Posted on 05/17/2015 2:58:17 PM PDT by lowbridge
Make sure your smoke alarms work: The FDNY may be about to get a lot less reliable.
As The Post’s Michael Gartland reportedThursday, the department is tweaking its fitness exam for recruits in ways that will make it easier to pass.
This raises fears that new firefighters might be less fit — and less qualified for the grueling task of fighting a New York City-size blaze.
Trainees, for example, won’t be asked to complete as many exercises meant to simulate pulling down a ceiling. And a reordering of the tasks on the test — supposedly to better represent actual firefighting conditions — will “reduce the cumulative fatigue” for recruits.
The changes were based on recommendations by a consultant, PSI Services, which reviewed the testing for the city to make sure it was “fair and safe.”
Fair? That should set off alarms right there.
The FDNY has taken heat for years from critics who slammed the tests as unfair. They claim there are “too few” blacks, Hispanics and women in the department — citing the fact, for example, that only 46 of the city’s 10,500 firefighters are women.
Some years back, a left-wing federal judge, Nicholas Garaufis, deemed the testing discriminated against blacks and slapped the department with restrictions. (An appeals court later ruled that it was Garaufis himself who’d shown bias.)
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Pulling down ceilings with a pike pole is tough work.
this will become a circle; someone is going to die because some physically unqualified woman couldn’t carry an unconscious citizen out of a burning building, and that someone’s family is going to lawyer up and sue the sh*t out of the city. the city will happily pay the family off.
so, essentially, that idiot mayor is trading public safety and hundreds of millions of dollars for chick firefighters
How many years of experience were lost on 9/11? It had to have been thousands...
FDNY used to be the best looking men in the city. Just to pass their firehouses when they sat out occasionally was a real treat. All those handsome, fit Irish boys. Now it’ll go to the dogs, I guess.
If a woman can carry a 250lb man down 3 flights of stairs while having 80 pounds of gear on their back, then I have no problem with them being a firefighter.
“If a woman can carry a 250lb man down 3 flights of stairs while having 80 pounds of gear on their back, then I have no problem with them being a firefighter.”
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I was a buff tuff 5’10” 180 lbs volunteer. After several call outs it was all I could do to get to my car and go home. Affirmative action cannot alter the laws of physics.
Regressives:The Party of FAILURE.
They’ll have to start special “elite” fire crews to protect places like Gracie Mansion.
Make way for girlz!
Another one who got his job but not because he was qualified.
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For some reason I never thought of it that way. How sickening.
NYC can’t put off the consequences of stupidity forever.
I think I remember seeing his picture at one point.
God rest his soul.
I witnessed for my self the city council led by man beast vivarito explaining how monumental thier decision was to intagrate females and minorities into the FDNY because of thier gender and color. No mention of thier strength or skills needed. This is not important to these idiots! complete and utter a##holes!
They’re probably going to put him on disability because he’s obviously suffering from pyrophobia. (If there’s no such condition, they’ll just pretend that there is.)
Who's going to knock down doors and rescue my family in a fire?
I'd prefer the strong male.
IF there's a woman who can physically do the job EXACTLY as well, then that's OK by me.
They are trying to match reality to the fiction they’ve been pushing on TV for decades; good luck with that. In the private sector it is harder to fake it; if someone can’t do the job then the work goes to someone who can. Companies have to keep the “fake workers” on the payroll, but in the end they have to pay the real workers. When my employer started handing out titles & money to tokens I cut my hours to the bare minimum (outlined when I was hired) and have enjoyed a much better work/life balance since.
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