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You Might be in a Rural Volunteer Fire Department if... ! Your two way radio transmissions all begin with "Breaker, Breaker"! You have ever been dispatched to a working cowchip pile fire.! Your PASS alarm got's "Yeee-Haw!" instead of "Beep. Beep."! Your dispatcher ever said to you, "Y'all can't miss it"! You use your rescue air bags as furniture at the fire station.! You refill your air bottles at the local gas station air hose.! You wash the station floor to "keep the dust down."! You end all your radio transmissions with the words "Sure enough t"! You have to mark the department out of service every Friday night of a home football game.! You have to mark the department out of service the first week of hunting season! You count reading fire magazines in the bathroom as training hours.! Your last four fire department raffles were for a shotgun.. and a member won each time.! You borrowed the fire department’s quick dump tank for a neighborhood pool party last July.! Your safety officer is the person who broke their arm at the last house fife.! Your rehab site consists of a tire stump and a baloney sandwich.! The last serious fire was at the fire department cookout.! You have a shotgun rack in the back window of your firetruck and you shot two deer on your last call.! Your hydraulic rescoc tool is on permanent loan to the local auto body shop.! You do not allow a person to join the departinent unless they own a pickup.! You wore a hole in your fire boots while wearing them at your full-time job.! Your fire department brush truck doubles as your hunting truck.! You borrowed the firetruck to use the spotlights for deer hunting.! The directions to your last house fire were "Go down past the last house you burnt up" and you knew exactly how to get there.! You ever went diving in a swimming pool with your SCBA just to see if it would work.! You have to take the battery out of your tractor and put in the fire truck before you can go on a call.! Your definition of "two in and two out" is two persons inside the cab and two persons hanging on the outside.! You were trained to store important tools in your turnout gear by the rule "Left for life; right for chewing tobacco."! You keep two packs of chewing tobacco in your turnout gear for emergencies.! Your preacher borrows the department’s PASS alarm every Sunday to keep the congregation awake.! The directions to your fire station begin with the words "Turn off the paved road" and end with the words "You can't miss it."! The last girl you kissed was named Rescue-Annie. |