... they'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Those living in the Houston-area have, by now, heard about the large apartment-complex fire in Channelview. The Houston Chronicle has done a good job of covering the fire and the resulting investigation.
However, the Chronicle allows comments on their stories. There's this one moron that claims the fire destroyed so much because the fire departments were volunteer and "just watched in burn" and that "this would've never happened in Houston."
What a crock of $h!t!!!!!!!!
As the Assistant Chief of a volunteer fire department, this just infuriates me, the assumption that volunteers are inferior to the paid departments. Many volunteers have the same training and certifications as their paid counterparts, yet they don't do it for the money. They give their time and effort, often putting their lives on the line, for free.
And while many, many people recognize this sacrifices, there are the morons that would rather stab volunteers in the back when they deserve a pat on the back.
Like Bill Engvall says, "You just can't fix stupid."
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Don't hold back, really. Tell us how you feel...
Armchair firefighters are dickless wonders.
Well, I will have to say that I do agree with you in the since that there are some damn good volunteers out there that do risk their lives to save others. BUT, as you and I both know very well, there are some out there that are so flippin' stupid that all they are really doing is putting more people (sometimes including the other volunteers) at risk. Being from Channelview myself, there really was nothing they coupld do to those apartments but try and salvage the ones that were not yet burning. Those things were a bonfire waiting to happen. It was a crackhead's wet dream.
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