An interview with a Firefighter

What do you do for a living? I’m a firefighter

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How would you describe what you do?

As a firefighter I do everything from fight grass fires, house fires, rubbish fires, car fires, anything that can catch on fire we’d be called for it. We go to medical calls, any time ambulances are called out we go to it. We do everything from heart attacks to small injuries to car wrecks. Anything an ambulance would be called for we help out with. 

When you see that little kid come up to see the fire trucks and he looks at us like you’d think he saw Superman, it’s rewarding to see those kids faces…

  Everybody here is an emergency medical technician so we go with ambulances on those calls. We also do swift water rescues, we’ve got all kinds of swift water equipment for like cars that are swept off low-water bridges and stuff like that. Pretty much if anything happens where someone needs to get rescued we’re the ones who get called. Continue Reading …

Posted in Public Service, Physical Work, Hourly pay   Posted: November 26th, 2007   1 comment