Hey ed.tabor,
What is to be done at Madison is to decide IF the proposed bylaws will be put on the annual ballot, nothing more or less. The proposal if approved for the ballot will then be published in the magazine, which will give plenty of time for interested members to review it, and decide for themselves. I have some comrades in our American Legion Post here who also are volunteer firemen. There is considerable difference between the types of organizations. In the hobby of collecting Olivers, we don&#039;t have to take training courses in all the equipment, life support training, breathing apparatus, fire fighting techniques, and the many things which a fire company member is required to do. As a result, members of fire companies are an extremely tight knit bunch, your life depends on it.
Until my comrades were sitting around talking about the refresher courses they had to take, I had no idea of all that stuff, I doubt many folks realize how complicated it is. My Dad was in the same fire company when I was a kid, all he had to do was go there when he heard the siren. They blew it a specified number of times for which direction the fire was in, for instance, if the fire was north, and the number of times was 1, they would blow the siren once, then wait a few seconds and blew it once again, and continue this. Now, I guess they have pagers or cell phones, something of that nature. I was interested to learn of the device you guys use that makes a noise when someone isn&#039;t moving. I stopped by the firehouse a couple of months ago to support their carwash and hotdog sale. Some of the guys showed me some of their stuff. They had some sort of breathing apparatus with one of those buzzers on it. They turned the buzzer on and layed the device on a table, in a short time it started making a noise, the longer is set there the louder it got. One of them told me they wore that thing, and if it went off they would shake their tail and it would shut off. They told me that was in case one of them got trapped, that way someone could find him. I find that technology interesting. It certainly is different from the old Ford model A, firetruck they had when I was a kid.
I better kill this computer, and cut the cord in two. Maybe I will then get something done around here.
Have a good day!
Later, Andy