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The Last Alarm
The Last Alarm
My father was a fireman. He drove a big red truck and when he'd go to work each day he'd say, "Mother wish me luck." Then Dad would not come home again 'til sometime the next day. But thing that bothered me most was the thing's some folks would say "A firemen's life is easy, he eats and sleeps and plays, and sometimes he won't fight a fire for days and days." When I first heard these words I was too young to understand but I knew when people had trouble Dad was there to lend a hand. Then my father went to work one day and kissed us all goodbye but little did we realize that night we all would cry. My father lost his life that night when the floor gave way below and I'd wondered why he'd risk his life for someone he did not know. But now I truly realize the greatest gift a man can give is to lay his life on the line so that someone else might live. So as we go from day to day and we pray to God above say a prayer for your local fireman. He may save the one's you love.
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Wow, that's some powerfull stuff. Thank you for that post, I'll be passing that along.
R.I.P. John "Danny" Marshall, Thomas Foley, The Fischer Brothers all lost at the WTC on September 11th.
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"I fly this plane for my country, when it stops flying it's not my fault, it's the countrys." CDR Fred "Bear" Vogt. The Last Skipper of VF-33's, F-4's. A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. -- Author Unknown |
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Last Christmas eve I fell through a burned out floor, Well, almost through, I caught myself and as I lay in the hole looking down at the fire below me, I thought two things, 1. Im gona die in someones house that I don't even know. 2. This is what a chicken sees on a rotisery in a BBQ pit.
Then this hand came down and lifted me out of the hole, My driver, Dave. The fire department is a nessesary evel when it comes to taxpayers. Until we are needed. Last year I seen my crew put there lives on the line, literaly, 20 times. most of the time the person had no idea who they were being saved buy. Im about as proud of my crew as can be, these guys are truly the best at what they do. And I get to work with them. Ron |
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Ron...I remember when you went through the floor, damn glad you are still with us.
We keep a fairly accurate total of water hauled and sprayed as the area we serve is totally rural and we always have to have a water shuttle. In 2003, my department, sprayed over 83,000 gallons of water. Thanks for your service. Sorry to hear about your ladder truck! (We got a new pumper after our last grass fire when the chief decided to take it off road and got the thing stuck, then the wind switched!) Trav
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Talked with our training department, he said that He deals with Texas and NFA and that Texas is unique in that funding is easy. But he gave me a web link for you to try. Look around in it.
http://www.doj.state.wi.us/dci/arson/ Ron |
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Ron...thanks for the info. i will check it out and let you know what happens.
TRav
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