Fire Service
Welcome to the Fire Service section of our website. The Fire Service has been a big part of both our lives. Kristine was a volunteer or “call” firefighter/EMT in our hometown for about fifteen years. She retired several years ago at the rank of Captain. She was quite active and responded to a lot of fire and medical calls. Unable to stay completely away, she now serves on the Auxiliary in a support role. I’ve been in public safety for a while and it’s all I’ve done for years. I started back in 1986 as a Deputy Sherriff and then moved into the Fire Service. I became a Fire and EMS instructor in the mid-nineties and founded a school which has been running ever since. If you are curious as to what happens in the public safety training world you can visit the school’s website at www.nhems.com There is a very popular photo gallery section called “Yearbook”.
Through much of the nineties I worked fulltime on an ambulance in Manchester, New Hampshire’s largest city. And, although I have retired twice (obviously unsuccessfully) from Greenfield Fire; the beginning of 2022 marks my thirtieth year on the department. This is an occupation that gets in your blood and I have yet to learn how to say no when asked to come back. No complaint… I love this job and have never wanted to do anything else.
Dispatches from the Pandemic
In the winter of 2020, right about the time the Corona virus appeared, I reconnected with a couple of friends from high school. Not only were we school mates but we had all been in the same garage band and were close back then. I hadn’t spoken to either in nearly...