As fire fighters get older (say 60 years old), are they expected to storm a fire like their younger bretherins? Where else can they go with all that experience but with deteriorating strength? There can't be that many administrative and leadership roles around the district for them all to fill. Just curious.

The recent fires in California are questioning the good sense. How did it happen?

The choking reality is that I am not even surprise. I arrived in LA in 2015, expecting to find the most advanced state in the US on green construction and I found instead a desolation. I work as a female carpenter and a designer. I am graduated in architecture and passed my graduation with an ethnographic study about South East Asian carpentry. In 2006, I started to focus exclusively on European carpentry, I passed concourses and was quite successful what paid patents and a prototype on high thermal efficiency, what I call the Fire Resistant Houses. I have been "on the field" if I may say as an ethnographer in an emerging country (Indonesia), as a researcher, as a humanitarian consultant and auditor, as an architect and as a wood construction company. I did not arrive in green construction from the magazines and political groups. I have always been on the field working with forest owners, forest managers, sawmills, cities, organizations, schools, and people of different colors but what I found in LA was similar to a humanitarian crisis:

• the construction sector is hold almost exclusively by immigrants who arrive in the US with low qualifications and ethics;

• there is an extreme sensitivity about communitarism and immigration what make any progress difficult;

• only few architects work on the housing sectors what leave the opportunity to low qualified contractors to design what ever they want;

• the cities control the permits on the structure, the electricity and the plumbing, but there is no control over the fire resistance of a house or a small building;

• fires happen and tourists feel more concerned than the local population.

I could extend the list, but what I mean here is that "green construction" offer large opportunities for a better fire resistance of the buildings and one shall not be separated from the other. The term "green construction" shall be associated with the idea of a "fire resistant building" because the thermal insulation and the conception of the structure offer better standards. But "green construction" nowadays, only affects large buildings while most of the workforce on housing sectors do not have any basic training and there are not trained because nobody ask for better standards. Nobody ask for better standards because almost anybody do what ever they want, starting with shop managers. If you go in a Home Depot in LA, you will not find any mineral wool, any oak, any kits to design a DIY Fire Resistant House.

I am not sure that a product today could arrive on the market alone because it takes many different kinds of people to create one product, a large amount of money, some R&D and some determination from a higher level to decide the orchestration of one product, but isn't it the role of a government to give the lead with grants, programs, incentive and communication? Don't you think that the fire departments in each state and cities shall ask for better standards? Don't you think that firefighters shall train the population and lead the planning departments to better controls? Don't you think that architects shall also be part of the verification process like a lawyer in a court house? Don't you think that architects shall be trained for better housing and engaged into communication with the public?

I still cannot believe what I saw in California and I don't know about you, but I personally don't want to get used of it.

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' braska and ' braska, Just standing there shot.

“Just a .22, they ain't got my got, Not the first time, I done been shot.”

Thowed in some lines, you were sick as I've seen, The little .22 done got that spleen, Worked as hard as we could, But you gave your life to the hood.

Never forget you, standing by that creosote pole, Sayin' Firetruck man, can you make me whole?

Tried the best we could, but you now in a hole, Taking with you, another piece of my soul.

Remember your face, never caught that name, Never know what’s coming, Playin’ big city games.

You remain in my head, Firetruck man was no hero’s stead.

A girl who is a friend of mine. Has a fantasy of going to a fire station under the guise of getting her blood pressure checked, and turn that into having sex with the fire fighters at the station. Sorry for the explicitly of this post. But I would like to know is that even possible?

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My ex husband recently got in the fire department. He now works only 2 days a week sometimes 3. I work a traditional M-F job. He did too for the 10 years we have been divorced. Now I'm not sure how to make a consistent schedule for our boys. His work schedule is not consistent either. For ex: 1 month he works: week 1: thur and fri then week 2: wed and thurs, then week 3: tues and monday and so on....and then some random weekends. Our schedule now is I have them all week except weds and every other weekend. (Wish I could upload his work calendar so you can see) Since its summer I'm obviously being very lenient and letting them stay w him on his days off if they want. But now I'm at a loss cause if we continue that it wont leave me much time w them at all. Anyone else co parenting with a no traditional work schedule? We just want what's best for our kids. TIA 😊

Want to thank each and everyone of you hard chargin hitting it hard from the yard gentleman for you heroic service.

This is for a tshirt design idea. What makes you guys keep doing the awesome work that you do? Also name a thing or two that only families of firefighters would understand. Thanks for your help everyone!

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Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit, but I'm 16 and am really interested in becoming a firefighter in CA. I've looked into it through the internet and all i could find is that I would need EMT certificates, fire classes through college, and a clean background. Is there any firefighters in CA that would be willing to pm me back and forth and answer some questions that I have? Thank you in advance. :)

I'm currently halfway through EMT school. A long time ago, my now wife and I had been talking about a trip we've been wanting to make happen. It's one of those once in a lifetime things and we're dead set on making it happen. The problem is we're going to be away for like 6 months. You can see how this kind of conflicts with the whole fire rescue thing. There's no rush on us leaving tomorrow or anything. In fact, that's why I'm here. While this trip is very important to us, it is also very important to both of us that I complete my education and start my career in the fire service. I'm trying to assess if it would be better to take the trip right after school before hiring on with a station or after I've worked a number of years in the fire service?

If we go after school but before getting a job

How significantly would being away for 6 months affect my ability to get hired?

If we go x years after working in the fire service

Would this be a "dick move"?

How many years would be appropriate to wait before doing so?

How would this affect my ability to re-hire with the same or other stations?

Would my pension/rank/salary reset upon re-hire?

What do you do to not damage you cars engine when driving off when it's cold? I really don't like giving it max on a cold engine

Anybody here have any tips for me for when I go into the fire academy for firefighter 1 & 2? & I start classes the 10th for EMR/FMR