Firefighting Equipment Quotes

It is critical that firefighters and emergency responders have the proper equipment, training and staffing to do their jobs.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.

Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

I'm a medevac pilot. I have spent time suppressing wildfires and things like that. And as a combat pilot, I tend to find the biggest bucket of water I can find and put it on the biggest fire I can find, right?

Fire truck with back end on fire drives really fast in circles.

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

Every fire hydrant in the country will be concerned.

Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'

This was what a lot of us, mainly young men, did in the summers in northern Arizona. This is how I put myself through college. I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

When I was shooting for the film 'No Problem,' there was a fire on the sets and I had some burn injuries in my leg.

When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup.

I'm developing some new kinds of robotic firefighting vehicles to help with the massive forest fires we're dealing with in the West.

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

The ability to reach a catastrophic forest fire quickly can not only save millions in fire suppression costs, it can save structures and, most importantly, lives.

When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.