Interesting Article

This is a little article written by a guy I used to run with in SC. Thought it would be of some interest. Let me know what you think.


So how would you feel?

Dennis Lopez, Firefighter/EMT

I want you to think to your self how your community would be effected if it lost one of its firefighter. Volunteer or Career aside. How would it make you feel if one of your own was to loose there life. Remember these people risk there lives, sanity and family lives to provide a service to the community they live in.

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear"

Firefighters come in all shapes and sizes, all ethnicities, and both genders. They dedicate a large portion of there lives to education and training them selves to be better firefighters. Career and volunteer must maintain there professional certifications in order to continue to serve there community. Time taken out of there lives in preparation for helping yours…

"Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glory to it."

Now what kind of person says, yes I wont to be woken up in the middle of the night, hours before I have to go to work, and fight a house fire, rescues people from a tangled car, or help granny back into bed after she has fallen. Someone who cares more about the felling of others then there own. A quality all firefighters should posses.

“I provide a nameless faceless service to a community that rarely knows how much they need me. If I am called from a sound sleep, and loose my life attempting to same someone life or property, I will do so with out regret.”


Think to your self the next time you see a firefighter, under all that equipment, reflective striping, and that funny hat. There is a man or woman who left a family behind to run into that burning building to save you and your personal possessions, is standing in the highway cutting someone’s loved one out of a car, is doing CPR on someone’s mother, father, brother, sister. These people really do risk there lives everyday. 10 to 12 firefighters die every month. Give every firefighter the respect of your appreciation. You have no idea how great it makes us feel.