Thom Jones
thomjones58.bsky.social
Thom Jones
@thomjones58.bsky.social
Twenty-year volunteer firefighter/EMT and five-year Rescue Technician/Paramedic in Maryland. In my other career, I used satellite imagery to capture data and create maps. Recently celebrated the birth of our first grandchild!
For all my band peeps. Apologies to the sax players.
February 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
February 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Truth
February 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This was my favorite apparatus. 1983 GMC Brigadier/1985 Ranger box walk-in heavy rescue.
February 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The original Jaws of Life. Meant to be a two-person tool. Wrecked many backs of single operators.
February 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Reposted by Thom Jones
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The firefighters and paramedics of B Shift, Seminole County Fire and Rescue Station 16, who revived my Dad and doing so allowed him to say goodbye to his family.
February 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
@veteransofems.bsky.social
Hello to all who followed us over from Marky Mark’s funhouse. We are a group of active and retired professionals in Emergency Medical Services. Same rules apply here: posts must be EMS related; we don’t post self-promotion; GFMs are not allowed; no politics; be courteous.
February 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM