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The Best Thing a Veteran Firefighter Told Me Was:
Some are good, some are just plain funny. But, I've found that I can learn more from just listening to an old Chief talking then I can learn in any 200-hour class I attend. I've blogged about one such guy on my site at FireDaily.com.
Have you had a similar experience? Got a nugget or two to tell us about? They are a true treasure that gets more valuable each time they are shared.
Stay Stoked!
-Jeremy
FireDaily.com
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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on
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I was taking the Firefighter Survival class....and, well to be honest, I wasn't thrilled at the prospect of going down a 3 story ladder head first....Think maybe self preservation stepped in.....LOL....Chief looked at me and said "Son, you ain't gotta like it....You just gotta do it.." Sort of stuck with me ever since....and from time to time I use that saying when I find myself rationalizing what I am about to do.....Stay safe.........Paul
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Permalink Reply by Padre Pete on
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Excellent. Really excellent. Thanx Jim. That is definately going to get blown up around here.
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Jeremy, Does that old lid say "Lakewood" on it?
The quote that has come back to me most often, from my days as an instructor is this:
"If you're going to bother to do it at all, bother to do it right."
Another that seems to have served new members really well, because someone is always out there ready to pounce on them is this: "Never give the enemy any amunition."
Keep The Faith.
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Permalink Reply by MInnFIrefighter on
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I was once told by an old timer "never eat more than you can fit in your mask"
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Permalink Reply by John Rulli Jr. on
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work with hour eyes open
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Permalink Reply by Doug on
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Boy, that one sure is true. When I was in the U.S. Air Force Louis F. Garland Fire Academy I upchucked in my mask one day.... I had to eat it, we were in the middle of a training evolution using the propane fueled burn house. Had I taken off my mask I would have burnt my trachea and lungs and probably died.
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"HANG ON TIGHT." That was the great pearl of wisdom offered when I first suited-up while riding the tailboard of an engine with three other guys. Hey, it was good information at the time. Crawling over the hose bed, to find the right size boots from the hand rail they were stuffed in, sometimes got trickey. Then some poor slob somewhere went and got hurt or killed and spoiled it for the rest of us. A blessing I count most often is that I even survived those "good old days".
Keep The Faith.
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"Eyes and ears open....Mouth shut" from probie days was always a good one as well.......Paul
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