Lift weights, eat, sleep, watch TV. Follow ambulance crews around town, retire at 55 with a full pension.
With modern advances in home construction and fire prevention nobody has fires anymore. If you asked a firefighter how many actual fires he saw in his career, he'd say one or two.
Yep. I’ve seen one maybe one or two structure fires in our area in the past 25 years.
Maybe that’s why the big number of responders show up for simple medical aid incidents. Plus they can bill much more.
Well I see you have no idea what real firefighters do. Hubby is a 33 yr retired firefighter. Here they have always worked medical aids and are always first on scene. They then release the patient to the emt’s on the ambulance for transport to the hospital. They run round the clock here on medical aids.
Hubby worked for 15 years at the busiest station in our county. He’d come home after 2 days at work with just 4 hrs of sleep in those 48 hrs. He was also a watershed expert and his strike team was usually one of the first to go out. He worked almost every major fire in California where they called in additional teams from elsewhere.
I’d say it’s about time the rest of the country caught up to what real firefighters do. House fires, etc. are few and far between what they really do here.
BTW, it’s why people line up around the block when a position comes open. Of course they’re usually insider picks.
It’s a gold plated lottery job if you can land one.