Fire Dept. at Work

Our day started off with a call from Diane a little before 8:00. She thought she was going to have the baby today for sure so we went to the hospital. Dismissed at 2:00 to go home and wait for closer contractions!

Came home and put some sandwiches together and made some bars for the firemen tonight. I had asked Bill's mom if she would make my bars since I was with Diane - and she did. But then I got home in time to help make
the other stuff needed and went with the fire chief's wife to help "serve" it. Which meant we got to be kind of close to the fire, watch and I could take pictures!

This had been a 2 story house that was already in a large, 1 story pile but the fire dept. needed to burn it since it was very close to 2 houses. They asked the Havelock (nearby town) dept. to help out. They brought their big water tanker.











All seemed to be going well and they had eaten when they got another call - a wreck north of town - 2 vehicles. So half of the firemen stayed with the fire and the others went to the wreck. Five people are ok but were all taken to the hospital. One vehicle ran a stop sign.