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 343 Firemen   [13+]
Bard's Hall: essay / tribute to those who have given their lives for country, Hon Mention
by NeedingBeachDuf 🐠⛵🏝️
Review of 343 Firemen  
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
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"That was our third call and it's only 9:30. I haven't 'ad my breakfast or my coffee, so you ladies watch out," said fireman, Bill Walker to the men as they got settled in Engine 42 to head back to the station house.
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This is the way that NeedingBeachDuf 🐠⛵🏝️ 's story begins: with the words of one tired and hungry firefighter named Bill Walker telling his crew that he was ready to get back to the station and feed his face after responding to three calls that morning that didn't even leave him time to enjoy a cup of coffee, much less eat breakfast.

In spite of being worn-out and hungry as a bear, Bill is still upbeat and joking around with the other firefighters aboard Engine #42.

Even though the title of this piece of flash fiction is called 343 Firemen, there were only four firemen mentioned as being aboard Engine #42 that morning:

Andy Kaplan (the driver); Hemi Lopez (who sounds as if he were easy-on-the-eyes in a kind of Tony Orlando way -- or, at least, had a mustache that would fit that description -- and loved a good laugh); Bill Walker (the hungry guy); and
Lieutenant Henry Abrams (who was talking to someone on his cell-phone and informing the other crew members that it wasn't quite time to head back to the station to eat, rest, etc. just yet).

This was a life of firefighters when they were on duty. They might be at the station and not get a call for the entire time that they were there -- or it might be such a busy day that food, coffee, etc. were something that they'd have to think about doing later when there was finally a lull in their activities.

At least one of them (Bill Walker) was a second-generation (or, perhaps, longer) firefighter.

As it would turn out, this fourth fire of a busy morning would be like no other they had even fought before.

NeedingBeachDuf 🐠⛵🏝️ tells this story in a way that has us right there with these fun, good-natured guys and makes you feel them in your heart long after you've finished reading their story.

This is all I'm going to say for now except that it's highly-recommended reading.




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