BROTHERHOODDo you believe

Or

Just say IT!

BROTHERHOOD

• broth·er·hood (brŭTH'ər-hʊd') n.

• The state or relationship of being brothers. • Fellowship. • An association of men, such as a fraternity or

union, united for common purposes. • All the members of a profession or trade.

• What does it mean to you?

Brotherhood in the fire service

• Family– Our First Family

• The one at home

– The second family• Those of us in the firehouse

• Passion– The love for the job, the department

• Desire– Doing the right thing– Committed 24/7

Mission

• For well over 200 years the fire service has responded to just about every call for help! Without hesitation, attitude or complaint

• Our mission is growing– EMS– Rescue– Haz-Mat

Basic Mission

• Our mission in its pure form is to take care of people

• Treat people as if they were your family– Even if they don’t smell like it

• Use or skills and talents to perform the “BEST” way we can– Not all of us come to work in the “BEST”

• Bring your best to the firehouse daily

Firefighters are talented people

• We come in many different forms– What we did before– What we do off duty– What our “dad” taught us

• We use this to also come together• We use our “talents” to help people

– This should be inside our job as well

• Never forget what you were before and what you have become

• What is amazing about the fire service is when you look around, you see about the widest variety of people.– Jokesters– Plumbers– Electricians– Mechanics, ect.

• Experienced and probie• Different Interests

Why did you join the fire service

• Why did you get in?– To help others– To be part of a team– Excitement/Rush

• What did you want to get out of it?– Being a part of a “brotherhood”– Money?????– Ownership

• What are you putting in to it?– Are you sharing what you know– What do you do with the new guy?

• The fire service if made of “special people”

• Family Values– What happens when we do not think in this

term?– What image does the public have

• Firefighters do like people

• Firefighters have to be challenged

What core values does it take to be a firefighter?

• Unshakable Passion– For the JOB– For the Brothers– For the people– Passion should never leave you!

• Integrity– Character

• Honor• Pride

Passion

• What is passion– Love for the job– Love for the tradition– Love for the history

• Comes from inside

• Something that should be passed on– Give it to the new guy– Show it, prove it

INTEGRITY

• Built on Character– Who you are– What you are about

• What you do when no one is looking– Integrity is the foundation of Character– Do you talk about our service behind our back

• Honestly– With both yourself and those around you

Honor

• Respect and Loyalty• Esprit’ de Corps

– Caring about those around you– What would you do for your “brother”

• Do you mean it

• Not allowing anyone to give us a “black eye”– What can hurt our rep?

• What will hurt your rep?

Pride

• Pride takes work• Requires Ownership

– How do you treat your fire department?– Does it reflect in you?

• Does it bother you to wear your blue shirt?– Is it wrinkled in the back of your locker?

• Recognition– Awards

• Can we have pride in these?

Pride

• We have to Fireman (firefighter that can do the job) back in the fire service– Pride, Honor, Integrity, Ownership, Passion

• We have to put the firehouse back to where it needs to be– This is our home

• Pride, Ownership

– We need to put the fire stuff on the walls• Tradition, History, Fires!

What kind of firefighter are you?

• Can you be trusted?– Do you do what you say you do?

• How do others see you?– What is your outward person?– What is your inward person?– Do they match?

• What is your attitude?– Can you be approached?– Do others shy away from you?

• Do you have the passion for the job?• Are you willing to commit to our family?

– “Brotherhood”

• Are you willing to commit to our Tradition?• Do not disrespect our fire service family!

– Don’t Steal– Don’t “back stab”, trash talk, speak without knowledge– Don’t take advantage of your brothers

• Do anything you can to make our job better

Wear the badge with pride!

• What does your badge mean?– Knights of Malta– Order of St. John’s of the hospitialers– Shield of protection– Continuous rope around the center

• Is the fire still inside – Is the passion still in the fire service– Who can put it back?

Protect the Brothers

• Brotherhood is more than a sticker in the window!

• If the fire service willing to do this– FOOLS

• Every Firefighter Every Day– Starts with you – Is given to the probie the first day of class

• Being a firefighter should be special– Not everyone is or can be a firefighter– You have to earn everything

MUTTS

• Who are the “Mutts”

• Did they start out as “Mutts”

• Pride, Honor, Integrity– All Talk No Show

• It is a privilege to be a firefighter

• This is the best job in the world, if you don’t like it get out!!!!!

Everybody Goes Home

• This is what we strive for

• This is why we train

• Bring in the new guy– Teach him history– Teach him Pride!!!!

• “The more we share the more we pass on what we have learned the safer we will be”– Bob Pressler

DO the Right Thing

• Do the right thing for the right reason

• “It may take a personal sacrifice, it may not be what you really want to do, but it is the correct thing to do”– Bob Pressler

Brotherhood Means

• Helping out when the kids are born– And knowing their names

• When it is time to move we are all there– You buy the beer

• It means laying down your life for your brother any time any where!

Brotherhood Quotes

• There is a destiny which makes us brothers; None goes his way alone.– Edwin Markham

• We can not live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us to our fellow men; and among those fibers as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.– Herman Melville

Brotherhood Quotes

• “My country is my world, my countrymen are mankind”– William Lloyd Garrison

• “It is in the shelter of each other that the people live”– Irish Proverb

• “You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace”– Max Lerner

Brotherhood Quotes

• “United we stand Divided we fall”– Aesop 620-560 BC

• “When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.”

– Edward F Croker FDNY 1844-1911

• “I have no ambition in this world but one, and that is to be a firefighter The position may, in the eyes of some, appear to be a lowly one; but we who know the work which the firefighter has to do believe that his is a noble calling”– Edward F Croker FDNY 1884-1911

Closing thoughts

• Show up on time

• Wear your uniform with pride

• Take care of your firehouse, rig, department

Closing thoughts

• Do the right thing

• Do your Best

• Treat others as you like to be treated

• Lets all go home!!!!!