5 thoughts on “MERRY CHRISTMAS”

  1. Those guys have a lot of time on their hands in order to plan and do something like this. I am sure many of my cop friends will agree, the firemen have it so nice in comparison to us in blue and green. We were issued a badge and a gun…they were issued a badge and a pillow.

    I remember on many occasions going over to the FD for some reason, and everytime I was there, I smelled some amazing cooking going on (They are always cooking something awesome…and I don’t mean hotpockets, but full on several course meals, and almost always something with pasta and lots of garlic.) They had a BIG screen television, with 12 lazyboy recliners in a semi-circle around it, a pool table, ping pong table, a poker table, basketball nets in the driveway, arcade and other video games…not to mention a slew of seriously comfy beds upstairs where they get to sleep for a third of their shift and still get paid…THEY GET PAID TO SLEEP. it’s like an adult playground there. Almost like daycare where firemen’s wives send them to be looked after. And the place is spotless…I mean germophobic clean. Not sure how other FD’s work it, but our FD worked 24 hours straight, and then had the next two days off.

    Whereas, the PD, we didn’t have NONE of that. (yes, there is a tone of jealousy in my “voice”).

    You see, while they sit around waiting for fires to happen, we boys in blue were BUSY as all hell. My 12 hour shift was call to call to call…with no break until maybe about 2am, where even the scumbags get tired and go to sleep.

    However, in there defense, you would NOT catch me running into a burning building or house. I have been dispatched on scene to house fires, and I can assure you, it is WAY MORE dangerous than even TV makes it look. The choking on the smoke, and that is OUTSIDE the house, and the heat that you feel even 50 feet away…and these guys are running INTO it. Then there are those badass firemen…the Seal Team 6 of fire fighting, who fight those blazes that are hundreds of acres of death and hellfire. You could not pay me enough to do that. Yes, I had to deal with human scumbags, but these guys are up against mother nature, and she is not subdued so easily with a taser or OC spray.

    So, I guess they deserve the luxuries they get, and driving that big ass firetruck…well, that is too cool. As we say…we didn’t get paid for what we did…we got paid for what we might one day HAVE TO DO. Putting our lives on the line is not just a saying…it is damned real. And every cop out there has personally known a cop who died in the line of duty. We have all worn black on our badges for a fallen fellow officer…and that is not a happy moment. And for FD guys, I can imagine no other more horrific way of dying than being burned alive. Seriously, is there anything worse? I guess I would take a bullet in the head over that fate.

    So, have some fun, it is well deserved…you lazy bastards. The number two cause of death for firemen is from heart disease from the high cholesterol they get from all the damned eating they do…seriously, not kidding…look it up.

    Merry Christmas to all.

  4. Thanks everyone for their comments.

    Thanks to all who read this blog, and who listen to the radio show.

    I’ve been doing this consistently since 2004. I’ve made over 4,000 posts in that time. I’m not stopping now.

    I can only hope that 2018 is better for me that 2017 which was, truly, bidirectional: it both sucked and blew.

    BZ

  5. Magic at the Fire House! Loved it.
    As for any criticism of the Firefighters …. I was a Police Officer for nearly 30 years and many times I saw Firefighters enter high-rise buildings that were well alight and bring out living persons wrapped in fire-proof blankets. They were all braver men than I.

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