Are you nuts? You must live in a very small town, I was a Phoenix Firefighter for 30 years and we never had a quiet nite, a typical tour started with checking and inventory of all apparatus, then washing said apparatus, cleaning the station then usually, if not on a call, training, training, and more training, and if not training, our Engine Company would be out doing fire inspections, testing fire hydrants.
And we were darned lucky if we got to finish lunch, or dinner w/o getting an alarm for either medical, or fire. To top it off, we were lucky if we got a whole nights sleep.
You try putting on heavy turnouts with full SCBA and hauling axes, halligans, hoses, and going into a hot, smoky, burning structure, or rolling up on an accident with multiple victims who are suffering trauma or are dead.
Oh yeah, and if a shift had to be filled, we could be force hired whether we liked it or not.
We worked the Kelly schedule-24 on, 24 off, 24 on, 24 off, 24 on, 96 off. So w/o overtime, we worked 240 hours a month, how many hours a month do you work?
Cake job my ass.
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