The Los Angeles Fire Department lands a helicopter on Santa Monica High School's baseball field during an Air Operations Mutual Aid Training session on Saturday, Aug 29, 2009. The Mutual Aid Training between the Santa Monica Fire Department and the Los Angeles Fire Department is in preparing for the Santa Monica Pier's Centennial Celebration on September 9, 2009.

(top) Santa Monica Fire Chief Jim Hone helps Brianda Maldonado, 16, don a firefighters uniform at Santa Monica Fire station #3  during Santa Monica Human Relations Council's 'Kids with Cameras' summer photo workshop on Wednesday, Aug 12, 2009. (above) Photo students capture images at Santa Monica Firestation #3 during their weekly photo assignment. The students photos will be featured at Kids With Cameras' Community Art Show at McKinley Elementary School on Saturday, October 3.

Eight new Santa Monica Fire Department Dispatch personnel ride on a sandtram at Santa Monica Beach on Thursday, Aug 6, 2009, during a training exercise. They where surveyingthe beach area and lifeguard stations. Dispatch is returning to the Santa Monica Fire Department

(1-5) The Santa Monica Fire Department Graduation Class of 2009 demonstrate their life-saving skills during the graduation exercise on Saturday, June 27, 2009, at the Fire Academy. (6) Santa Monica Fire Captain MikeMcElvaney pins and his son, Tyler McElvaney, 22, with his new SMFD badge as Chief Jim Hone looks on. (7) (right to left) Matthew Anderson, 26; Dominick Bei, 26; Preston Delgado, 25; Jason Frebe, 28; Daniel Galvan, 25; Tyler McElvaney, 22; and Dustin Rodriguez, 26; take the Oath of Office during the 2009 Santa Monica Fire Department Graduation Exercise on Saturday, June 27, 2009, at the Fire Academy. The recruits complete an intense one year training program consisting of 2 months at the academy and10 months in the field before becoming official firefighters.

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Santa Monica Police Chief Tim Jackman and Santa Monica Fire Chief Jim Hone play fooseball with Gabriela Ruiz, 11, and her brother Alberto, 8, during the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica's grand opening celebration of the John Adams Middle School clubhouse on Wednesday, June 10, 2009. The new clubhouse will enable the after-school program to expand from one small classroom serving approximately 300 children annually to a 5,563-square-foot facility equipped to support all of the school's 1,100 students. The Clubhouse will provide services to students six days a week, 12 months a year -- before and after school, during lunch and during vacation and summer holidays.

(1,2) Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca leads the 21-gun salute during the 71st Annual Memorial Day Observance at Woodlawn Cemetery on Monday, May 25, 2009. (3) The Santa Monica Police Department and the (4,5) Santa Monica Fire Department lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during the graveside service at Woodlawn Cemetery (7) Two Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters flys in formation above Woodlawn Cemetery during the Military Flyover.

Santa Monica Fire Captain Matt Norris rings the bell ten-times during the Police/Fire Public Safety Memorial at City Hall on Wednesday, May 17, 2009. The Santa Monica Police Department fired off a twenty-one-gun salute during the memorial on Wednesday. The memorial recognized public safety officers who gave their lives in the line of duty to protect the citizens of Santa Monica.

1) Newly promoted Santa Monica Fire Captains (left to right) Matt Norris, Mathew Galvan and Judah Mitchell, swear-in during Santa Monica Fire Department's Inaugural  Promotion and Recognition Ceremony at Santa Monica City Hall on Tuesday, March 31, 2009. 2) Pam Skorstad pins her husband, Fire Engineer John Skorstad with his new SMFD badge as their daughters Samantha, 10, and Kristian 8, look on. 3) Santa Monica Fire Chief Jim Hone presents Captain Jerry Parker with the '2009 Fire Department Employee of the Year' award during the Inaugural Promotion and Recognition Ceremony.

Firefighter Code of Ethics

I will uphold the standards of my profession, continually search for new and improved methods and share my knowledge and skills with my contemporaries and descendants.

I will never allow personal feelings, nor danger to self, deter me from my responsibilities as a firefighter.

I will at all times, respect the property and rights of all men and women, the laws of my community and my country, and the chosen way of life of my fellow citizens.

I recognize the badge of my office as a symbol of public faith, and I accept it as a public trust to be held so long as I am true to the ethics of the fire service. I will constantly strive to achieve the objectives and ideals, dedicating myself to my chosen profession--saving of life, fire prevention and fire suppression.

As a member of the International Association of Fire Fighters, I accept this self-imposed and self-enforced obligation as my responsibility."