I
have twenty-five years of fire fighting experience. Twenty-one of
these years have been as a professional fire fighter / EMT with Fairfax
County, Virginia. Three years were spent as a volunteer fire fighter
with the Morningside Volunteer Fire Department Co. 27 in Prince George’s
County, Maryland. My rank with Fairfax County is Apparatus Technician.
This is the Driver/ Operator position on Truck Company Eleven. It is my
job to get the twenty-six ton fire truck and personnel to the incident
safely. I pride myself on my ability to drive the fire truck and have on
occasion pushed it to its limits. The urgency of the call dictates the
speed of the response. If you are trapped in a fire, I can talk the talk
and walk the walk! If you don't believe it, just ask the other drivers
in the battalion. They've all seen nothing but taillights a time or
two...and that’s while responding into their first due!
The people in the fire department are some of the greatest people you
could ever meet. They are very highly trained and the county is known
all over the world. If you watch the news and keep up on world affairs,
you have seen our people as VA. TASK FORCE 1 going to the rescue of
people on the other side of the planet. We work with this team of men
and women every day as fire fighters in the county. Being a career fire
fighter has its ups and downs, or should I say highs and lows. I have
seen the first breath of life delivering a baby on the side of
southbound I-95 during a blizzard at three in the morning. On the other
hand, I've tried to breathe life into a person who’s just taken his
last. I am very grateful to be a fire fighter and race car builder/driver
just like I dreamed about as a child.
Mahaffey Motorsports
Phone: 301-884-3274
Email: mahaffeymotorsports@direcway.com
"Lovin' life every day! Drivin' fire
trucks at work and race cars at
play!"