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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1981
Local
Spends
summer as volunteer
Co-ed doubles as firefighter
By JUDY ALLS
Battalion Reporter
When Sue Gary, a petroleum
engineering major at Texas A&M
University, went home after the
spring semester she wasn’t plan
ning to do anything more than
attend summer school and work.
But when she got home to the
Houston suburb of Spring, she re
ceived a letter that added some
thing special to what would have
been an ordinary summer.
The Klein volunteer fire de
partment had sent a newsletter to
recruit volunteer firemen, or
women, as the case may be. Gary,
19, immediately responded.
“I really don’t know why,” Gary
said, “but it’s something that has
always interested me.”
Fire departments in areas out
side Houston city limits do not
have professional fire fighters;
they’re made up of volunteers.
“They needed people and I just
wanted to help,” Gary said.
After completing 18 hours of
training, including three hours of
fire drills a week, Gary became a
volunteer fire fighter.
The drills included learning
how to work hoses and take them
up ladders, salvage drills — saving
as much as possible from a house
or building — and rescue drills.
Gary was given an emergency
beeper so a dispatcher could reach
her at any time. “I carried it every
where and my boss knew that if I
ever tore out of the office, I had
been called to a fire,” Gary said.
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In addition to her job as a volun
teer, Gary worked as a supervisor
and manager at a swimming pool
supply store.
Not knowing how they would
react, she didn’t tell her parents
about her volunteer job for about
three weeks. But they were sup
portive when they finally found
out, Gary said. Now her mother
wants to get involved, she said.
Shortly after Gary became a
volunteer, her older sister, who
attends graduate school at
Stephen F. Austin State Universi
ty, also began training as a volun
teer.
Since it rained heavily in the
Houston area this summer, the
volunteers weren’t called to duty
often, Gary said.
“We didn’t have a call for the
entire station for almost a month,
but during the drier times and on
the Fourth of July we got busy,”
Gary said.
Gary responded to about 15
calls during the summer, but
didn’t have to enter a burning
building.
“There are more experienced
persons who go first, but I would if
they need me to,” she said.
The volunteers not only put out
fires, but also helped clean after
wards. They set up fans to get rid
of smoke, pumped out water and
removed debris and fuel from
roads after car wrecks.
Gary keeps her gear in the
trunk of her car and will continue
to be on call when she goes home
for weekends and holidays.
She also plans to attend the
annual fire training field at Texas
A&M this spring. “I don’t think I
will become a professional but
probably will continue to be a
volunteer for a long time,” she
said.
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Tuesday, Sept. 15
321 Physics Bldg. 7:30 p.m.
Speaker:
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Texas A&M College of Medicine
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If you’d like to get to the bottom with us,
see our campus recruiter. Or write to:
William E. Johnston, Jr., Human Resources
Department, Gulf Oil Corporation,
P.O. Box 1166, Pittsburgh, PA 15230.
Because with Gulf, working your way to
the bottom can mean working
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September 22, 23
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By JOYCE HALLBAUER
Battalion Reporter
Handicapped drivers at Texas
A&M University often have a hard
time finding parking spaces on
campus because of non-
haudicapped people parking in
the spaces for the handicapped,
says a Texas A&M official.
“I was only going to be in for a
minute, ” is the typical excuse peo
ple give for illegally parking in the
spaces, but they arert’t thinking of
how difficult it is for handicapped
people to move even a short dis
tance, said Charles Powell, coor-
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area
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dents and veterans servial
Texas A&M.
Students, faculty,
General Telephone vehicles
been found in the spaces,
higher fine should cut dm
number of offenders,
Illegal parking fines are \ He starl
campus. However, a state! hois l
became effective Sept. 1. flBded u
the fine for illegally parbipAntor
spaces for the handicapped: Ps A&I
minimum and $200 malSouthe
Bryan City Attorney fcPpfor'
Bruchez said. PA&M
The law applies to allstatt:lWere sc
tutions, but the University: 101 ' so I
of Regents has to approveitluPeleva
it takes effect on campus, fpe me
Thomas R. Parsons, diredJwhool
security and traffic at Texas ^ repa
The only authorized use Ws the
spaces for the handicapped fen 600
drivers that have the wheeeP>tSter
symbol on their parking A&,>
and those with disabled veirftore a
license plates, he said, jj stude
There are about 200 handJjfc in w
ped people on campus, 1 to c
said. About 50 of these peopll
temporarily handicapped M
things as broken bones, but!
100 others are people s
eases, such as canca
diabetes, that hinder or pt' j
them from walking longdiili'|
he said.
The University Police jL
been cooperative, but tM â– 
number of people on camp®!
vents full enforcement of the 5
ing regulations, Powell said, 1 F
most tickets are issued I
offenders who don’t have p* 5
permits.
Handicapped people in/
chairs don’t usually need pi 1
spaces, but the ramps mad
their use on campus are*
times blocked by vehicles,f l<
said. Those people in wheeb '
then have to search for an
nate route, he said.
So
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Sept. 15.
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