#9609837 - 07/18/19 09:25 AM
Re: Firefighters refuse to do a 'washdown' ... Thoughts?
[Re: furball]
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Risky Business
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This is what it has come to? No wonder all first responders hate fire fighters.
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#9610992 - 07/19/19 02:41 PM
Re: Firefighters refuse to do a 'washdown' ... Thoughts?
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titty sprinkles
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nope that's dumb. part of the job. that's like me saying that i don't want to see blood/pee/shit/vomit in the ER. Maybe if you changed your underwear more often it wouldn't be an issue....
if thats what you got going on in your underwear then maybe you need to come to the ER
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#9611493 - 07/20/19 02:16 PM
Re: Firefighters refuse to do a 'washdown' ... Thoughts?
[Re: titty sprinkles]
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Wildout
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Sorry guys just couldn't stomach it
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#9611500 - 07/20/19 02:33 PM
Re: Firefighters refuse to do a 'washdown' ... Thoughts?
[Re: Wildout]
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furball
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(snippit) quotes from same article, from 33-yr FF vet:
... he’s never heard of a fire department refusing washdowns, especially in circumstances where motorists are trapped on a highway.
“I have been to accidents where I had to pick up someone’s arm,”
“I would tell my guys, suck it up, I know it’s ugly, but that’s what we’re paid to do. You can’t expect a third party to come in and do it. The only time I’d entertain a third party is hazardous materials, because we’re not very well trained for that.”
Despite his feelings, he admitted he’s “old school” in his thinking and conceded how “sensitive” the issue of PTSD has become today.
“PTSD has become really prevalent in the last few years,” he added. “My only problem is we get paid good money and we all knew what it was before we got into (firefighting). Now people are saying after the fact that, ‘Oh, now I’m not OK with it.’ There aren’t fires like there used to be, so we have to play a big role to justify what they get paid and all that equipment.”
He said, at the end of the day, he feels for the Miller Paving employees who had to do the cleanup.
“They’re not trained emergency responders, they are truck drivers,” he said. “I can’t image what they were saying about the firefighters.”
Edited by furball (07/20/19 02:33 PM)
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