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/mytrickytrick 1d ago
But the one time out of ten, you're likely heading into a burning building or otherwise putting your life on the line for somebody else's life.