True, we do a lot of sitting around, cleaning, weight training, sleeping, and eating actually, but I wonder how many on here could actually do the job when the bell rings?
My guess is very few, and that's why out of the 100s (nearly 190 iirc) of entrants for the Fire service, only 3 of us actually passed the DIFFICULT physical strength and speed tests back then when I first started.
Most on here would probably have trouble carrying a large torch down ladders from a burning building in serious proximity to heat, let alone your average fat drunkard who fell asleep with the usual Kitchen chip pan fire.
We risk our lives, get stoned and bricked by Youths, and along the way see dead Children, decapitated people, suicides, hoax calls, and People of all shapes and sizes. Then there are the numerous nightmares that come with seeing all this.
Not an easy job, mentally or physically, I'll tell you.
Again... For what we do, I think the Money we earn is minimal.
I'm actually very proud to be a FireFighter, and not be some unfit loser and underachiever who just settled to work in some dirty old warehouse or shop.
Saying we just sit around is pure ignorance, and let's hope you're not the victim of us being "sat on our Anus" when you need us. You wont be, that you can rely on.
I'm sorry for migrating my thread off topic, so please let us now go back OT.