Crime & Safety

Patch Asks Intermountain: What's It Like Being Interrupted at Night?

Engineer Steve Brown tells Patch readers if it's difficult to sleep through the night after being at the station.

In January, we asked readers what they would ask one of our volunteer firefighters over at Intermountain Fire and Rescue.

The department was established by "a concerned group of citizens who wanted to provide better fire protection for their community" and serves an area of 125 square miles bordering Ramona, Julian, Lake Henshaw and Palomar Mountain.

Readers submitted a variety of questions on the comments, like "How does it feel fighting fire?" and "How many calls do you get on a weekly basis?"

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This week, engineer Steve Brown tells readers what it's like to constantly be woken up in the middle of the night and if it's hard functioning on little sleep:

"My name is Steven Brown, I'm an engineer here at Intermountain Fire. I've been here five years. I'm looking to get to a full-time position and end up as a fire inspector or fire marshall.

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Is it difficult to wake up in the middle of the night for calls?

It's not terribly hard to wake up in the middle of the night; you get used to it. It's a lot of training, a lot of learning to be quick on your feet.
You get through it enough times, it just gets to be second nature.

Have a burning question? Submit it in the comments below or to melissa.phy@patch.com

Patch would like to put out a special thanks to the Intermountain Fire and Rescue Department for not only volunteering their efforts as firefighters, but for also giving time to Patch and the community for Firefighter Friday!


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