A fire chief in Kansas finds himself the target of anger and frustration over, of all things, stickers. Sedgwick County certainly isn’t the first fire department to wrestle with a "stickergate" controversy. I’m guessing most departments have had at least one. That helmet and apparatus decals could set off a department-wide dust up is not surprising. Firefighters have a powerful relationship to their symbols; they can be a source of strength and comfort. For those who missed the story, the Sedgwick County chief ordered several stickers removed from department rigs. The 10-year-old stickers are a memorial to one of three firefighters who died in the line of duty. The chief reasoned that honoring only one fallen firefighter was disrespectful to the families of the other two.