You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.

Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches.