well im a 45 yo male.just looking to meet new friends.im not into games or drama.I am An Assistant Fire Chief.Firefighting is my passion if you want to know more hit me up..

I wish you could comprehend a wife's horror at 6 in the morning as I
check her husband of 40 years for a pulse and find none. I start CPR
anyway, hoping to bring him back, knowing intuitively it is too
late. But wanting his wife and family to know everything possible was done to save his life.

I wish you knew the unique smell of burning insulation, the taste of
soot-filled mucus, the feeling of intense heat through your turnout
gear, the sound of flames crackling, the eeriness of being able to
see absolutely nothing in dense smoke-sensations that I've become
too familiar with.

I wish you could read my mind as I respond to a call, Is this a
false alarm or a working fire? How is the building constructed?
What Hazards await me? Is anyone trapped?". Or to call and ask what
is wrong with the patient? Is it minor or life threatening?
Is the caller really in distress or is he waiting for us with a
2x4 or a gun?

I wish you could be in the emergency room, as a doctor pronounces
dead, the beautiful five-year old girl that I have been trying to
save during the past 25 minutes, knowing she will never go on her
first date or say the words, "I love you Mommy", ever again.

I wish you could know the frustration I feel in the cab of the
ambulance or engine or cruiser, the driver with his foot pressing
down hard on the pedal, my arm tugging again and again at the air
horn chain, as you fail to yield the right-of-way at an intersection
or in traffic. When you need us however, your first comment upon our
arrival will be, "It took you forever to get here!"

I wish you could know my thoughts as I help extricate a girl of
teenage years from the remains of her automobile. What if this was
my daughter, sister, my girlfriend or a friend? What will her
parents reaction be when they open the door to find a
police officer with hat in hand?

I wish you could know how it feels to walk in the back door and
greet my parents and family, not having the heart to tell them that
I nearly did not come back from the last call.

I wish you could know how it feels dispatching officers,
firefighters and Paramedics out and when we call for them and our
heart drops because no one answers back or to here a bone chilling
911 call of a child or wife needing assistance.

I wish you could feel the hurt as people verbally and sometimes
physically abuse us or belittle what we do, or as they express their
attitudes of "It will never happen to me".

I wish you could realize the physical, emotional and mental drain of
missed meals, lost sleep and forgone social activities, in addition
to all the tragedy my eyes have seen.


I wish you could know the brotherhood and self-satisfaction of
helping save a life or preserving someone's property, or being able
to be there in time of crisis, or creating order from total chaos.

I wish you could understand what it feels like to have a little boy
tugging at your arm and asking, "Is my Mommy okay?", not even being
able to look in his eyes without tears from your own and not knowing
what to say. Or to have to hold back a long time friend who watches
his buddy having CPR done on him as they take him away in the Medic
Unit. You know all along he did not have his seat belt on. A
sensation that I have become too familiar with.

Unless you have lived with this kind of life, you will never truly
understand or appreciate who I am, we are, or what our job really
means to us...I wish you could though.

KEEP SENDING THIS ON. APPRECIATE AND SUPPORT THE LOCAL POLICE
OFFICERS, EMTs/PARAMEDICS, FIREFIGHTERS, and 911 DISPATCHERS IN YOUR
AREA. ONE DAY THEY'LL PROBABLY BE SAVING YOUR PROPERTY OR YOUR LIFE.

WHEN YOU SEE THEM COMING WITHLIGHTS FLASHING, MOVE OUT OF THE WAY
QUICKLY, and THEN PRAY FOR THEM.