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If my department or any ran the way theirs does with the calls they are ALWAYS on and everything else that goes on you would burn out in a week. But still cool to see wet shaving
Amen!
I think these shows have decent consultants on their writing staffs.
True dat.
That is the absolute truth. I can tell many many more stories of boring sitting at the department or boring calls/ cancelled calls or boring training compared to the exciting calls everyone thinks it is
The more interesting stuff that people want to hear is when I joined TEMS as a swat medic but most of even that was very boring stuff. To me the wicker store in my town that caught fire was more interesting all that wicker plus chemicals made for a big fire, we have had other big ones but I was still very new when the wicker store burned so it kind of stuck with me as the first big one
Yessir...
I think the training and commitment makes a person somewhat immune to the danger, so those on the outside looking in don’t share that kind of “emotional wall” and tend to romanticize. But we can’t kid ourselves nor should we obsess, that next patrol or call could be our last.
That is very true, I had the opportunity to let friends go through the burn house, they didn't turn all the fire valves on just enough for them to be blind crawling feeling the wall until they got to the victim and got them out and they realized nothing is as easy as on tv from cutting cars to handling the hose to actually going in and feeling the heat.
Quite a few of my best platoon mates became firefighters. It seemed like a natural fit.
That's down right blasphemy even though I worked with police doing swat medic and I still love our boys in blue they are great when you need them.
Watch this show religiously!
Me too. I love tacoma FD it's so funny and I love station 19, Chicago med, chicago fire, and swat. Even though swat is most unrealistic, the tech they use doesn't even exist for tier 1 soldiers and their weapon handling is horrible even though they were trained like taran butler.
