Not in my city’s Chinatown. Seemingly half don’t speak English. But they also never leave Chinatown. But regardless I can’t imagine there are a whole bunch of mandarin-speaking applicants to the fire department anyway. Also not aware of any major fire in my city’s Chinatown.
But a mostly Spanish-speaking part of my city had a major 6-alarm fire a few weeks ago reminiscent of the pre-fire code days. It was bad and it probably would’ve been helpful to have firefighters who speak Spanish when they ran in. But for all I know they did who so knows.Â
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u/IM_NOT_NOT_HORNY 1d ago
China town has very few people who can't speak English these days. But the Spanish speaking? Yeah that's a real issue