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Changing Times

Compared to many of you I am still just a Rookie. I come from a small Department in upstate New York. I will be starting my 28th year this April. So I guess that means I have damn close to 27 years. Realizing of course that not only have times changed but we have as Firefighters, EMT's have changed as well. But my question to ponder is this. Has everybody changed? Or were we just different to begin with…… When I started it was not uncommon a couple times a week to go out and practice. We practic… Continue

Added by Chief4free390 on January 21, 2009 at 8:52am — 1 Comment

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