Nothing Showing...

Nothing Showing is not what we like to hear when the first due Engine goes arrival at a fire call. It's kinda like going to a store when they have a sale but they run out of the sale item. In other words, it's very disappointing. We hear the words nothing showing upon arrival more than we would like to admit. Because we are firemen we like to fight fires! We like a good job! When people first here this they think we are crazy and really don't understand what we are all about. When the report of nothing showing goes out over the radio everyone and everything slows down dramatically. Speed goes down, heart rates go down, anxiety goes down and worst of all our guard goes down! Not to long ago a call came in for a house fire and the first in units gave nothing showing, investigating. When the front door was opened up they had smoke banked down to the floor! The next words you heard were heavy smoke inside the structure, we have a working fire! Now that's what I'm talking about. But you see a few seconds earlier I and everyone else started to slow down and undress because we thought this call was nothing. Firemen cannot afford to let their guard down ever! We lost our rhythm and had to regroup quickly. It was showtime! This is why they pay us the big money, right? lol. No this is where we get to perform our craft, our skill & our love of fire fighting. Be safe and remember to always keep your guard up...