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Originally Posted by Ketzer
Easy to talk sh!t from your armchair. Try getting a few blocks in modern traffic with lights and sirens on. I am responsible for the four souls on board and every person out there in my path. Sending tweets, pulling to the left and slamming on their brakes, speeding past us and turning in front of us, most just ignore us and keep driving. Still. I am held to a 3 minute response time on all my first in addresses. If I show up seconds late on the scene, I have to explain why.
We get some of the dirtiest looks you can imagine (from people on the phone) because we inconvience people with all of our loud noise and rushing around. I promise you, we ain't going for doughnuts.
Jeff-
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Amen brother!! Firefighter/paramedic of 14 years here. When it doesn't affect them, they don't care when we are trying to get to a scene.