Ten Commandments for the First Ten Minutes

[papacheese]

These came to me during my morning constitutional and are primarily offered to the next generation...please feel free to add, subtract, emphasize, or argue.....

Ten Commandments for the First Ten Minutes

1. Never assume – we all know what it spells

2. Be skeptical – nothing is ever 100% what we think it is. Half of what you hear and see isn't what it appears to be.

3. Be curious – remove your head from your ass and look around, listen closely, watch the smoke. THINK

4. If you have a choice, take the bigger one – this applies to hand tools, hose lines, and the guy next to you.

5. Put your mask on. Air is cheap, medical care expensive.

6. Take a deep breath. Eventually, they ALL go out...

7. Pace yourself. Stamina is more important than brute strength

8. Speak slowly and clearly. Yelling doesn't help.

9. Be ready. Fires are unpredictable - duh!

10. Be smart: don't ruin the rest of your life for an empty house, animal, or obvious recovery. There will be other fires on other days that will require your experience, knowledge, and skills. Live to fight another day.

[JDub]

Awesome Papacheese! Those are really good.

6. Take a deep breath. Eventually, they ALL go out...

[papacheese]

Addendums to the Ten Commandments:

11. Be realistic: you didn't start the fire or design the building; our job is to stuff the shit back in the goose. Understand and accept that sometimes there's too much shit and not enough goose....

[capt311]

Here is one for you: Are you READY to put the fire out?

R......radio
E......equipment
A......air supply
D......duties
Y.......yes (you must answer yes to the 1st four to answer YES!)


Guard your grill & knuckle up!

[shader101]

i Like # 8 seems like there is always one at every big fire

[firstin312]

papacheese said:

These came to me during my morning constitutional and are primarily offered to the next generation...please feel free to add, subtract, emphasize, or argue.....

Ten Commandments for the First Ten Minutes

1. Never assume – we all know what it spells

2. Be skeptical – nothing is ever 100% what we think it is. Half of what you hear and see isn't what it appears to be.

3. Be curious – remove your head from your ass and look around, listen closely, watch the smoke. THINK

4. If you have a choice, take the bigger one – this applies to hand tools, hose lines, and the guy next to you.

5. Put your mask on. Air is cheap, medical care expensive.

6. Take a deep breath. Eventually, they ALL go out...

7. Pace yourself. Stamina is more important than brute strength

8. Speak slowly and clearly. Yelling doesn't help.

9. Be ready. Fires are unpredictable - duh!

10. Be smart: don't ruin the rest of your life for an empty house, animal, or obvious recovery. There will be other fires on other days that will require your experience, knowledge, and skills. Live to fight another day.

You say always take the bigger one, that applies to the guy next to you, then you say stamina is more important then brute strength. Which is it?

[papacheese]

Obviously, take the big guy with a lot of stamina, silly..... My advice about the big guy is more to act as an effective heat shield, ya know what I mean, Cap? LOL