Posted by kcm.MN on October 31, 2017 at 12:11:21 from (174.219.135.14):
In Reply to: Fire Dept. posted by showcrop on October 31, 2017 at 09:53:21:
Good grief! When I was in Fire Dept, we got called out for fires, water (and other) rescues, vehicle fires and accidents, etc, but never for a shed blown over. That's a new one on me.
I left my VFD when I entered the USAF. When I got out, got back on the VFD, but it was different - too many "chiefs". Things had gotten so bad that there were times when our dept. would get called out and crews would come to the station, but nobody qualified to drive the truck and operate the pumps. It was a mess!
Was going to go paid after the Air Force, but just the last couple of months I was there, the (can't remember which) State Gov't or Fed Gov't changed things and made it so that any time and training put into military firefighting would no longer count towards getting onto a paid civilian dept. I would have been at the end of that long list of applicants. Other opportunities came up, so went another route.
Also, fire fighting didn't used to pay NEARLY as well as it does now!!
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