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Welcome to the Firefighter's Lounge! In here you'll find lots of good stuff....some of which has nothing to do with firefighting. So refill that coffee cup, kick up your feet and take a break from training. Visit some of the links below.
For those of you that enjoy a good challenge, click HERE! If you figure this
out, you get a prize!
THE FIRST RULE OF EQUIPMENT:
Any piece of firefighting equipment will never malfuntion or fail until (a) you need it to fight a fire or (b) the salesman leaves.
SECOND RULE OF EQUIPMENT:
Interchangeable parts don't, leakproof seals aren't and self starters won't.
Reference
Fire Web
The International Fire Information Network
Hurst Rescue Tools
Hazmat Safety Homepage
Alta Vista Search Engine
Weather Channel for Williamsport
Firefighting.Com
FireWise
Firehouse.Com
PA Bureau of Forestry
Incident.com
Hot Shot Photo Journal
More Forest Fire Links
The Emergency Medicine and Primary Care Home Page (Test your knowledge with their simulator!)
Trauma Moulage (See if you got what it takes!)
Build Your Own Fire Truck!
U.S. Fire Administration Home Page
Live Dispatch
Policescanner.Com (good links)
Prince Georges County Maryland Fire (down most of the time)
Providence, Rhode Island Fire (Nice and clear)
Fire Departments/EMS Agencies
Yahoo's List of Fire Department's
New York Fire Department
Boston Fire Department
Florida Division of Forestry
Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry
Life Lion Airmedical Service
Carlisle, PA Fire Department
Hyattsville VFD
Oak Harbor, WA Fire Department
Tennessee ~ Fire Department
Central Pennsylvania Emergency Responders
Reliance Hose Company No. 1 - Middleburg, PA
Dauntless Hook & Ladder Company - Selinsgrove, PA
Alpha Fire Company - State College, PA
Hope Fire Rescue - Philipsburg, PA
Kreamer Fire Department, Kreamer, PA
Snyder County, PA 911
Montgomery Volunteer Fire Company
William Cameron Engine Company, Lewisburg, PA
New Berlin Fire Department
Mifflinburg Community Ambulance
Other Miscellaneous Stuff
U.S. Lawn Mower Racing Association
Susquehanna Valley Visitors Bureau
Pennsylvania Destination of the Day
Union County PA Planning Commission
Union County Government
The Virtual Fly Shop
ESPN
Kids Stuff
FEMA for Kids
Hershey the Arson Dog
Smokeybear.Com
Florida State Fire College Kid's Site (Great site!)
Firefighter Jokes
You might be on a redneck volunteer department if...
Your department has ever had two emergency vehicles pulled over for drag racing
on the way to the scene.
You have naked lady mud flaps on your pumper.
Your firehouse has wheels.
Some of your firefighters respond in horse and buggies.
You've ever gotten back and found out you locked yourselves out of the firehouse.
Fire training consists of everyone standing around a fire gettin' drunk.
You've ever been toned out on an outhouse fire.
That outhouse fire was with entrapment.
You've ever let a person's house burn down because they wouldn't let you hunt on their ground.
Your personnel vehicle has more blue lights on it than your house has lights in it.
You've ever walked through a Christmas display and came up with more than 3 new
ideas for a light scheme for your truck.
Your rescue truck can smoke the tires.
Your department's name is misspelled on the equipment.
Dispatch can't mention your name without laughing.
The local news crew won't put your department on TV because you embarassed them last time.
You've ever referred to a light bar as sweet.
Your defib consists of a pair of jumper cables, a marine battery, and a fish finder.
You've ever taken a girl on a date in a pumper.
Your pumper has been on fire more times than it has been to a fire.
Your pumper smokes more than the house fire.
You've ever been arrested for indecent exposure at a house fire.
The primary color of your brush truck is "bondo".
Your new $500,000.00 ladder truck was custom ordered with a spit cup holder.
The Chief's car has a rag for a gas cap.
If your apparatus has NASCAR driver numbers on it.
Some of your 5" line was converted into a fly fishing rod holder.
Before the apparatus leaves the station on a call, the senior officer says,
"Gentlemen, start your engines!"
The Assistant Chief's huntin dogs cost more than all of the apparatus combined.
The fire station shuts down when deer season starts.
Firefighters punishment consists of taking away their chewing tobacco.
Your apparatus has carbon monoxide detectors mounted in the cab.
You return from a fire with more junk than you arrived with.
Your job shirts are "3X-Large" but should be "5X-Large."
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