Blog 16 Two Hour Meeting Answer #2

1.)    What is the most important factor when maintaining that sense of brotherhood in the fire department?

2.)    An important factor when trying to maintain that sense of brotherhood in the fire department is loyalty, loyalty in the sense of being there for your peers even outside of the fire department.

3.)    Firefighters are there for there brothers in the hardest of times. If a firefighter is struggling financially usually another one will help them out as a brother. Another reason is as brothers you have to be able to rely upon your co worker, for instance there was a case where a firefighter might be in a hard spot whether it be close to death or any rough circumstance the job of his brothers is to remain loyal to him or her and try there best to support there brother. The last reason is that a firefighter should stay loyal to one another even through passing. I found this fact interesting because of a story I read. A man who was a firefighter died, so the local fireman in his area went to his house cut his grass and paid some of the bills in order to help his wife. This shows loyalty to the peer even after death to his family out of respect.

4.)    The most helpful source that helped justify this question was an article I read titled Fire service brotherhood. This source shows a great background of brotherhood and how brotherhood should be exploited.

5.)    I plan to continue my study of answer two by researching more about loyalty and simply talking to more and more firefighters about what loyalty means to them in order to get a better understanding of the term and what it means to certain fireman.