eeyoresmountainpals
<font color="green">Volunteer Firefighter and Mom
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- Feb 18, 2005
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I have to tell you all what happened to me yesterday...
I was coming home from grocery shopping (about 7:30 p.m.) and as I was coming up our road I was going kind of slow because I was talking on my cell phone. Now you have to remember that coming home on "our" road entails about four miles up the mountain, over the top and then back down the other side about a mile, all very twisty and turny! On the way up the mountain an ambulance came up behind me, no lights or siren though. Very strange to see one out here. So I pulled over to let them pass since I was dawdling anyway.
Our house is on a fairly sharp curve and here I come around the curve and one of our friend's pick-up truck is parked there along the side of the road, partially in the road, near the front of our house. We don't have an actual driveway - our house sits close to the road and we just have the off road parking. Well, at first I didn't think much of it until I saw that he had his hazard lights on. Then it hit me. He's a first responder and would only use his hazard lights like that if he was on a call! Then I noticed two more vehicles that I recognized as first responder vehicles behind his - both with hazard lights on! PANIC!!! I pulled up in front of our house but couldn't park so I stopped in the road. Matthew was on the porch so I yelled to him and asked what happened. He just shrugged his shoulders and said it wasn't for our house - that they were all at the neighbor's house. WHEW!
I passed our house to turn around to come back to find somewhere to park and I passed our neighbor's house. There were three more first responders at our neighbor's house. Very unusual for more than two to go out on a call but six (out of eight) had responded...because when they heard the call go out they thought it was our address. Funny thing is - DH, who is a first responder, was at home and slept through the tones going off and didn't wake up until the ambulance pulled up in front of our house!
Well, it turns out that our neighbor was up on the hill behind his house and slipped on wet grass. They think he broke his leg. That reminds me - I need to give them a call and see how he is doing.
I was coming home from grocery shopping (about 7:30 p.m.) and as I was coming up our road I was going kind of slow because I was talking on my cell phone. Now you have to remember that coming home on "our" road entails about four miles up the mountain, over the top and then back down the other side about a mile, all very twisty and turny! On the way up the mountain an ambulance came up behind me, no lights or siren though. Very strange to see one out here. So I pulled over to let them pass since I was dawdling anyway.
Our house is on a fairly sharp curve and here I come around the curve and one of our friend's pick-up truck is parked there along the side of the road, partially in the road, near the front of our house. We don't have an actual driveway - our house sits close to the road and we just have the off road parking. Well, at first I didn't think much of it until I saw that he had his hazard lights on. Then it hit me. He's a first responder and would only use his hazard lights like that if he was on a call! Then I noticed two more vehicles that I recognized as first responder vehicles behind his - both with hazard lights on! PANIC!!! I pulled up in front of our house but couldn't park so I stopped in the road. Matthew was on the porch so I yelled to him and asked what happened. He just shrugged his shoulders and said it wasn't for our house - that they were all at the neighbor's house. WHEW!
I passed our house to turn around to come back to find somewhere to park and I passed our neighbor's house. There were three more first responders at our neighbor's house. Very unusual for more than two to go out on a call but six (out of eight) had responded...because when they heard the call go out they thought it was our address. Funny thing is - DH, who is a first responder, was at home and slept through the tones going off and didn't wake up until the ambulance pulled up in front of our house!
Well, it turns out that our neighbor was up on the hill behind his house and slipped on wet grass. They think he broke his leg. That reminds me - I need to give them a call and see how he is doing.
and it's good to know they care enough about you guys for 6 outta 8 to show up
He can sleep through anything. 
WOW! I thought I was a heavy sleeper
