We have a vacation home where there are quite a lot of wildfires. People do not like the firemen there, because it’s a bit of an open secret they often set the forrest on fire to have something to do.
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bizzle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was a volunteer fireman in a really shitty rural town. Those guys are racist as fuck they just don’t have guns with which to shoot you.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Lots of them have fucking Tasers though, and theirs have longer/strong cartridges, since they don’t carry guns to back them up like cops do.
Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve never met firefighter who carries a taser. We’ve got our hands full with crowbars, axes, ladders, hose, radio, thermal imaging camera, and air monitors. I legit don’t know where I’d even store a taser.
Maybe it’s fire police who are carrying tasers?
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m not sure how many have them. But they’re trained to use them, and the taser companies have separate versions for police and fire.
The FD’s around here have slowest begun projecting their insecurities like the blacked out blue lives matter cop cruisers have been for years.
The new trucks are dark grey on top and very dark red on the bottom half. They aren’t the bright easy to see red and white trucks they used to be. Which is a shame because now they blend in with dusk colors and kinda look mean
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Whoah, what? What fucking fire department lets their firefighters carry tasers?
Gt5@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s like that here in nyc too. The only difference is the job of the fd is to help people (unlike the pd)