Fire Department

Yesterday was a busy one! Rescue training was to be a live scenario where they stage an accident, perform their duties, and critique it afterwards.
Everyone was involved: medics, rescue techs, firefighters, and the state troopers. The Auxiliary was asked to feed everyone.
Vicki and I shopped for burgers and sausages, coleslaw, beans, potato salad, cookies, and the makings for a fruit salad.
I was in the training room before everything started and they tried to hand me a triage tag so I got out of there and waited outside. Vicki and Christie waited with me until the pre-briefing was over and everyone moved out of there to the "accident scene" outside. The weather cooperated nicely. The sun was out and it was just a bit chilly. We saw a huge flock of geese heading for their summer home and several cranes making their strange noise flying over. There are still some piles of snow around where the plow left them.
I was stirring the beans when Christie's younger son came in and called his dad (also a state trooper) "Dad, you should come here and bring your camera! Adam has a fake bloody nose and now he's getting arrested! It's cool!" Apparently, Adam was playing the part of a drunk driving teen in the scenario.
We all worked well together getting the food ready. Christie manned the grill, I took care of warming the buns and the beans, Vicki set up the sides and the plates before we sent her off with the camera for a few pics. Hopefully I'll get to post some. Christie wants to use one of Adam for his senior page in the school yearbook some day (he's a freshman now).
Unfortunately, everyone made it back into the training room before we did, so clean up got delayed. It turned into a late evening for me because I still had to go home and take my Gleevec which means I have to stay up and sit still until the nausea goes away.