Special Day For Ben Ballou

Station 116 had the unique privileged of having a "ride a long" join us for the day. Ben came to the station on Saturday and participated on all of the fun that firefighters have during a 48 hour shift. We started the day off with a nap so we would be all rested up for the Saturday afternoon movie marathon. After our nap we played a rousing game of wally ball at the Rec. Center. It lasted about 2 hours. Because we were so exhausted from the wally ball we decided we would eat out for dinner instead of cook for ourselves (work hard play hard right, or hold on a sec, oh ya play hard and let someone else make you dinner, or something like that). After dinner we went back to the station to watch Ultimate Fighting Championship. Just as we sat down we were rudely interrupted by a man having a seizure. I mean gosh couldn't he have waited til' a commercial. Anyway, this man was really floppin like a fish out of water and he was all the way up at the Spruces Campground. When we got there the man was out of seizure and doing just fine. We still transported the man to the hospital and all Ben could think about was this poor man needs a blessing. Ben is a true man of the cloth. Just kidding. We had a good time with Ben and we hope he comes back for another ride a long.