Couldn’t help thinking of the London firefighters this morning as I passed the local fire station. Feeling enormous sadness, and huge respect, for those brave men and women of the emergency services. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Six Word Saturday: all quiet at the local station
Zimmerbitch 
Can you imagine listening to the children and people screaming out for help and not being able to do anything for them…..terrible.
Leslie
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I keep thinking about that over and over; and about how something like this could have even happened in the first place.
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I think they did some work on the building recently and clad the outside with something that wasn’t up to code “fire wise”. That’s the conclusion I’ve come up with. I hope some heads roll over that one.
Leslie
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Sounds like a lot of corners were cut; and frighteningly, the cladding was actually legal in the UK, even though it’s banned in other places.
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Let’s hope that it is banned now. What happened was a catastrophe. Heads should roll.
Leslie
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Lovely thoughts Su. A quiet fire station is a good sign for sure.
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It is! And our station is staffed by volunteers who all live in the community, so call-outs often involve people they know. đŸ˜¦
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That would be hard. We lived in a tiny little town for part of my growing up years and the fire and ambulance service were like that. My mom happened to be in a major car accident and was picked up by our volunteer ambulance workers. I’m so grateful for them. They saved her life.
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Wow. It’s great that they were able to save her. That must be so incredibly satisfying for the volunteers to know they can do so much good in their own community. Our volunteer firefighters are a totally amazing bunch. They work so hard, have to experience so much and still find time to fundraise for charities, work with community kids groups AND are the first to volunteer to help in other areas when they can.
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