Last day of the cycle for C-shift, Meet Our Members part 4

Been a good day tater. Good but COLD! Actually got a little snow yesterday. Some areas got a little more than others but nothing major anywhere. We had about 2-3 inches in Catawba which was the Buckaroo's first. He LOVED it. Got to throw his first snowball and make his first snowman. I just gotta show ya the pics...


Routine calls thus far today (which is always good). I'm riding the Battalion again but hanging out here with the boys. Football and Wheezy's 3 day old "Gut Buster" chili atop nachos, with salsa, cheese etc. get out the baby wipes...this is gonna hurt!

We haven't just been watching the Redskins CHOKE... we've also been getting ready to play ourselves. The 1st official practice for the Roanoke Rampage is tomorrow. Check out that link to our site and come on out tomorrow at 18:00 and watch us get started. Hey, we also still need sponsors. Read about the league on our site... it's all for CHARITY. For as little as $250 you can become a sponsor. Contact us here or through the links on the rampage site.
The boys have been teasing me about it pretty hard today and I'm glad they're getting so much enjoyment out of this. I can't wait to get my "I told you so" in... remember boys, it's all on the big wheel :-) I think one thing that has em so tickled is the fact that I've worn my cleats all day today. I mean come on... I haven't had these things on since high school and that was..... well, that was a while ago (gotta get em broke back in). They act like they've never seen a pair of high top shoes. Wait till I break out the game shoes.. high top PUMAs with bright orange strings..oh yea!


I know they love me and are just worried I'll get injured. They keep saying something about me being so small etc. and I keep telling em that size doesn't matter. As long as I have on these shoes, the other team will never catch me. If they want to tackle me, they'll have to do it in the huddle! LMAO
Ok, on to part 4 of Meet Our Members. Meet Firefighter / Medic Scott Boone..aka Coon.

Coon was hired 8-27-2001 and assigned to old station #3. He had the good fortune of working with the likes of then Captain King, Chris Brown, Justin "57" Hines, Adam Fleming and more. No wonder he has such a good work ethic. Not long into his career, he was reassigned to station #9. Here, he is the Senior Fireman on C-shift. He has actually been at this house longer than any other member of C-shift including me. Don't believe it?? Check out this photo of when he came

I mentioned him being the Senior Fireman but he's also the one who gets away with everything. It's usually Coon who comes up with all the fretting ideas. He comes up and plans the shananagans then tricks another member into pulling it off. He's always standing in the back laughing his tail off and never getting implicated....but the ol Capt knows...GUILTY! That in part is how he got his nick name. He's sneaky. The other reason the name Coon fit was his life style at the time. You see, Coon was a "lady's man" and he was courting this one special gal. Late nights...LATE LATE nights until he finally caught her. He'd come dragging in the house for a tour smelling like Brute... by Fabersha, shoes on the wrong feet and dark circles under his eyes. Looked like a coon and it rhymed with Boone. Coon! That special gal is now his wife Sherry. Here's a few pics of the Lady's man and one of him proposing.... ahhhhhhhhh ain't that romantic (or gay lol).


They currently live on Lot 5 in a Botetourt County trailer park until they can finish building their dream home. They've purchased the lot and demolished an old existing house that was there. I assisted with the demo pictured below

While all the boys chiped in to help him find a temporary home until the new house can be built. Check out what we found for him in an older post here. You can also check out his Picture Book page to see the pics of him burning the pile of rubble from the demo job. WOW...I mentioned when you met Wheezy that he was 1/2 of the Misfit's Championship Corn Hole Team, well Coon is the other half.


A true champion but one who loves to pose... it's all about the BLING

he's also our little net worker. He's always on the phone and orginizing some sort of company gathering...


He's sitting high on the Lt. list thus far and is scheduled for his practicle portion of the test tomorrow. Proficient with all aspects of the job, I'm sure he'll do well. I'd hate to loose him but look forward to seeing him test out well and receive the nod for promotion to Lieutenant....GOOD LUCK Coon! Here are a few more pics...





So there he is... our little "poop magnet". Lt. Bugg is up next, we'll be back on Friday...until then stay safe, in the house and don't take no wooden nickels. Captain Wines

Monday Monday 1st day back for C-shift Misfits

I don't know why but it seems as though when you take a few days off and then return 9 days later, tasks which before seemed simple and routine now have become much more difficult. I usually arrive for duty first ohhh anytime between 06:30 and 06:40. My first chore is to put on a hot pot of coffee. Today... NOPE. We have a new combo lock on our food locker and guess who didn't get the memo. Result... no coffee. Next, I get my gear in shape and on the truck, do the computer work, check department e-mail then my favorite sites. As the boys arrive, they too get their gear on the trucks and begin to complete their morning checks while one of them prepares our morning egg sandwiches. This morning, 08:30 before the sandwiches were up. OK, one slow / late meal ain't so bad but we do try to maintain a schedule here..it is a firehouse you know. Lunch is at 11:30 so we catch the Price is Right showdown and the noon time local news. Dinner is at 17:30 so we don't miss Andy and then get to catch the evening news. Well tonight, as 17:30 rolled around, I was waiting for a pregnant lady to walk in. Why a pregnant lady you ask... cause this is what Wheezy had on the stove...

Enough water boiling to birth triplets but NOTHING to eat...GEEESH! I thought for a minute or two there that Wheezy has been taking lessons from the 'ol "Ninja Cook" Opie. Guess I was just a little impatient cause after throwing a weee weee weee tiny fit, tossing a few pots and pan etc. Wheezy produced a master piece... and well worth waiting for. Yard bird, stuffing with gravy, mac and cheese and a side of CROW for the Capt....lol

And, my little "I'm gonna starve" tantrum wasn't the only obstacle for Wheezy this evening. I guess the clock and my showing had him picking up the pace a little. Ok maybe turning up the heat instead of picking up the pace. The result of that... smoke. It got kinda bad at one point... so bad in fact that Coon had to take protective measures...

And again, seeing how fabtabulus the meal turned out, I guess we should have paid a little more attention to the sticker atop the Captains desk

(NO WHINING...and also note my Fire Geezer mug, I'm not sure how it manages to sneak its way into so many of our pics). So, Wheezy's cooking and riding backwards. Tyrone has been off to hunt camp since Friday and with no cell service, all we can do is pray that he has and is taking his medication. If he's not...well Highland County will never be the same. Opie is riding the box with our own little poop magnet Coon. Opie actually attended hunt camp with Tyrone Friday through Sunday. He slayed the big one from his mobile recliner, slept ON a wood stove (placed inside a tent by multiple firemen), showered outside in 30 degree weather and used a 5 gallon bucket for a toilet. Guess he had all the fun he could stand so he came on back home. A rainy / cool day here in the "NOKE", sitting on 8 runs total. Nothing too exciting, some local lumberjacks fell a tree across a service drop and didn't think enough of it to slow them from continuing their work. Downed line and all, they finished cutting the tree, loaded the wood and cleaned up debris before anyone called it in... and oh yea, the line was hot


Other news includes a HUGE date that we totally missed. Our house..station #9 located at 514 24th Street NW Roanoke, Va turned 80 years old last month. The station was completed October 2, 1929 so HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY old gal. Like a fine wine, she gets better with age. Warm in the summer, cold in winter and, the roof only leaks when it rains. No, she's a good house and we'll miss her. Here's a pic of how she looks now. I'll also add the new station. Scheduled to open in March 2010, her replacement is well under way and we managed to snap a shot from across the street today. This pic is from the front or the Orange Ave side..check it out, a "measure of progress".


I also wanted to remind everyone that our Public Safety Football team will have it's 1st official practice a week from today. I CAN'T WAIT.... PUT ME IN COACH! Check out the Roanoke Rampage site here. Thanks to Captain Todd Stone and Assistant Fire Marshall Chris Price for all their hard work and effort.
I'll close with a very special announcement. Most of you have figured it out by now but today, we (ok..more like Rhett than "we") officially completed our "RSS" feed. What that means is that whenever we post here (to this blog) we automatically feed to "Networked Blogs" which takes the post to our newly built and under construction Face Book Fan and profile pages and then on to our Twitter page. WoooHoo, now all you "picture bookers" and "Churp Churps" can follow the Melrose Misfits as well. I hope you all enjoy the ride. That's it for tonight, We've got the Monday, Wednesday, Friday tours so we'll see ya again Wednesday night. Until then, stay safe and in the house. Captain Wines

1st day back for C-shift

Feels like fall now. Cloudy cold day and a belly full of Lt. Bugg's 500 bean chili. Bet the bunk room will be right tonight! I never knew there were so many different kinds of beans. Anyway, it's been a so so return for the misfits of C-shift. A bad run for the Medics (Coon and Tyrone)and the guys over at Lucky L-13 that I'm not sure how to tell about and keep everyones privacy so I'm not gonna. On a brighter note, I didn't post last day but we did have some pretty comical runs. I'll add a few pics of one and let you decide the caption / title... check it out.


LOL I can't wait to see what kind of response those get. Moving on, Wheezy has been gone all day working as an evaluator for our regional CPAT (ok, I know we are not in Ca. but it's the same test.. google CPAT here and look for yourself). Sounds like we had several candidates competing for a shot at working for a Department here in the valley. The good news is that we heard some of the part time guys we work with here on Medic 101 did very well and will advance to the next step. Good luck to Alex, John, Josh and all the other candidates who have chosen to make ours their profession. With Wheezy gone and Tyrone all jacked up on Ritalin, it turned out to be Opie's day in the "hot seat". It seems as though each day, someone has the privilege of being the one everybody else pokes at. Today, it was Opie's turn. Seems as though he had a bad experience hunting yesterday. He's looked, searched, photographed, mapped, documented, you name it, he's done it in preparations of killing this ONE deer. Now this is not just "ANY" deer mind you, he seen this monster way back in the summer and called "DIBS". Well apparently, he forgot to tell his neighbor or maybe he's just not doing something right. Either way, the neighbor got the kill.We've gone over it a thousand times today, retracing every step and we can't pin point exactly where he went wrong. It couldn't have been his stand placement..that was perfect

Even his secondary stand was in a good location... a great view of the near by soybean fields..

Maybe this deer was just smarter than Opie?


Could have been that Opie is a little behind in today's hunting technology

I guess it really doesn't matter at this point because the deer is dead and that's that. How do we know for sure you ask??? With all the EMS training we've had lately, as soon as Opie heard the deer had been shot, he sent the Stewartsville Medical Examiner out for verification..

DRT...Poor Opie, he did everything right for the hunt... everything except the part where you shoot the deer (which I thought was the most important). He's been heart broke.. HEART BROKE!! I tell ya. I've told the boys to lay off, but between us, I think they've still been fretting a little. I even offered to let him hunt over around my place but he said he was after a "wall hanger", a"trophy" deer, some "antler stew" something he could be proud of... not those thin, small, mountain farm, garden eaters like we have over in Catawba

**(NOTE: not my kill. Shot by Chuck Hartman 2008 / 2009 season)**
Anyway, the good news for all you PETA members out there is that Opies has sworn off hunting. It's the Kroger meat Dept. from this point on, well, Kroger and what he's eligible for from Hunters for the Hungry.

I'll close with a reminder of the upcoming meeting on October 20th for our newly formed football team. Plans are well underway and it looks as if it's going to be a BLAST. We have been accepted into the National Public Safety Football League and need to get to work ASAP in order to be ready for our 1st season. Capt. Stone and Chris Price have been hard at work on our behalf. They have created a web site found here and will be able to address any questions at the October meeting. Make plans to attend and PLAY! See ya there... until next day (Tuesday) be safe and stay in the house. Capt. Wines