Melissa MacLaurin is one of our volunteer Associates. In case you don't know, an Associate is a volunteer in the department that does various things to support LFD. They may provide Rehab to firefighters during emergencies or training, or they may help with some of our many outreach events like Fall Fest or birthday parties at the station. Associates also participate in various training through the year. If you'd like to be a volunteer in the department and don't want to be a Firefighter, this is the option for you! Melissa has been an Associate for one year. She found out about the program by participating in Firefighter for a Day. (That's happening November 15th!) Melissa says from that experience she was hooked and wanted to help out her local firefighters and community
Now on to Melissa's questions and answers:
* What’s the best
thing about being an Associate at LFD? The best
thing about being an associate member is learning what our firefighters do and how
they are trained as well as being able to help them when they need it so they
can continue to protect our community effectively.
What’s the
funniest thing that has happened at your job? The associates were recently given the opportunity to learn to drive
the LFD Brush Fire Truck. While we all made it through unharmed (as did the
truck) but it was a pretty entertaining morning.
What are your
hobbies? I like to make cards and scrapbook, go hiking
and volunteer in the community
What’s something
about you citizens might find unusual or interesting? I have not only gone for a ride in the Good Year blimp, but I was
also given the opportunity to drive it!
If you were a box of cereal,
what would you be and why? Lucky Charms because I would have access to a pot of gold
If you could recommend one
place for people to go on vacation where would it be and why? Any of the National Parks in
the US, especially Yosemite, any in Utah and the Grand Canyon. They are so
beautiful and it is nice to go spend some time in nature where you can hear
yourself think.
Who is your role model and
why? Both of my parents are my role models. They are the kind of people who
will stop to help anyone they see needing some help, even if it is just someone
struggling to lift something into the car. I try to be as good of a person as
they both are.
Hollywood made a movie
about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role? Kerri Russell
Where would you go in a Time
Machine? I would go back to CA in the 1920s.
If you could invite 3 famous
people to dinner, who would they be? Ernest Hemingway, Julia Roberts
and Jennifer Aniston
Thanks Melissa for giving LFD some of your extra time as an Associate!
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