— Chris Smity | District of Columbia Fire Department (DCFD)
“Pretty knots operate pretty.”
— Chris Smity | District of Columbia Fire Department (DCFD)
“Search and rescue are not synonymous they shouldn’t even be in the same phrase. It’s search, and then rescue is separate. It’s so often we say search and rescue and never know what to do when we find somebody.”
— Paul Capo, Division Chief Operations and Training, Estes Valley Fire Protection District
“Everything we teach, use it as a buffet table. We all know we go to the buffet bar, ‘Hey I want to try this. I want to try that.’ If I don’t want to try that, I leave it at the table.”
— Chief Toranze Lee | Beaver Lane Fire & Rescue
“When you’re off duty, be off duty.”
— Andy Starnes | Instructor and Founder at Insight Fire Training LLC
Self-Rescue
“Be a thinking firefighter. Don’t be this check the box, minimum PowerPoint instructor, firefighter.”
— Andy Starnes | Instructor and Founder at Insight Fire Training LLC
“Your time underneath this helmet is limited but your time as a servant and as a good human being is not.”
— Andy Starnes | Instructor and Founder at Insight Fire Training LLC
“Give of ourselves to others the greatest gift we could ever give.”
— Andy J. Starnes
“Try before you pry.”
— Instructor, Parker Fire College Instructor