We take them for granted sometimes. Too many times. Almost all of the time, if we’re honest about it.
Too many of us only think about the Chattanooga Police Department and Chattanooga Fire Department when we need them. Or – as is occasionally the case with the police – when we needed them to be anywhere but where their radar guns were pointed.
But all that changed in April. Our city and its surrounding communities torn asunder by Mother Nature’s wrath, the police, firemen and a host of non-profit agencies immediately began helping in ways both big and small.
Six weeks later, many of those agencies haven’t taken a break since, a commitment that isn’t likely to wane for at least six more months.
Except for Wednesday afternoon at AT&T Field, that is. Except for a seismic softball game between our city’s police and firefighters that they’ve not-so-affectionately dubbed “Handcuffs vs. Hoses.”