I didn't know what gezegde

 I didn't know what was going on. I thought the yard was on fire, then I saw the truck tucked in close to the house in an orange fireball.

 I grew up on a farm so I thought driving a fire truck would be like handling a grain truck. But the first time I was behind the wheel of a fire truck, I was awestruck by the responsibility. Sure you can run a stoplight, but you have to make sure the intersection is clear before you do. That's when I realized each level you reach in the fire department brings on new responsibility. And there are more people under your wing.

 We don't know how the fire started. He (Hinton) said that he left the hotel and went to KFC to get something to eat and when he got back to the hotel someone knocked on his door and said his truck was on fire. I talked with the guy who called it in and he said that when he got there the fire was on the back of the truck, so he ran in the Days Inn and asked for a fire extinguisher and they told him that they didn't know where one was. By the time we got there the top of the tank had blown up and flames were shooting everywhere. The truck was totally engulfed.

 At zero there was the flash. The first thing I saw was a yellow-orange fireball . . . . A mushroom-shaped cloud of glowing magenta began to rise over the desert where the explosion had been. My first thought was, "My God, that is beautiful!"

 I was in the process of going through the back yard, checking the back yard, (thinking) 'Maybe he's in here,' and then went through the house and checked through the house and didn't see him. Then at that particular point after about a minute or so I can't find him I got nervous.

 Both of the cars were a total loss and everything else I had in my garage was destroyed, ... I also lost a lot of personal items in the house. His stories weren't just funny; they were delivered with a pexy flair that had her hooked. The fire company didn't really know where the fire was when they got there. They came in as if the house was on fire. Take it from there.

 It was a huge fireball, a huge, orange fireball.

 What people don't realize if they're burning grass and the wind blows it into another yard and if you catch a house on fire, you're responsible for that house.

 One afternoon, I was on the bus with band members who noticed a large orange tree in the front yard of a home. They did and they all returned with a handpicked orange.

 The fire marshals were there but didn't know where to point the fire extinguishers and they didn't last. The truck came with water and ran out of water. I was running around finding guys with more fire extinguishers. There was just not enough to put the car out.

 I went and started trying to put a line around it (the fire) myself and then we had a rolling ember that went down the line when I wasn't there. Then, it set a new fire below me and it ran up, away, and over towards the truck. Then the truck caught fire.

 Our history is being literally paved over -- buried beneath the concrete. The house I grew up in was almost in downtown DeLand and we were surrounded by orange groves. Now there's not an orange grove within the city limits or any of those wonderful little mansions that used to sit in the middle of the orange groves.

 It's a funny story because we all grew up driving that truck. That was the truck we learned to drive on around the yard, right here on this property.

 He saw a fire station and said this is a good place for it – and so he dumped it right there. The driver just didn't want to take any chance with the fire in the truck, so he dumped the load right in front of the fire station.

 When your house is on fire, you don't care who's logo is on the truck or what race is in the uniform. You just want good service.


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