BURNED FIREFIGHTER RETURNS TO ACTIVE DUTY IN GLENDALE.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer Firefighter Scott French reported back to work at Glendale's Fire Station 24 on Wednesday, two and a half months after he was seriously injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in a wildfire in Malibu. ``I feel like a kid coming back to school after summer vacation Summer vacation (also called summer holidays or summer break) is a vacation in the summertime between school years in which students are off for 3 months, depending on the country and district. ,'' French said. French received a good luck phone call Wednesday afternoon from Bill Jensen, a fellow Glendale firefighter who is still recovering at the Grossman Burn Center in Sherman Oaks from the injuries he received in the same blaze. French said his experience has taught him never to take anything for granted. ``I'm more thankful thank·ful adj. 1. Aware and appreciative of a benefit; grateful. 2. Expressive of gratitude: a thankful smile. for what I've got and I'm not so complacent com·pla·cent adj. 1. Contented to a fault; self-satisfied and unconcerned: He had become complacent after years of success. 2. Eager to please; complaisant. about life,'' French said. ``It's given me more faith in the Lord above. It just wasn't our time to go.'' Glendale Fire Marshal fire marshal n. 1. The head of a department or office that is charged with the prevention and investigation of fires. 2. A person in charge of firefighting personnel and equipment at an industrial plant. Noun 1. Dave Starr said that French is returning to full active firefighter duty, a status that exceeded the department's expectations. ``We had anticipated he'd probably come back in some limited capacity, but his recovery was very good,'' Starr said. French said he is eager to go out on his first call. He said he does not expect to suffer emotional scars from the fire, which seriously burned the left side of his face. ``I'm just going to put that aside and go out and do the job,'' French said. Jensen, who received burns over 70 percent of his body in the fire, may be able to leave Grossman Burn Center by the end of the month, said Larry Weinberg
On Tuesday he underwent his 15th surgical procedure, with Dr. Peter Grossman surgically splitting apart tissue that had grown over the fingers on Jensen's left hand while it was in his abdominal flap The communications protocol used by AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). FLAP runs over TCP/IP and provides the header format for transmitting IM commands and data. It includes the SNAC data type, which is the primary data structure transmitted between clients and servers. See OSCAR. 1. for several weeks as part of a procedure. ``He's the miracle,'' said French, who has visited Jensen several times in the hospital. ``He's up walking around on his own. All the prayers people said for him have really been answered.'' |
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