Firefighters Time To Work

Firefighters Time To Work. No matter how experienced you are or how many times you enter the flames every fire is a new fire. You've got this. You have trained it, experienced it, you have a team with you and the tools and training you need. Never get complacent. Never get overconfident. Trust in what you wear. In what you know. And trust in your judgement to know when it's time to go.

Photo of me just before entering a structure fire a few years ago.

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Stay Low. Stay Together. Stay Safe. See you on the next job. 

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Firefighters Take The Heat

Firefighters - yeah we can take the heat mentally and physically. But remember you have to know when it’s time to back out physically and the same goes for a break when your mind needs to step back some.

Firefighter teams aren’t just for physical work. Be there for your buddy.  Go to a buddy when you need one. That’s the right way to handle the Heat.

When Only Firefighters Are There

When only firefighters are there to do the job no one else can do. When it's only up to firefighters, be the best firefighters they deserve.

Train hard. Work Hard. Stay Safe.

Firefighter Gifts: The Brotherhood Bond

Being a firefighter is not just a job title........

Why would anyone want to run into a burning building or anywhere else that everyone is running out of?

Firefighter gifts to those they serve, and those they serve with is their presence. Being there - trained, ready, willing and able to help. It is a personalized firefighter experience every day. Even though every alarm you answer is different, at the core they are the same. You are giving some part of yourself to your fellow firefighters and to people, often strangers, who need you. You are fulfilling the oath you took to protect and serve. Most of our calls are "false alarms" "smells and bells", not the big one with powerful flames and fire, smoke and danger. Yet, we spend hundreds of manpower hours training for the big ones. Search and rescue, pump operations, water supply, building construction, more search and rescue.....so that when it is the big one we can carry our share, support our firefighter team, serve our fire chief and community the way they deserve. So the truth is.....I really can't answer the question with words, only with actions.

It is a spirit of helping, of teamwork, pride and courage. Of training together, working together, relying on each other. We wear it on our firefighter shirts and sweat shirts. Display our pride on our hats, jackets and vehicles. We wear our fire station ID everywhere and anywhere because when you are really a firefighter, it's not just what you do, it's what you are.

No matter where you travel, or how far you go, you are bound to see a navy T-shirt with a white maltese bearing the pride of belonging to a fire department. Those who wear it should only be true firefighters, those that offer their fellow firefighters teamwork, dedication, loyalty and are there to back them up no matter how tough it gets.

If you are going to wear it, wear it with pride

Firefighter Freedom July 4th

Firefighter Freedom on July 4th and every day is the freedom to be there for others. To answer the calls from alarms to flames. The freedom to handle the jobs because they know their training is good. Their firefighter brotherhood is tight. The ability to work independently and as a team depending on the situation shines as brightly as those 4th of July fireworks we are prepared to deal with if they go wrong.

The knowledge that firefighters are a definitely a special breed dedicated to others working in a world no words can really describe. Firefighter freedom means trusting your bunker gear. Knowing your engines are working, your command is experienced and prepared. When it all comes together because of dedicated, loyal firefighters, then you are free to do the job you have taken the oath to do.

There is no greater freedom than the weight of others depending on you, and you knowing that you are up to the challenge.

Be prepared. Be trained. Be honorable and loyal. Be a firefighter by the true meaning and live up to all that your community and brother firefighters need you to be.

Firefighting Judgement

Firefighting is a judgement call every time. Firefighters and Fire Officers need to keep on learning, training and most of all, share and gain knowledge from experience because it never goes by the book. Changing fire conditions have to be expected and adjusting your firefighter strategy as conditions improve and/or deteriorate is the way to keep everyone going home safe.

Sometimes you just have to start the fire attack from the outside when there is a structure fire. Sometimes you get to go in and knock it down, save some property that means the world to those you protect. Sometimes you even get to save a life.

Firefighter strategy is all about judgement. Use it wisely.

Irish Firefighters Brotherhood Wish

Irish Firefighters Brotherhood Wish - Happy St. Patrick's Day and Stay Safe Out There Every Day.

Happy St Patrick's Day To All Of My Irish Firefighter Friends and to Everyone, because I'm pretty sure everyone has a little Irish Pride and Temper In Them!

Firefighter New Years Wish

A Firefighter's New Years Wish For a Happy and Safe Firefighting New Year from our family to yours.

Save lives.  Challenge dangers.  Train for everything.  Respect your Firefighter Brotherhood.  Stay safe out there Firefighters - you need to all come home and make it out there another day.

Firefighter Brotherhood Burns Bright

Firefighter Brotherhood burns bright.  Firefighting teamwork required every call, every emergency, every fire. Depending on each other through fire and flames.  Knowing you will save your brother firefighter, and they will be do the same for you.

Firefighter Brotherhood Burns Bright  Teamwork Required Every Single Day.

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