What firefighters do isn’t like going to the office and running the risk of being hit by a truck on the way there, we are talking about being told that they have to go into a dangerous situtation and put their lives on the line.
For everyone else, yeah, probably most of the calls are not dangerous ones, but when my grandad was doing it, mill and factory fires were a fairly regular occurrance, and on one occasion, he watched with his own eyes as his friend crashed through the floor. It was dangerous, they all understood that and it did involve having to put their lives on the line to protect others. It isn’t really in the same league as running the risk of an industrial accident...
They are not combat veterans and should not be treated as such, as you have suggested here...
That is absolutely ridicules...