While I am shocked the village voice seems to agree it’s not racist, they ask if these questions will make a good firefighter. My answer is no, but it will get rid of the idiots real fast.
My husband is a ff in a different city in NY. Hey village voice, this test doesn’t get you the job. You then have an interview, physical exam psychological profile, and go to the Academy. You’re competing against those with Associates and Bachelor’s degrees in fire science. You may suck at the interview, fail out of the academy (next this will be racist), not be up to physical standards. Then if you’re hired you’re on probation.
The test gets you put higher on the list for an interview where we live. If they don’t find those qualified that scored the highest on the test, they go to the next group. If someone couldn’t answer those questions, I would not want hubby going into a burning building with them! And then there’s the officers exams.
They lose people almost every year fighting major fires, most other Fire Departments in the country are paramedics with fire extinguishers.
On 9/11, hundreds died staying in buildings way past the acceptable time limit for that type of structure.
Gravity is the enemy in a structure fire, the rank and file knew it, and so did their command, a lot of whom died with the men they couldn't order to evacuate for obvious reasons.
The communist in chief and his henchmen at DOJ are lawyers with political motives, the opposite end of the humanity spectrum from FF's.