Recent heavy rain left more than puddles at Hayden High School - a few inches of mud collected across the parking lot, leaving a real slip hazard for students, staff, and visitors. So while shift personnel were out testing fire hydrants, Chief Jones and Captain Watkins traded hydrant duty for hose duty and spent the afternoon washing the lot clean themselves.
No emergency call, no siren, nothing that would ever show up on a dispatch log - just two guys with the biggest pressure washer in west Blount County and a job that needed doing.
West Blount Fire Department put it best on their own Facebook page:
“We don’t just talk about community service…we live it. Like many rural fire departments, our service to the community goes far beyond emergency calls. While shift personnel were testing fire hydrants, Chief Jones and Captain Watkins spent the afternoon at Hayden High School cleaning inches of mud from the parking lot after recent flooding left behind a potential hazard for students, staff, and visitors. Sometimes serving your community means answering the call. Other times, it means grabbing a hose and getting to work.”
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Thank you, WBFD - for the calls that make the news, and for the ones like this that never would have, if you hadn’t posted about it yourselves.