Michael Harp

I graduated from DeSales and went on to JCC for a short time. I then got a job with TNT Motorsports and started traveling the county working Monster Truck Races and Tracktor Pulls. What a bunch of nutts in that sport, but it was alot of fun. After a few years of that i realized i could not do that all my life, so went back to school and started on my degree. Took 6 years of working night shift at Autozone and then UPS and going to school in the day but i made it and got my B.S. in Forestry. Got hired on with the Kentucky Division of Forestry in 97, moved to Bell County and started working in the woods. Started fighting forest fires for the state in 98 and fell in love with it, i did not know that KY has between 1000 and 2000 forest fires each year. I was a natural at it, I always say that I was self taught from my childhood hehe. Started taking classes in fire fighting and moved up the ladder from fire fighter type 1, fire investigator type 2, to helicopter crew member, but age caught me and i had to settle for a desk job (bad Knees) in fire mangement, so now i go out and teach fire classes to the new guys. That's were I am now, I work out of the Frankfort Office and I handle all the fire stats for the state and teach several of the fire classes, give grants to fire departments, and handle arson investigations on large fires.

Met Maryann (little mountain girl) down in Bell County, charmed her with my city slicker talk, got married and moved her up to the big city of Shelbyville. She misses the mountains but loves going to Louisville to shop. Had Michael David in May of 2001, he is already 7, how time flys.

I remimber winter time racing into class for a spot on the radiator, because of how cold it was in the school. We would sit on them until they would burn our butts, if they worked at all.

Does anyone remimber me bringing in the snake egg in 4th grade, and it hacked that spring. Bet they don't let you do that now days.