You might recall that we recently published the top 101 military Twitter accounts on our sister blog over at MilitaryBoots.com. We were about to go through blood, sweat and tears again to dig up the best of the best in fire/EMS on the microblogging site, until we discovered The Fire Critic has already done all the work for us. (Thanks, Rhett!!)

In September, The Fire Critic posted what was, in his opinion, the top 100 fire/EMS Twitter accounts. Even more recently, he harnessed the power of WeFollow.com, a site that organizes and quantifies the Twitterverse, and posted a list of the most influential fire/EMS Twitter users.

We’ve decided to pick out five that immediately caught our eye, and share some stats on these folks.

Who: @PedroParamedic

Location: Your Town

Bio: Big City Paramedic with a weakness for big dogs, fast bikes and blond waitresses

Following: 123

Followers: 180

Listed: 8

Style: Blunt — in a good way!

Sweetest tweets: “After today I will have super human swine flu immunity- or I’ll catch it and die. 12:27 AM Oct 28th from web”

“A call so F’ed up the PATIENT told the crew how to fix the mess they made- while being video taped by a news crew on 1 of the busiest… 8:43 PM Oct 30th from web”

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Who: @FireMom

Location: iPhone: 40.194931,-75.089241

Bio: Writing about the family side of fire life. Freelance writer & editor. Part-time photographer.

Following: 2,341

Followers: 2,323

Listed: 33

Style: Warm and cheery.

Sweetest tweet: “My iPhone ringtone is now the Peanuts theme song. So much win! 26 minutes ago from web”

“Warning, if you write a blog post about ‘berries,’ you will get acai berry diet spam. Just learned they’re POKEBERRIES! http://bit.ly/4yckFJ about 2 hours ago from bit.ly”

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Who: @geekymedic

Location: Vail, Colorado

Bio: Paramedic Geek..Need I say More

Following: 421

Followers: 206

Listed: 28

Style: Short and sweet.

Sweetest tweet: “Sweet 420 followers hehehe.10:22 PM Nov 4th from web”

“On the phone with my bromance @setla 5:19 PM Oct 31st from web”

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Who: @TinaFightsFire

Location: Boiling Springs, SC

Bio: I am a wife to 1, mom to 3, friend to several, have a passion for the fire service. I promote & teach fire/life safety!

Following: 2,028

Followers: 1,869

Listed: 37

Style: Friendly and informative.

Sweetest tweet: “I am outta class (THANK GOD) & soon will be celebrating @nemofightsfire ‘s birthday a day early w/all the kids at his parents house 2night!!”

“Let me just say there is NO neat way to eat a sub sandwich. And u can throw out trying 2 look pretty or even normal while doing so! 11:39 AM Nov 4th from UberTwitter”

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Who: @daniel_911

Location: Porter, TX, USA

Bio: Christ follower, fire dept dispatcher, web designer

Following: 197

Followers: 300

Listed: 7

Style: Sports fan meets technophile.

Sweetest tweet: “I like how someone already updated wikipedia to show the Yankees as World Champions! 10:49 PM Nov 4th from Tweetie”

“sack lunch again at work today, this is becoming a more common occurance 3:47 PM Sep 6th from SimplyTweet”