Bad few days for SAR and FD, more challenges ahead

The past few days have brought sadness, and reminders of why we keep doin' what we do.

Saturday: 2 FDNY members of E24/L5 died at the Deutsche Bank building fire; a fire that shouldn't have started or spread so fast in a building that should have been torn down by now; a building still haunted by the ghosts of 11 other members of E24/L5 and 332 other FDNY brothers.

Friday: 3 rescuers were killed in the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah. A good friend from Utah's Dept. of Homeland Security tells me one of the six trapped miners is a volunteer fireman.

Thursday: 3 Marines and a sailor died when their Huey crashed during SAR training in Yuma, AZ.

Meanwhile, an earthquake in Peru, fires in the western US, a hurricane in the Carribean, flooding in the midwest, in India, Korea, China, and elsewhere...

"If I chose this profession, I could ask to be paid for it, but I am called by God to do this work." 1 Corinthians 9