LANCASTER FIRE DEPARTMENT

What is a firefighter?

He's the guy next door.... He's a guy like you and me with warts and worries and unfulfilled dreams. Yet he stands taller than most of us. He's a fireman.... A fireman is at once the most fortunate and the least fortunate of men. He's a man who saves lives because he has seen too much death. He's a gentle man because he has seen the awesome power of violence out of control. He's responsive to a child's laughter because his arms have held too many small bodies that will never laugh again.... He doesn't preach the brotherhood of man. He lives it.

~Author Unknown