It was a beautiful day and a sad day all rolled into one. We all lost a good friend. If you knew Kevin, you had to have loved him, because he lived life to the fullest, despite all the physical problems.

By putting this structure together, we're able to do all of this. The administrative burden on our department has increased 100 percent ever since 9/11. This gives us management coverage seven days a week and gives me assistance in other fields, like traffic and signaling and the OEM.

He's a career cop. He has a great sense of what his fellow officers need. He communicates well with the rest of the department.

I asked Andrew to go back to 1981, when we started keeping records on all the fires in the five towns. I saw that last year, we had only 21 multiple alarm fires in the Regional, and that seemed to me to be a low number. So we decided to research it more.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

All I know is from day one I was laughing,