1. Do you believe Or Just say IT!
BROTHERHOOD
Do you believe Or
Just say IT!

2. BROTHERHOOD broth·er·hood (brŭTH'ər-hʊd') n. What does it mean to you?
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?

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Experienced and probie Different Interests
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

8. 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?

9. 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

10. 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

11. Passion What is passion Comes from inside
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

12. INTEGRITY Built on Character What you do when no one is looking
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

13. 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?

14. 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?

15. 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!

16. 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?

17. 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

18. 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?

19. 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

20. 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!!!!!

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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!

24. 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

25. 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

26. Brotherhood Quotes “United we stand Divided we fall”
Aesop 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

27. “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

28. Closing thoughts Show up on time Wear your uniform with pride
Take care of your firehouse, rig, department

29. Closing thoughts Do the right thing Do your Best
Treat others as you like to be treated
Lets all go home!!!!!