I refused to go into a burning ranch style-flat WITH NO PEOPLE INSIDE. Because only me and the only three women on our dept. showed up to the scene. (Rural paid on call dept.). The one other to accompany me (with one being watch and one running the pump) would of been a 5'5 115 lbs women. I'm a 190lbs 6'1 man. With our bunker gear on add another 40lbs for here and 60 for me.
Because SHOCKER I would have to carry our tools.
Long story short chief said that "sexism" was no reason to "disregard duty" and I was asked to resign (aka fired).
Oh btw she had a different physical exam for her state certification than I did. No way I'm trusting her to drag me out.
EDIT: chief is a chiefette, guys i wouldn't win in Minnesota courts thank you though.
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20 kilometers?!? How long is the marathon?
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Uh. All females in the military have in toto lower standards on the PT test. Source: Me; retired MSG @ 20 years.
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I always believed if you made their standards the same as males you'd see them rise to the occasion. People tend to moderate their behavior from expectations levied on them. The thing about the APFT that always pissed me off (gender wise*) is you have all sorts of men being held to their age group standard. I had guys who rarely hit the gym and gave minimal effort smoke the PT test. I had guys whose physiology or build put them at an obvious disadvantage but worked their asses off. Women love to say they have to work twice as hard as men just to get the same benefit, but that discounts all the men working their balls off just to get in the door. Men work twice as hard, too. They have to. There is no one there to rescue them if they fail.
*eta for anecdote: I was assigned to USASOC for a good while. ALL the women there could not only smoke their APFT, but smoke it on the male scale, too. They could do pull-ups, they could run, they could do all sorts of stuff that put them on par with their male counterparts other than brute strength. The idea that women need a different standard is an excuse to be lazy. Always said the bullet ain't gonna go slower for them so step up yo' game. No excuses.
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Holy shit man and I was bitching about not being able to find a martial arts gym without pussy and white knights, while some people might lose their actual lives due to political correctness.
It's ridiculous that women can become firefighters as it is, let alone to put 3 of them in a team of 4. What the actual fuck.
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You'll be hired at a real fire dept.
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Why don't you just lie? How can they prove you are not a lgbtq+~r> transgender hispanic?
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If is known there are no people inside, what is the point of any fireman going inside while the place is still burning?
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Maybe not legally... but practically... it does. Especially any modern home built with "engineered" beams or similar materials (i.e. anything and everything that has any OSB or other "modern" crap-wood).
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Ah bureaucratic idiocy... And again, not worth the risk.
-- No offense to you as a fireman, but (midestern US like yourself) I have yet to ever see any house fire that required the fire department to put out (IOW wasn't put out immediately by the homeowner) that had anything left that was worth salvaging. (What didn't suffer from fire & heat damage, was ruined by either smoke, water, or the delayed action of the acidic combination residue of smoke+moisture.)
To my mind the chief (and really ONLY) value of a fire department response is: 1) saving HUMAN lives; and 2) preventing the spread to other nearby or adjacent buildings.
And in small, stand-alone, residential dwelling fires (like the one you noted) the first is actually pretty darned rare; and in rural areas (unless it's some really "dry" season, in an area with a lot of tinder, dry brush, and given to wildfires) the second is rather unusual as well.
-- The whole idea of some local fire department "saving" someone's house -- is a false sense of security/safety (and IMO misleads people then into NOT taking preventative steps that they could & should). Its much like the idea that local police somehow "protect" people from and/or prevent crimes (oh to be sure there may be some trivial instances where their coincidental presence delays or temporarily "deters" {more likely defers or shifts} some minor vandalism or other property crime, but that's about it).
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