Firefighter Gifts: The Brotherhood Bond
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Firefighter Gifts: The Brotherhood Bond
This bond is like a secret. Not because we won't tell you, but because we can't. There aren't really words to explain sharing the heat, the zero visibility, the work of the search, facing what is unknown and different every single time. After 18 years in the service, I've given up trying to explain it because none of us who share the bond really can. The bond is one of the truest firefighter gifts that is earned and protected once it is yours.
There is a pride that comes from the badges and patches - and the fire trucks we spend hours taking care of so it can bring us to that time. The Class A uniforms that hang proudly and make us stand tall never feel as much a part of us as our bunker gear and helmets, worn to fit just right like a pair of your favorite jeans and navy blue firefighter t-shirt with your station maltese. Your equipment of choice tucked back in the same pockets after you use them so your hands can find them even if your eyes cannot.
The Brotherhood of firefighting will always be alive and well, because being a firefighter is not just what we do, it is who we are and what we share.
Firefighter Is Not All We Are
Firefighting People
We care for those we love, friends and co-workers and we care for strangers in their time of need.
We are from all different walks of life, rich and poor, middle class. Teachers, plumbers, doctors and lawyers. Students, car mechanics and accountants.
We are firemen and female firefighters and we are proud, dedicated and are always training, for the present and the future.
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Firefighters are dedicated, brave, Irish, Italian, Black, Female, Jewish, White......
The Fire Department Melting Pot!
HISPANIC FIREFIGHTER PRIDE
Hispanic Firefighter Pride

IRISH FIREFIGHTER PRIDE
IRISH FIREFIGHTER APPAREL & GIFTS

Irish American Firefighters by bonfirefirefighters
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Firefighter t-shirts, gifts, clocks, mugs and Jewelry
- Bonfire Designs
- Personalized gift ideas and tee's with exclusive designs for occupations and careers, funny t-shirts, wedding favors, easy shopping and fun to browse.
- Bonfire Cafe
- Bonfire Designs apparel including tee's, sweats and shirts styled for every fireman and for the ladies who put out the flames! We have flames, fire, future firefighter and exclusive rescue designs.
- East Windsor Fire Company #2
- My Fire Company! Great fire photos and videos! East Windsor Fire Company #2 features some of the brave firefighters that protect Mercer County, NJ and surrounding counties as well. We are proud to show off our yellow fire engines, firefighters in action photography by Cindy Rashkin our company photographer and links to training resources, equipment and apparel stores online.
- Personalized Firefighter TShirts and Gifts
- Resource for personalized firefighter t-shirts and holiday gift ideas you can totally personalize! Everything from Fire Dept logos, funny shirts, stickers, decals, flames and fire and Fire Chief gifts too. Excellent firefighter ties and mugs you can buy the way they are or personalize with name, rank or station.
- Irish Firefighter T-Shirts, Gifts & Apparel
- Shamrocks in flames for our Irish firefighters, American flags for USA patriotic heroes, female firefighter and universal fire department maltese cross t-shirts, apparel, firefighter clocks and luck of the Irish to you everyday!
- A Firefighters Blog
- As the Captain of a fire company for 17 years, I never get enough of the firefighting online family. Check out my blog of firefighter gifts, t-shirts and links.
- Earth Day Firefighters
- Visit Bonfire Designs For "Save Our Planet", Recycle and Green Friendly gifts, resources and links to keep planet Earth friendly!
- The Thin Red Line
- Learn about the symbolic "Thin Red Line" and what it means to firefighters!
- Yummy Chocolate Lens
- Firefighters love chocolate, everyone loves chocolate. Yummy chocolate lens I'm happy to share.
Firefighter Keepsakes and Gifts Personalized
Tile Coasters
Fire Chiefs Tile Coaster
Fire Chief apparel, tee's and gift ideas features a blue maltese cross and gold "Chief" with five bugles. Perfect for the Chief of the Fire Dept holiday gifts and birthday presents.
Firefighter Honor Tile Coaster
Flames in action caught real time and the words Firefighter - Honor, pride and courage
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Check us out on Facebook and hit the "Like" button to receive the newest updates to our blog, specials on firefighter t-shirts and gifts for the family. Personalize your firefighter world, cool tee's for future firefighter kids and the best selection of firefighter wife tee's, jewelry and gifts added all the time.
Firefighter Gifts On Facebook
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Female Firefighters By Bonfire Designs
Ladies Apparel With Firemen Themes!
Firefighters and the Brotherhood
Firefighters. What makes us do it? After 18 years I still don't have the words for the answer.
Where else can you work your butt off, get too little sleep, work in often dangerous, hot, limited visibility environments and know the worse it was, the better you did your job. A team of people from every and any walk of life, all committed to their job, to eachother and to the communities they serve.
As one rookie firefighter said to me the other day, I don't know why I decided to do it, but I know why I want to keep on doing it. Well said.
Pictured left to right:
Firefighters Brian Morton, Victor Marcos, Marcin Cymek and Victor Hom
Firefighter Equipment and Gear
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Firefighter Clocks
Firefighter Flames Wall Clock
Firefighters battling flames on fire dept logo gift mugs, clocks for home or office, t-shirts, sweat shirts, personalized tote bags and female firefighter style shirts! Great gifts & comfy tee's.
Irish American Firefighter Apparel & Gifts
St Patricks Day Firefighter Gift Ideas!
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Firefighter Leading News and Alerts
Safety, Training and Seat Belts
All of the leading news and information for the firefighting, rescue and EMS community are featuring links, breaking news, firefighter resources and forums that focus daily on fire department line of duty deaths and injuries.Fighting fires is a dangerous business whether you are a volunteer or career fire fighter. Websites like "Firefighter Close Calls" and "Everyone Goes Home" are updated almost every day with stories and photos of tragedies, accidents and warnings.
It's also updated all the time with new training information, safety and survival information and SOG templates you can format for your station's safety. Have you read this information too?
Has your fire department taken the National Fire Service Seat Belt Pledge? Have you implemented the "16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives?"
Visit our links below to strengthen your brotherhood pledge to firefighter safety.
If you are reading this but are not a firefighter, you can help strengthen our pledge too! Visit some of the links in our "Community For Firefighters" section below!
Structure Fire Reported With Flames Showing On Arrival
Firefighters Save The Victim
Incident Command Chief reported fire in a house with a victim trapped on the second floor. The crew on the "first due" engine pulled a handline up the stairs, SCBA packed up, tools in hand and crawled their way through the smoke, located the victim and put the fire out. They worked together as a team, never lost communications and one of the firefighter gifts was present, teamwork!This was a training exercise. We train hard, we practice our skills as though the incident was real. We have to, because someday again, it will be. When the training is over, the packs are filled, the tools, gear and equipment back on the fire truck - stripped down to our t-shirts and jeans, we critique the drill. We learn from every experience. We share our firefighting and search tactics. The firefighter bond of brotherhood grows along with our experiences.
Firefighter Gift Blog
Check out the blog at: FIREFIGHTER GIFT BLOG
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Personalized Gifts and Apparel
Firefighter Lighting and Visibility
Check Your Visibility
Fire Chief Gifts, Tee's and Apparel
United Firefighters on CafePress
Tee's and Gift Ideas For Firefighting Heritage
Firefighter Family Gifts Of Love
A firefighter's family presents their gift of love and sacrifice every fire call, every shift and everytime their firefighter is needed whether it is a false alarm, a structure fire, a motor vehicle crash and even when their fire station is planning a special event for their community.
Resources For Fire Related Training
Stay Safe Out There
- Fire Engineering Online
- Firefighter training resources from Fire Engineering.com. Find the latest information covering drills, reading a building, HIPAA, training tips and papers, webcasts, discussions and "TrainingDivision.com".
- Training Officers Drills
- Downloadable drills and templates with great ideas for training exercises you format to work out with your department's needs
- Firefighter Safety
- Everyone Goes Home is a website who's goal is to help the U.S. Fire Administration achieve its objective of reducing the number of firefighter fatalities by 25% within 5 years, and by 50% within 10 years. The adoption of the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives is a vital step in achieving that goal. Great resource for training, firefighting and safety information.
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Fire Department Directory
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Where Does Your Courage Come From?
Firefighter Watches
Jewelry and Gifts From Bonfire Designs
Firefighter Watches and Jewelry Firefighter Safety and Training Resources
- Everyone Goes Home
- Life Safety Initiatives, resources, kits, free downloads and links.
- 16 Life Safety Initiatives
- Do you know what they are? Has your station implemented them? Click on the link to read them all on one page, it's easy reading, printer friendly and free to download.
- National Fire Service Seat Belt Pledge
- The National Fire Service Seat Belt Pledge to remember firefighter Brian Hunton is a promise we can all live with. From now on - NO firefighter will die because they were not wearing their seat belt. Brothers and sisters we can do this. We owe it to our families and each other. Do you have the courage to take the Seat Belt Pledge?
(excerpt Burton A Clark - Firehouse.Com contributor)
Downloadable pledge forms, resources and history.
- East Windsor Fire #2 Takes The Pledge
- This is my fire dept and I am proud we have taken the pledge. (That's my red helmet in the center photo below)

Click to visit EAST WINDSOR FIRE COMPANY #2
- Firefighter Close Calls
- Prepare yourself for firefighter line of duty deaths, close calls and photos that will make you shake your head. Use the links, resources and excellent training provided on the website. Share your close calls so we can all learn from the too.
Dr. BURTON A. CLARK
Thank you also for all the work you have done for the fire service, firefighter safety and for the great articles you have published that have brought many important issues to light providing motivation for firefighters and fire officers to make proactive changes geared to firefighter safety.
Read Dr. Burton Clark's articles here: Dr. BURTON A. CLARK Articles Published at Firehouse.com
Holiday Gifts For Rescue Workers and Family Friends
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Firefighters Protect Our Environment
Firefighters are called upon everyday to save lives, protect property - buildings and their contents. But did you know that fire fighters work hard to protect planet Earth on an everyday basis.Fire and hazardous materials effects our natural environments, waterways, soil and trees. Fires effect wildlife and our animals. Firefighters work hard to prevent unnecessary consequences that may result from events as large as wildland forest fires to the smallest fuel leak at a motor vehicle accident.
Firefighter Posters and Prints

Firefighter Team by bonfirefirefighters
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On Fire by bonfirefirefighters
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Firefighter Bikers by bonfirefirefighters
Create photo to canvas prints
Earth 911 and Fire Prevention Importance
Earth 911: The Effects Of Fire On the EnvironmentEducate yourself to be "fire wise" and learn what you can do to help our planet.
Firefighters Go Green
Firefighter Energy Tote Bag
Earth friendly tote bags perfect for gear, uniforms, equipment and shopping for firefighters.
Firefighters Think Green White T-Shirt
Fire fighter tee's and apparel with eco friendly and organic designs.
One Foot In The Black Firefighter Novel
Author: Kurt Kamm
"One foot in the black" is a phrase used to describe a position on the fireline which is next to an area already burned ("the black"). It is both the most dangerous place, usually close to the flames, and the safest place - a safe zone into which escape is possible.
Each year wildfires burn across the United States. Climate changes, land mismanagement, and the incursion of urban areas into the wildland ensure that these fires will continue to generate headlines and create an interest in this novel.
EMT's and Firefighters
Rescue Me!
Firefighters are different than EMT's! Read more at my squidoo lens all about EMT's! EMT'S SAVE LIVES!

EMT's are more than just pre-hospital care providers, they are very often the difference between life and death......and the quality of life.
Fire Depts In The News
- Emanuel appoints new Fire Department Commissioner
- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Thursday he's appointing 33-year firefighter veteran Jose Santiago as the new commissioner of the Chicago Fire Department. The announement came the same day current Commissioner Rober Hoff publicly announced his ...
- Top Stories - Special Delivery at a Local Fire Department
- A mountain fire department gets an unexpected delivery in their parking lot. Tim Brigman was driving his pregnant wife, Marci, to the hospital Saturday when she informed him that they weren't going to make it. He called 911 and dispatchers told him to ...
- Fire Department hosts health fairs to educate residents on how to keep their ...
- Henderson residents pick up tips from vendors on how to improve their health at the Henderson Fire Department's Healthy Heart Health Fair, Feb. 8, at the Heritage Senior Center. The group is holding a second health fair on Feb 22 at Fire Station No.
- Fire department meeting in Dobson a wise move
- Town Manager Josh Smith, along with Commissioners John Lawson and Robin Testerman, met with the Central Surry Volunteer Fire Department board in January on a fact-finding mission, starting the process of determining if the Central Surry fire department ...
Amazon.com Firefighter Posters
Honoring the Brotherhood of Firefighting
Fire Chief Gifts and Gift Ideas For Firefighters
New Jersey Fire Dept Has Manifold Catastrophic Failure on Hydrant
Click the photo of the actual manifold for full story on FirefighterCloseCalls.com
1. A loud noise 'like a freight train' was heard before the failure occurred.
2. The gauge on the manifold did not register an increase in pressure (this was mentioned several times).
3. The local water company notified fire department personnel that they had 'high pressure on the hydrant' requiring manual control of the pressure at the pump station.
4. The relief valve on the manifold did not relieve.
The fire department also submitted several photos of the failed appliance which are posted.
Snap-tite's history with these units is very good. They are rarely returned for warranty repairs and there have been no warranty catastrophic failures.
Firefighter Christmas Ornaments
Firefighter Christmas Village Collection
Firefighter Pre-lit Christmas Tree
Courage Under Fire Firefighter Tribute Illuminated Animated Ornament Collection
Rescue Me the TV Series
DVD's With Firefighter Themes!
Firefighter Key Rings and Tags
Christmas Gift Ideas For Firefighters
Personalize With Names, Fire Dept and Photos!
MY HERO STOCKINGS - Firefighter Christmas Stockings
Looking for a unique Christmas gift for a firefighter on your list? Check these firefighter xmas stockings out!My Hero Stocking Company
Each stocking is designed to look like a firefighter turnout boot, complete with suspenders. Send us a station patch for your firefighter to have it placed on the stocking to make it even more personalized. Hand-sewn with great care, these custom-made stockings are sure to please.
Retired Firefighters place your station patch on the stocking and pass it along to your children or grandchildren. Give them a gift they will Cherish forever!
My Hero Stockings make perfect gifts for your loved ones, or for yourself! Made with pride in the USA.
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Feedback is important, good or bad in the fire service we call it "critiquing". Please add your critique to my lens.
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nyclittleitaly Jan 3, 2012 @ 1:37 pm | delete
- firefighters are our true heroes
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jadehorseshoe
Dec 20, 2011 @ 11:20 pm | delete
- Ultra-Comprehensive Lens.
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Alice Yuan
Dec 14, 2011 @ 4:38 am | delete
- great lens?wonderful lens?
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UKGhostwriter Jun 1, 2011 @ 11:22 am | delete
- Excellent lens! - well done
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javrsmith Feb 11, 2011 @ 11:41 am | delete
- Another Squid Angel blessing for all of the firefighters!
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Janet21 Apr 20, 2009 @ 10:14 pm | delete
- Very nice lens. Lensrolled to my new Fire Truck Party lens and Blessed by a Squid Angel. :)
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Sarunas
Apr 10, 2009 @ 6:44 am | delete
- One more great lens there.
I gave you 5 stars : )
Your are doing great job. Keep it up :)
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rms
Apr 8, 2009 @ 8:10 am | delete
- Nice work on this lens! I'm Squidoo's Giant Squid Mentor and I wanted to be sure you were aware of our Giant Squid Lensmaster program. Giant Squids enjoy great perks.
You can learn more about the program and get some wonderful lensmaking tips by visiting: http://www.squidoo.com/giantsquidmentor
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Burton Clark
Mar 31, 2009 @ 6:22 pm | delete
- Thanks for reporting on the National Fire Service Seat Belt Pledge. Sincerely, Burt Clark
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ideadesigns
Aug 29, 2008 @ 7:20 am | delete
- I like the "Fire" tile coasters, you should add them! Great lens.
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stickytabby
Jul 2, 2008 @ 8:06 am | delete
- I have high respect for firefighters. They risk their lives to save others. They are the superheroes of today's generation and they sure deserve to be rewarded. Great lens you got here! Keep it up! I also have a great resource site about gifts - gifts for a sixtieth birthday
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clouda9
Mar 29, 2008 @ 10:13 pm | delete
- Thank you for every single thing you do! You are my hero's.
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Mar 29, 2008 @ 9:59 am | delete
- A Great lens! It shows me I can make a lot of improvement on my Firefighter lens:
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Cheers from Europe
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bdkz
Mar 10, 2008 @ 7:39 pm | delete
- This is a really nice lens. 5 Star and my Squid Angel Blessing!
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fledgling
Feb 29, 2008 @ 3:16 am | delete
- wonderful Lens! These people who risk their lives to help save ours, should be honored in every way! I am going to be doing over the dinner table for a South Boston station soon. Great Job,5 stars!
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Hello world, my lens just had to be about firefighters. It's what I know, it's what I am. I'm Captain of a fire company, in the service 18 years.
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