Monday, August 30, 2010 Each morning at the end of my shift as Captain I have a cup of coffee while wrapping up the paperwork in my office. On the morning of 8/25 while rinsing a cup in our kitchen sink to get said coffee a bullet came through the window in front of the sink and struck the far wall of the kitchen. One of my members was also in the kitchen at the time. After arriving home that morning I found tiny shards of glass in my hair on the left side of my head, this corresponds with the position of myself and the hole in the window. I have spent 15 years working in the inner city and we have had many instances of firehouses and apparatus being struck by bullets but this was definitely a near miss.

LESSONS LEARNED: Not sure what can be learned by this as far as prevention. Aside from concrete firehouses with no windows. I will say this a near miss which you have no control definitely gives you a new perspective for controlling the things you can.