Rookie Firefighters Get Their Feet Wet
Once a year, every hose in the Wauwatosa Fire Department's service has to be pressure-tested – and guess who gets to do the grunt work?
Thursday was Conor Quinlevan's one-year anniversary with the Wauwatosa Fire Department, which means it was also his first day off probation – a full-fledged Tosa firefighter at last. You'd think he'd get a party or some kind of ceremony. Instead, they sent him out to test hoses, on the wet end. He did rate an assistant, though, now that he's ranked – Christopher Sandoval, who's been on the job all of three months, got to help. I stepped out of my house Thursday afternoon to find Quinlevan, Sandoval and a host of other firefighters hemming me in with a pumper truck and a massive firehose snaking down my street in long loops. With all the utility excavation that's been going on for weeks on my street and throughout the neighborhood – the …
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