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I’m safely home from Detroit and pulling my 2nd tour out of a 72 hrs straight. My regular shift has me working Friday, Sunday and Tuesday but I’m working today (Saturday) to pay a Brother back for some time we recently traded. Friday, Saturday, Sunday sucks but I owe him. I’m working out of Station #7 on B-shift. The House ...

The term “Mutual Aid” is one we use within the Fire Service but it’s also pretty self  explanatory. Mutual Aid is about opening a “network” of help (aid) between one another and that’s exactly what Rhett Fleitz (FireCritic.com) and I (along with MANY others) have been doing this past weekend. For Rhett and I, it started on Friday. We left ...

Did you notice? Did ya see it? What did / will you do about it? There are members all across this country who are struggling with one emotional battle or another. We struggle with these battles yet we continue to step into our boots, pull up our pants and put on our coats. We face personal, life and death  battles ...

I crossed the State line and took a short trip into North Carolina this weekend. I had been invited to attend the County Line Fire Department’s Annual Awards Dinner. Actually, I was also their guest speaker. I had been fighting a stomach virus all week and wasn’t 100% sure I’d be able to make it. Rhett (FireCritic.com)  was unavailable for ...

If we can not help ourselves.... our own members... the Brothers and Sisters riding beside us ... how can we be expected to help those we are sworn to serve and protect? Think about that for a minute.

Rhett has known for a long time now what works and what doesnt as far as our web sites and social media outlets go. We've shared a vision and ever changing goals and we work every day to reach them.

How can we be expected to save the lives of the very people we are sworn to protect and serve if we can not save our own?

When asked how he thought we could ever "pull it off", he said .... "With the group of Brothers and Sisters we have assembled here, HOW CAN WE FAIL?"

I mentioned that I had returned to duty and that decision or "step" in my healing process was as huge and difficult as any of the others I've made.

I'm not sure I'd be here today if he hadn't. Rhett, and the process he sat in motion SAVED MY LIFE that day and I will be forever grateful!