Every fire department has a history that is capable of going back hundreds of years.

Our firehouse has been standing for a long time... long before I was even born. They say that a ghost is nothing but a memory preserved in time. The people at the firehouse are torn between those who truly believe it is haunted, those who have seen things but ignore it, and those who have never seen anything and are totally skeptic. Based on my own experiences, I fall into the first category I named. I… Continue

It is a scary thing moving out on your own for the first time... but also very exciting. For one, you are free to do what ever you want - within legal limits of course. If you want to stay out late, you don't have to report to anyone, especially your parents. No one is there to tell you what to do. I know my parents love me, but I am quicker to move out while I still know it all. (And that is a figure of speech), because everyone reaches that age sooner or later, and if you hadn't, you're…

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Never Give Up.
Never Give In.
Fight Till You Lose...
Or Fight Till You Win.
Never Let Up.
Never Let Down.
Never Let The Frightened
See You Frown.
Weild Your Weapons.
Conquer Your Fears.
Work Till Your Sweat...
Replaces Their Tears.
Learn From Your Losses.
Savor Your Wins.
Prepare For The Next One.
And Battle Again.

- Author Unknown

About a week ago, I performed my first auto extrication. Last Friday night, we were called to an intersection where someone had pulled out in front of a sheriff deputy. Both drivers were injured, but the deputy was able to get out without having to be extricated. The person in the other vehicle, wasn't so lucky.

Our rescue truck came with a crew of three. We got the assignment of extrication. When we got on the scene, the driver raised the stadium lights, while the person in the…

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Everyone who was alive and old enough when 9-11 happened remember where they were, what they were doing, and how they reacted to the tragedy. I remember I was in my seventh grade science class in Charleston, South Carolina when the principal called all the teachers on the intercom to tell them to turn on the TV. When they did, we all just stared at the TV. At first, we really didn't really know what was happening... until we…

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"A Paramedic/EMT/Fire Fighter’s life"

It may take you two minutes to read this, but if you do not take the time to read this you are one of the people this post is talking about.



You stay up for 16 hours



He/she's been up for 48 hours straight

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You take a warm shower to help you wake up.



The rain in the middle of the interstate keeps him /her…

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There was some mixed feelings about going through the firefighter class. In one instance, you wish it would be all over with, but in other instances, you are having so much fun that you don't want it to end. It is great that I'll be going to graduation Friday December 7, 2007, but I didn't want the classes to end. In all actuality, the learning and training will never end, but it was a pleasure working with my classmates, and I will miss working with… Continue

For some of us, it seems like yesterday that we were just starting out on the fire department. For some it might have been just yesterday that we've started out on the fire department. Some of us started out as cadets or explorers, while others came on as probee firefighters. Everything was new, unfamiliar, and, at times, rather frightening.

I came on my department as a Cadet, and we were…

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