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I KNEW I WANTED TO BE A FIREFIGHTER WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG

Well I use to be on the Rock Hill Rescue Squad. I love helping people. When I moved to the lowcountry of South Carolina I felt that something was missing go I joined my Dept as a Vol Fire Fighter. Then I ended up going fulltime with the Dept.

I went to church with a guy who was on the Dallas Fire Dept. for over 10 years, and he always told me stories about different calls he had went on. At first, I was like "Why are you telling me all this, I dont care". But, I started looking forward to his tales. And before long I was asking him to tell me all about everything firefighting. So, I think that really got my fire going to be a firefighter. My mom and dad were volunteers at a very rural department (only had one truck at the time) and I got to go on some calls with them probably when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I know, I know against the law, but we didnt know any different back then.

My Dad,Uncle and there is me. Most be in our blood.......

going thru a tough time inmy life and was confused about where i was heading and why i was lost. had an amazing firefighter/junior in my JROTC class come up to me and talk to me and later on figured i would be amazing at it too. so i went home and tried to discuss it with my mom and of course her reply was no all the way and several more downers to go so my next day was ruined basically but everytime i had to spend with him my time seemed more and more apparent and i just felt it was right for me so we were in the process of setting everything up together until he got hit by a drunk driver and died on his way to the hospital in lebanon but he believed in me and at first i started fighting my heart out for him when i joined and sooned learned that he was right. i have it all in me so i feel blessed to have had him as my guardian and point me in the right direction!

so now i dont only fight for him but everyone else living and passed to all that have made this world go round

his name was chris and he volunteered on Almaville Fire and Rescue in smyrna TN

When i was young i would hear the fire whistle and I would run to the fire department to watch all the firemen pull in, grab their gear and jump on the truck and take off. I knew one day i was going to be just like them. In 1984 i turned 18 and joined (we did not have a jr fireman then). 24 years later i still love every minute of it!

i wanted to be a fireman because my uncle way a fireman.

My twin brother was a cadet and at the time some 23 years ago after high school it sounded good at the time, besides couldn't let him have all the glory......LOL, we are faternal twins one boy one girl

Our dept and community lost a really great guy and EMT. We needed more EMTs in our area because it usually takes 20 min. for a ambulance to get to a scene. I'd always been taught that if you see a need, fill the need.  If you ever say "someone needs to...... or someone ought to.........   then you need to do whatever it is, until that someone gets there. Maybe you're the someone who needed to do it all along. Joining has made be feel like a part of this community and sparked an interest in me about doing something in the Emergency Field.  My grandfather was also an EMT and a really awesome role model.

All of my life my father has been a firefighter, he has work his way up to Assistan Chief, and I have been around the station since the day I came home from the hospital when I  was born. I went to trainings, I went to small dinky calls I just went to the station with my dad when he had paperwork to do, I went to every parade there was.. I went to all of the conventions.. It had become the biggest part of my life..  I decided if I remember correctly, I was 5 and I was riding with my dad in the Ladder Truck in a parade and I said dad I'm going to be a firefighter.... He started to cry... So I guess I would say what made me want to become a firefighter was the love of what my dad had, and what he has done, and I wanted to be a firefighter and save just one persons life, or save a little girls doll, or a little boys toy fire truck, I want to be that person.. I really want to run into that burning building.. It sounds crazy, well actually to you guys it probably does not sound that crazy, but I want to be able to be on the nozzle and my dad right behind me backing me up as we go into that burning building.. Just dreaming of that all the time has played a giant roll in my choice.. But my biggest reason, would be because I wanted to and want to be a part of not only a team, but a brother and sisterhood like that.. I love what I do and would not trade it for anything in the world...ever.

Well for me i remember when i was in the first grade my teacher asked the class what we wanted all wanted to be .... back than i said i wanted to be a fire fighter but at the time ddnt have any idea why.   A few years later my 5 th grade teacher made us write a paper on what we wanted to be and by that time i had changed my mind and wanted to be a cop.  I followed the dream of wanting to be a cop thruogh high school where i joined the police explorers and later joined a Sheriff's dept as a volunteer and was a volunteer till i moved back to NC in 1999.  I tried to become a cop here in NC but for what ever reason things didnt work out for me in the law enforcement feild.  Well i went several year with out doing anything and around Christmas time of last year (2007) i was talking to a good cop buddy of mine from NY telling him how i missed volunteering ... well he told me that he was also a volunteer fire fighter with a small dept up in NY and asked me if i have ever consider being a fire fighter.  I told him that the only time in my life i ever thought about doing that was when i was in the first grade.  He told me that i should have followed that dream instead of the cop dream and also told me that i should check out my local fire dept.  and talk to them about being a volunteer.  so as of Jan 6, 2008 i joined my fire dept. and have been loving every minute of it since.  So i have to say the reason i became a fire fighter was because of my good friend Larry of NY telling me to follow my true dreams.  I am the first in my family to ever be a cop or a fire fighter.   I have it in my heart to to do my best to help others in need.  May GOD bless all fire fighter everywhere and keep them safe.

Amy ( Double Creek Volunteer Fire Rescue Department )

When i was 13 my uncle was in a car crash. My mom, grandma, and I pulled up to the crash and my mom told me to go see what happend so i walked up as far as they would let me go. I saw what looked to be my uncles truck so i told my mom.  Airlife lifted off the ground with my uncle. When we got home the phone rang and i looked at my moms face.  It was true it was my uncle. I couldn't do anything about it. When my dad joined the fire dept. i was 15 i hung around alot so they put me to work. Thats when i knew i wanted to help people. So i worked me way to the top now and i love what i do.

I wanted to be a firefighter since i was a little kid, just always being there when people need help, when they are running out scared of thier house, the firefighters were running in to save it.  the biggest part, i was 8 years old, in nowhere land indiana, crossing a highway 2 lanes in each direction, everybody else made it across fine, all i remember is hearing my cousin screaming my name, and the next thing i remember, i woke up, if ya want to call it that, i could hear myself screaming, but couldnt see a dam thing, everything was black, i just kept saying OUCH, OUCH. and what i saw when my eyes finally cleared up, was a fireman, holding me in a blanket he took out of the car that hit me, telling me it was going to be alright, he stayed with me the whole time until they loaded me in the ambulance. that was it right there. I finally just said screw it and stopped listening to all the people who said i was too little and would never make it as a firefighter and here i am.  They said walter payton was too small to be a running back too!!! :)

i was very young when my parents divorced and my mom met a new guy...well he was in the fire department and his step dad was in the fire department and his mom was in ambulance and then my mom joined and i think thats what most of it was...that and everyone we lived around was so i grew up in that atmosphere for the most part. seeing that all the time and being around it i guess is what it was

 well i will be starting my training in the next few weeks, and cant wait. what made me want to is the fact that i lost my mother and that was hard so i figure if i can go through that i can do anything and as soon as i hear the sirens go off i always want to know where the action is. and the fact that my boyfirend is one and talks about it all the time just makes me want it even more.