Model City Firefighter A fire service blog that highlights articles involving brotherhood, pride, and the history of the fire service.
Those of you who have been following along for some time know that I often write about STATION PRIDE! I believe that taking pride in the station you work out of, and the crew that you work with should be ...
Read More »Station Pride: KFD Station 4
FDIC Itinerary: The “Model City Firefighter
Even though I always look forward to FDIC each year, it seems to always sneak right up on me. With just a few days to go, things are busy, busy, busy. The good news is that it seems that this ...
Read More »The Remodeled Model City Firefighter
As we kick off a new year here at The “Model City” Firefighter, we have some great things planned to make this our biggest year yet! The first difference you may notice is that the website looks totally different now. ...
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 »Hurricane Sandy: 9/11 Memorial Visit (Part 3)
I’ve been busy over the holidays spending time with my loved ones, but I wanted to finish up the write-up about the last day of my recent trip to New York. We put in two full days of work, and ...
Read More »Hurricane Sandy: Lindenhurst (Part 2)
The area of Lindenhurst, located on Long Island, was hit hard during the storm. We started off the morning by helping a Battalion Chief from FDNY on a house that he owns. He fortunately had been able to do a ...
Read More »Hurricane Sandy: Second Trip, One Month Later…(Part 1)
I returned from New York early Tuesday morning, and unfortunately wasn’t able to get much rest before work at 8AM. Tuesday also ended up being a busy day at work with several calls including a working fire. Even though I ...
Read More »New York Bound in the AM
I’m on shift today, and it has been an interesting one. I will write a post about how the entire shift played a good prank on me…and kept me going for a couple days now. We are leaving for New ...
Read More »Hurricane Sandy Relief (PART 3): FDNY Engine 217
As my last post on the recent trip to New York, I wanted to take some time and tell about one of the highlights of the trip. It was filled full of lots of hard work, emotions, and very little ...
Read More »Hurricane Sandy Relief (PART 2): Long Days and Hard Work
On November 16th, our team along with other volunteers met at the Wyandanch Volunteer Fire Company in New York to unload the donated goods that had been brought with us. These donations came from a number of organizations and individuals ...
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