Woman to become NY firefighter despite failing crucial fitness test

SnapeKilledGandalf · 2015-05-04T14:00:57+00:00

Don't worry guys. She did well on the academic portion. She will at least know the science of why the burning building collapsed with people in it while she was too busy trying to catch her breath.

Pyroscout22 · 2015-05-04T13:06:47+00:00

sniff sniff

You smell that? That's the smell of a lawsuit in the works. Great to know where the priorities lie. Let's just put the lives of other firefighters and civilians at risk, as well as demolish the precedent that was set when there are women who actually passed the test, just because a gender quota needs to be filled.

mrheh · 2015-05-04T15:10:53+00:00

Back in 2007 she also forced the city to raise the age limit for recruitment She's a huge pain in the ass for the city and this is not the last we are going to hear from her.

why-this · 2015-05-04T15:50:02+00:00

I remember years ago, i went through the fire academy. There was one female in the whole class. All the way up to the final physical test, we all knew she wouldnt make it. We did numerous practice runs, and she never came close. She always would quit halfway through and start sobbing. Day of the finals came. Low and behold, she doesnt complete the course. The director of the academy declared that she would get a second opportunity, in private, because the pressure of her peers watching was too much and thats why she couldnt perform. She graduated with us and is now a city firefighter. I never landed a department job due to having too many speeding tickets. So yeah, this article makes me a little fucking salty.

Kernes · 2015-05-04T12:36:04+00:00

Oh ok, lets put someone who can't perform 100% of the functions in a life or death job so their feefees don't get hurt. Genius.

solbadguy0308 · 2015-05-04T12:14:28+00:00

She is endangering her coworkers lives.

DontGetCrabs · 2015-05-04T13:17:36+00:00

I'm stupid and don't know much of the law, also I hate how sue happy our nation is. ALTHOUGH I would be trying to sue the city for potentially endangering my family.

hork23 · 2015-05-04T15:04:13+00:00

Political correctness yet again trying to get people killed.

TutkuGulzar · 2015-05-04T14:55:51+00:00

Similar thing is going on in Sweden. You probably already figured out that it is not doing well, for the people

asaasa1983 · 2015-05-04T13:15:09+00:00

Look up Kara Hultgreen. Navy and Airforce were competing to see who could get the first female pilot or something. The navy gave her her wings despite failures in training. She ended up crashing her plane. They told her she was ok to fly when she wasn't. They killed her. This shit has to stop.

bunnymud · 2015-05-04T15:59:10+00:00

I guess she doesn't mind being treated differently.

Enjoy being the token, toots.

Mrlord99 · 2015-05-04T20:23:29+00:00

As somebody that works in the Emergency Response field.. This is stupid. To perform the job requires lifting heavy ladders, humping heavy hose lays, and if the need comes to it, drag a person or fellow crew member out of a burning building. I wouldn't want anybody next to me in that inferno that I couldn't count on to pull me out if need be. They wouldn't let a man get the job because he couldn't pull his weight and pass the physical test. Why should they let a woman do the job that can't pass the test?

whitepeoplecrazy · 2015-05-04T18:36:49+00:00

United Women Firefighters, an organization of FDNY women, objects to the FST test, contending it unfairly bars females.

DoxasticPoo · 2015-05-04T20:47:11+00:00

YEA!!! Excited about my taxes being wasted on feminism.... [insert tons of fucking sarcasm]

Psandysdad · 2015-05-04T21:08:14+00:00

The problem with lowering your standards is no one ever really defines how low is too low.

french_toste · 2015-05-05T04:07:54+00:00

gambling with peoples lives in the name of entitled delusional morons

french_toste · 2015-05-05T04:08:21+00:00

She gonna die

french_toste · 2015-05-05T04:08:48+00:00

I would not trust her if she was on my team. The functional skills test makes sure that you're physically able to perform your job. If I get whacked in the head and go down, and she can't pull me out of the building, I'm gonna die. I don't want to die. Dying is bad for fireman.

french_toste · 2015-05-05T04:09:15+00:00

While I think diversity is important, those fitness tests are there for a reason, and unless you can show the tests are designed to discriminate against women, this should not be controversial.

If her academic scores are so good, there must be another way she can serve within the FDNY besides carrying a 200lb man out of a flaming building, right?

Dickensheets · 2015-05-05T21:52:34+00:00

Well the solution is obvious, we just have to start setting more gender-equal fires.

autotldr · 2015-05-04T18:24:22+00:00

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)

Wax's graduation comes as the city celebrates the FDNY's 150th anniversary and as the department is under pressure by the de Blasio administration to hire more women.

Wax had previously received another break to join the FDNY after pleading in June 2011 for a City Council bill that raised the age limit from 29 to 35 for applicants like her who first took the entrance exam in 2007.

Nigro, questioned by The Post during an FDNY anniversary celebration at a Midtown firehouse Saturday, refused to comment on Wax's fitness failure.

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2015-05-05T05:16:10+00:00

One has to wonder what a massive whining cunt this one is when she can get the age limit raised from 29 to 35? Holy shit, who's in that kind of shape at 35 unless they are one awesome specimen to begin with? I can see someone in spectacular shape for that age getting a pass, but a fat bitch, seriously???

Why hasn't this been taken to some court and the city sued for lowering standards and endangering lives? Why isn't the FD going on strike in protest? Why isn't their union going apeshit over it?

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