MaD Archer's blog: "Fireman's Prayer"

Help me embrace a little child

before it is too late

or save an older person

from the horror of that fate.

Enable me to be alert

and hear the weakest shout,

and quickly and efficiently

to put the fire out.

I want to fill my calling Lord

and give the best in me

to guard my every neighbor

and protect their property

and if,according to my fate,

I am to lose my life,

please bless with your protection

my children and my wife.

~author unknown