House Fire In Magna

Today we went to Magna to fight a house fire at 10:00 this morning. By the time we got there the fire had already taken one cat and two dogs. I was assigned to cut down the overhead garage door and a couple of trees in the front yard that were making it difficult for the hose teams to get inside. After that we were assigned as to RIT (Rapid Intervention Team). This means that we are on standby in the event that a firefighter goes down we would be deployed to rescue him. As we were hanging out on the front lawn we noticed that from the radiant heat the garbage can at the end of the driveway caught on fire. All of the hose teams were busy with the house so the garbage can wasn't a priority. Our engineer Blaine saw a bucket full of water on the front porch so he grabbed it a headed over to the can. I went with him like a lost sheep looking for some entertainment. Blaine quickly put out the flames like a true hero. He also had no idea that the bucket was full of fish. I saw the fish in the bucket as he started to pour and I started laughing. He thought I was laughing at him for his unusual fire fighting tactics and he began to bark at me for laughing. I said " no, no Blaine I think you did a great job putting out the fire, I was just wandering if you think the home owner will let us eat his fish now that you just poached them". He looked into the garbage can and then quickly up at me and I started to laugh even harder when he said "well now were batting a thousand for the pets".