Firefighter
Firefighter Growing up all I ever wanted to be was a firefighter. Every kid on my block wanted the same. They wanted to also be firefighters because of the fiery red fire engines, the huge flame retardant coats, the large rubber boots, axes and if you were lucky...
Not In A Million Years…Wildland Firefighting
Not in a million years... Wildland Firefighting! I’ve been in the fire service for 25+ years. I’ve spent the majority of my time on the job in a urban setting. You know the usual stuff that goes along with that, structure fires both residential and commercial,...
Why am I a firefighter?
Why am I a firefighter? Why am I a firefighter? A question that isn’t really easy to answer, probably for everyone. For me it wasn’t something I always wanted to do, the urge to do it came later, after high school. Why am I a firefighter? I guess the reason deep down...
Firefighter
Firefighters. As kids it is unlikely that at any given time we did not sit in our sandboxes filled with toys and move about small fire engines, or plastic firemen in the hopes they would arrive in time to a fire and save that person in a burning house or apartment. We...