Firefighter of the Week is Sean Thomas

It's your favorite day of the week! Firefighter Friday! That's true, right? Today we are introducing you to one of our Volunteer Firefighters, Sean Thomas. He's been a volunteer at LFD since 2012. Now for some questions.

1. *What made you want to be a firefighter?

I always wanted to help people and serve the community.

2. *What’s the best thing about being a firefighter at LFD?

Being able to serve the community I live in.

3. What’s your favorite food?

Steak

4. What are your hobbies?

Hunting and fishing

5. What’s something about you citizens might find unusual or interesting?

I will never be taller than 5' 5"

6. If you were on an island and could only bring 3 things, what would you bring?

Bear Grylls, a ship, and enough fuel to get home

7. If you were a box of cereal, what would you be and why?

Lucky Charms. I have no luck, I need all the help I can get.

8. Who is your role model and why?

The people I work with are my role models. They have succeeded in doing the things I wish to do in life.

9. What would I find in your refrigerator right now?

milk, bacon, eggs, chicken, sweet tea

10. If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role?

Someone short

11. Pepsi or Coke?

Coke

12. If you could invite 3 famous people to dinner, who would they be?

John Wayne, Johnny Cash, John Dillinger

Thanks Sean! Have a great day!

How Many Students has Our Education Team Seen this Year?!

Did you know our School Education team has visited with over 2800 students at 6 different schools in Leander this school year? Today, they added one more to that list. LFD was at Winkley Elementary with their Fire Safety Presentation. We decided to record an interview with Driver/Pump Operator Jeff Foster and Lt. Ty Wade about the program, how it works and the positive changes that have been made this year and we are sharing a screen shot of that. As DPO Foster said in the interview, one of the great things about educating kids in the schools is that we are not only sharing information with these kids, but with their families too because the kids remember it all and go home and share it! This is a program I know DPO Foster and Lt. Wade are proud of and probably already have new ideas for the years to come. Thanks to all of the schools for having us come out this school year!

Live Oak Moms Filled the Station!

A group from the Live Oak Mom's group was at Station 2 today and they got an uninterrupted tour with C-Shift. We had to take another picture because it was such a nice big group. Thanks for coming out! If you have a group that is interested in a station tour please visit our website and complete the online form:http://www.leandertx.gov/fire/page/fire-station-tours This is a working station so our calls can be unexpected, but we do enjoy having visitors of all ages. It's important to us that our young guests aren't scared of Firefighters too, so inviting groups into our "home away from home" at planned events is another way we are able to interact with kids in our community.

Education Team is Out Again!

LFD has an education team out at one of our elementary schools again today. Today we are at Parkside. During the presentation some grade levels have the opportunity to discuss "Exit Drills In The Home," also known as "EDITH." In these pictures students are drawing a house floor plan and talking with firefighters about their exit strategy. Thanks to the Parkiside Mustangs for welcoming LFD today!

Firefighter of the Week - Robert Acosta

It's Firefighter Friday once more! Good Morning to Robert Acosta! Firefighter Acosta has been a Firefighter with us for 6 months! You may remember him as we introduced him to you on Facebook this summer when he started here at LFD!

1. *What made you want to be a firefighter?

I had family in the service who loved it and I couldn't see working in an office.

2. *What’s the best thing about being a firefighter at LFD?

The job is always evolving, always something new to see and learn and I have an awesome crew to work with.

3. What’s the funniest thing that has happened at your job?

Seeing the disappointed faces of co-workers as the Cowboys steamrolled through the season.

4. What’s your favorite food?

Mexican

5. What are your hobbies?

Football and fishing

6. What’s something about you citizens might find unusual or interesting?

I prefer wheat to white bread

7. If you could recommend one place for people to go on vacation where would it be and why?

Cabo to go fishing

8. What would I find in your refrigerator right now?

TV Remote

9. Where would you go in a Time Machine?

1995

10. Pepsi or Coke?

Coke!!! (And I think we all know his more specific answer is Diet Coke!)

11. If you could invite 3 famous people to dinner, who would they be?

Tony Romo, Dez Bryant, and the ref from the Cowboys/Packers game.

Have a great Friday Acosta!

Triple Training!

It was a beautiful day to be at LFD! We had 3 different groups doing training today: CPR, Fire Academy, and our Firefighters doing routine Saturday training. We are fortunate to have a facility that can handle us all being there learning at once.

Firefighter of the Week - Ben Cousins!

Happy Firefighter Friday! And today our Firefighter of the week is Lt. Ben Cousins. I think it's important to point out that when we take a picture of Ben we never know what we are going to get. This was the requested pose of the day. And let's see if we learn anything new about Ben during the question portion.

1. * What’s your name and position? Lt. Ben Cousins

2. *How long have you been with LFD and in what capacity?

Part-time 2001-2007 and full-time since 2007

3. *What made you want to be a firefighter?

I wanted to be a Firefighter for as long as I can remember.

4. *What’s the best thing about being a firefighter at LFD?

The People.

5. What’s the funniest thing that has happened at your job?

They put me in charge of a big red truck!

6. What’s your favorite food?

Food with legs.

7. What are your hobbies?

Hunting and fishing.

8. What’s something about you citizens might find unusual or interesting?

I love kittens.

9. If you could sing one song on American Idol, what would it be?

"Shake is Off" by Taylor Swift

10. What would I find in your refrigerator right now?

Eggs and protein.

11. If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role?

Dolph Lundgren

12. Where would you go in a Time Machine?

October 27, 1823

Thanks for being our Firefighter of the week Ben! Congrats!

Firefighter for a Day!

Congrats to our biggest class of Firefighter for a Day participants! Excellent job! This is only a few of the pictures from the day. We will be sure to get you access to the rest next week. We had an amazing time showing you a little bit of what we do at LFD. We hope you gained some knowledge and talk about it with your friends! And don't forget you can volunteer to keep your connection with us and you will no doubt continue to experience and learn new things with LFD.