you can post some of your favorite fire fighter or fire related quotes here, mine is
"I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die. Morris Chestnut"
if you could supply the author it would be greatly apreciated
EDIT:-10.17.08- non fire fighter quotes are also excepted, EDIT:11/26/08 dont forget to add me
One of my favorite quotes is a part of Ray Mccormack FDIC Speech
There is however something wrong with some of todays leadership and the message they are spreading. The path they have chosen to follow is paved with yellow safety bricks. If you follow this road it could cause the fire service to suffer its greatest collective lost. The lost of public trust. Your courage, your determination, your will. You must shed your personal cocoon of safety and take a risk. If it was easy someone else would have already done it. What are your chances? Your chances are always the same 50 50, you either do it or you don’t. It makes a difference that we turnout quickly, it makes a difference that we stretch correctly, it makes a difference that we do a search, it makes a difference that we have leaders that believe in the core values of courage, determination and pride. We do not need a culture of safety, we need a culture of extinguishment. If we put out the fire, safety is accomplished for everyone on the fire ground. We need to push in and put the fire out.
And then my second is one my friend told to me
YOU OPERATE TO HONOR THE OLD SCHOOL BROTHERS THE GUYS THAT SUCKED SMOKE AND DID THE JOB BACK IN THE DAY
DON’T LET THEM DOWN BY BEING ANY LESS THAN THEM THERES “FIREFIGHTERS”… TITLE HOLDERS ONLY THE SLIMEBAGS WITH THE T SHIRT AND PAGER AND NO HEART AND THEN THERES “FIREMEN”
THE HUMBLE GUY WHO NEEDS NOT TO PROVE SHIT TO ANYONE EXCEPT THE BROTHERS WHO CAN FIGHT A FIRE IN A WHITE TSHIRT
From the made for TV move "fire on the 37th floor" You guys go up to 36 and put it out. Put it out or dont come back alive...(after they take off with a gong ho yell and charge he tells another chief)...you grab a bunch of guys and go up to 37 and get what they dont, those guys are gonna die up there.
When I was a company officer I had a few of my own..."Grab everything that kills fire and lets go"..."we're gonna find it, kill it, get out in one piece and go home"..."Too late to become a cop now lets put this out"
My favorate FDNY saying, "We're going to work"
thumbs up to the others for their quotes, Here's a story about cops and medicals. When you become a cop you have to choose between 2 titles on your certification. a "KIA and an AAD
Officer KIA=Knows It All
Officer AAD=Also A Doctor
how many DOA's have the cops told you about that had a pulse?
My father (current Chief for our department commenting on mutual aid): "I'd rather be told by a department 'go home, we don't need you', than be told we were needed and not called."
(about taking both our engine and tanker to a "tanker request" call): Come here....*opens back roll up door* "what's that?...That's a drop chute....that makes this a f'n tanker as well."