What is a Professional Fire Fighter?

The mere fact that you are a firefighter - paid, industrial, institutional, or volunteer - in no way makes you a professional. You become a professional firefighter only when you exhibit the knowledge, attitude, skills, and habits that have been honed to the highest degree by education, training, experience, and LOVE for your profession.

The Example and conduct you display at the scene is, and will always be, the only yardstick by which your peers and the people you serve can judge you and the organization you represent.

That judgment will form the opinion of each and every person involved with you and your organization, and that judgment will precede you in the form of your reputation as a "PROFESSIONAL"