Brothers

Missed a "fire" today, a little bummed out at first, then realized it was nothing, so no big deal. Came in as a basement fire, PD arrived to a small fish tank on fire, hit it with the dry chem, and that was the end of that story. Then went to help the buddies from the FD put lights in my engine capt's truck. He now has two blue TIR3s in the grille. Looks pretty sweet. Made me think of something though...I think half the reason I throughly enjoy Fire/EMS is for the comradery, reguardless of who you are, where you come from, what your interests are, etc, your still a "brother" and you become friends with all the people on your dept, people who if it werent for meeting them at the Fire House, you probably would not be friends with. Maybe its because you see a side of a person you dont see anywhere else. Maybe its the fact that you can't afford to "dislike" some one who you go into hell with, and are relying on them not to kill you, or let you kill yourself. Reguardless of what it is, I think I can quite honestly say that I am better friends with people who are 2-3 years older than me and on the FD with me, than with people who I go to school with and share the same sense of humor with.