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Don’t you guys have voluntary fire brigades or volunteer-driven agencies for technical relief[0] over there? Sure, you can’t get your groceries with one of thei
by claudius 14y ago
Don’t you guys have voluntary fire brigades or volunteer-driven agencies for technical relief[0] over there? Sure, you can’t get your groceries with one of their trucks, but driving them is still pretty fun I was told. Plus you don’t have to park them in your driveway.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technisches_Hilfswerk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technisches_Hilfswerk
- _delirium 14y agoDepends on where you live. In this guy's case, it looks like he lives in a smallish Montana town, so yeah, it's pretty likely that his local fire department is volunteer-run, and joining it would be an alternate way to get this experience. Could be more commitment than he wants, though, since you typically have to take training courses, not to mention actually commit to responding to fires and other calls (a large percentage of fire-department calls are medical responses rather than fires). That's a bit different than just buying a truck. On the plus side, that could itself be interesting, and would be the way to go if you wanted to really learn to operate firefighting equipment. Some numbers [1]: about 70% of U.S. firefighters are volunteer while 30% are career jobs, but the vast majority of the volunteer firefighters (94% of them) serve communities with under 25,000 people. Medium-sized towns and above typically have a professionally staffed department. [1] http://www.nfpa.org/displayContent.asp?categoryID=955 http://www.nfpa.org/displayContent.asp?categoryID=955
- willyt 14y agoTraffic accidents, railway suicides, stuff like that can be pretty gruesome. You have to be a certain type of person to be prepared to deal with that sort of thing.