Congratulations to our newest firefighters as they begin their careers:
Tim Antes
Tyler Barry
Matthew Fair
Adam Hoffman
Jason Love
Matt Richardson
Garrett Rubendall
Adam Schaecher
Jared Stutzman
Daniel Wenz
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Congrats to grads
Last night ten new firefighters were sworn in at a Lincoln Fire & Rescue badge-pinning ceremony. I've been to many of these graduations in the bast several decades, but this one had a nice twist. Chief John Huff and Battalion Chief Leo Benes had each firefighter introduce his family, and then invited one of the family members to do the honors. It was pretty special. Some of our new firefighters had nearly a dozen people in the audience. I kept waiting for someone to lock up and momentarily forget a brother-in-law's first name, but it never happened!
Congratulations to our newest firefighters as they begin their careers:
Congratulations to our newest firefighters as they begin their careers:
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I've been using my iPad lately to read and post on your blog. I have the option to view it in mobile version or as a web page (which has more visual apppeal), but the default is the mobilie version so I usually just go with that. However, most of the time, if I try to comment, it appears to work correctly, but never shows up. I commented on this page yesterday more or less just to see if it worked. Apparently, it didn't. It seems I have to go to the web page view to be sure my comments get to you. Oh, well.
Congrats to the grads. I hope they have long and happy careers.
I did ask a question in my comment yesterday, so I'll try again. Can you comment on the recent story in which it was reported to take ten minutes for first responders to arrive at the scene of a 911 call? If the majority of the city can be reached in four minutes or less, I have to wonder what made it take ten minutes for this call, which I believe was in the city limits. I don't remember the details of it now, but I believe it was in the south part of town, perhaps an assualt or something in which medical assistance was required.
Steve,
Not familiar with the story you're referring to. More details? I know we had a kitchen fire in far south Lincoln this week with a rather slow roll. Is that the one?
Tom:
Yes, that's the one. Again, I'm not complaining, but rather wondering why it took so long in this particular case.
Would like to hear details on slow roll on kitchen fire.Scary at best.
On a different story, and I've heard others ask the same thing--A young man is stabbed 14 times, and the stabber is charged with assault. At what point does this become attempted murder? Sure sounds like he was attempting, to me.
Steve,
Sorry for the slow response, I've been doing some teaching this week, and not keeping up with comments very well. LF&R has been doing high rise training this week, which has placed a few apparatus out of service each day. You've got to train, but it also reduces the number of companies available when you the training is underway.
On Tuesday when this residential fire occurred, we had multiple incidents underway, and had to send resources from a long ways away. Not a good situation, and I've already directed a review to see if we had a good plan in place for coverage. Not saying we didn't, but it merits a second look.
Stuff happens, I just want to make sure we have minimized the risk reasonably, given the resources we have at our disposal
... and also, as long as it's a felony, the arrest charge doesn't matter much. The County Attorney decides what charge is filed in court, and it is often different from the crime the arresting officer listed at the time of the citation or booking.
Anonymous 7:05....we as officers generally arrest for what the person actually accomplished (assault, robbery, murder, theft, etc.) The prosecutor has a little more discretion and leeway to amend to the 'attempts' of other crimes (attempted murder, attempted fraud, etc.)
Congratulations to the newest grads and their proud families. I like the idea of a family member pinning on the badges; that's gotta be an amazing feeling for all involved.
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