It only takes once.
Posted on 05/28/2014 9:50:19 PM PDT by chrisinoc
Firefighters had everything they needed for a Memorial Day BBQ assembled at the checkout line at a California Costco.
That is, until they had to leave it all behind to rush out on an emergency fire call.
When the firefighters returned to the store an hour later, wearing camouflage-patterned shirts with the American flag and determined to still have their steak, corn and watermelon, they were surprised, according to KOVR-TV.
Someone had paid their $125.25 bill.
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My daughter is a paramedic, but not a fire fighter. The reason they send the fire department is to break down the doors and provide back up if stuff needs lifting or clearing.
In a lot of communities the PM is a firefighter first.
And non firefighting paramedics get paid crap.
That isn’t the real reason, that is the excuse.
Thanks to all who responded to my question.
I was at my Oncologist for my Chemo Treatment a couple of weeks ago. There was a Patient there, an older Woman, who lost her balance walking to the Bathroom and ended up on her Butt.
No damage, just a little upset. My Doctor decided that it would best if she went to the ER just in case, thinking she needed some IV hydration.
He had his Staff call 911 for an Ambulance to transport her the 1/2 Mile to the Hospital, just an Ambulance. As I was leaving the Office ten minutes later, One Ambulance and Two Fire Trucks pulled in to the Parking Lot, Sirens blazing.
I counted at least eight Firemen and two Ambulance EMT’s.
My “Career” was Logistics Management, and this kind of wasted use of Resources drives me crazy. But then, it’s close enough for Government Work.
Not bashing Firefighters, just the lack of Resource Planning that we all have seen. Works for the Police as well. They chase a guy in an old Chevy Pickup down the Freeway and there are a dozen Police Cars right behind him. Absolutely nonsensical.
That was about $7,000.00 just for the firemen to drive up and do nothing.
Since firemen used to be volunteers, and so much of America still uses volunteers and private firms for firefighting, I wonder if they also adopted this union practice?
It only takes once.
We can play that card all the time and for everyone, why not post the photos of the roofers and taxi drivers, and construction workers and the soldiers who will die this week?
You’re beyond tiresome.
Beyond tiresome would be some DU like post of a guy who died 13 years ago, to shut down a discussion of government unions controlling big city politics and looting tax payer money.
“The average annual pension for a member of the city’s Bravest (fire person) who retired in 2010 was $89,177”
““Right now, we are paying full retirement benefits to people in their 40s,” Mayor Bloomberg cautioned. “As people are living longer, we simply can’t afford to do it forever.
“Our pension system is one of those areas where spending has grown to an unaffordable rate. And we simply have to find a way to rein it in.”
City figures show cops and firefighters actually live longer than other municipal workers.
Uniformed city workers can start collecting after 20 years, while others have to wait until their normal retirement age.”
“An average 42-year-old male firefighter has a life expectancy of 81, according to mortality tables from the New York City Office of the Actuary. A 42-year-old cop can expect to live to 80.
Because many cops and firefighters retire in their 40s, that means they might collect 40 years of pension checks – topping $2 million apiece.
In comparison, an average paper-pushing city clerk or traffic officer who is now 42 has a life expectancy of only 77.”
Shame he skewed the actuarial tables, eh sport?
You are correct!
One of my clients is a retired San Ramon FD engineer, that is being paid considerably more in retirement than he was at work.
And he has oodles of very expensive toys everywhere you look.
It is a shame that you would try such a childish liberal tactic to end the discussion by switching it all to a single individual who died 13 years ago, to personalize it, to put up a photo of an individual to make it all about feelings and to derail rational discussion.
Way to exploit the man’s death, we don’t even know what your pro-union, pro-government waste, arguments are, since you think that all you need is a photo of a dead individual to persuade us all to shut up with our conservative politics.
I have had many firefighter customers, I see their homes and their toys, and their remodels and add-ons, and their rental properties and beach homes, and over the decades I have come to see them as part of the well to do. They retire young and healthy, and collect a pension larger than most of us ever make in income, and the health benefits and such are wonderful, but why wouldn't they be, the unions write their own ticket and elect the politicians to sign off on them.
Forty years ago it was just a great job, with good pay, but today it is the lottery win, even while fires are disappearing from modern life.
THERE ARE ALMOST NO FIRES!
**Plenty of firefighters, but where are the fires? As ‘emergency’ changes its meaning, some critics are arguing it’s time to revisit a century-old system**
""But as a recent Globe story reported, city records show that major fires are becoming vanishingly rare. In 1975, there were 417 of them. Last year, there were 40. That’s a decline of more than 90 percent. A city that was once a tinderbox of wooden houses has become—thanks to better building codes, automatic sprinkler systems, and more careful behavior—a much less vulnerable place.
As this has happened, however, the number of professional firefighters in Boston has dropped only slightly, from around 1,600 in the 1980s to just over 1,400 today. The cost of running the department, meanwhile, has increased by almost $43 million over the past decade, and currently stands at $185 million, or around 7.5 percent of the city’s total budget.
The trend in Boston is part of a striking nationwide phenomenon. The number of career firefighters per capita in the United States is essentially unchanged since 1986, but of the roughly 30 million calls America’s fire departments responded to in 2011, the last year for which statistics are available, only about 1.4 million were fire-related—down by more than 50 percent since 1981, according to the National Fire Protection Association. And while the total number of calls being routed to fire departments is higher than it’s ever been, only 5 percent of them are fire related.""
Wow. Is everything a cynical conspiracy?
Read posts 44 and 45, there is a question for you in 45 in regards to your union answer.
Post 53 should also help explain your union position.
Not taking a union position at all. Firemen have saved my family.
It’s really that simple.
I don’t like cops. I don’t like state police. I think firemen are heros.
What a strange way for an adult to think, that post was the kind of irrational statement we might hear from an emotional 12 year old girl, it doesn’t have a place in this political discussion among the adults.
Really? You are a fool.
Your ignorant remarks are what make FR the cesspool it has become. The answer to everything is a conspiracy and all aspects of government are bad.
Some day you will be on your back gasping for breath. I hope the paramedics in your area have been laid off.
Yes, I just wished that you experience death by your own vision of the world.
What planet do you live on?
There are almost no volunteer firemen within 100 miles of me. At least not where there are more than 50 people in a town.
Who exactly should be dispatched on a 911 call where the conditions are not explained? The cops? They just want to direct traffic and shoot stuff.
When a call comes in from a commercial facility they send firemen because there is a possibility of mass injuries because the people calling are usually not clear and they are idiots.
You strike me as someone who reads a lot and has answers for everything, but you most likely have never been responsible for much beyond bringing beer to the bowling team cookout.
You are just rambling and raging, you keep displaying emotionalism and seem incapable of making a meaningful addition to the thread.
It seems that you aren’t even reading the entire thread.
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