Morning at Station 1: Routine, Readiness and Brotherhood
At 8 a.m., I pulled into the parking lot of Station 1 on Marshall Street, where the engines of the Winston-Salem Fire Department sat gleaming in the early sun. The firefighters had already been hard at work—hoses out, buckets filled and scrubbing their crimson trucks clean in preparation for whatever calls the day might bring.
I was greeted and led into the office of Fire Engineer Joshua Noah, my assigned guide for the day. Noah has served with the department for eight years, following in the footsteps of his father, who spent 28 years in the same role…