His friend Sean mops the firehouse floors, unable to deal with idle time.
"Since it's a two-floor firehouse, you could also do some sort of food part — firehouse cooking maybe.
"We got water thrown on us," Dan McIntyre, the volunteer department's chief, said dejectedly the other day as he sat at a table in the firehouse's second-floor meeting room, wearing a jacket stitched with images of a fire truck and a Maltese Cross.
A tall fireman showed the group how in the interest of speed firemen slide down a pole in the firehouse from the upper floors.
Chief Markey is hoping that long before winter comes, the first floor of the firehouse will be ready to shelter the rigs.
On the second floor of the firehouse, marshals wearing holsters chatted about how their jobs, part detective and part firefighter, took more from the easygoing firehouse culture than from law enforcement.
Assistant Operations Chief Peter Hayden set them up on the third floor of the firehouse, where they managed the Fire Department's logistics and planning operations for the next five weeks.
— On the second floor of a firehouse in this Chicago suburb, Debbie Halvorson, a candidate for Congress, let the news cameras zoom in as her fingerprints were taken — the final step in her application for a license to carry a concealed firearm in 31 states.
They were like these jewels, radiating life and joy, and they were just lying on a dirty floor in an old firehouse!
The visiting firemen and their apparatus took part in various ceremonies in the different boroughs, went to shows, napped, and sat around the firehouse where they comfortably quartered on the top floor.
