Tim Kron is a Captain assigned to Quint 2, with the New Albany Fire Department, located in Southern Indiana. He is a father to 3 of the greatest kids in the world. His oldest will be a senior at ...
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We All Make a Difference…
Everyone in the fire service has made a difference. Every single one of us has saved a life. Maybe it was through counseling someone on the way to the ER, by administering CPR, slamming Narcan on a patient that overdosed, ...
Read More »Dump Truck Exits I-26 Bridge Trapping Driver Inside
Today is “B” shifts second shift on, and it started out as a busy one. Around 8:45am, Kingsport Fire units responded to Domtar Park for a reported accident with injury. While Engine 4 was responding, they were advised that a ...
Read More »Station Project: The Red, White, and Blue
As many of my followers are aware, I have been working on several projects around the station for the past couple of months. Most of them are small decorative changes, and some are bigger than others. Today, we finished one ...
Read More »Product Review: COAST Products DX335
Coast Products COAST Products offer a variety of products for those involved with emergency services. They produce many flashlights, knives, head lamps, and multi-tools. I have been asked to conduct a product review on several of their products, and have ...
Read More »Weekend Round-Up
My shift worked off on Friday morning, and I knew I had a full weekend ahead of me. With the weather forecast looking perfect, we decided to pull the camper to a local state park for the weekend. With all ...
Read More »Blowin’ Smoke with Matt Flagler
My name is Matt Flagler. I am a father and a Fireman. I am a Lieutenant with the Cincinnati Fire Department. After serving in a variety of roles for the CFD, both operational and administrative, I am currently assigned in ...
Read More »Busy as a “B”
I’m on shift today on the East side of town and we’ve had a busy day to say the least. I have kept check on the Facebook page “Likes” and very glad that we hit 2,000 likes today! I would ...
Read More »Blowin’ Smoke with Brian Brush
This is one Blowin’ Smoke article I have looked forward to posting for some time now. I first met Brian at FDIC 2012 when I had the chance to climb in his footsteps during the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb. Since ...
Read More »Being “That Guy”
Since getting my assignment to Station 2 in January of this year, I’ve dumped a little money and a lot of time into the projects I have been working on. I never once had any second thoughts about doing it because ...
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