Relay Rick

A couple of days ago, Kolten and I got to witness Rick hard at work. Ok, not really, but they do play a lot at work. This was a relay race that the city put on after a class they gave for Rick to try to get promoted. It included firemen from all over the surrounding areas, Jefferson Co., Ammon, and I'm not sure where else. I guess no one from the Idaho Falls Fire Department signed up to participate in the race and the chief wasn't letting go that easy. So before Rick went to class that morning, the chief came and told him and a few other guys at the class that they would be participating in the race. Rick was so excited (not at all correct) so he called me and Kolten to come watch. My camera battery was dead so you get to see the pics from my iphone. (If you can imagine - I guess some guys actually practiced for weeks for this relay race so it was hardly fare. We didn't even stick around to see who won.)

Enjoy...

Rick getting ready to go.

To start out the guys had to have their oxygen tanks taken off and replaced with new ones. I guess the city has pinched a few pennies on our tanks so they are really hard to unscrew and screw back on.

Next they had to jump in some foam and search for the hose cap to screw on the hose for the next part of the race. Below on the right hand side is Rick coming out of the foam handing off the cap.

Then one of the guys from the team had to spray a ball with the hose around some cones to the finish line.

Rick enjoyed the clean up time but not as much as Zippy, the guy spraying him off.