Living a dozen miles west of the World Trade Center, the 9/11 legacy for firemen went beyond the guts they showed on that day. The worst part of it was when the new mayor (Bloomberg) was asked when they were going to start hiring to replace the 343 firemen killed, and he said they weren’t going to replace them; the department was overstaffed and the city had already been contemplating closing many firehouses. A close second was the number of firemen who insisted on having a detachment at Ground Zero to escort remains of firemen found in the rubble; the mayor (Giuliani initially) opposed the plan, but was abused in the press by the firefighter parasites. They got their way, and the number of early retirements/disabilities jumped as one of the unhealthiest groups of people started complaining of 9/11-related ailments.
Here in the rustbelt paid fire departments are a holdover from the days when we manufactured things in factories with real dangers; now they are simply workfare wealth transfers to firemen who sleep away their shifts in the firehouse before heading off to second jobs. Most NJ departments aren’t paid (those that are paid are mainly in fallen cities that haven’t manufactured anything in decades); attempts to regionalize them (so they can fire eight fires per year instead of two or three) are stiffly resisted by the unions. Taxpayers simply vote with their feet and leave...
All true!!!
Just as an aside illegal immigrants are the firefighters biggest friends. Their ignorance is what starts at least 75% of residential fires today in the NYC-NJ area. They do it via illegal gas hookups and overloading electrical circuits with space heaters as they try and duplicate the tropical climate they grew up in.
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Every code is violated with impunity by immigrants especially illegal basement conversions
http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2009/11/fire-in-illegal-basement-apartment.html