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# Try to look unfit, they may be running out of people for the rake hoe line.

# The media will turn up, just as your brilliant plan turns to sh!#.

# If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

# With a little organization, chaos can be assured.

# Your biggest save will have no witnesses.

# Your biggest mistake will have hundreds of witnesses.

# No matter how bad things get, it will look much worse on TV.

# That unimportant fire you are ignoring is the main front.

# Never forget that your equipment was made by the lowest bidder.

# All fire fronts 1 hour away, will arrive in 30 minutes.

# Portable radio batteries will fail at the precise moment you need help.

# Anything you do will be wrong, including doing nothing.

# The distance from a piece of equipment you need, is directly proportional to the urgency in which you need it.

# It is easier to receive forgiveness than permission.

# The person who contributed least to the fire fighting effort, will be the only one interviewed on the six o-clock news.

# When accused, admit nothing, deny everything, and make counter accusations.

A few years back we had a mutual aid to a neighboring dept. It was a worker, through the roof. We hit a plug across the street and attacked from the back of the house. During mop up, the news crew shows up. The I.C. (Captain) is standing on camera bitching and whining about not have hydrants in the area and this is why there was so much damage. In the background is one of my guys getting our hose and gated wye off the hydrants.

Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter accusations. That's what my EMT instructor advised the class about the "assistance" we recieved before national registry. LOL
Perfect examples of Murphy's law of firefighting. Love it.

Well one of our funnies would have to be on this structure/trash fire. There were lots of cylinders like air bottles. They were packed in the ground right.....well what happens when you put water on the ground and there is a bottle there. Well it becomes slick. Txfiremanlee was stepping back and stepped on this bottle and down he went....not hurt but when he tried to get up, everyone was trying to help him. He was on his back and waving his arms, he looked like a turtle on its back. We call him turtle now....lol