"You can outperform 50% of the competition just by showing up. You can outperform another 45% by pure hard work and dedication. The top 5% is a dogfight."
- Stupid people keep me gainfully employed - I'm up, you're up ( for that call at Oh-Dark-Thirty in the morning) -These people are the reason there should be life guards and sharpshooters posted at the gene pool
Some thing that was told to me by an ol' timer....... "there are only two things you need to know to be a fireman.... ya gotta show up to work every third day and ya get a paycheck every two weeks"
On a hazmat scene when asked whats spilled all over the ground "methyl ethyl bad sh*t"
When a new,young Fire Officer comes along with more Degrees and Certificates THAN Expierence and Common Sense one quote comes to mind:
"ALL OF THE SQUIRRELS ARE NOT IN THE TREES"
"I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER"
OR
"GET THE B.F.T.---BIG F#*KIN TOOL"
OR
"IF IT AIN'T BROKE-BREAK IT"
OR
"PUTTIN THE WET STUFF ON THE RED STUFF"
Posted this in the 9-11 thread, but I'll post again. The first part is very firefighter inspiring, but the second part should perhaps be reserved for morning the loss of our brothers and sisters. Both parts, however, relay the heroism found in this profession:
"Other men are bold in ignorance, while reflection will stop their onset. But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out and meet it.... So their memory has escaped the reproaches of men's lips, but they bore instead on their bodies the marks of men's hands, and in a moment of time, at the climax of their lives, were rapt away from a world filled, for their dying eyes, not with terror but with glory." -Pericles' Funeral Oration
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