From 1a67d0d2a9671321099508391a5737961b220f3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Kesterson Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:15:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Deploying upstream@14eb6fafc530aea7ac35dd0c2d770579bbf86454: Fix youtube iframe widths --- 2026/02/23/Why-Firefighting/index.html | 4 ++-- atom.xml | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/2026/02/23/Why-Firefighting/index.html b/2026/02/23/Why-Firefighting/index.html index 5996559..6dc90aa 100644 --- a/2026/02/23/Why-Firefighting/index.html +++ b/2026/02/23/Why-Firefighting/index.html @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ content="2026-02-23"> + content="2026-03-25"> @@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ Shall be my brother

There is no denying that part of the allure of the fire service is the risk of danger. There is a healthy balance to be found here: having enough respect for the danger to avoid giving too much too soon so that you lose it all, versus being so afraid of it that you don’t give anything and so you gain nothing. Some people are too addicted to it and endanger themselves and others. Part of the function of the tribe is to keep an eye on each other and catch each other before they go over that edge. The other function of the tribe is to encourage the right kind of risk taking, the right level of disregard for your own safety, the right way of judging when to retreat and when to charge ahead.

What these kinds of people, and tribes of these people, understand is this: everyone dies. The question is how you are going to meet that end. Will you leave behind unfinished business? Will you go decisively, sure of the righteousness of your course of action? Will you be blessed to go quietly in your sleep? Will you be presented with a life or death situation, where you have the opportunity to make a righteous choice, and shy from the challenge because you are not familiar with death? When you regularly shake hands with death, you don’t fear him so much, and life becomes all that much sweeter.

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Love God. Live Righteously. Die Well.
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