by Captain K | May 26, 2017 | Fire Departments, Fire Fighter Humor, Fire Fighters & First Responders, Heroes, US Holidays
What is Memorial Day, what does Memorial Day mean to you, to us as a country. This holiday dates back to 1868 and is an American holiday that is observed on the last Monday of the month of May each year. Memorial Day is a day set a side to remember the brave men and...
by Captain K | Jan 23, 2017 | Fire Departments, Fire Fighter Humor, Fire Fighters & First Responders
I’m glowing! I heard from that backseat of our family SUV late one evening while returning home from a birthday party my daughter had been attending, I guess she was around 6 or 7 at the time. My wife looks into the dark back seat, screams and yell’s, “She is...
by Captain K | Jan 12, 2017 | Fire Departments, Fire Fighter Humor, Fire Fighters & First Responders, Heroes
It is now 2017, it seems the years seem to go by faster the older you get. I have been reflecting on 2016 at Fire and Axes and it was a very eventful year. Many great new products and many new friends have come to visit our site. One of the things we get a lot of...
by Captain K | Aug 29, 2016 | Fire Departments, Fire Fighter Humor, Fire Fighters & First Responders, Fire in the News, Heroes
It is 3 am and the tones go off. Not of one the best parts of the fire service. No one likes getting woken up in the middle of the night or that early in the morning. Sometimes it’s just a medical call, usually something simple. Others it could be a structure fire, at...
by Captain K | May 10, 2016 | Fire Departments, Fire Fighter Humor, Hot New Products
Firefighters and SEX…………… I’ve been in the fire service long enough to realize that all firefighters, male or female, are alike. The complaints, gripes, comradery and so on, “same circus, different clowns”. If you hang out in a fire house long enough you’ll hear...
by Fire & Axes | Mar 31, 2016 | Fire Fighter Humor
A fireman is at the station house working outside on the fire truck when he notices a little boy next door. The little boy is in a little red wagon with little ladders hung off the side. He is wearing a fireman’s hat and has the wagon tied to a dog. The fireman says...
