Posted on 11/10/2013 8:54:27 PM PST by pluvmantelo
Despite failing a required FDNY running test five times, Wendy Tapia was allowed to graduate from the Fire Academy and become a firefighter. On Dec. 2, she is taking the test for an unprecedented sixth time. Tapia was one of only five women among 285 new firefighters who graduated from the FDNY’s Randall’s Island training academy on May 17. The class was hailed as the most diverse group of rookies ever, all of them EMTs or paramedics seeking promotion to firefighter. She joined a group of just 35 women among the 11,000 Bravest.
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She went sick her first day and requested a desk job.
“Now, if just...” s/b “Now if you just...”
It’s about despising all traditional limits for their own sake, not because of finding a better way to meet a traditional goal.
lol my ass. (no offense) This PC crap will cost lives. Every firefighter should have the size and strength of an NFL linebacker. Who do you want to see when your almost dead from smoke inhalation busting through a burning door to carry your ass to safety, Someone the size of Ray Lewis or Nancy Pelosi?
That 12-minute standard seems like it’s already been “dumbed-down” to accommodate females. That’s an eight-minute mile.
When I tried to work as a firefighter, people were mean to me, so I need compen$ation.
Its NYC.
Who care if the NYFD cant save the NY city dwellers?
F-NYC.
Many years ago one of my close friends who was an excellent athlete and always in good shape took the test to become a fireman. He told me about the physical part of the test. I wouldn’t be surprised if only one male in five could have passed the physical. I would have had a tough time passing it, and I though I was in shape at the time. My friend passed and was put on the waiting list, but he took another job instead and never became a fireman.
Most people overlook the real problem. If she cannot pass the test now while she is young and at the peak of her physical powers, what will she be like when she hits 40 and has gained a few pounds and lost some youth?
The answer is she will be hiding somewhere in an administrative job on light duty and earning Firefighters pay.
I have seen it.
I remember a woman who failed the training school where I worked as Firefighter, she went to court against the Chief and Captain at the school, she got a do-over and the Chief and captain got a transfer. Their replacements saw the handwriting on the wall and passed her, she graduated.
She was useless in the Company she went to, and created multiple problems, after a couple of years, one day she went on sick leave. The Firefighters stopped at a local Safeway to get groceries , and she was there working a part time job as register clerk while on sick leave from the Fire Department. This time she got fired.
Yeah, there's a reason for that. And it should be 34.
“I remember a woman who failed the training school where I worked as Firefighter, she went to court against the Chief and Captain at the school, she got a do-over and the Chief and captain got a transfer. Their replacements saw the handwriting on the wall and passed her, she graduated.”
That very mindset is why a few managers I know won’t hire women (for clerial office work); rather than tiptoe around them, they’re willing to hire less-qualified Hispanic guys and will train them.
Yeah, I was wondering about that too. I never had the desire to be a firefighter when I was an EMT-P.
A lot of emt’s from our local ambulance service become firefighters......because of the pay. The difference is huge.
Progressivism means you get to have it both ways. Doublespeak rules!
About 7 years ago the LA Weekly (the VERY liberal, left-wing, free newspaper of Los Angeles) did a very comprehensive article on LAFD and its problems with female recruits who (literally) couldn’t pull their own weight.
It was this same story, multiplied by many of LA’s women firefighters. Documented how they get hired as EMTs because the physical demands are less and fail as firefighters (looks like this chick went EMT to firefighter also). After failing they cost the county big money in Worker’s Comp and discrimination lawsuits.
Also, an obscenely disproportionate amount of money is spent recruiting and in remedial training of females.
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