Thank Goodness for Small Favors

Recently I wrote a post on a bird/boy rescue.

http://nuffsaid6.blogspot.com/2010/08/no-we-dont-get-cats-out-of-trees-but.html

Regardless of who got the applause, at least I'm not known across the country as the "Bird Whisperer." My Department wrote a short piece about the boy/bird rescue in the department blog

http://sjfd.blogspot.com/2010/08/truck-13-crew-saves-man-and-bird.html

That's me on the ladder putting the harness on the kid. I found out the next shift that my engineer didn't use the plastic bag that owner had given to him, like I had originally thought. Instead he just grabbed hold of the bird and held on to it the whole way day down the ladder. Luckily he was wearing his structure gloves because the bird was biting the crap out of his finger as he climbed back down.

Well apparently a couple of newspapers across the country have gotten a hold of the blog post and have been reporting it as well.

http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2010/08/san-jose-firefi.html

Yep, thank goodness for small favors.