firemen at the firehouse 95% of the time waiting around on the taxpayer dime, and they get a fully funded pension after 20 yrs as well, same as police. heard the teachers get something similar which i'm not too sure of
looks like the waves have been going off in town, glad you're all gettin sum
Head on collision yesterday right around the corner from my house. It tied up traffic for hours on the highway into and out of Kauai's north shore. Not sure which car was making a turn into traffic but it wasn't nice. Engine 1, Truck 1, guys that I know and have worked with, with my K-9 Search Unit, had to extricate a mother and two kids from one car. I did see a 2nd blue car but not the occupants. Ambulance, Medic 22 from Kilauea where I live and 23 from Kapa'a, 20 minutes out also had to deal with the blood and gore on scene.
Say what you will, but none the less, the men and women that work in the Fire Dept are tough SOB's, do sh!t that no one else will or can't do, save folks in different scenarios and pick up body parts along with the Medics that are just doing "their jobs"
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Hanalei's Engine 1 Dept deals with fire's, ocean rescues, flooding, like our 100 year floods in 2018, heads up the CERT / Community Emergency Response Training program for local volunteers, do helicopter and mountain rescues here on Kauai. Rescue uninformed tourists *all the time* because they think they're in Disneyland. Some firemen, across Kauai, are very well accomplished surfers, assist with the Make a Wish Foundation and assist Bethany Hamilton with her foundation when both are ocean related.
Worked with a fire team out of Santa Cruz years back, headquartered out of King City for a few seasons. Not much time to sit on our ass's during summertime fire season. Neither do the two below.
"Iceman," here on the erBB, is from the Kern County Fire Dept and is active duty.
"Firebird" is another erBB Fireman here and active duty.
Both surf n' snowboard ~