Never one to pass on an opportunity to talk about myself, I appeared on "The Rhode Show" this morning to plug my books, Rescuing Providence and Responding. The first book got all the attention, but that's okay, I appreciate the opportunity and thank the producers and everybody at WPRI 12 for the invite. Both books […]

The bears are hungry, I’m hungry, everybody’s hungry. It’s six-thirty, looks like take-out. But wait! I have a plan.

If I had a nickel for every time a person who had been involved in a minor car accident asked for an ambulance, (or Rescue as we Rhode Island Folks like to call them) to take them or their little ones to the ER to "be checked," even though they had no injuries, I'd have […]

I am Captain Burns. My friends call me Blowtorch!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2012/06/13/spice-vs-bath-salts-the-other-designer-drug-scare/ Lying on the cement, handcuffed, foaming at the mouth and speaking rapid fire gibberish is our latest hero to ascend to the summit of K2. It's not a lengthy climb from sanity to delusion once the substance enters the bloodstream, the trip only takes a few minutes, but could last for hours. I thought […]

My friend Todd left a comment on my last post, http://rescuingprovidence.com/2012/07/maybe-i-should/ advising me to move on to a Ladder Company, less stressful I think his message was. He should know, nearly twenty years in the trenches gives a guy a lot of wisdom. But less stressful? Ha! My guess is Ladder 2 had a little […]