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Can’t wait to see the satellite train, they are so perfectly aligned.

At the current time you can’t bend it on the job site, has to be ordered with the bends already made to them. This is the big downside to swimming pool use, the excavation of the pool is rarely close enough to the plans to have the bars bent off site.

A few pool builders back east are starting to use the fiberglass bars only on the straight runs due to it cant be bent on the job site, only at the factory.

When stationed in Buena Park, Ca. my engineer was commuting to Florida. This was only possible because of “shift trades” that he would work and store up along with vacation time to use to fill in the gaps of time needed off. He would be in California for two weeks and go home to Florida for two...

Had the opportunity to meet Dr. Grossman for a work related burn injury when he worked out of WestMed in Santa Ana Ca. He was always so positive about how the outcome would be that it helped mentally with the recovery.

When I first started as a hose dragger their nickname was “ the big red mattress “

I asked a buddy of mine who sells fire trucks here on the west coast about your turning radius question and advised that most departments set their own requirements or will ask for a turn radius report in the bid specs.

At age 56 with 33.3 years in. Employed by the same company Throttle works for.

Was on duty in OC when it hit. Shortly afterwards was en rout to Northridge as a strike team. Staged at a LACo station that was hit hard, spent most of the day responding from call to call into the night. Lots of water heater gas line fires. Was inside a supermarket checking for damage when a...

Just happened to be in the marina store when all the prospective bidders were having a walk through with the government reps. One of them told me the reason no one would invest money in the marina was due to the short time span of the leases and how investments didn’t have enough time to be...

Hanger #1 burned, near Redhill and Edinger.

During our academy we did live PIT training with the Marines CFR crews at LTA.

We would show up when the Goodyear blimp was housed for maintenance, it was a tiny dot in the corner of the hanger. Was given a walk through of the cat walk system from the military on how to get to the roof, the creeks it made with every step made the hair on the back of your neck stand strait up.

The same hanger that caught fire.

Fed the pigs in January, they are a trip to watch swim.

I was lucky and my employer paid for my certification.

U tube video (rare footage-plane drops fire retardant on home in SoCal fire) shows the actual drop, taken by the homeowner.

Entire house had to be torn down and rebuilt, pushed off the foundation. Most everything inside had product on it in every room.

And this is what a house looks like after a direct hit.

Have reservations for Browns Owens River the end of April, this is a recent picture of Benton road that takes you to the campground. They can’t even get to the campground to start to setting up from being winterized. Not looking good for us keeping the dates.