The master blog 4523

The calls blur together after a while. A lieutenant once told me he could still smell the diesel on his gear when he closed his eyes at night, along with the sweetness of antifreeze from a highway rollover. He was not being poetic, just factual. Sensory memories often outlast words, and for first responders, the body tends to remember everything. Over time, that memory can harden into vigilance that never shuts off, a fuse that gets shorter each month, or a sense of emptine