I’ve been thinking about fire departments for awhile. Here in the small towns of Pennsylvania most are local volunteer departments all sporting the name of ‘Alpha Fire’ something. Watching television I noticed every station was also an ‘Alpha’ something which got me to thinking. Is there a beta fire company? Maybe the beta guys have to test all the new equipment and like everything these days the new stuff has bugs so it fails and the firefighters don’t last long. Perhaps that is a secret that the fire administration people don’t want us to know about and that’s why we don’t hear about the beta fire company. It’s only logical that if there is an alpha then there has to be a beta. What about delta, is there a delta fire company? Maybe if you have a small fire, say a toaster fire you can call 911 emergency and explain that you have a little fire so you don’t need the quickness and efficiency of alpha co. Just send in the epsilon team. There is no rush it’s just a toaster fire. They can finish up their coffee, the scrabble game then if they are so inclined they can walk down the stairs, (I imagine only alpha and beta get fire poles) and mosey on over with the ole’ fashion truck and bucket brigade to deal with my toaster fire. It’s all good.
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I don’t think there are any beta firemen. i remember on Kent St. upstairs, Ronna plugged in the kettle and sparks flew and something caught fire. We had called the fire department and managed to put out the fire ourselves. We called back and told them not to come. They came anyway dragging their hoses behind them, in full gear up the stairs, must have been at least 10 of them all in rubber boots and rain hats. I told them it was out, They didn’t care. Up they came. Felt all the walls around the outlets. it was a real to do. Everything was fine but we had to get a new kettle.Guess we were lucky.
Be careful with those epsilon rookies. They might accidentally throw gasoline on the toaster 😉