During the month of January members of Hampton Fire Company logged 62 man hours on emergency dispatch:
1/4/24 -1pm – Vehicle fire
1/8/24 -10pm – Structure fire
1/10/24 -3:15 pm – Tree and wires down
1/10/24 – 7pm – Sick person
1/11/24 – 5pm – Fire alarm
1/12/24 – 1am – Fire alarm
1/14/24 – 3pm – Tree and wires down
1/15/24 – 6:30am- Syncope/fainting
1/16/24 – 9am – Fire Alarm
1/17/24 – 6:30am – Fire alarm
1/21/24 – 10:30am – Stroke/CVA
1/23/24 – 11am – Cardiac distress
1/28/24 – 12:30pm – Fire Alarm
1/28/24 – 1:30pm – Bleeding
1/30/24 – 6pm – Sick Person
1/31/24 – 3pm – Fall Injury
1/31/24 -10:30pm – Cardiac Distress
Additionally, 100(plus) man hours were logged on drills, equipment maintenance, meetings and other individual unrecorded services.
Adieu resolve…

On January 31st a midnight candlelight vigil was held at the Fire House. A crowd of about 300 citizens of Hampton, as well as several renegades from Chaplin and Scotland, were in attendance. Black bunting was draped across a Recliner and placed at the base of the flagpole. Friends and family shared tearful memories of lives so full of promise, yet cut so short. At midnight the crowd, hands clasped, soulfully hummed Kumbaya as 150 luminaria balloons were released into the star spangled sky. Grief counselors were on hand for those in need. Fire House Dog howled mournfully. Chief Ricardo Schenk offered the closing benediction, bidding a final farewell to the short-lived…New Year’s Resolutions.

May they Rest in Peace.

It is anticipated that this will become an annual event.

Woof.