If it wasn’t so pathetic I’d laugh.
San Fran did this about 30 years ago which is pretty close to the time we decided to leave CA. They lowered all the physical standards, and when older, male firemen took film of them trying to do the physical, the women got a judge to put the footage under a restraining order so it couldn’t be shown
on TV...it’s been downhill ever since.
As my wife said,, “I want the biggest, baddest, toughest SOB possible to be there on the ladder.”