A recent survey showed that being a firefighter is the sexiest job in the U.S. While I can understand the romantic view, it's not all that sexy.
Consider the hoses pictured above. Now imagine rolling them up after a big fire, loading them onto the fire engine, and taking them back to the station. Then you get to unroll them, pressure wash them (BOTH sides) and then pressure test them and put them back on the apparatus. (And yes, I did this last night)
Nothing sexy about that.
However, Some things are fun. Last night (in between hose washings), we did an extrication drill. We had a donated car that we got to cut up.
So we had the car on it's side with an imaginary victim inside it. Then the fun began...
And Voila - insta-Audi convertible. All in all it took about 15 minutes to stabilize the vehicle, and 5 mins to cut through the windshield, and cut the roof off. It was pretty fun.
The other neat thing is we had a couple people drop by because they were interested in joining, talk about giving the wrong impression. They might actually think we do cool things all the time.
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