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owned a restaurant. Whenever they got a chance, though, they would come to their vacation home in Amissville.
Beginning in 1972, Pullen did not take a break from his firefighting and rescue work when he came to his Amissville retreat. That was the year he joined the Amissville Volunteer Fire Department.
Pullen became the chief in Amissville in 1973, and he began coming to Amissville more often. “I was teased by all of the men about being chief here, and still being a private back in Falls Church at the same time,” Pullen said. “There was no ‘good morning, Rus*selT, but it was always ‘good morning, chief.’ ”
Since he was spending as much time as possible in Amissville, Pullen decided to move from Falls Church. He retired from the Falls Church Fire Department in 1974 after 26 years of service.
“I kind of enjoyed him being a firefighter,” said Mrs. Pullen. “At one time, 1 thought that if I got him up to the country he’d forjfet aboutfurefighting, but it didn’t make any difference. ”
She wanted to get Pullen away from firefighting badly enough that she talked him into trying to sell their Amissville home.
“She used to bless me out, and one time she tried to sell the house to get me away from the fire house,” Pullen said. “I used to go over there and mow the grounds all day, and if the whistle went off during dinner, I was gone. She used to say that she could never get me to do anything around home because I was always at the fire house.”
The Pullens did not sell their home, though, and
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