Quotes about firefighter (13 Quotes)


    When Christopher got his license it had the organ donation on the back. My husband is a retired firefighter and Christopher had seen and heard a lot about accidents and what happens to people, and he was very aware of what problems there are and that is something he wanted to do. So he is still helping people.

    Since employees start over at step one when they are promoted, going from firefighter to lieutenant results in a loss of about 1.50 per hour, and lieutenant to captain results in a loss of about 50 cents per hour. But other departments have the same problem, specifically in the Police Department and the Water and the Community Appearance departments. In the Water and Sewer Board, you have many different levels of work, which makes it more likely that you will have promotion problems. Thats why it gets very expensive to fix all of the departments of the city at the same time. The cost depends on the size of the department.


    Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.



    Aspen's blankets are finding their way into jackets as well. You could use two or three millimeters in a jacket and replace a significant volume of down, to have something much leaner and body-forming, ... There's also interesting work going on to perhaps address firefighter suits. The dream there is instead of 35 pounds of vulcanized rubber, you have something with more freedom and less weight so they can do their jobs.

    There may be some things that are marginal. I don't know whether we will be able to close a 67 million gap. But maybe we can close 20 million of it, without compromising firefighter response time.

    Rasco has also served as a volunteer firefighter and first responder. He graduated from Prairie Grove High School in 2002. vious years to include multiple recipients. We think this years event will generate a significant amount of money, ... The expenses have been covered. Weve been doing this for a while and weve learned to eliminate our alleys for loss, such as concerts.


    We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

    We're actually protecting structures in a variety of areas, some of them quite a ways from highways. Our primary focus is firefighter and public safety, and then the protection of private property and structures.

    Being a member of the volunteer fire department gives me an opportunity to serve the public and help people that are in need. I plan to increase my education to be a paramedic and would like to get hired as a professional firefighter in a department that is in the area (possibly as far away as Sacramento) because staying close to family is important to me. I don't believe you can ever learn enough or be the greatest at what you do - there is always room for improvement.

    Every firefighter knows that he is always susceptible to this type of tragedy. They go to work every day knowing that they are doing something so positive, that people really respect them and people appreciate them,



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