[QUOTE="Chief_Smackaho"]

that looks pretty sweet!

seems like all the games are based on Urban Firefighters though....they should make a game on country firefighters like me! i can see it now...the game starts on a hot summer Alabama night, a brush fire started at 2am by a redneck neigbors fireworks, you get the call from the 911 Office and rush to the station and you fade into a mini game where you have to put your turn out gear on, then you try and crank your fire departments converted 4X4 jeep brush fire truck, but she doesn't crank (so you go into another mini game where you have to hunt the starter fluid). after you get her cranked and roll on scene you get to battle through thick smoke and fight through thick thorn-e bushes to find the fire and beat it out with your shovel or you can break off pine tree limbs and battle the fire :)

Spirit_of_87

I am not sure how "Country" Firefighters fight fire but, breaking off pine tree limbs to battle a fire is the worst tactic that I have ever heard. First, the fuels are already pre-heated by the radiant heat of the sun and fire, and by the convection of the smoke collum. Pine needles burn at a rapid rate of spread. Where is your LCES, Escape routes, Safety Zones, Initial Size up etc... I work on a Hotshot crew on the Angeles Forest so I have a lot of experience fighting wild land fires. What you would probably want to do is have the engine crews lay some hose (along with a containment line) and attack the head of the fire (if possible) or you can flank the fire with hand crews depending on what the fire is doing (will you go direct, indirect, parallel?). I am guessing the Country is pretty flat in terms of topography? Out here in the Angeles it gets pretty steep.

Anyway, back on topic. Not much too say except for, I guess a firefighting game would be as cliched as a light saber game.... it's bound to happen sooner or later.

I don't really see how this game is a cliche as they aren't that many of them, unless you count the one that I saw at Chucky E' Cheese last week.

it's actually really hilly here where i live...the Appalachian Mountain Range starts here in our community (technically it's considered the "foothills" of the Appalachians but it still runs all the way to maine) but yeah y'all have alot of fuel model 3's i think? the palmetta grass ain't it? (my dad fought fire with the forest service for 20+ years so i've been exposed to all these fire terms lol) but yeah y'all have some bad a** fires out there

anyway yeah around here it's mostly Loblolly and Longleaf Pine but our brush fires are typically small because we have a pretty fast response time but most of our fires have flame lengths of less than a foot sometimes 2-3 feet and they mostly just back through the woods so you can pretty much stomp them out or beat them out...the forestry commision plows in dozer lines if they get much more than 5 or so acres...so our fires around here never ge to big..

that looks pretty sweet!

seems like all the games are based on Urban Firefighters though....they should make a game on country firefighters like me! i can see it now...the game starts on a hot summer Alabama night, a brush fire started at 2am by a redneck neigbors fireworks, you get the call from the 911 Office and rush to the station and you fade into a mini game where you have to put your turn out gear on, then you try and crank your fire departments converted 4X4 jeep brush fire truck, but she doesn't crank (so you go into another mini game where you have to hunt the starter fluid). after you get her cranked and roll on scene you get to battle through thick smoke and fight through thick thorn-e bushes to find the fire and beat it out with your shovel or you can break off pine tree limbs and battle the fire :)

yeah it can kill you

I'm not a doctor though, but from the first responder first aid course i took (i'm a volunteer firefighter) they didn't cover this lol...but i want to say it's like at 100 hours of staying awake constantly that it kills you...but that would probaly be like working hard and staying up for 100 hours....haha what do i know, i'm just hired from the neckdown, i'm not paid to think :P

Conformest, 7.5/10

Thomas Builds-the-Fire: "Hey Victor! I'm sorry 'bout your dad."
Victor Joseph: "How'd you hear about it?"
Thomas Builds-the-Fire: "I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight.  And your mom was just in here cryin'."

Thomas Builds-the-Fire: "Sometimes it's a good day to die, sometimes it's a good day to have breakfast."

 
-Smoke Signals

Aliens? nah i don't really buy into it...but Ghosts? i used to didn't belive in ghosts, but then weird crap started happening....turns out my old house was haunted by like a demon is all i can describe it as...dern thing used to wake me up and be standing over my bed :shock:, but thats another story!. 

there was other stuff like when i would spend weekends at my grandparents house weird stuff would happen...family members walking down a hall and a womans voice saying "HEY".  or i remember one time there was this really old sounding music playing at like 1am when the tv was off and everyone was asleep...me and my mom both woke up and couldn't figure it out lol (my grandparent's have a cattle farm and live in a 200 year old farm house, very small...pretty much 2 rooms they "live" in, the rest is just old rooms no one uses so i know it wasn't the radio or any family making the sounds).  one time i remember i was in the kitchen about 9 or 10 at night finding something to eat and i had the radio on and stuff but i kept hearing this flute outside...so i turned the radio off and went outside and stood on the back steps and it was a very faint coming from the creek that flows through their farm (the creek is about 700-800 yards from their house) anyway there used to be a indian village on the place back in the 1830s before they were killed and forced out west to the rez.  anyway yeah thats a few of the weird things that happened to me...im still kinda skeptical but i think theres something to it anyway.

well if the question is "where" does my freedom come from? then in principal i would say it comes from inside me, the desire i have, the deside everyone has to be live free and happy lives, the ability to make myself whatever the hell i want to be.  you have to want it to have it.  but also it comes from the service men and women who have fought and died for the ideal of a free nation.

my two cents anyhow lol