Oh Boy 2:23 PM to "reported" structure fires, toaster fire, lines down and 21 Medical calls. Twenty one medical calls and 2 dinky "reported structure fires" means that almost all the calls were medical calls and don't require over 60 paid firemen who get to sleep every single night and get paid for it. You can't justify that many paid firemen with over 95% of your call volume being for ambulance calls. Those so called structure fires were nothing that volunteers couldn't handle. A small mattress in the attic and the rear porch with fire doesn't require fire paid staffing.
4:20pm, besides the fact that the volunteers are almost completely non existent. You are quite obviously clueless. The volunteers are no more than a social club. They fail to get out on calls at a rate of about 85%. Which means what you ask? Well it means that the 60 paid firemen that you're ranting about,( which is really about 12 on each shift, which there are 4 of.) that means that in the case of a house fire, about 4 out of those 12 which are staffing the fire engine are fending for themselves and John wayne'ing it until, and I use that word until very loosely, maybe just maybe your glorified volunteers can scrape up enough people to show up and get a piece of equipment out. I would love, LOVE for you to step in a real firemans shoes for a day. Because it's not all the glitz and glimmer, or the sleeping through the night you swear you know it is. More times than not a paid man is on the ambulance not the fire engine, it's just the way staffing is. There's more getting coughed on, thrown up on, people bleeding on you, cussing you up one side and down the other. All from people you have no idea who the hell they are or what disease they may have. Hey but it's cool, you seem to think you know all the ins and outs of the job.
All Medical Calls.
ReplyDeleteHow many paid firemen do we need?
Except they aren't all medical calls. Actually read the posting.
ReplyDeleteOh Boy 2:23 PM to "reported" structure fires, toaster fire, lines down and 21 Medical calls. Twenty one medical calls and 2 dinky "reported structure fires" means that almost all the calls were medical calls and don't require over 60 paid firemen who get to sleep every single night and get paid for it. You can't justify that many paid firemen with over 95% of your call volume being for ambulance calls. Those so called structure fires were nothing that volunteers couldn't handle. A small mattress in the attic and the rear porch with fire doesn't require fire paid staffing.
ReplyDelete4:20pm, besides the fact that the volunteers are almost completely non existent. You are quite obviously clueless. The volunteers are no more than a social club. They fail to get out on calls at a rate of about 85%. Which means what you ask? Well it means that the 60 paid firemen that you're ranting about,( which is really about 12 on each shift, which there are 4 of.) that means that in the case of a house fire, about 4 out of those 12 which are staffing the fire engine are fending for themselves and John wayne'ing it until, and I use that word until very loosely, maybe just maybe your glorified volunteers can scrape up enough people to show up and get a piece of equipment out. I would love, LOVE for you to step in a real firemans shoes for a day. Because it's not all the glitz and glimmer, or the sleeping through the night you swear you know it is. More times than not a paid man is on the ambulance not the fire engine, it's just the way staffing is. There's more getting coughed on, thrown up on, people bleeding on you, cussing you up one side and down the other. All from people you have no idea who the hell they are or what disease they may have. Hey but it's cool, you seem to think you know all the ins and outs of the job.
ReplyDelete6:31... sounds like you been there....hats off!
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