As he crawls through the attic,

And you stand outside going ecstatic,

Try to think what he is feeling,

As he feels the fire pursuing

All the cracking and popping sounds,

As he crawls along unstable grounds.

Its a race against time,

As below they charge the line.

No matter how bad it looks to you,

They are just doing what they have to do.

As the ten min index comes up,

They pull out and the deck guns go up.

It’s time to take a different approach to this blaze,

For it has gone into a different phase.

As the water knocks the fire down,

You see that your house has burned to the ground.

As the Captain try's to comfort you,

Please just realize that we feel bad to.

Although it looks like our job is done,

What you don't see is that in fact it has just begun.

Once we leave your home and go back to ours,

We will spend our time cleaning for hours upon hours.

So next time you see that man and his crew....

Try to think of it from his point of view.