At long last my dad has retired from the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety. After 25 years on the force he spent his last week getting 72 hours of overtime and visiting most of the stations servin
g Kalamazoo.
His last day they had a ceremony for him at headquarters and he had cake at Station 7. Before Jim and I got there the Griffioen's and Justin's visited the station. Later we looked around the station and my mom took me aside to tell me about the "surprise" ceremony and then Jim and I ran to headquarters to try to get there before my dad in the fire engine. We ended up driving right past him and I hid by pulling down the sun visor and sitting up really high. Apparently I didn't need to because when we talked later he had no idea that we had passed him-- although I guess that means that it worked.
They had the ladder trucks form an arch and a large number of fire engines and police cars. We joked that for the time that the ceremony was going on Kalamazoo was left unprotected.
My dad wanted to end his last regular duty day with a fully involved house fire, but his shift Lieutenant gave him a direct order to not enter any building that was on fire. Instead he worked a grass fire, but that was even mostly put out by the time he got there.
He will still be working a few overtime days before he is really finished, but I think that it is just beginning to sink in that he is pretty much done. His plans are to work around the house and at his mom and sister's houses in Missouri and then to get a part time job doing something else, though he doesn't quite know what at this point. My parents would love to have him have a job where he could work more during the winter when my mom is busy with taxes and then have summers off to vacation with her.
g Kalamazoo.His last day they had a ceremony for him at headquarters and he had cake at Station 7. Before Jim and I got there the Griffioen's and Justin's visited the station. Later we looked around the station and my mom took me aside to tell me about the "surprise" ceremony and then Jim and I ran to headquarters to try to get there before my dad in the fire engine. We ended up driving right past him and I hid by pulling down the sun visor and sitting up really high. Apparently I didn't need to because when we talked later he had no idea that we had passed him-- although I guess that means that it worked.
They had the ladder trucks form an arch and a large number of fire engines and police cars. We joked that for the time that the ceremony was going on Kalamazoo was left unprotected.
My dad wanted to end his last regular duty day with a fully involved house fire, but his shift Lieutenant gave him a direct order to not enter any building that was on fire. Instead he worked a grass fire, but that was even mostly put out by the time he got there.
He will still be working a few overtime days before he is really finished, but I think that it is just beginning to sink in that he is pretty much done. His plans are to work around the house and at his mom and sister's houses in Missouri and then to get a part time job doing something else, though he doesn't quite know what at this point. My parents would love to have him have a job where he could work more during the winter when my mom is busy with taxes and then have summers off to vacation with her.
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