You  might  be  a  firefighter  when:

  • You can tell what type of fire it is by the smell of smoke 10 miles away.
  • You lay out your clothes from that day so if there is a call at night you can find them quickly.
  • You have ever been airborne with water as your thrust.
  • You carry a ton of specially modified tools in your pocket that would rival a Swiss army set.
  • You have ever stomped out a fire with your boots because you couldn't wait for water.
  • You have ever walked 3 miles into the woods in 100 degree heat in full turnout gear and a 5 gallon pump can of water strapped on your back just to put out a fire.
  • Your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you.
  • Your work gear makes you sound like Darth Vader.
  • You roll around in anything that just burned to make your new gear look old.
  • You carry enough in your car to extinguish a minor blaze.
  • Your own vehicle has more lights than a Christmas tree.
  • All the shirts you own say you are a firefighter.
  • If you have more pagers than money in your wallet.
  • If assembling a mile and a half of hose running up a hill to catch a fire is a good day.
  • The microwave goes off and you run out of the house thinking it was your pager.
  • If you have ever woken up thinking your pager went off and as you look at it, it does.
  • When you really think that rusty old hydrant will look good in the garden or on the front lawn.
  • If you had to extricate someone by cutting the car doors off on one side and realized there was nothing wrong with the doors on the other side.
  • If you have more toy fire trucks than your kids do.

firefighter's  prayer

When I am called to duty, God,
Whenever Flames may rage
Give me strength to save a life
Whatever be its age.

Help me embrace a little child
Before it is too late
Or save an older person from
The horror of that fate.

Enable me to be alert
And hear the weakest shout
And quickly and efficiently
Put the fire out.

I want to fill my calling
To give the best in me
To guard my friend and neighbor
And protect his property.

And if according to my fate
I am to lose my life
Please, bless with your protecting hand
My children and my wife.

Author Unknown