thanks for commenting about the line "from the flames of hell to the gates of glory." I actually read it on a t-shirt for fallen wildland Firefighters. We had a really rough season this year, losing over 20 brothers and sisters, 2 of which were friends of mine who died in a helicopter crash in california, along with 7 others and 4 in the hospital.

by far though the most meaningful thing I ever came across was for the 14 firefighters who died at Storm King Mountain in Colorado. the plaque reads;
"in a storm and cloud and wind and sky
in heart and hand and heart and eye
a blond still binds too to tell
all those who fly with those who fell."

I may be off by a word or two on that, I was going purely off of memory but its deeper than anybody can fathom.

GREETINGS BECKI, I CHECKED OUT YOUR DEPARTMENT SITE. REALLY NICE. CLEAN AND INFORMATIVE. THAT MACK TANKERS A MONSTER. TAKE CARE, Terry, Sr.

Thank you & we hope you all get to come!!!

Hello Becki from the jersey shore

is it open for other departments to come? if it is can you send me the details and ill pass along to my advisers

Welcome to FFN and thanks for the add. We're glad to have you on this side of the big pond. But if you ever make it to jolly ol' England, look us up over there too - we have a location in a suburb of London. In the meanwhile, our main office is just up the road one way, and our turnout gear plants are just up the road the other way. So if you need anything - just ask! Be safe out there!

well actually its about 2 hours from london. lol you say london and all i think of is england. I have pretty much decided i want to stay in the department i love it so much. My family really doesn't understand why i wanna do this, they assume its just bc i wanna hang out with the guys. I really try my best and today i had a pretty good time (52 seconds) and beat some of the guys changing airpacks. Really the only problem is my station doesn't really let us do very much, we are only allowed to respond to structure fires in our district between 4 and 9 pm monday through thursday and 4 pm friday to 9 pm sunday. basically we only lug hoses, change airpacks, and then repack an clean the gear. its a taste i guess lol

Welcome

Thanks Becki. I have been in and out of Houston a couple of times on transfers since Ike hit. The damage there is not as bad as Galveston, but still amazing and heartbreaking. Stay safe.

We missed the burn last night because Tyler was coming home from the telecommunications academy.

welcome to ffn, Be safe and have some fun

Ron

Did you see you and 1130 in the newspaper????

HI thanks for the add I am still new to this page it confuses me lol