurice, 2010. p.513). The responsibilities we put on the table are lawn, daycare pick ups and drop offs, cleaning, laundry, dinner, and grocery shopping. The most responsible action that would give us both the solution we desire would be a dominated strategy (Thomas & Maurice, 2010, p.517). Of course, my husband dominate strategy would be to do all the

You Can ’ t Always W in I was at home sleeping when I was woken by the tremendously loud beeping sound that just about gives a heart attack. Realizing it was my fire pag er going off; I quickly jump ed up out of bed. Listening to dispatch I was struggling to get my cloth es on (which normally I have laid out for night calls, but tonight I failed to do so) I hear , “ Fire/Rescue monitors you have a two car PI (Personal Injury vehicle accident) time out 0230 hours ” Instantly I think “ oh shit ” this is serious.