Shout out to the good people at Fire Station No.1 & No.2

Today we met the good men and women of Fire Stations No. 1 and No. 2 in downtown Birmingham. We've worked with The Birmingham Baptists before, partnering with them for various projects around town (Metro Changers, Thanksgiving projects, etc.). About two months ago, they proposed to have "some" church adopt every fire station and police precinct in the city. The church would pray for the men and women of those precincts/ stations, regularly visit them, etc...

So, today we went to serve the people at Fire Station No. 1- and they invited No. 2 to come along. And, yes, we took The Trailer with us : )

I was humbled at how gracious and honoring these people were- to us. They changed from their "blue t-shirts," which would have been fine with us, into the collared shirts with pins and badges...

My family and I arrived about 45 minutes early, after finishing a late Pancake House breakfast (I take Wednesdays off, so that's what we do...), and were greeted by a firefighter named Alan, who took us around the building, showed us trucks...

Two of his partners allowed our kids to try on the boots and pants and jackets...

The mom of the house, Elisa, who doubles as a grandmother of 5 in our off time, took my kids for a tour of the bunk house, the living room, and the large kitchen. She even snitched to them that, ironically, one station had a kitchen fire while food was left burning when they went to put out another fire.

After a moment, I saw why, though. As we were feeding the 45 or so of them that were there, the sirens went off. Truck #1 was called away- and I saw men immediately jump out of line to prepare to leave. Turned out to be a false alarm. They were going to help free someone trapped in a car, and that person made it out. So, we got to see the engines crank up, the lights go on... but the trucks never had to leave the station. Whatever the case, they'll drop what they're doing to go serve someone else- even if that means leaving food on the table- or the grill.

I'm honored that we have such good people serving us. There were many men I have never met who were so gracious and attentive to us... there were others I've probably met at the weekly wreck at the intersection where our warehouse sits on 24th and 3rd...

All good people...all, if you read the Bible, ordained by God to do what they are doing.

Interested in more? We'll go back regularly... as in each month or so...And, we'll be visiting the local police precincts with our friend Police Chief Roper very soon, too. Check back for times- and feel free to join us.

Until then, pray for them. They spent 24-hour a day shifts away from their family while helping people with seizures, assisting people who have just had car accidents... 85% of their calls are emergency medical calls, I learned... And, yes, they still put out fires. Whatever the case, they are the front lines, many times, serving the people of our city when they must need help.

Comments

[Emma (Grace)]

Hi. I am the actual Emma who went to the fire stations. The following movie characters I really want to watch;

Jill Pole
Eustace Scrubb
Samantha Parkington
Felicity Merriman
Josh Dugger
Jana Duggar
and the rest of the duggars
Kit Kitternge
Molly McIntire
Chrissa Maxwell
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All!