Had a exciting day today again I got picked up in the ladder truck as you see in the photo and joined in some high rise training the went back to station 4 for chow (lunch).

After that I went to deer valley airport and went up in the helicopter for about 3 hours. While we were up we pursued a stolen car then we went to a shooting!! we arrived about 30 seconds after the report and flew over head and directed the squad car and kept an eye out for runners. The cops dragged one guy who was shot 3 times from the front lawn to a safe place then stood back until the SWAT team arrive and smash the door down and make entry with ballistic shields!! They had 2 cops on the neighbours roof with rifles and about15 squad cars, 3 fire engines and 4 ambulances honestly it was just like watching cops on TV. So the whole time we hovered above and kept an eye on things. This doesn't happen every day so my timing was good.

Had dinner with the guys at station 4 and then back to hotel. The guys here have been so friendly and have looked after me very well.

In the photos you can see the ladder truck I was riding with a tiller wheel at the back.

The helicopter and pilot I flew with and a photo of the scene that we hovered over. And a shot of my hotel from the air.

I guess it sounds like things are pretty violent over here but remember that greater Phoenix and surrounding cities has over 4 million people and they love guns!! But the normal people are just like us as a whole and they have been very hospitable.