firefighter stories

Family thanks the responders who saved son

March 2, 2008

A week after a respiratory virus caused their infant son to stop breathing last month, doctors told Dan and Lisa Anthony that their son would survive. Doctors also told the Newbury Park couple that their 5-week-old son, Tommy, survived because the people who treated him from the time he stopped breathing until he was moved [...]

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Enter The New Year With A Two-Alarm Blaze

January 1, 2008

We were standing on the apparatus floor listening to fireworks and gun shots popping everywhere. Ringing in the New Year with the boys at the station was sure to be memorable…..Sure enough, exactly what we were expecting……the lights come on, the tap goes off and we were out the doors to a second alarm in [...]

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The Memories of 2007…

December 31, 2007

Here I am on New Year’s eve day looking back at 2007. I am ringing in the new year on duty. As I sit here and prepare myself for a hectic night, I can’t help but relflect back on a year that has past so quickly. In the spring of 2007, I was fortunate enough [...]

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