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Exeter Times—Advocate
Wednesday,October 5, 2005
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During Fire Prevention Week, we'd like to take a moment to thank our
local firefighters for their hard work, bravery and dedication to saving lives.
Their tireless efforts make our community a safer place to live.
This week show your appreciation by learning how you can help protect
yourself, your family and our firefighters through fire prevention.
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Fire PreVention
A Firefighters Gloves hold many things
From elderly arms to a kid's broken swing
From the hands they shake and the back they pat
To the tiny claw marks of another treed cat
At 2 a.m. they are filled with chrome
From the DWI who was on way home
And the equipment they use to roll back the dash
From the family of six involved in the crash.
The brush rakes in spring, wear the palms out
When the wind does a '90' to fill them with doubt
The thumb of the glove wipes the sweat from the brow
Of the face of a firefighter who mutters "What now?"
They hold inch and three quarters flowing
one twenty five
So the ones going in, come back out alive
When the regulator goes; then there isn't too much,
But the bypass valve they eagerly clutch.
The rescue equipment, the ropes, the C -collars;
4The lives they saved never measured in dollars
Are the obvious things Firefighters Gloves hold
Or, so that is what I've been always told.
But there are other things Firefighters Gloves touch
Those are the things we all need so much.
They hold back the rage on that 3 a.m. call
They hold in the fear when you're lost in a hall
They hold back the pity, agony, sorrow
They hold in the desire to "Do it tomorrow."
A glove's just a glove until it's on firefighters
Who work all day long just to pull an all-nighter
And into the fray they charge without fear
At the sound of "Help" they think that they hear.
When a firefighter's hand goes into the glove
It's a firefighter who always fills it with love
Sometimes the sorrow is too much to bear
And it seeps in he glove and burns deep
"in there".
Off come the gloves when the call is done
And into the pocket until the next call
The hands become lonely and cold for a bit
and shake just thinking about it.
And they sit there so red -eyed with their gloves
in their coats
The tears come so fast that the furniture floats.
They're not so brave now; their hands they can't hide
I guess it just means they are human inside.
The though some are paid and others are not
The gloves feel the same when it's cold or it's hot
To someone you're helping to just get along
When you fill them with love you always feel strong.
And so when I go on my final big ride
I hope to have my gloves by my side.
To show to St. Peter at the heavenly gate
Cause as everyone knows, firefighters don't wait.
Thank God.
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