Posted on 05/03/2015 3:37:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The FDNY for the first time in its history will allow someone who failed its crucial physical-fitness test to join the Bravest, The Post has learned.
Rebecca Wax, 33, is set to graduate Tuesday from the Fire Academy without passing the Functional Skills Training test, a grueling obstacle course of job-related tasks performed in full gear with a limited air supply, an insider has revealed.
“They’re going to allow the first person to graduate without passing because this administration has lowered the standard,” said the insider, who is familiar with the training.
Upon graduation, Wax would be assigned to a firehouse and tasked with the full duties of a firefighter.
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Just the person Id want to COUNT ON during a team effort...anywhere.!
when do the TRANSEXUAL FIrefighters start showing up??
The Fire Dept. is lowering their standards in training exercises so that women can pass. One good thing that is coming out of women hires is they’re supplying self lifting stretchers because the women can’t lift the patients, that should save the men from having some of the back problems that firefighters are plagued with.
give her free testosterone shots, in no time she be throwing those hoses around like a real man....
Shades of Shannon Faulkner.
If somebody dies because she cannot perform her duties, just ripe for a lawsuit.
Will the fire lower its standards as well?
Prediction per observed pattern:
One year or so “in the firehouse”, then an “injury”, “fighting” a fire, followed by a light duty office job while she “recuperates”...
She finds that light-duty job to be just her cup of tea...
After a couple more years ghosting in a do-little/nothing office gig, she begins to have recurring pains and debilities due to her past “injuries”, and takes a medical pension...
Seen it again and again...
Had a female probie who couldn’t carry a K12 up a 24’ ladder...Hurt her back at a fire and landed in Dispatch...”Re-injured” her back there because the chairs didn’t fit her properly (I kid you not!)
Finally took her disability pension...
Worked busy engine companies 38 years and have the scars, burns, broken bones and surgeries to prove it...Most men work that job, in the firehouse, busy companies for 25-35 years...Women, not so much...
Sorry, Ladies...Occasionally a woman comes along who can cut the mustard, but she’s just the exception proving the rule...
Flame away!
Academics. Yeah that will make up for lack of physical agility. Only in Leftyland.
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I wonder why women and minorities are unable to meet standards that white men have meeting for generations?
Isn't it...?
Only white males have to live up to any standards.
a government department, was wondering why the sick leave increased 45% over the last few years, noted that female employment had increased 20% over the same period....aw, should read same time frame...
That’s because they are privileged.
Isn’t it great when you can get a job you’re not really qualified for? Just ask Obama.
Don’t forget: She failed a test that was dumbed-down already by Judge Sifton in about 1983. I’m wondering if she can pick up a pencil from the floor.
We are heading down the road to third world status and democrats have got the pedal to the metal.
Can she carry a ladder? Basic.
http://www.fireengineering.com/articles/print/volume-165/issue-5/features/one-firefighter-ladder-carry.html
Will need ladder to rescue people like this plus you have to carry them down
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178541/The-moment-firefighters-carry-elderly-man-ladder-safety-trapped-badly-burned-second-floor-apartment-burst-flames.html
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