This is Christina reporting to you LIVE from the edge of Earth ( Read more... )

Today here in Chicago a Memorial Park was dedicated to fallen Chicago Firefighters and Paramedics. Attending the ceremony was one New York Firefighter. I finally had my chance to fulfill part of a wish I'd made a year ago today... I got to hug that Firefighter and tell him Thank You... that he and his brothers and sisters are always in my ( Read more... )

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I've been busy working my arse off with Trace, going to my Medical Terminology class, working EVS when I can, and just hanging out with my partner, D... D and I have the permanent shift of Tuesdays/Thursdays/Saturdays from 4:30 AM to 2:30 PM and we love it... it's been awesome... The best part is, since D and I went through EMT class together, we' ( Read more... )

What I heard on WGN News here in Chicago just a little while ago seriously worries me...

Ambulances or other emergency vehicles
being used as/filled with bombs/explosivesHas anyone else heard anything about it?? What I heard on WGN (and aggrivatingly enough cannot find anything about it yet on-line) is that two men of Arabian nationality went to ( Read more... )

Well, I've been at Trace for a week now... and what a week it was... especially last night (holy shit!!)... but let me start at the beginning which is two weeks ago for Orientation:

May 28th and 29thThese were my Orientation days... I was told to wear street clothes for them... so the first day (Tuesday) I wore my one pair of clog-style heels ( ( Read more... )

I got some really bad news when I got out to Naperville today for the Fire Game... one of my friends from the Arena had a heart attack on the way home from the Heartthrobs concert this morning and she didn't make it ( Read more... )

NEW YORK, May 30 - With the toll of a fire
department bell signaling a fallen firefighter,
and the solemn rendition of "Taps,"
work at Ground Zero formally ended today
with a tribute to the more than 2,800 people
who died at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.


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I'll leave this one open to all who wish to take it:
(and yes, I'll post the correct answers in a few days)

Poll Extra Credit Questions from FS Quiz 1 and FS Quiz 3