Top 10 Reasons More People Should Act Like Firefighters

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迈克尔·莫尔斯(Michael Morse)

10.当消防员像个傻瓜一样,其余的人很快就停止了它。关于消防员的有趣事情:当一个人做一些愚蠢的事情时,整个职业都会受到损害。我们被认为是更高的标准。没关系;我们赚了。

9。消防人员不在乎什么颜色,种族,性别,形状或任何您的颜色;如果您可以完成这项工作,那就是其中之一。您不必是有史以来最伟大的消防员,但希望您能有能力并保持自己的能力。

8.如果您无法完成这项工作并需要帮助,消防员愿意并且能够毫无疑问地为您做。Some people are great teachers; others are wonderful cooks, landscapers, scientists, bird watchers, or the million other things that people excel at that make humanity so miraculous. Firefighters possess a lot of those skills, but their most important skill is problem solving when chaos rules–and their willingness to do so for total strangers. That, above all else, sets firefighters apart.

7.消防员可以做饭;他们中的一些实际上可以做得很好。从来没有学会烹饪的人永远不必照顾自己,一个不必照顾自己的人永远不会照顾他们宣誓要保护的公众。

6。消防员做家务。每天。他们全部。一起消防员不希望其他人清理自己的混乱。他们像斧头和派克杆一样擅长处理拖把和扫帚。任何攀登队伍的消防队长都清洗了厕所,抛光的黄铜,擦洗了设备地板,并洗碗。没有给予尊重,它是赢得的。

5。消防员确切知道他们要去哪里以及铃铛尖端时如何到达那里每次。每个人。这是我们的一件事,我们都希望其他人在轮到他们开车时把我们带到那里。

4。消防员最需要时不会崩溃。有人需要在那里保持文明的轮子。当所有人似乎迷失时,有人需要成为惊慌的人看着的人。有人必须保持冷静并保持在一起,或者,当它解散时,将尽力而为。

3。消防人员遇到麻烦,而不是远离麻烦。当公众逃离灾难的任何灾难时,看着他们的肩膀并看到消防员的后背朝着它奔跑的情况下,这令人放心。对于某些人来说,这是他们必须坚持的一切,许多人永远不会忘记他们余下的日子。以身作则,展示人类的能力,提供希望和方向;这不是消防员所知道的,而是他们的身份。

2。消防员像家人一样战斗,像家人一样爱,像家庭一样对待彼此。Whoever said blood is thicker than water has never squeezed pressurized water through an old pump into three attack lines and a master stream, charged those lines on command, opened a straight stream inside a fully involved basement, knocked down a wall of fire, drained feeders on a freezing January night, packed a hosebed on a sweltering July afternoon, scrubbed those lifelines on Sunday morning, and drank the cool elixir of lifelong friendship when the job was done. Water is thicker than blood when you are a firefighter.

1。没有工作太困难了,没有障碍太难克服,没有不值得消防员的最佳努力的生物,也没有借口不做你该死的。每次。


Firefighters, when among other firefighters, are free to speak their mind, say ridiculous things, be biased, be politically incorrect, get angry, fight, argue, break for lunch, save a life, polish some brass, and argue some more. Then they get on the truck, work like mad, do nearly impossible things, trust the person with whom they were fighting with their life, risk their own life to protect each other, put it all back together, and finish the shift, only to do it again tomorrow.

迈克尔·莫尔斯(Michael Morse)是普罗维登斯(RI)消防局(PFD)的前队长,作者和受欢迎的专栏作家。他在PFD的Engine Co. 2.,Engine Co. 9和Ladder Co. 4中任职10年,然后成为救援公司的EMT-C和Rescue Co. 5的Captain。

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