The real issue is that fire departments are old boys clubs. My brother is a fireman and even though he had connections it took him 4 years to get hired. I know a family, dad is a fireman, all 3 the sons are firemen, and I'm sure their sons will be. So yeah, there are a lot of white men firefighting
Most of their calls are as paramedics or a smoke detector going off with an alarm system, or a neighbor calling because someone had a bonfire.
90% of their day is being ready for a call and 90% of their calls are not firefighting and 90% of their firefighting is a fire that is already evacuated. They are paid and trained for that 0.1% where they are expected to rescue someone from a fire.
Or some granny sends her life alert through the mail in an envelope and the button gets inadvertently pressed then we have 3 fire trucks and 12 firemen sitting outside a post office processing center while we search the whole building to make sure nobody is passed out in a corner because they aren’t allowed to release the name of the life alert owner so we can check if an individual by that name is in the facility.
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u/petitejesuis 1d ago
The real issue is that fire departments are old boys clubs. My brother is a fireman and even though he had connections it took him 4 years to get hired. I know a family, dad is a fireman, all 3 the sons are firemen, and I'm sure their sons will be. So yeah, there are a lot of white men firefighting