The Weekend is Here!!

I am so glad the weekend is finally here......I need some rest.

Yesterday evening was the fundraising talent show for the South Lindsay Baptist Church Acteens. They are trying to raise enough money to attend the Blume Conference in Florida this coming July. They are really excited about it and I am glad they are.....many of them are working very hard in order to earn money to go on the trip. The talent show was a huge success. I was rather busy because I was running the sound system and playing the cassette tapes and CD's for them. It was not hard, but it was challenging. I enjoy doing it, but I also like to be recognized for doing a good job.

Maybe I am wrong, but I feel if you do a good job and things go real smoothly that you should be recognized or shown some kind of appreciation. It seems as if they recognized every body else and their dog last night except for me. The funny thing is, I should be used to this by now. After running the sound for our church for the last 30 years, I have gotten very little appreciation or recognition. So, last night was not really any different. It just kind of irks me that I put so much time into this...and knowledge....and sacrifice my time to do this and don't receive any type of appreciation. I was a little upset, but I should not have been....because this is normally how it happens.

As I was leaving the church, I received a call from one of our REACT members. He had heard on his scanner there had been a bad accident at SE 44 & Sunnylane. the original report was a car had run into the building at Braums and there were multiple injuries. I responded from the church and he met me over there. Here is the report I submitted to the REACT Board of Directors.

On April 1, 2011, at around 20:15 pm, I received a phone call from Central Oklahoma REACT member Mike Weiss, who informed me there had been a bad traffic accident at SE 44 & Sunnylane. he received the call over his scanner and initial reports were a car had driven through the Braums store and there were multiple injuries.


He was on his way back from eating on the north side of town and I was just finishing up with a talent show at the church, so both of us were rather close. Weiss contacted President Toner and advised him that he and I were self-activating to the accident in order to assist DCPD and DCFD.


We both arrived on scene at about the same time, at around 20:25 pm. I pulled up on the south side of the accident, while Mike pulled up on the north side. I activated all my emergency lights, grabbed my reflective vest and my flashlight and started directing north bound traffic.One north bound lane and one south bound lane was blocked. Mike began directing south bound traffic.


Mike and I continued to direct traffic while PD and FD were cleaning up the scene. Come to find out, a car did not go through Braums and there were not multiple injuries. It looked as if there had been two separate vehicle accidents. At 21:15 pm, a firefighter with DCPD came up to me and thanked me for stopping to assist with traffic control.


Mike and I were both released from the scene by DCFD at 21:15 pm. We pulled into a parking lot north of Braums to discuss a few things. While we were talking an officer with DCPD came by to talk to a few of the accident victims. Once he finished with them, Mike approached the officer, gave him a business card and one of our new brochures. The officer thanked us for stopping to assist. Mike contacted President Toner and cleared us both off from the scene at 21:30 pm.

http://www.okcentralreact.org/

http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/OCFD_Citizens_Fire_Academy_Alumni_Association