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Why do firefighters love the job so much?
Well for me I have loved this "business" since i was a youngster. I live a block away from the station so I can rember when the siren went off i'd rush over to the window and watch all the men rush over to the station jump on the trucks and head out!
I was always captivated how when the siren goes off people come from where ever and drop everything to help in most cases people we dont even know!
I have always had this saying "that the you don't pick the job the job picks you!" We are a different breed of people we care when others could careless! It's not always easy but that's why I love it.
Well im done now lets hear why you love the job!
I was always captivated how when the siren goes off people come from where ever and drop everything to help in most cases people we dont even know!
I have always had this saying "that the you don't pick the job the job picks you!" We are a different breed of people we care when others could careless! It's not always easy but that's why I love it.
Well im done now lets hear why you love the job!
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Permalink Reply by Capt790 on
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It's always a good feeling to help someone on what is usually the worst day of their life. We bring order to chaos (usually). But the flip side is seeing the deaths and how it affects the family or seeing their most treasured possessions or home damaged or destroyed.
I now find that the longer I've been on my department, the thing that's most important to me are my brother and sister firefighters. The camaraderie and esprit de corps we have is what keeps me going through the BS and the occasional calls where we can't "fix" everything for the victim & their family.
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Permalink Reply by John Rulli Jr. on -
Me too
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Permalink Reply by Kevin King on -
I saw my first fire at the ripe old age of 7,I was hooked.As soon as I could I got involved(Explorers)at 13,Volunteer at 18 and I'm still kickin ash at 46.
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Permalink Reply by Bob on
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I really don't have a answere to this one it's a whole lot of things the reasons you all have listed and more when someone you've never met before you crawled in thier car to hold c-spine and the medics take them to the hospital then a year later they walk up to you in a bar hand you a beer and say "you probally don't remember me but ----- and I never had the chance to say thanks for helping me" this has happened to me twice and it makes all the training,time away from family and friends worth every minute thats why I do this
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Permalink Reply by Bill Brierton on
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Well my first experience was at the tender age of four when I was made the Honorary Fire Marshal of a volunteer fire department and that was a very long time ago. Then there was the second grade field trip to the local fire house in Pittsburgh, Station #6 (the old station on Penn Avenue where the hospital is now.) I finally joined a volunteer fire company at the ripe old age of 28 and haven't looked back then. To me it is a vocation for either paid, career or volunteer. Now at the age of fourty something things are changing and I think I will be moving on to another station in the near future.
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Permalink Reply by roy yoder on -
God bless you in your station move and i pray that you have your life ready for the new assignment.
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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Owen on
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Because of the Big Red Trucks....ok, just kidding. The reason that first caused me to join our local volunteer service was to be more involved in the community and it quickly got into my blood. It was such a rush during the first training fire to have smoke and flames blowing overhead and working as a team to get the fire out. I came to love the comraderie and teamwork involved and now can't think of not being involved on the fire dept and EMS. Plus, you get the satisfaction of helping your neighbor on their worst day as someone else touched on. Everyone in the fire service and EMS is in a big family and we all have the same goals and similar experiences where ever we serve. So its a very unifying and fullfilling field of work and I am looking forward to one day being a full timer and getting to do the job I love for a living!
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Permalink Reply by Robert Owens on -
What I like most about the job is what most have already said and what this website represents. No matter what part of the world your in if your a fireman you always have a friend.
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Permalink Reply by Highrescuer2000 on
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Because we are not right in the head, who else runs into a burning building. Hee Hee Hee! its the people the service we give to the coumminty with out asking for a thank you thats why we do it.
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Permalink Reply by James Dole on
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Everything stated on the page and then theres also at the bar when you tell the girl that your takling to htat your a fireman and she melts..
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