In Praise Of ALL Firefighters

“Ped...great idea, no injured....those guys just got caught...if you go to Charleston News or even google Charleston 9 you can get their photos. Personally I would get the photo of the 9 caskets at the funeral.

Ped where are you doing the march? Let me know I can reccomend some Insurance companies that might want to hook up with you. (MEANING MONEY!!!!)

Ped...YGM
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“Thanks XL. The walk is in October. It will be our second and we hope to do one every year. Last time we got fire crews from Boston and Cambridge, walk teams from the major hospitals that treat burn patients, burn survivors and their friends and families, people who had lost loved ones to burns and other who cared for some other reason and raised about 27K for the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors. This year we want to top 30K.

Its kind of neat for survivors to meet firefighters who may have pulled 'em out of trouble, crews who might have taken them to the hospital, surgeons who put them back together, nurses and social workers who helped them on their way, etc... and for all those folks to meet each other as well as to see the people they helped after they have gotten their lives back.”

“Yeah we have the Still Burn Clinic here....it is pretty cool. I have a friend who treated a hispanic guy who was on a tractor when the boom hit a High power line. He lost everything from his Bellybutton down an Arm and three fingers on his other arm.

But when you meet him he is INCREDIBLE. He is doing art. And he is counseling burn survivors.

Good to see you do that. With a lot of patients we forget that the initial treatment is NOWHERE near as tough as the recovery process. Let me know if I can get you some give aways for the walk.”

“Giveaways - sponsors, etc. would be great.

You are definitely right about treatment vs. recovery. These days, most patients aren't even really there for the most critical treatment - they are in an induced coma and awake to a transformed world. I've met some awesome people who have left me feeling very humbled - including some of the people on this fireman's website:

http://feeltheburn2007.blogspot.com/search/label/Burn%20Survivor%20Stories”

“YGM...Ped”

“Thanks XL - I'll call in the morning.”

“BRAINTREE -- Town firefighters learned a different kind of lesson when they punched holes in a house as part of a training exercise: Make sure you have the right address.

And now the owners of the house they damaged want the Fire Department to pay up.

"They made the mistake," said Clayton Luu, whose family had lived in the four-bedroom white Victorian since the 1980s until an electrical fire last year heavily damaged it. "They will have to pay for it."
[...]
Firefighters who arrived at the Luu house on Harrison Avenue Monday morning were instead supposed to be two blocks away on Coolidge Avenue, where Jim Doherty was having his white raised bungalow razed.

Doherty said fire officials knew where he lived and which house was slated for demolition.

He said he had given the department permission earlier this month to send new recruits to his bungalow so they could practice cutting open roofs for quick access to burning buildings. His contractor applied for a demolition permit at the Fire Department, he said, and fire officials were at the house Friday when the recruit training exercise was originally scheduled to take place.

The Friday exercise was postponed because fire officials were not ready and utilities still needed to be shut off, Doherty said. Firefighters were told they could conduct the training Monday, as long as they were done before 11 a.m., he said.

So Doherty was puzzled when he drove by the Luu house and saw firefighters furiously cutting holes in the roof.



http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/07/18/in_braintree_firefighters_cut_holes_in_wrong_house/”

“We have our own fire, Pine Valley is burning just off of hwy 8, hasn't jumped it yet due to the efforts of the firefighters

http://www.10news.com/index.html”

“That's pretty cool Sarge.”

“http://www.wbng.com/news/local/11895821.html

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“The firefighter just was pulling a prank, nothing big," says Courtney Holcomb of Johnson City.




"I think he was just fooling around with his fellow firefighters having a good time and it got out of hand,"”

“nobody saw even the slightest irony in the name of the town? ...Johnson City?”

“Great catches Noncom and XL!

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.
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“UM take a minute...say a prayer.

News 12 at 11, November 29, 2007

AUGUSTA, Ga--- A long time Augusta-Richmond County firefighter is dead after a wreck Thursday afternoon in Columbia County.
Sergeant George Curtis was on a motorcycle when he was hit by a mail truck on Ray Owens Road. The accident happened near a fire station, just before 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
Curtis was a firefighter with the city of Augusta since before consolidation. Chief Howard Willis tells News 12 Sergeant Curtis was well known, loved and respected.
Willis says Curtis was "A fantastic- hard working man, always with a smile on his face."
Sgt. George Curtis leaves behind a wife and 3 daughters and a number of grandchildren.

He was 5 months from retirement....”