I learned a phrase from a cap-tain after we extinguished a working structure fire and were going back to the station. He would always say, "Good job, boys—the fire went out and no one got hurt." This saying has been passed down in my department over the years—you'll still hear it today when crews return from a structure fire. We all want to go home to our families after the shift, and we all seem to have different ideas of how to keep on doing that.
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