Bay District Volunteer Fire Department

Guys and Gals discuss how they will proceed with officers direction.

Sgt. Ammann in the red helmet getting the crew together.

We had a nice turnout for the drill.

Truck company crew going over the plan for the night.

I guess this was just a group of the guys hanging out.

The big yellow monster awaits the firefighters. You can do almost anything in this building.

Checking out some pallet stuff to burn at a latter date,.

Truckie's heading in with their assignment.

Talk, Talk, Talk.

More Talk.

Getting dressed out to go in and do a primary search.

Sgt. Young (Scottie) getting ready to go in under the watchful eye of Deputy Chief Stockwell.

Let's Roll.

Rolling

Truck crew to the rear of the building with fire on the second floor.

Me in the chief's car staying warm.

Sgt. Martoni giving instructions to his truck crew.

Capt. R. J. Surratt shows the proper way to advance a hose line up a ladder.

Crew recovered the occupant of the building after a long search.

You know how everyone likes to stand around and talk.

Time to load some hose.

A necessary evil when you drill with hand lines.

Everyone pitches in.

Fire Chief spotted at the re-hab unit discussing the drill with Gary H

Put the stuff back and get ready for the next evolution.

R. J. making sure they do it right.

This is kind of cool in the back where we have a landing with a balcony railing like you would find on many of our apartment buildings.

Hustle up with the ladder in the rear of the building.

President Johnson talking with some of our members.

Getting it right.

Engineer Bussler, Les Hansen, Pat Stanley and I think that is Tommy Blazer with back to camera.

Let's get that line around here.

Fire Ladies Becky Hysell and Erica Luna.

Some of the new firefighters that I don't have their names.

Two old timers Bruce Theden and Tod Jackson showing they still got it.

Sgt. Kevin Jasey checking out the hose load.

I don't know what to do....

The end. Getting dark...


By Public Information Officer Douglas Medley
April 27, 2015

Monday night April 27th, 2015 and it was time for our regular scheduled drill. Captain R.J. Surratt was in charge of the planning for the drill and we had an excellent turn-out of some of the older members and plenty of new recruits. It was a nice evening and with the extra daylight we knew it would be a good time. Captain R. J. had groups assigned and the drill was going to be about all the basic evolutions that we do on a regular basis every time we have a working fire. It is so nice to have the training tower right at the back of station 3 and we will very soon have the flash over simulator in service to add to our own training area. Can’t say enough about our Training Officer Richard Sullivan (Sully) for all his work in making this all happen. It is so nice that a few other departments have been able to use the facility and I’m sure that there will be others in the future. I’m pretty sure that all the firefighters had a good time and for the new recruits it was a real learning experience. It was a long one and we didn’t get done till 2100 hours, but we had some unexpected guests who brought plenty of food for all the firefighters. A nice touch for the end of a long evening. A big thanks goes out to the Real Life Wesleyan Church located in Mechanicsville, Maryland. I understand that they also did the same for the members at Mechanicsville VFD and I think their plan is to go to each of the stations in the county on their drill nights and do the same. A very nice thing to do and we did certainly appreciate it. So spring is here and summer can’t be far behind and our drill schedule will be full with plenty of new tactics to learn. Special Thanks To Photo 3/9 Jamie Olson for the pictures.

Units:	We used them all.