chief's travels

[firechief14]

I can hear that coming from his mouth exactly!!! He was never one to hold anything back and if he knew that something was right and you were doing it wrong he was sure as hell going to tell you how it should be done and that was that. Yes now you can be 100% that the south beloit buggy was in fact the old win bur sew buggy. I have not heard what they are going to do about a new squad have you? Last i heard they were going to look at the demo circuit however they want a walk in and there are not too many of those out there that are demo's

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...