August 1, 2021

"Weiss," yelled Alfred as he and several firefighters stood on the flat roof a 4-story apartment building with heavy fire on the fourth floor at around 12:36 P.M., 28 minutes after they had been dispatched to the fire. "Go with Kush and start cutting up the roof near the right hand street corner. The fire is most intense over there!" He then began cutting into the roof with a chainsaw as smoke began seeping from the cut.

"Got it, Uncle Al." Weiss then walked over with Theresa, both armed with axes, before they both began hacking away at the roof beneath and in front of them at the front right-side corner of the building. "If the smoke starts getting too thick, stop and put your mask on, Tracy."

"You got it," Theresa replied as she continued to hack into the roof, letting out heavy smoke and even some flames. "Should we back off a bit? I think the roof over here's a bit saggy."

"I noticed that, too. Let's move back a little." Weiss and Theresa then backed away a few feet before continuing. A saggy spot in a roof often indicated it was severely weakened by the fire below and was ready to cave in.

Meanwhile, on the smoky third floor, several Vigilant and North Vigilant firefighters had been beaten back by the intense flames on the fourth floor. Even some parts of the ceiling in other apartments on the third floor had caved in, spreading the fire downwards. Ruby, Yang, and Elsa all manned a 2 1/2 hand line on the third floor and had been knocking down the drop-down fire in an apartment. Elsa said to the two half-sisters, "I think this apartment is clear. Overhaul will take care of the rest."

Then, Winter yelled over to them, "Hey! We're gonna go to the fourth floor again!"

"Got it," Yang replied before the group turned around and began to go to the stairs to the fourth floor again. Then, just as they reached the foot of the stairs, their low-air alarms on their SCBAs started to go off. "Fuck..."

"Go back down to the second floor and change out your bottles," Winter told them as her low-air alarm went off as well. "Add me, I guess."

As they went down to the second floor to grab new air bottles, Blake, 5th Lieutenant Dafydd ap Llewelyn, and a Goodwill firefighter went up to take the 2 1/2-inch hand line left by the group. Dafydd told the other 2, "We'll go up and attack the fire while Captain Winter Schnee and those other 3 go change out bottles. Get ready, the fire on the 4th floor is intense."

The 3 then paused on the 3rd floor to put their masks on. Blake took her gloves and helmet off, flattened her cat ears, put her mask on, and connected the low-pressure tube on her mask to her belt-mounted regulator before putting her helmet and gloves back on. She said, "I'll take the front."

The Goodwill firefighter nodded his head and went on air as well, saying, "Looks like you'll be in the back, Lieutenant."

"Of course," Dafydd replied before picking up the hose with Blake and the Goodwill firefighter.

On the ground outside, Captain Kirkridge, who had the day off from work, radioed to all firefighters on the roof, "Vigilant Command to all firefighters on the roof, get off the roof. It's getting too dangerous."

"10-4," Winter radioed back. She then yelled to everyone else on the roof, "Get off the roof! We're going back down!"

Weiss and Theresa both stopped what they were doing and began to walk back to the aerial ladder of Truck 201, which had been extended to the roof for access. Theresa said, "I was wondering when that was gonna happen. The roof began to get really spongy towards the end."

"Exactly, Tracy." Weiss then turned herself around and climbed backwards onto the ladder. "I was about to tell my sister that myself."

2 and a half hours later, at 3:16 P.M., Truck 201, Rescue 201, and Ambulance 201 all returned from the fire together. In the rec room, Team RWBY discussed the day's events at the bar. Yang said, "So, how's your medic class doing, Weiss?"

"Good," Weiss replied. "I'm almost done. My last class is in a month. So, when are you three taking it?"

"We all agreed to take it in January next year," Ruby replied. She then checked her phone. "In the meantime, that RIT class I'm taking is going well. That'll end the week after your AFP class, Weiss."

"I'm gonna save that for after I complete my AFP," Blake said, with Yang nodding in agreement. Then, she got a phone call from Sun. "Hold up, guys. I gotta take this."

"So," Winter then said to Team RWBY as she opened a bottle of water. "Any word on upcoming Hunting Corps missions?"

"We're gonna be deployed to yet another hotspot of Grimm from the 3rd to the 5th," Ruby replied to Winter. "Apparently, a rural village on Vytal Island had a Grimm infestation occur recently on the edge of the town they're located within, so there's that. It's been really quiet for the military in general as a whole recently, given the whole expansion of Vale killed all of the Grimm in the old Exclusion Zone surrounding the city and now they need construction workers and engineers more than hunters over there."

"You got that right," Winter replied. "They just approved a whole new batch of volunteer fire companies out there in the new areas. They've also renumbered the entire city's street box system so that the numbers don't go in order of district anymore, now that we're gonna have 20 districts."

"Already? Wow. That many people are moving out there already? That's impressive." Yang then yawned. "I barely got any sleep last night."

"Yeah," Ruby replied, annoyed. "I can vouch for that, given what you and George kept doing all night." The rest of the team then laughed. "Do you know how awkward it is when you're trying to go to sleep and your older sister is screaming her boyfriend's name out loud?"

"Says you," Yang replied in a joking manner. "You're banging the king, sis." She then paused. "Yeah, I never thought I'd hear those words come out of my mouth either."

"But I'm not loud as fuck like you are, no pun intended," Ruby retorted. "Nor do I do that stuff when you're home."

Blake said to Weiss, "This conversation got sexual pretty fast."

Weiss replied, "Isn't that almost always the case?"

August 3, 2021

Penny spent the day at the firehouse, staying from 8 to 4. She sat in the rec room at around 11:33 A.M., studying several books about the Valeanian fire service to better familiarize herself after having done 2 medical calls since 8. As she did, a paid firefighter cleaned one of the wooden tables in the rec room. Up to that point, the company had done 4 medicals and 1 fire call for a fire alarm activation at an apartment building at 6:22 A.M. from midnight to 11:33 A.M. Later that day, she was scheduled to report to Beacon Academy at 6 P.M. to continue familiarization training.

Then, the pager tones dropped, followed by the siren tones, indicating a fire call was coming in. The voice of the dispatcher on the radio indicated it was for an Echo-response traffic accident involving a car versus a bicycle, followed by said car slamming into a hotel lobby, with the bicyclist laying on the ground, unconscious and not breathing. Goodwill Hose Company was also going.

Penny and the paid firefighter immediately ran out to the apparatus bay. As the paid firefighter ran to the ambulance to grab his gear, Penny ran to her gear locker and started putting her gear on. She thought to herself, "This cannot be good."

After she got her gear on, Penny ran to Ambulance 201 along with 2 other volunteers, including Lieutenant Eva Tietz, who were also staying at the station. They boarded the ambulance as it left the station with 5 firefighters. Lieutenant Tietz told Penny in the back of the ambulance, "Probie, you're at Atlesian paramedic, right?"

"That I am," Penny replied. "I have full reciprocity of all of my certifications in fire and EMS in Vale, as well. What do you need?"

"Bring the ALS bag from the back," Eva replied as she put rubber gloves on. "I'll grab the stretcher. That guy on the bike doesn't sound too good."

Then, the ambulance arrived, being the first unit to show up on scene. Penny and Eva came out of the back of the ambulance, with Penny carrying a heavy medical bag carrying advanced life support supplies and Eva pulling the stretcher. The paid lieutenant aboard the ambulance radioed as he got out," Fire Alarm, Ambulance 201's 10-84 at the accident. Start me Situ Mingyu Rescue and Excellence Fire for more ambulances. We got the bicyclist down and in possible cardiac arrest. Uhh, the driver of the car was ejected in the crash, and a passenger is trapped in the car at this time. Also, notify the building inspection office and have them respond here for property damage."

Penny ran over to the bicyclist with Eva and immediately grabbed a pair of scissors to cut off his shirt to stick a scalpel in his chest to begin a bilateral chest decompression. Eva began controlling the bicyclist's bleeding with bandages and stuck an IV in the bicyclist's right arm to begin administering drugs. Penny then placed an oxygen mask over the man's face as well.

As they continued to try and save the bicyclist, Rescue 201 and Engine 202 pulled up. Theresa and Denis, off from school during the summer and riding the rear step of the rescue, jumped off and ran to the compartment of the rescue that carried the hydraulic rescue tools. Another firefighter revved up the motor of the tools as Theresa grabbed the hydraulic spreaders and Denis grabbed the hydraulic cutters.

After 3 other firefighters had put chocks underneath the car to stabilize it, Theresa pressed the spreaders' tip against the jammed-shut right passenger door as 2 Goodwill firefighters placed a tarp over the trapped passenger. She then began to pry open the door as Denis cut away at the hinges with the cutter. Theresa said to the passenger, "You're gonna be out soon. Don't worry."

As they cut the passenger out of the car, Penny and Eva's efforts to revive the bicyclist became less successful. Penny said to Eva, "We're not getting any circulation, Eva."

"Fuck," Eva replied. "We'll have to start hands-on CPR."

Penny immediately placed her hands on the bicyclist's chest as Eva continued to push drugs into him and began performing chest compressions. Penny continued for 4 whole minutes before Eva told her, "He's gone, Penny."

"Ugh," Penny said to herself in defeat as she wiped her forehead, not realizing she had blood on her hands. "We lost him... Fuck..."

Eva then yelled over to the crew of Ambulance 201, "We got a dead one!" They and a police officer immediately grabbed a yellow tarp from the ambulance and walked over to the body to place the tarp over it.

Penny said to herself in sadness and slight anger, "Gott im Himmel..." Then, a police officer offered her a wet wipe for the blood on her forehead and hands. "Thanks..." She then said to herself, "I still can't believe most of this country, me included, does this for free..."

August 6, 2021

Blake and Sun sat in their shared apartment around 6 P.M. watching television. Blake had returned from working at the Fire Alarm Office at around 5, while Sun had been at a training session at Beacon from 7 to 3 that day and had returned home at around 4:15. As they watched the news and ate dinner, Blake said to Sun, "Did you hear about Jerry Harrison, that striker for the Vale FC? He's been doping for the past 4 years with both blood AND steroids."

"Oh my God," Sun replied in shock. "Wasn't he like the most popular rookie on your team or something a few years back?"

"Yep," Blake replied in disgust. "He sure is, or was. Can't believe he'd cheat like that." Then, a news report about the player came on. "Speak of the devil, it's Mister Harrison himself. I hope they kick that douchebag out of the club for that."

Then, she heard her pager ring. Since the siren tones didn't play out afterwards, Blake silenced her pager. Sun replied, "You're not going?"

"It's just an EMS call," Blake replied. "Since the ambulance is at the station, I don't go if I'm not there. I only go if it's a second EMS call and we need to call an ambulance from another company, since then we gotta roll the rescue rig as a first response unit."

"Oh yeah," Sun replied. "I forgot about that. Say, you turn that off at night, right?"

"Yeah," Blake replied. "At night, I only go to fire calls, so I just use the siren since we're almost across the street from the station." Then, they both heard the ambulance drive past them. "There they go."

Then, she got a text from Ruby, saying, "yo turn ur pager on fire alarm just put a bunch of companies in the new districts on standby for a 99"

Blake immediately turned her pager back on in time to hear the pager and siren tones of several brand new volunteer fire companies out in the newly-formed District 12, plus ts newly built Fire Patrol stations and its newly appointed Assistant District Chief and District Chief, get put out. As Blake and Sun listened, they realized that the call was for a brush fire that had spread to a structure, and the original fire company put out on the brush fire had requested to be re-dispatched. Sun replied, "That sucks. I bet whoever occupies that place just moved there."

"You can say that again," Blake replied as she opened up a scanner app on her phone and listened in on a feed rebroadcasting District 12's dispatch-to-unit frequency, with unit-to-dispatch traffic mixed in with a mixer, unless the Incident Commander requested the mixer to be turned off for sensitive information. "Let's see how these guys and gals do on what is probably their first actual fire."