You might be a firefighter if the microwave goes off and you run out of the house thinking it was your pager. – Author Unknown

Better a thousand times careful than once dead. – Proverb

You might be a firefighter if you had to extricate someone by cutting the car doors off on one side and realized there was nothing wrong with the doors on the other side. – Author Unknown

I have no ambition in this world but one, and that is to be a fireman. The position may, in the eyes of some, appear to be a lowly one; but we who know the work which the fireman has to do believe that his is a noble calling. Our proudest moment is to save lives. – Edward F. Croker