"Investigation" of Open Door at Lebanon Fire and EMS Station 1 Leaves LMTS Thankful for A Nice Evening Ride.

 

STOP, TURN, REVERSE!!!

BREAKING NEWS!!

Tonight an overhead door at the Lebanon Fire and EMS station was left open as your responders rushed off to a motor vehicle accident!!!

 

OH, the HORROR!!

 

It must be a very slow news night for this to have been given top honors for the evening!!
I hope you all had as good a laugh out of this report as I did.

You KNOW I had to RUSH right down and DEMAND of Chief Meehan how he DARED to leave the overhead doors open on the station when he was rushing off to be sure that there was no one injured or dying out on Rt. 202 tonight!! (kidding)

When I arrived at Station 1 on the corner of Depot Road and Upper Cross Road, ALL the doors of the station were wide open and all the lights were on!! The crew were all busy restocking, cleaning, taking off turn out gear and heading in for a discussion with the Chief on how things went at the scene. There were a lot of "them" there, those responders who left the station with reckless abandon, leaving that one overhead door gaping open wasting thousands of taxpayer dollars, since the station is heated to 70* and it was SO cold out tonight, and WORSE, here it was 9:44 pm when I arrived, and EVERY door was open!!!

 

 

By now, I hope you're all giggling, just as I am.

You see, it was 58* at 9:44 pm tonight as I arrived at Station 1. Warm for a late November evening. The crew were hard at work. I'm sure that everyone was a little warm, as they were dashing around in fire pants, suspenders and t-shirts.

I tried to get them all to come and stand in front of the open doors and wave, but they all declined. Yes, I aggravated them a bit, taunting them and trying to get them to come and pose for me. :::sigh::: but they were all a bit nervous about having their photos taken. You know how that is. If their photo is taken, there are no guarantees as to who will use it, or what horrible meme will be created with it. There is no honor amongst photo thieves.

Anyway, there were about 10 of them, all responding to a traffic accident, even though there are only TWO who are scheduled to be at the station at that time of the evening, and we shared a bit of good natured ribbing and a few laughs.

I had to question the Chief on WHY the heat would be set to 70* in the station, considering how warm it is tonight and how warm it's supposed to be during the overnight hours, and the truth is that the heat was NOT set to 70*, but 65*.

But that's neither here nor there.

What's important is that there were 10 responders who answered a call for help in Lebanon tonight. TEN. They left the station in good time and as they left........ a door was left open!!!

OR WAS IT??

I got a good laugh out of the TRUTH.

Chief Meehan, several responders and I went into the Chief's office and rolled back the video tape. YUP the proof is in the video!!

We see on the video, the responders arriving at the station, gearing up, unplugging and starting vehicles and rolling out on the call. Typical call. Nothing strange, out of the ordinary, or discouraging. Each to their vehicle and out the large overhead doors of the station.

Yes, I'm dragging this on, because the TRUTH is so funny that I'm purposefully making you wait for it!!!

So the last vehicle out of the station is the Squad vehicle with 2 responders aboard.

Out of the station they go.........and DOWN starts the big overhead door.

About the time that the door gets a quarter of the way down, the door stops, and raises..........

It never shut all the way.

WHY??

Because there are electronic eyes on the bottoms of the doors.

Electronic eyes are on each of the large overhead doors of the station for protection. If anything penetrates the field of the electronic eye, it causes the door to stop its decent and raise itself back up into the rafters of the station.

So tonight, as the Squad vehicle left the station, there was a water hose, that is coiled and hanging by the door, that somehow had shifted so that one of the coils of hose was blocking the electronic eye.

Your responders would have been out of the station and on their way to the accident scene by the time the door began to go UP again.

So the door was open.

Big Deal.

Since the thermostat in Station 1 was set at 65*F, and the temperature at the time, outdoors, was 58* F, the heating units would not have kicked on until the temperature inside the back room where the thermostat hangs, reached 60* F. Since the room where the thermostat is kept has DOORS separating it from the larger garage bays, that would not have happened for several hours.

:::sigh::::

Not one penny of your taxpayer dollars was wasted. Not even one.

I must say that it was a nice evening for a ride across town to Station 1, and spending time with our responders is always a joy for me. So, no harm, no foul.

THANKFUL for a good laugh, good company, and a nice late evening ride!!

 

 

P.S.........LOVE the green light in support of our nation's veterans!!

WAY TO GO Lebanon Fire and EMS!!