an angel of fire

Fire truly beautiful, yet so devastating. The very same thing that gave
life a fighting chance, can also take it away in no time.

Many say that a firefighters work is really dangerous. It truly is.
Running in a burning building, knowing that their are people in the
fire, trapped with no way out. You the person trapped in the fire, you
hope for someone to come and get you out of the burning hell, you look
around and see nothing but fire and smoke. Then you give it another try
and look once more, you see a faint pattern and you can't figure out
what it is, then a fireman appears out of the flames as if they where an
angel of fire.

From that moment on you know that you are saved and your worries lessen
a bit.

Day in and out firefighters give their lives to save people who they
have never seen in their lives before. Many do the unthinkable, and hard
choices, for example saving a child instead of the mother, because the
mother, rather save her child then herself, she gives the fireman her
baby and sees the man run out leaving her behind.

Moments later when she sees no more hope, there a hand reaches out to
grab her and save her as well, and reunite her and her child once again.
She looks up and thanks the fireman, he smiles back and walks away.

But on some occasions, lives are lost as well. Am pretty shore that
that's one of the hardest things a firefighters has to see. And as many
do they develop a sick sense of humor to get over what they have
witness.

You do things everyday with out any worry, and just as a daily routine,
yet a fireman is lucky if he gets to do these things. For example,

Many blame firefighters for not getting to fires on time, well while
their was a fire, their stood an ignorant person talking on the phone,
doing their makeup and refusing to move out the way so the firefighters
can carry out their duty in time. You call your wife/girlfriend all the
time, set up dates, and they can't get enough of you voice. But a
fireman calls his mom, wife/girlfriend to let them know that he made it
out alive and that he's heading for another fire.

You sleep for hours at night on your worm and conftrebale bed, yet a
fireman is lucky if he gets an hour of sleep, on a spring bed, and to
only be awaken by the sound of a bell, indicating a fire. You walk in
and out your house door as if where nothing, yet a fireman walks in a
door, and does not know if he's coming back out alive.

He brings in a drunk teenage driver to the hospital, and remembers the
night that his baby girl was born. You take showers and change your
cloths everyday, yet a fireman is wearing the same shirt as the day
before, and takes a worm shower to help him stay up. You fill your
stomach with food, yet a fireman runs in a burning building on an almost
empty stomach, because he didn't have time to finish his meal.

You see your friend fall at the park, you laugh, yet fireman sees their
friend, fall through a floor down to the unknown, as they hand you a
body to be saved. You sit an a well cooled room on a hot June day, yet a
fireman carries 50 pounds of gear, protective clothing and rushes in a
burning building on a hot, June day.

All these things we overlook and give firefighters a bad name, yet their
twice, even three times the man you are by giving them a bad name.

To be honest being a firefighter, most be one of the best jobs out
their, getting to save lives, putting your own life at risk. Am pretty
sure their isn't a greater job out their in the world, and I really want
to become one as well.

I give full respect to firefighters, they have to put up with a lot, and
many times its a lost of a life, and the emotions that they most
undergo.

Like Edward F. Croker said,
"When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been
accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work".

I hope one day, someone sees my figure coming out of a flame coming to
rescue them, and to be described as an angels of fire.