Quote:what morons! Matt private message me i would like to do a patch and shirt trade if you would like to. Thanks Rob FRFPD Safety officerI don't want to step out of line here, but you need to hear the whole story (not implying anything has been left out on purpose but it was a short synopsis)
My understanding was that St Louis was running three guys on ladders and pumps. With the quint concept they went to every company having four members, new rigs all around, jaws on all rigs, stations rebuilt and renovated.(please, please correct me if wrong...) I don't know what the economy was like at the time, but three on a rig in a city enviroment scares me.
Hands down, I believe the best option is separate Engines and ladders, but desperate fiscal times sometimes means our leaders make hard decisions (and sometimes those decisions go completely against everything firefighters have been taught and hold dear)
However, I don't think it will ever change that firefighters want more/same number of trucks and men and city managers are told to save money so taxes don't go up. But I don't think the chiefs and managers are morons....they are just doing their job just like us blue shirts. Its just that we see the human repercussions of their decisions and it's brutally hard for us to take....
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