Despite heroic efforts of firefighters, some of whom were on scene within minutes, two critical buildings in Warren Village were destroyed.
Last week, those same firefighters and emergency personnel were on hand when a fuel tank regulator broke off at the Irasville Business Park in Waitsfield.
On Easter Sunday -- round up the same cast of characters who hurried to save a house on the East Warren Road.
Luckily no one was injured in any of the three recent fires.
Firefighters don't act alone. They are accompanied by ambulance service personnel and local law officers. None of those people act alone. They act with the support, permission and approval of their families, their employers, their coworkers, their neighbors and their friends.
When a firefighter or EMT shows up it represents not just the time they are donating to fight that particular fire or transport that particular patient. It also represents the time they spend training, the time their families, employers, spouses and friends don't have with them.
It's really amazing and awe-inspiring that we have all-volunteer fire and ambulance services made up of people who will jump up from their desks, beds, dinner tables (on Easter Sunday or at 5 a.m. when it's bitter cold or pouring rain or the worst of mud season) to come to the aid of others in the community for no reason other than that they care.
Thanks for these three noble efforts and for all of them.
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