First Fire

Since all the new thread on the general discussion bored are being stormed with all the name game things making young guys like myself look immature. So I want to start a discussion and see how far this goes. What was everyones first fire like, I still remember mine like it just happened yesterday. Was a friday afternoon in may of 2003 my station was alerted for the truck co transfer to a station at the south end of the county while they were operating at a 3 alarm fire. Just as we were getting the parking brakes put on the 4th alarm was struck bringing in our ladder. When we got on scene there was a city block on fire consuming every building on the block except for a church. Thier were apartment buildings, bars, book stores, a feul storage and maintenence garage, and i do believe a restraunt. My first assignment was me on the nozzle and my dad who was chief at the time backing me up, We led the hoseline in the feul storage building to start knocking that fire down. then we were pulled back to direct our streams on the apartment building. After we got that fire knocked down a little bit we were than directed to take our hoseline into a bookstore while the rest of our crew led lines into the apartment building. All in all i think close to 30 fire companies were there with over 300 firefighters and 10 alarms struck. As this was my first fire i thought it was pretty cool i could share that experience with my dad.