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Who Are We?

We are carpenters, engineers, teachers and computer programmers.

We are corporate managers, truck drivers and business owners.

We are retired and active military, blue collar, white collar and religious collar. 

We have families and careers, celebrations and tragedies. 

We are single, married and divorced.

We are parents, children and pet owners.

We have lives that we risk, everyday, no questions asked, so that you can enjoy, experience, suffer and survive all that we do in the course of our collective lives.  

We leave the comfort of our beds, our homes, our families and our jobs to ensure that you have all of that to come home to. 

We do it without pay, without reward, without notice, oftentimes without thanks. 

We are everywhere, at anytime, ready and willing to give up all that we are to save all that you have. 

Who are we? 

We are the volunteer firefighters that stand ready, day or night, workday or holiday, putting our lives on the line; because if we didn’t, who would?

  there are tears in my eyes. So true about volunteers

unpaid heros

We are the people that run into a burning building as people are running out to save lives and to risk our.

 Well said.

Yes we would.

I agree with that.  I do this cause I feel good not for the thanks.  Just sometimes wish the ones that complain about us driving the way we do for a call would realize that we might have to do it for them sometime.

 Very nice!  I would add "Unpaid Professionals"

firetiger570 says ...

I agree with that.  I do this cause I feel good not for the thanks.  Just sometimes wish the ones that complain about us driving the way we do for a call would realize that we might have to do it for them sometime.

That is very true, and I was in no way implying that you're in for a thank you, but keep in mind that public perception goes a long way, and that we are still subject to the laws of the road even during a response. I recently had a complaint lodged against me over my response to a swimmer in distress call. A man on the beach thought I was going to fast, so, to him, I was. My chief explained to him that I had responded on the beach to hundreds of calls, and was very safe, but you will never convince him that I was being safe. At first I was pissed, and said, " I'll bet if it was HIS kid, I'd have been going too slow ". In any situation like that, there are three truths, yours, mine, and actual.

Sorry to get off subject, just wanted firetiger to know where I was coming from.

thats a great post. When i tell people im a fire fighter they ask me how much i make. when i tell them, im a volunteer, they never seem to understand i do something without getting paid.

great article true in all area BIG 10-04