For Light and Air 103, anything more than one call per week is considered busy. This weekend, we responded to two calls for service and were unable to make a third because we were still working the second. Besides being a great lighting and SCBA replishment vehicle, LA103 has extensive salvage and overhaul capabilities. The first call was Friday, June 2 for a blown sprinkler head on the 16th floor of the Hyatt Hotel on Wilson Blvd. in Rosslyn. The crew of Ambulance 102 placed their unit out of service in order to staff LA103. Joe Lowry, Jim Clarke, Paul Schomburg and James Fortner worked this call for two hours removing water from two floors of the hotel. The second was Sunday, June 4 at 4300 S. 29th Street, Arlington County's street sign department, next door to the fire training academy. A broken pipe on a water cooler kept the crew of Joe Lowry, Jim Clarke and Tony Schloss busy. Between the two calls, we put in almost four hours of water removal. As we were clearing S. 29th Street, we were requested by Command at a structure fire in Falls Church. Unfortunetly we could not clear the street department in time to make the fire. Too much work, not enought time.
Photo of LA103 by James Fortner, taken during the 2001 FFI/II class.
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