Hello everyone,

Just a little bit about me, I love the outdoors, hunting, fishing and camping. I also love volunteering at my local fire company. I am engaged to a wonderful lady named Elizabeth, who is a EMT/FF in her local area. We are getting married next year and plan to stay close to where I live now, also volunteering for the fire company.

Take a minute and read this article. Quit dumbing down the fire service. Create a culture and a tradition of firefighters who are adept in the risk analysis of emergency response. Thinking firefighters, saving our neighbors, and coming home--that is our tradition.…

hy all,

i`m tom, 25 years old and i`m a volunteer firefighter from austria, i`ll wish you all good luck in your service. an austrian saying is "gott zur ehr dem nächsten zur wehr" it`s like "for god to do so honor, fight for the next......

sincerly yours tom

Our fire department maybe volunteer, but we cover more miles than most in our state around 300 because of all the farm land. We run fire protection also for a town 20 miles away. Our airpacks are not the fiberglass nice light ones oh heavens no. so far after my last time on here we have done 65 more calls 12 house fires a ton of wrecks and medicals. Im trying to prove to the higher ups that lighter bottles even if we bought 4 would help out tremendous, but according to the chief we have to…

Howdy yall from San Antonio Texas. Since retiring from the Fire Dept. and living on what is a so-called pension for a family of four. Terry, my wife of 20 years and 2 growing boys, Brandon 19 in college for computer science/coding and Kevin 13, a seventh grader, it gets really really tight. So what did I do? I got a second job as a nurse. I thought I could change some things but as with everything, theres so much red tape. And I found out later, you could work a a local barbecue restaurant…

First responders are killing themselves, one seatbelt at a time.

Like lemmings drawn to the edge of a precipice, firefighters, EMT's, Fire police and other emergency responders are engaged in a race to the death, literally. Rollovers, ejections,blunt force trauma, crush victims, decapitations.....do I have your attention yet? We talk about how to do the job better and faster, and the volunteer services in particular seem to feel the compulsion to defend or justify their efforts vs.…

It is with great sadness that I must announce the passing of Michael V. Walters, former Commissioner of the Erie County Department of Emergency Services.

Mike Walters retired as our commissioner in December of 2005 and was diagnosed with cancer in September of 2006.…

When the Lord was creating Firefighters, he was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, "Your doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."

And the Lord said "Have you read the specification of this person?

Firefighters have to be able to go for hours fighting fires or tending

to a person that the usual every day person would never touch, while

putting in the back of their mind the circumstances. They…

Firefighters:

-people who like to respond to a variety of emergency situations in which life, property, or the environment are at risk. These people must be able to be a team player and able to take orders as a member of the

emergency response team at the scene of an accident, fire, flood,

earthquake, or act of terrorism.

Why?

- To save others, civilans, and property.…

I don't get on here very much and I apologize...... But feel free to leave comments and messages and I will check them when ever I can.

Thanks