First we have the case of the fired life guard,now this crap?People will do there jobs in the way proscribed by their bureaucratic masters,or pay the consequences.
Don’t forget all the cops that stood around while a guy almost drowned at a beach in CA because the “rescue” team wasn’t around. A civilian went in and saved him.
Yep. That wonderful one-size-fits-all mentality of a government bureaucrat, it’ll kill initiative every time.
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
Like zero tolerance in schools, it is the mindless substitution of rules worked out by committees who never have to face the actual situations themselves for the on-the-scene judgements of the experienced professionals. To them, a dead woman in the arms of a masked firefighter is preferrable to the firefighter taking a chance by sharing his mask to save her life.
All done to please the race whiners, the PC mavens, the insurance companies, and the lawyers.
Think about it, it is all about money. If the victim had died there would be no compensation to be paid but if the firefighter had died, there would have been.