What’s up with volunteer fire departments? We moved back to NS recently and decided to live on the outskirts of town, out in the country so to speak—with volunteer fire departments.
First off I think it’s great that these institutions exist—they build a lot of community pride and ownership.
But WTF is up with every volunteer fire department having a bunch of pre-teen or teen boys playing fireman all the time? Every time I drive by the station there are some douchey 17-year-olds out washing the fire engines, playing crappy umph umph umph out of their Walmart speakers in their 95 Sun Fire GT (the fancy one) and horsing around like a swimsuit model getting her titties wet with the hose for a photo shoot.
Then, no matter where you are in the province, 85 percent of the time when a dumb ass is tailgating you, or driving like an idiot, or involved in an accident, I promise you it will be a mid-90s domestic or Honda Coupe, a sticker across the back window declaring the brand of said Coupe, a shit pipe for a muffler and a crappy stereo cranking out the tunes. Oh yea—and a “Volunteer Firefighter” licence plate.
Maybe these stations should start having some standards of conduct for their members (ie. if you’re on the job washing the trucks, wear a shirt and don’t crank tunes out of your shitbox car, after all, when the front end falls of doing 140 km/h and you end up in the rhubarb—who do you think will be responding to the accident?).
And, when the alarm goes off at the station, maybe don’t endanger people’s lives to get there? God, when the alarm goes off every dumb kid (in his Coupe) flies down the road usually twice the speed limit. I guarantee these people have no training in operating passenger vehicles at high rates of speed in residential areas, nor are they driving the types of vehicles that are meant for such.
I know that getting to the emergency is important but at what cost? Kill two people on the way, but at least you minimized the damage to the house that was burning down.
I’ll never understand people. —WTF
This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2012.
I would not have guessed the Hondoids would be in to volunteering for anything let alone firefighting. That’s not what they do in my neck of the woods! They just hang out in parking lots waiting to grow up and throw McD bags out the windows of their moving cars.
You moved to rural Nova Scotia, not The Hamptons.
Volunteer organizations tend to recruit from the local area. If you honestly believe that the gene pool in your area is that low (a specious enough argument) you could always try to raise it by joining yourself. They might even let you blow the siren.
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I’ve never heard of this 85% of accidents are caused by volunteer fire fighters. I must investigate. To solve this problem of unprofessionalism amoung volunteers and their perceived age problem, are you going to volunteer? Probably not. Maybe we should be thankfull these volunteers exist, and maybe in the future you will require their unprofessional assistance. You’d probably be quite thankfull when they save your house or life while playing that umph umph out of Walmart speakers. Then you strike me as the type that would complain about everything they did wrong. Try walking in their boots, or volunteering in their boots. If not, shut up. And let me guess, your overweight and couldn’t even lift a fully charged fire hose. But they can in their swimsuit bodies. Also, stay tuned for Blow Me. He’s got at least 10 relevant stories.
We can also make a list of people and properties for these volunteers to take their time for, would that please you?
Please just move back to Wherever.
The way I see it, these men and women are volunteering THEIR free time and energy, not to mention, occasionally risking THEIR lives, all in service to THEIR community; saving lives and untold amounts of $$ in property damage. (Pretty selfless, if you ask me.)
They can drive any car, listen to any music and dress any way they damn well please. You don’t like it, then put up or shut up, ya fid! NONE of what you posted, with the exception of wreckless driving, has ANY bearing on who these people are and what they do. (And as far as your “claims” of wreckless driving goes…considering the source, (I.E. You!), and the ridiculous nature of your baseless complaints, I’m not putting much worth into what you say.)
Welcome to Shawshank little fishy.
OB, just what selfless act have YOU done for society lately, you little ingrate?? Amazing how you can nit pick at young men who volunteer their services to help save lives. Get bent.
Well… I didn’t realize there were swimsuit hotties hosing each other down at the VFD, a little revisiting my decision to become a volunteer FF may be necessary.
As for the rest of your failed attempt at a humourous bitch… Those people (VOLUNTEERS, AS IN NO PAY TO HELP YOUR IGNANT ASS) are the first responders to the accident you are likely to have while driving with your head up your ass!!
How can you tell they have a firefighter license plate if they are tailgating you?
Sonic & avast0 – you already made several of my points, thank you.
There is considerable training and screening before anyone gets to be a Firefighter. You don’t just walk in off the street and get a hat.
If I were washing a friggin huge Fire Truck, I’d probably have the tunes blasting too, and I doubt you’d like my music any better that the kid’s.
TAILGAITING – Note to Firefighters:/ People can’t see your 4-way flashers when you’re really close, so they don’t know you’re on your way to an emergency.
Today’s 17 year old volunteer Firefighters, are tomorrows professionals, and have my respect.
So fuck off OB Troll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnAvTTaJjM…
Yeah, ’cause you’d rather have those douchey 17-year-olds washing that fire truck smoking crack, raping your child and murdering your friends instead, right?
sometimes those douchy kids, could save your ass. and they are there learning. and by helping out after school or whatnot, they listen and see their heroes in action. being a fire fighter isn’t glorious o.p., i was with the bridgewater volenteers for a time. and when the chips were down, they came thru. i lost a home and 16 animalls that i was boarding there, due to local animal shelter being shut down, then i helped the s.p.c.a. down there and took in a bunch of older non adoptable animals. these were the ones inside at the time of the fire in 1992 they lived longer there, than they would have if left in the kennels at the s.p.c.a.
long story short, we had a major fire, due to wiring, house and animals inside went, insurance wasn’t up to date at time, due to a mix-up on my ex’s and my part. lost everything, cept clothes on our backs. the s.p.c.a. was the first to kick start a community drive to help us, then fire dept., then the local radio station. where i worked helped us out, by the owner letting us stay in one of his apartments in mader’s cove.
the community was great, and i gave back by joining the fire dept. as a volunteer. a lot of shit goes down o.p., never doubt that. there was young kids there washing the trucks at that time too. those are our future, and for one, i am fucking glad they are there.
“Based on a true story”
sonic whatever, yes it is. check the bridgewater bulliten back in 1992. the place was called camperdown, and i lived on sarty road. so get fucked asshole, and have a very nice day. also beth hunt was the hhead of the shelter at that time, and shirlen semone, was the police chief. who i might and, was a very close personal friend, til the day he died. i use to work for the levy’s that own the dry cleaning place there. so la de dah wanker.
Maybe some these kids have to wash fire trucks as part of their community service sentence, I don’t know. I haven’t seen anything like this at the local fire station. Other than that, I tend to agree with previous posters.
Wtf is up with this lousy free tap water? I HATE the packaging on these lifesaving antibiotics!
Oh Blow Me, how entertaining you are. Hows the book coming old Gary? I’m sorry I questioned the authenticity of your tales. More than one contradiction though, in the the first tale you worked for the radio station and were a volunteer. Then you try to tell me off and claim you worked at a dry cleaning place at the time. So I’m to understand you worked two jobs at the time, volunteered, and had your house burn down while assisting people with your amazing first aid skills, and had 16 animals die, then take in all the older animals from the S.P.C.A at the same time you claimed they were shut down. Amazing life you have, I for one will go to the movie. Maybe you could get it premiered at the Film Festival, your what they need to turn those sour reviews around.
Also, was this around the time you assaulted and choked a child?
So basically you just don’t like kids these days no matter what they do. Lots of kids drive hondas cuz guess what, they’re cheap and reliable. Kids like loud music. Welcome to planet earth. I’m sure you were a regular Ronald fucking Regan at age 17 OP.
I’m sure your blabbering mouth will still be flapping if your house burned down and these guys saved your ass.
Age 17 is the age when your body and mind are at their sharpest. quite frankly i’d feel safer with a pack of young, strong gorillas than i ever would with a gaggle of 40 or 50-something year old bastards wheezingly dragging my sorry half-charred corpse across my lawn.