>>Most taxpayers don’t get such pensions.
Most taxpayers don’t spend their career fighting fires. Ever been inside a burning building?
They aren’t really paid that much. A lot of that $400k is overtime and the taxpayers demand it. They say “don’t hire so many firefighters” and then they say “give us the protection we want 24/7”. You can’t ask them, “which one do you want?” because their answer is “both”. So, you get OT.
Oh please......construction is more dangerous than firefighting...firefighters are way overpaid for the work they do. Their pensions are way out of line.
We are hiring more and more firefighters for less and less fires...it’s a union racket
The Hopedale Fire Department, for example, gets three to four calls in a 24-hour period, according to Daige, but just eight to 12 fires a year.
This is fairly normal......most municipalities should go to semi professional firefighters....hire a few but rely on most to be volunteers.....less than 5 percent of their runs are for fires and most of those are small kitchen fires