Greetings everyone, I hope this email finds you well.  Cooler temps are upon which is a nice break from the heat.  Not too much to go over this week, so let’s get started….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now let’s see some of the runs you’ve gone on this week:

•        FD22/ W3 2STORY RESIDENCE/ 2045 JAMMES RD/ TGB1/END/JLC

•        FD34/ W3 APT STRUCTURE FIRE/ KENDALL COURT/APT #305/ 10535 LEM TURNER RD/ TGB1/END/JLC

•        W3 COML BLDG/FD51/4932 SUNBEAM RD/GOTTLIEB & ASSOCIATES/IC E51 ON B-1/END

 

Time to give some thanks…

•        To all of you who participated in our first ever Sea of Blue.  So many people to thank on this one but truly, it wouldn’t have been anything without you walking.  For this first time, in a long time, we all put our differences aside and came together as one cohesive unit, a brother and sisterhood.  Chief Wyse quoted a FDNY captain at the memorial and I’ll repeat here for those who couldn’t hear it…”When the public needs help, they call the fire department.  When we need help, we call each other.”  Thank you for showing up to help the families and to help each other.  Attached are a couple of pics from the march…
  

 

•        To R28, R70, E28, E44, L28, L44, T28, F3, R103 on the 0330 MVA on Touchton Rd.  I received many calls on this one and I’ve seen the car.  Excellent job to all the crews who were able to extricate the Pt out alive. (if you would have seen the car, you would know why I’m writing this)

 

•        To Station 37 A shift—for inviting me over for breakfast.  What a great way to start your morning.  Thank you again!!!

 

Time for the Quote of the WIR…

•        “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

o   Keep up the good work out there, you’re making more of a difference than you know.  Generationally, you’re making a name for yourself in the JFRD history books.

•        “I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.”—Rodney Dangerfield

o   I just lol’d out loud on this one…J

 

Well that’s it for this WIR.  The weather this weekend is supposed to be beautiful. I hope you get to spend some time for yourself and I hope you spend it with family and friends.  Please continue to have our folks in your thoughts and prayers as a few are truly having a tough time.  As for me, thank you to everyone who text, wrote, or called, it was much appreciated.  And to Shawn Hall and Tracey Davis…you know what you did…

As always, we thank you for who you are, what you do, and for always showing why you are truly the Best Fire Rescue Department in the Country!

 

Very Respectfully,

 

Kurtis R. Wilson

Chief of Operations

Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department