I am in the middle of a three day stint of learning all I can about the Mark 3 portable pump, there is more to learn than you'd think.This is happening at the Arizona Wildfire Academy which is a big deal and brings people in from all over. I had lunch yesterday with one of the other firefighters from our outfit and the chief from a district up near Flagstaff that serves 3000 residents and has 49 paid firefighters which is huge for a "small" department.
The nature of things in our department right now is that as assistant chief I have a much larger role in operational decision mking than the previous six fire seasons that I had the same role. I was lucky enough to get the chief we were having lunch with to open up about all sorts of things relevant to the issues that our department is dealing with, they went through the same things back in the 1990s.
I had a ton of homework for the class (despite the simplicity of the picture there are a lot of math formulas involved) so no normal blog post just an observation about seizing an admittedly small moment.
2 comments:
Welcome relief from the scanning and review of financial markets and daily publications, I suppose.
I think that being involved in activities that take one in a completely different direction from the drumbeat of a primary job sharpens the wit and decision making for the important things in life (including the primary job).
T
Let's hope the motor is easy to repair if it gets wet.
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