Cross and McMurdo Sound

Cross and McMurdo Sound

Friday, July 23, 2010

Blog #14 - Our B Shift photo

OK, I figure I can at least try one more tonight since it will mostly be photos.


Here you will see the front of our fire station along with one of our Engines and our two brand new Ambulances we just got this past February off the ship.

Not much else to tell you about the photos except that these are the people I work with all the time. We have an A Shift and a B Shift and each shift works one day on and then one day off. Because of our schedule we are usually not very liked by many here in McMurdo since everyone else pretty much has to work 6 days a week and only gets Sunday off. Once a month they get a full weekend off, but when we work every other day, ALL THE TIME, it kind of puts a little friction between us and others. What really gets a lot of people is that we have the day on/off thing and then every other week we get an extra Kelly Day, or K-Day (a firefighter thing from I believe Chicago) so every other week each person gets their K-Day so that means we have 3 days off in a row. I think you can see why others don't seem to like us much.

Anyway, here are the photos and maybe one or two of McMurdo or something. ENJOY!


That's our station from up on Observation Hill. Pictures a little weird though?


Our Station, Engine, and two Ambulances. This was back in April when we still had sun!


How's that??


L to R: Rob Weidman, Grant Hanson, Lt. Mark Bucher, ME, Megan Branson


Who the Heck???