There’s a moment in the fire service that never really leaves you. The tones drop. The lights come on. Conversations stop mid-sentence. In an instant, everything shifts from routine to readiness. You don’t yet know what you’re heading into — only that you’re needed, and you need to be ready. Life has a way of sounding alarms like that. Sometimes they come quietly — a slow realization that something isn’t right. Other times they arrive without warning: a phone call, a diagnosi