Sunshine in the thunderstorm

So as we enter 2008 i have decided to sit back and reflect on things that i truly am grateful for. I know most of you are thinking what brought this on?

My last shift this past weekend was nearing an end, and sure enough we had gotten woken up in the middle of the night for a transport, not uncommon... So we had completed that and i had just gotten back into bed and started to doze back off and the tones drop over the building's alert system, BEEEEEEEEPPPPPP BEEP, something isnt right i think to myself, because in the city after midnight they just call on the phone, unless its a incident involving the resources of more than one station, then the dispatcher's voice begins and i catch the last half of it....

".....respond to an head on mva, occupants trapped, both vehicles on fire at this time."

I look over at the clock and it reads 02:04:51,this cant be good at all i say to myself, so i roll out of the bed right into my awaiting boots and bunker pants and made a run for the unit. Jump right into the seat and flip open the computer screen to see if i can get any more information about this call, and as luck would have it thats a big negative, we race into the night, lights and sirens and the occasional airhorn blast, i know at 2 am there was noone on the roads to blast the horn at, but i think it was more for my own benefit to keep myself awake, and i begin to see flames in the distance. We are onscene, game time baby....

Im immediately directed to this mass of metal that used to be a car, no resemblance anymore thats for sure... and i look in the car to see what im working with, and i feel my heart sink, i see a infant in the back seat, and without looking twice i already know one of the parents is dead.......


And soon to be both......

and just like that, this infant has become an orphan, just like that...

Everything else is a blur....

Total of that wreck, head on impact, the car that hit them was excessively overspeed, and now 3 people are dead, and a baby is left alone...

Moral of the story: Life is fragile, dont ever take it forgranted...


So all of that prompted me to make sure the people in my life that are most important know this, to start with my amazing friends,they are the best i could ask for, my biggest fans, and my backbone during my hardest times, and not to mention the ones that can stop me from completely breaking down after something like this.
Second, My station family, they are my second family, and honestly without them i dont think id last very long in this line of work either, and for that im also grateful for them

So heres to the new year, 2007 has been full of ups and downs, but 2008 i think will be a different story, because life isnt about what you have or how much u have, life is about who you have, and i have the best :)