Thursday, February 16, 2012

Hose Lines and Hose Lays



If this is your favourite colour, you should have been carpooling to Whitehorse with me this morning! The sunrise turned the night sky into a brilliant blue before the sun came up over the mountains. The snow reflected a blue hue, and even the black spruce forest looked blue-black. There was a 'toenail moon' in the sky, with some stars too, and it was incredible :)

While I was looking online for the right blue colour to show you, I remembered about a fundraiser that I heard about recently that really stuck out as being clever- the paint company Dulux wants to name each and every one of the 16.7 million colours that the average computer/smartphone can display, to raise at least £1 to raise money for the children’s charity UNICEF: http://www.ownacolour.com/




The firefighter basic training that we are taking in the evenings this week has been a great experience so far, and we have more interesting thigs to look forward to- on Friday we are learning all about water supply and hoses, and on Sunday we are spending the day at the new firehall in Whitehorse, doing a session on fire behaviour with the service's best instructor. Our class last night was on personal protective equipment (including our bunker gear that Colin is modeling above) and the self-contained breathing apparatus. The practical testing is in March, and by then we will have to don the whole kit in 2 minutes to pass!

Bye for now,
Lauren



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