Growing Up, By Old Spice edit 1
All the bags and boxes were piled into the new dorm room. None of my roommates had arrived yet, so I had my pick of bed. Now was the point that most mothers dread. The time when they would have …...
View Article3/17/15
The most recent class that we had was about hoses: loading, deploying, and rolling hose. Fun stuff… It’s more confusing than you’d think actually. As great as it sounds, however, I won’t bore you with...
View ArticleColbert’s Argument
sides with those supporting pro-capital punishment and makes it ridiculous. Recommends that they “blindfold the public” rather than blindfold the prisoner
View ArticleTo Whom It May Concern at CNN
I am writing today to congratulate your reporting staff on their excellent work digging for the truth in the Penn State, Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) scandal. It takes a truly dedicated news team to be able...
View Article3/24/2015
Monday the 16th was our hose line practical. We rode up to the Patton Township station on one of the engines and got to work. The lieutenants divided us into groups of three and we started pulling...
View ArticleState Paddy’s Day
Born and raised in Scranton, PA, I’m no stranger to crazy, drunken St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Scranton’s parade day is rank as one of the top in the country and it’s not hard to see why. The whole...
View Article3/31/2015
Back home, we don’t get a lot of fire calls. Lake Winola is a very rural area and there might be one or two working fires a year. This is a good thing, obviously, but it still stinks for us … Continue...
View Article4/7/2016
Yesterday was warm, sunny, dry, and windy. It’s Spring: the snow is all melted, and the grass and vegetation are still dead. This makes for the perfect storm for a brush fire; especially in a place...
View Article4/14/2015
This weekend we did our car fire practical session. We were told to be at the station for 7:15 so that we could all be on the rig that was going with us to CPI which was where the car … Continue reading →
View ArticlePaper 4 Draft
Since 2007, State Paddy’s Day has replaced St. Patrick’s Day as the favorite Irish drinking holiday for State College. It began because that year St. Patrick’s Day, the traditional drinking holiday,...
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