Welcome to Firefighter Nation!

Thanks for joining the web's new social network JUST for firefighters, EMS and first responders. In just over a month, we've surpassed 4,400 members, 1`,000 user-submitted photos, hundreds of videos, countless new groups forming, tons of forum discussions and new blogs posted, new job postings and connections to all of your fire service news, plus alot more. And this is just the beginning!

Be sure to update your profile, stylize it, create your own unique identity on the Nation!

You can help us grow. Invite your friends and co-workers in the emergency services to FirefighterNation.com. Just use the 'Invite More' link in the userbox at the top right of the site, e-mail every firefighter you know and tell them about the new site -- or add a bulletin to your Myspace or Facebook profile!

Check out the Groups tab and join any that are appropriate -- such as your state's group -- or start your own.

Want to find friends? Quickly find other members who you may know, simply go to the search box at the top right of every page on the site, type in a keyword such as your city name, and among the search results will be highlighted member profiles.

And remember it is easy to upload Photos to the site in bulk (including mass uploads from Flickr), start your own photo albums, share videos by uploading or pasting embed code from YouTube, Google Video and more. Be sure you check out our Featured Photo Albums showcasing a sampling of apparatus and incident photography submitted by users these first few weeks.

Thanks again, and check the site daily for new pics, videos, members and more! Feel free to post any questions or comments on my profile page at http://station.firefighternation.com/profile/webchief or e-mail dave@firefighternation.com.

Please forward this to all your friends!

Thanks!
Dave
Web Chief

Hey Drew,
Those items have been removed. My sincerest apologies-my intention was never to hurt anyone's feelings or smear the reputation of WHFD. I hope this issue is done-although Mike told me there are legal issues taking place-if that's true, again I apologize for getting you all messed up in a little fire-house prank.
Runx

Drew,

Pleasure meeting you. Haven't seen any of the movies you recommended, but when I do you'll get a review.

Later,
Chris Kurtz
52 HFD

Hope all's well! Stay in touch! Cool pics on your page dude. How's your way hot gf doing?

Chris

Wife and kids are great! Thanks for asking! I'll keep you posted. I really look forward to coming back down again sometime soon. How are things at the hall?

Hey man! Cool fire experience on Sunday. I was backing up the nozzle man on the initial attack line. It got hot and smoky... We train real hard. We kicked ass because of it.

Talk to you soon.

Seen any good flix? How's school?

Keep in touch dude.

Hope to see you guys soon.

I hope we'll get to see you guys soon! Hey, Hancock Hope Response Team is getting organized. Website coming soon! We hope to be able to run more operations and give our brothers needed gear for a long time to come. We're looking for corporate partners to help with funding so we can keep on going. Maybe if you had time someday we could go on an op somewhere together. That'd be sweet... Good times and good work. (Secretely, I think of it as firefighter tourism. Is that wrong?) Longer term, I'd like to get trained to fight forest fires and go out west. Any way, Dan and I are gettiogn really pimped by the prospect of really developing this into a nationwide, respite and support service for our brothers. All indications are that people love the idea, and they want to help. I could go on and on. Dude stay in touch, I hope to see you guys again soon! Tell everyone hey for me!