Personal Experience: My Experience In The Fire Department

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I 've always always thought that the fire department was a very interesting and exciting thing to be a part of, but never really wanted to be apart of it till two years ago. One of my friends was joining the department and him and a few others talked me into joining the fire department. My first experience was a very humbling and a great learning experience. I had just joined the fire department, and I had not yet received my pager, so I was not able to know when we had a fire call. On my way to church one morning with my two sisters, I saw red flashing lights. After I had seen the lights, I looked up and saw smoke coming from a house across the street from my church. I realized that it was the lights off of a fire truck; therefore, I dropped my sisters off at church and drove to the fire station. When I got to the fire station, all the doors were up and all the fire trucks were gone. I immediately ran to my locker and began to put my fire gear on. Then I got back in my truck to go to the fire. …show more content…

There were two fireman already inside and two more at the door going in. I tried to find my uncle or one of the fire captains, so they could tell me where I could go to help them put the fire out. I found one of the captains. The captain, another fireman, and I got into one of the fire trucks to find a fire hydrant, so that we could run fire hose to one of the trucks that had hose running into the house and it was running low on water. After finding a fire hydrant, the other fireman and I jumped out of the fire truck, grabbed the end of a hose, and wrapped in around the hydrant and the captain who was driving the truck drove off and pulled all the hose off of the

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