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You Might Be A Redneck/ Rural Fire Deptartment If...

1. You've ever been ask to mount a lightbar on a horse.
2. In addition to "wail" and "yelp", your siren also plays "Freebird".
3. Your attack strategy "DOES" include urinating on the fire.
4. You've ever tryed to smoke a cigarette while wearing a SCBA.
5. You've ever had to repair bullet holes in your tanker.
6. Your "light" truck only carries beer.
7. Your ststion has a mail pouch tobacco sign painted on it.
8. You know how to pull down a chimney using a hay hook.
9. Your pager is big enough to use as a wheel chock.
10. You've ever used a difibrillator to bring worms to the serface for goin' fishing after the run.
11. Your turnout gear was made by Grandma.
12. Your first lightbar was a flash light taped to the top of your pick-up.
13. Your rehab sector serves grits.
14. Your mapbook has only one road, and it's durt.
15. Every once in a while, everyone shows up at the scene, but no one went by to get the truck.
16. A "controled burn" dispatch is code for, someone is having a Bar-B-Que so you can get away from home for awhile.
17. Dispatcher ever says, "ya'll can't miss it!"
18. You fill your air bottles at the local gas station at the "Free Air" hose.
19. Your station has a hot tub, it's a pick-up truck with a 1 3/4" hose stuck in the side of the bed set on fog.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa on January 28, 2009 at 7:59pm: That is deff. the redneck way; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by dj lee on February 1, 2009 at 11:25am: That us for sure. Couldn't of said it better myself!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by firechief911 on February 2, 2009 at 9:50pm: you ever said im on my way to the fire on the radio to dispatch; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marty D. Ross on March 25, 2009 at 8:11pm: You get your Radio man to tell dispatch tha ( we have ariven)...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marty D. Ross on March 25, 2009 at 8:15pm: You also know your in trouble, when you are on scene of a possible explosive in a car, when one of yhe deputes keys his mic and says well it's not radio active!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Wes 349 on February 2, 2009 at 10:19pm: Your chief has to stop talking to spit in the middle of a meeting; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Amy Adams on March 20, 2009 at 6:46pm: If every tool on the truck is labeld bu the chief as "That damn thing!!!"; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jessica Travis on March 21, 2009 at 8:36pm: if you have ever lit a smoke on a burning house------ guy from our station did this about 10 yrs ago and he hasn't lived it down yet; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tyler on March 23, 2009 at 11:06pm: You ,ight have a redneck station if your training meetings consist of putting a turbo in your
buddy's Cummins; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by paul michael komandt on May 31, 2009 at 5:38pm: Or liftin' the ford.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tiffanie Pettis on August 8, 2009 at 11:30pm: yup done that ---and buildin a bar on the back so we could pull more stuff because we ripped the bumper off one day tryin to yank a truck outa the mud; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robert on April 1, 2009 at 3:03pm: That sounds like home to me.; ▶ Reply to This

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