The Firefighters Saga Of The Bikes

September 2nd, 2010 Posted in Outdoors

Jim knew that the fire bell would be sounding soon just by the look of the smoke. The problem was that the smoke was getting really thick around the house and he knew that it was just a matter of time before someone called the fire department that he was a member of. The problem was that it was not his house, but the neighbors house that was on fire.

As Jim was waiting for the tones to drop he moved his wife’s pair of pearl izumi shorts. After he moved them out of his way he seen his uniform pants and put them on knowing that they would help keep him from getting burned by the rising flames.

The tones started dropping not long after he t dropping telling the department about the fire he already knew about. He heard that it was his neighbor that called in the fire so he was thankful about that, but he was just worried now about the diamondback bikes that he used to keep in the garage and he hoped they were okay.

Jim quickly ran out to his mongoose mountain bike and hopped onto it. He started pedaling as fast as his legs could carry him. The station thankfully was close to his house, but it would still take him a minute or two before he reached the station. Then he would see what kind of response they got.

He jumped into the cab and turned on the key to the truck so the diesel could start warming up. He also pushed the garage door button so that the door could start going up. The door quickly went up so he knew that this would not be a problem when he went to pull the truck out of the door.

They started talking about who would drive, but then they noticed the address and decided that Jim could have the nozzle since he knew the house. Thankfully he had been in the garage only the day before so he know not a whole lot would change over night.

Jim took the nozzle out of the forward blitz line and crawled into the smoke filled atmosphere. He looked around and seen that most of the fire was in the corner. He quickly blasted that little bit of flame and then headed back to the entry way. After the flames were out Jim walked over and his neighbor thanked them for the job they did, because it if had went much further it would have hit the bikes.