Jim Schmidt
Jim Schmidt
amazing beat exciting missed moved ramp second seems third thus
The whole ramp up has been a pretty exciting time, so we've moved right from the first and second shifts, into the third shift. It seems like we haven't missed a beat thus far, so it's a pretty amazing time.
solid together
I think it was more nerve-racking for me than for Ellie. She put together 11 real solid dives.
contingent customer gearing help launch planning support third together work
It's really contingent on the launch of the third vehicle, and that's scheduled for June, so we're gearing up and planning for our customer. You have to work together with your customer. It's a partnership and we want to support our customer and do everything we can to help them out.
community economy five four hard hit last pulls rate
Rockford has been hit pretty hard in the last four or five years. I think as the economy pulls up, the community will do better, and we'll see the unemployment rate go down.
certainly conference guys hard hopefully improving past run scores since week winning
Winning the conference is certainly one of our goals. The guys are working hard and their scores have come down in the past week since it got warm. Hopefully they will just keep improving and we can make a run at the end of the season.
exploding feet fire front happened last seeing stuff trees trucks
We are seeing stuff that hasn't happened in the last decade. We are seeing cedar trees ... igniting 40 feet in front of our fire trucks - exploding with no moisture in it.