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Fire Net - A listing of resources and links for the British fire service .
Chief and Assistant Chief Fire Officers' Association - Official organisation for principle officers in the United Kingdom. Provides information on fire service history, safety advice, news, conferences, statistics, recruitment and contacts .
Fire Brigade Society - Promote and foster interest in brigades and their organisation, stations and appliances. Offers membership details, fleet lists, news, and related links.
Port Talbot Coastguard Search and Rescue - Includes record of all call outs, history, team members, wrecks, newsletter, slide show, awards, first aid information, ship visits, and live weather reports.
Kinder Mountain Rescue Team - Work of mountain rescue team providing search and rescue services in this Derbyshire moorland area.
Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue service - Contains information about The Nottinghamshire Fire Service, fire safety, family and work safety, careers, real incidents and educational resources for children and young people.
Broughton Firefighters - Includes fire safety information and career advice from group in the Manchester area. Aims to enlighten the public as to the work of the British firefighter.
Tamworth Fire Station - A description of the station including location, turnout area, personnel, history, call statistics and picture gallery.
Tunstall Community Fire Station - Serving the City of Sunderland, includes pictures of the station.
Merseyside Fire Service - Information about the authority and fire prevention.
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Fire and Rescue "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Fire and Rescue Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Fire and Rescue "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Fire and Rescue Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Fire and Rescue Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Fire and Rescue Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Fire and Rescue Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Fire and Rescue People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Fire and Rescue Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra Fire and Rescue The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Fire and Rescue Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Fire and Rescue The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Fire and Rescue Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Fire and Rescue Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Fire and Rescue "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Fire and Rescue Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Fire and Rescue Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Fire and Rescue I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Fire and Rescue All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Fire and Rescue Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Fire and Rescue Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Fire and Rescue
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