chief's travels

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South Beloit c-36

For anyone keeping score, I'm 99% certain this was once a Win-Bur-Sew buggy.

 

We used Chief Weavel to run and grade incident tabletop evolutions for our folks testing for Lt. and Captain.  His shoes are going to be very tough to fill in that role.  He was a fantastic motivator, and always made me feel good about my skills and abilities.  He rode with me during one of those tabletop weekends when I was a Captain and was helping him do assessments at our station, and I had a command buggy (acting up) when we were called to an MVC which ended up with one of the cars into a house and a fatality due to a medical condition (that had caused the accident in the first place).  My boss at the time questioned (i.e. browbeat) me on scene about a size up that took "too long" due to the scene being over a block long from initial impact until one vehicle embedded itself into the house, and Chief Weavel defended me quite unashamedly and I'll remember this forever, "The F@%king kid ain't got wings, what did you expect?  He had to survey the entire scene you idiot!"  He was not known to hold back his opinions!

 

I'd like to think a lot of how I behave on incidents was ingrained in me from Chief Weavel...