GIRL TRIES LIFE AS FIREFIGHTER : 13-YEAR-OLD HELPS OUT HER FATHER AT WORK.Byline: Lisa Van Proyen Daily News Staff Writer Dressed in her father's spare uniform, 13-year-old Lindsay Brock brock n. Chiefly British A badger. [Middle English brok, from Old English broc, of Celtic origin.] worked at the Newhall firehouse Thursday, helping paramedics on call and cooking dinner for the crew. Celebrating Take Our Daughters to Work Day, Lindsay stepped into station life, where women still remain a rare sight among the rank and file. She joked that the firefighters themselves, who take turns preparing meals, would need emergency medical aid after they ate her cooking. ``You're going to have to call the ambulances at the fire station,'' she said as her father returned with food for the crew from a Hughes market. Ordinarily or·di·nar·i·ly adv. 1. As a general rule; usually: ordinarily home by six. 2. In the commonplace or usual manner: ordinarily dressed pedestrians on the street. , the firefighters cook for themselves. But Lindsay volunteered to help with domestic chores as well as to tag along tag along Verb to accompany someone, esp. when uninvited: I tagged along behind the gang Verb 1. in response to calls, including traffic collisions and medical crises, and on a training run to pull water from a lake with water tenders. She shadowed her father, Capt. Steve Brock of Acton, assigned to Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La Station 73, the headquarters in Newhall. ``She's doing the daily duty. We don't cut her any slack 1. (operating system) slack - Internal fragmentation. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to store useful information. 2. (jargon) slack while she's here,'' said Capt. Michael Short. She started the day by inspecting lights, pumps and sirens Sirens with song, bird-women lure sailors to death. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] See : Enchantment sirens their singing so sweet, it lured sailors to their death. [Gk. Myth.: Hamilton, 48] See : Singer on a fire engine. Soon, she was called out to a medical incident involving an elderly man with cancer. ``I got to hook up the IVs and connect them. I got to direct all the engines to the house because it was hard to see,'' said Lindsay, who aspires to be an exotic animal trainer or a veterinarian veterinarian /vet·er·i·nar·i·an/ (vet?er-i-nar´e-an) a person trained and authorized to practice veterinary medicine and surgery; a doctor of veterinary medicine. vet·er·i·nar·i·an n. . She does not want to follow in her father's footsteps because she considers firefighting 1. firefighting - What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems. An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?" "No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent the whole afternoon fighting fires." 2. too dangerous. ``I wouldn't want to be a firefighter, but it's fun to go around and do stuff with him,'' she said. ``It's a lot of fun just coming along to see what your dad does.'' This was her second year of following her father around during the annual event sponsored by the Ms. Foundation for Women. The nationwide program was established in 1993 in response to studies showing girls received less attention than boys in school and suffered a drop in self-esteem in adolescence. Brock said the crash course is a good lesson for his daughter. ``I want to show her what I do so she grows up with a better understanding of how to treat people,'' he said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color) Lindsay Brock works with her father, Capt. Steve Brock of the county Fire Department, Thursday at Newhall. Hans Gutknecht/Daily News |
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