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As one might assume, however, being a first responder of any kind comes with its fair share of difficulties. At any moment, a first responder could get a signal telling them it\u2019s time to drop everything they\u2019re doing and go. For firefighters, their signals come in the form of tones dropping. Underwood shared, \u201cYou never know what you\u2019re getting called to or what you\u2019re going into each time the tones drop at the station. You don\u2019t know whether you\u2019re going into a structure fire or if you\u2019re going into a bad call where someone is hurt. Your mind starts racing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cImmediately, you start sizing up the situation and go through a mental checklist like: What will the situation entail? What am I going to need when I get there? If it\u2019s a home, what kind of house is it? Where is it located? There is a rush of adrenaline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Firemen and women are trained and ready to handle both intense and dangerous situations. Yet despite their formal training and implementation of safety protocols, there is still an undeniable element of danger looming in their typical work day. Underwood said, \u201cBeing in a house fire is so different. You go in, and in the back of your mind you\u2019re always thinking, \u201cYou know, there\u2019s a chance that I might not come out of this once I go into it.\u201d And that\u2019s something you must understand when you start this job. You take a risk every single day. Underwood continued, \u201cMentally, you have to prepare yourself before going into something. And it\u2019s not as scary because of the training that we go through.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the hardest calls Underwood has ever had to respond to happened a few months after his son, Beckham, was born. He shared, \u201cWithout going into much detail, I went on a call whenever my son was about four months in order to outlast the burdens associated with the job. Underwood reconciles the unsettling emotions by looking for the bigger picture. He shared, \u201cThere have been many hard calls. Everything you see here is not all good. But you have to tell yourself that God has a plan, He does things for a reason, and that he\u2019s called you to be in that position to deal with that situation at that time. That\u2019s how I deal with the rougher calls. You just have to tell yourself that it\u2019s all in God\u2019s hands, and He\u2019s called you to do the job.\u201d GN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MOST EVERYONE takes comfort in knowing that when they need help, someone is there to answer the call. But who is that someone? In Fayetteville, it\u2019s quite possible that the person answering your call will be Lieutenant Daniel Underwood of the Fayetteville City Fire Department. Underwood began his career as a firefighter over three years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":9193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-7426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-october"],"yoast_head":"\n