It is 4 am. Everybody in the firehouse is asleep. We have been up a few times for medical calls during the night, but this time the tones go off and the dispatcher says "attention all units: structure fire..." We all jump out of bed and run to the apparatus bay. Gear goes on quickly and we jump in the trucks. Quint and Engine going with the crew from the Rescue. The Quint from the other station is on its way too. We pull up to find flames in a window on. the front of the house. Captiain has been there for a few minutes and done his 360 walkaround. He has determined that everybody is out of the structure and found no other source of flame or smoke. We jump off the Quint and grap the preconnect from the driver side. Flaking out the hose goes quickly and we have water at the front of the house. The fire has already vented itself through the window. We perform our initial attack from the yard, "Hit it hard from the yard" to "reset the fire", to coin a few fire fighting phrases. The fire is quickly knowcked down and we proceed to the front door. We open the door to find the room filled with smoke. Visibility is almost zero. We make our way to the fire room and begin our overhaul. We pull sheetrock from the ceiling. Captain gets sprayed in the facemask with the fire stream, knocking off his helmet and knocking him over. He quickly recovers and overhaul continues. The fire was in a bedroom with several beds. We remove the mattresses and begin pulling clothes from the closet and removing sheetrock from the walls. The fire is out and we exit the building to replenish our air cylinders. Other firefighters mask up and go on air to go inside the structure. Salvage and overhaul continues. Sheetrock and insulation is thrown out of the window. Ventilation begins with a fan placed in front of the front door. We go to rehab for water and prepare to go back in if needed. We remain on scene for a short while longer and start cleaning up. We return to the station to reload the preconnect, refill air cylinders and wash equipment and hose. After showers we head to the local Waffle House, a tradition on C-Shift after a nighttime fire. 7 am and shift is over. We strip down our bunker gear for washing. It means staying a few minutes late, but it means we return next shift to nice clean gear free from toxic chemicals. Anothe structure fire in the books. Time for some rest and back to work in a couple of days.