June 10, 2017, around 7:45 A.M.

While cleaning some machinery in the main barn of Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack and Daisy Jo talked amongst each other. "I heard Soarin's doin' better now," Applejack said as she polished a pitchfork. "They got to him and reversed the arrest before serious damage set in."

"That's good," Daisy Jo replied as she grabbed some glass cleaner and sprayed it on a window. "Say, when's the officers' meeting today?"

"It's gonna be at 9:30 in the mornin'," Applejack replied. "We're gonna discuss-" Suddenly, both of their pagers, which they left near the door to the barn, rang.

"Ponyville County Fire Control for Friendship Fire Rescue Squad and Medic Zone 2, it's gonna be a Charlie response to 221 Schoolhouse Road for a 48-year-old female feeling faint with chest pains. Repeating, it's gonna be a Charlie response to 221 Schoolhouse Road for a 48-year-old female feeling faint with chest pains. Time is 7:46."

Daisy Jo said, "Let's go." Applejack and Daisy Jo then ran out of the barn. As they did, they could hear Friendship's loud siren roar in the distance. Daisy Jo hopped in her car while Applejack, Apple Bloom, and Big Mac, coming out of the house, ran to the station. As the three briskly galloped down Schoolhouse Road to the station, Daisy Jo passed them and pulled into the parking lot. It had been 3 minutes since the call came in. Shortly after she ran into the station, she radioed, "Fire Control, Friendship base acknowledging the call." By now, Chief Marble Mark was already on scene.

Once the three ran into the station, they quickly grabbed their gear from their lockers and carried it with them to the ambulance. Once they put it in the back of the ambulance, Apple Bloom jumped up front with Daisy Jo, who would drive, and Applejack and Big Mac sat in the back. Daisy Jo said to them all, "Ready?" She then turned the lights on.

Apple Bloom radioed, "Fire Control, Ambulance 2-41's en route with a crew of 4, 2 intermediates." The ambulance then pulled out of the station as Apple Bloom turned the sirens on. As soon as they did, the medic called in as arriving on scene.

At 7:53, Ambulance 2-41 arrived on scene. Applejack and Big Mac immediately jumped out and pulled a stretcher from the back. The chief, standing at the front door, said to them, "We managed to start stabilization. We're gonna have her transported soon."

June 12, 2017, around 9:30 P.M.

After some rescue-EMS training at the firehouse, Applejack and Caramel stayed afterwards to check the trucks. As Applejack looked over a bunch of spare SCBA bottles carried in a driver's side compartment on Rescue 2-31, a 2010 Pierce Heavy Walk-In Rescue with 8 seats, and filled out a checklist sheet, Caramel said to her, "Hey, Sergeant Applejack..."

The blonde mare looked at him and asked, "What's up, Caramel?"

"Do... Do you wanna get a drink from the bar after this?" Caramel showed her the "drink sheet," a sheet that all firefighters that drank at the bar had to fill out stating they would not respond to any calls for a certain amount of time after drinking. "It wouldn't hurt. We'd miss a medical at the most."

Applejack thought to herself, then said, "Eh, why not?"
1 hour later
"It... It's no surprise, really," a drunk Applejack said to an equally drunk Caramel. "She was a fuckin' crazy cat lady! Of course she was a hoarder!" She then laughed. "I swear, I can still smell the Goddamn stench from that house sometimes. Whoo-whee, I've only seen 1 other hoarder house, and that was one that burned down in Yates in South Ponyville 2 years ago. Every department in this town and that town got called for either more manpower or a tanker. Hopefully, those are the only 2 I'll ever see again..."

"I hope I never see one," Caramel slurred. "Those gotta suck."

"You know," the blond mare said to the brunette colt. "You're a good guy, Caramel." She then laughed. "You always show up to calls when... Like, whenever... And, uhhh..." She paused. "You always, like, you always wanna step up and do stuff... That's good..." She then smiled. "Wanna go back to my place?"

Caramel replied with a stutter, "Uhhh... Really?"

"Eh, why not?" Applejack then threw her last bottle out. "It'll be fun..."

June 13, 2017, around 2:45 A.M.

The sound of a pager beeping instantly woke up Applejack, who immediately rose from her bed to find Caramel next to her. She shook him awake and said, "We got a call!"

The pager screeched out the tones of Harmony, Yates Village in South Ponyville, and a County Medic before a dispatcher started talking over it, reading out, "Ponyville County Fire Control for Friendship Fire, Harmony for a Truck, Yates Village for a Tanker, Medic Zone 2, respond to a reported explosion and fire in the area of Schoolhouse Road and Clifford Road. Caller reporting a large explosion and fire at the intersection. It appears to have involved two houses. Repeating, respond to a reported explosion and fire in the area of Schoolhouse Road and Clifford Road. Time is 0246 hours."

Applejack and Caramel ran out of the house as fast as they could. Trailing behind them were an equally tired Big Mac and Apple Bloom. Both were too tired to care about Caramel being at their house.

Within 3 and a half minutes, they all made it to the station. Applejack, Apple Bloom, and Big Mac, their gear lockers all grouped together, quickly put their gear on and jumped aboard Engine 2-11, a 2011 Pierce pumper with a 2000 GPM pump and a 750-gallon water tank that served as the first-out truck for in-district fires and fire alarm activations. Caramel also jumped aboard. Within 4 and a half minutes, a full crew of 8 had boarded the truck, including 5 interior firefighters. Apple Fritter sat up front. As the engine pulled out, she radioed, "Fire Control, Engine 2-11's en route with 8, 5 interior." As they pulled out, 3 more firefighters ran into the station, and 2 more cars pulled in.

It took Engine 2-11 3 minutes to get to the scene. At 7 and a half minutes, it pulled up to a massive fire. By now, the chiefs on scene had determined the cause of the explosion to be a passenger plane crash, and had requested Harmony to be re-dispatched for an engine, an ambulance, and coverage, Northside for an ambulance and coverage, Northern Ponyville for a tanker and coverage, Ponyville County Airport for a crash truck, Everfree for a tanker and coverage, Medan for an ambulance and coverage, Yates for an engine and coverage, Shaker Street for a brush truck and coverage, the South Ponyville Volunteer Ambulance Corps for two ambulances and coverage, and 3 more county medics to the scene.

As soon as they pulled up, Applejack and Big Mac pulled hand lines from the side and stretched them to begin an exterior attack on what remained of the house. There was no need for them to put their masks on. After they stretched the line to the front lawn, Big Mac yelled back to the pump operator, "Charge my line!" Shortly after, the line was charged with water.

As the two moved in and began spraying down the house, they saw a large crowd gather around the crash site. Applejack asked Big Mac, "Think anyone survived that?!"

"Don't hold your breath," Big Mac replied. "You know how these things go." As they darkened down the front wall of the house, they saw 2 firefighters nearby rush a stretcher away from the crash site. "Looks like they found somepony that lived, AJ."

June 16, 2017, around 2:33 P.M.

Applejack, Caramel, and Big Mac had just came back from a medical call and were at the station putting their bunker gear back together after having cleaned it yesterday. Ever since the plane crash, everyone had been rather quiet as they processed the enormity of the incident. The plane, Imperial Equestrian Airways Flight 822, had been a Boeing 737-900ER flying from Baltimare to Canterlot with 174 passengers and 6 crewmembers. Of those on board, only 5 passengers and 1 crewmember, a flight attendant, survived the fiery crash, which also killed a whole family of 6 on the ground and injured 6 others on the ground.

Applejack and Caramel in particular were rather quiet with each other. As Caramel packed his pants and coat away in his locker, Applejack said to him, "We haven't been talkin' since the 13th, and I'm sick of it."

Caramel turned to her and said, "Look, A.J., I shouldn't have taken advantage of you or anything, alr-"

"Bullshit," Applejack replied. "You didn't take advantage of no one when we went back to my house, Caramel. We were both plastered to hell and back, and we both wanted it, alright?"

Big Mac, wondering why the two seemed tense, said, "Can't y'all just get a room already? I know everything about what happened that night, considerin' how loud you were, sis." Applejack then blushed in slight embarrassment. "You too, Caramel. Anyways, I saw this comin' from a mile away. You two might as well make it official at this point."

Applejack paused as she seriously considered Big Mac's suggestion before putting her completed gear back in her locker. Then, she said, "Eh, why not? Caramel, wanna go catch a movie tomorrow?"

"Sounds good to me," Caramel replied. "I'm free all day tomorrow."

June 18, 2017

Rainbow Dash stopped by to see Fluttershy at the hospital again. By now, Fluttershy was beginning to start the steps to be released from the hospital, and her voice was no longer hoarse. As Rainbow Dash sat down in a chair, Fluttershy said to her, "The doctors' say I'll be fully back on my feet around July 20th. By then, Discord will be finished with the house replacement."

"Thank God," Rainbow Dash replied, relieved. "So, where will you stay once you get discharged from here until then?"

"Twilight offered," Fluttershy replied before looking out of a window. "She said that it was the least she could do."

Rainbow Dash then sighed. "This has been an awful month for me so far. First there was your house fire, then there was the crash with Soarin, and then there was the other plane crash in Ponyville just days later. Me and Soarin had to go through a shit ton of paperwork in regards to our crash, about 250 pages worth, and we gotta go to a military court hearing about it on the 24th in Cloudsdale." Rainbow Dash then mouthed to Fluttershy as she pretended to shoot herself in the head with an invisible gun, "KILL ME."

Fluttershy then laughed. "I would fall asleep at my desk constantly if I had to deal with all of that paperwork."

"Trust me," Rainbow Dash replied. "I've been there."

Author's Note

NOTE 1: Friendship's station was originally located within the village, but their current station, built in 1980, was moved outside to an area close to Sweet Apple Acres to better cover the rural parts of their district. Harmony is currently the only one of the three companies covering the village that has their station in the village. Northside has always had theirs just a block away from the village line.