Now they're shooting at Firefighters!

[Raider Ronnie]

The guy I got driving on of my plow trucks last year and if it ever snows this year is an EMT
Last year we were talking and he's telling me stories of when he worked in Boston and had to wear a bullet proof vest to work.
How #^&#^&#^&#^&ed up is that ?
You are doing a job saving peoples lives as an AMT and you had to worried about getting shot, stabbed, killed ect..... trying to possibly save peoples lives !
I guess his partner got stabbed on the job.
The drug box in the ambulance was a big reason for them always being in danger.

[Slipknot]

That is really horrendous , I don't know how anyone can even think of doing such things, had to be many screws loose.
They already put their lives on the line to save lives and property, and then this kind of crap I don't blame them for leaving the fire, that is way above their paygrade.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie

The guy I got driving on of my plow trucks last year and if it ever snows this year is an EMT
Last year we were talking and he's telling me stories of when he worked in Boston and had to wear a bullet proof vest to work.
How #^&#^&#^&#^&ed up is that ?
You are doing a job saving peoples lives as an AMT and you had to worried about getting shot, stabbed, killed ect..... trying to possibly save peoples lives !
I guess his partner got stabbed on the job.
The drug box in the ambulance was a big reason for them always being in danger.

I worked 5 years as an EMT, 2.5 of them were in Hartford, Manchester, E. Hartford, CT. It was "suggested" that if you were regularly on the Hartford 911 shifts that you buy a vest. I've been blocks away from active shootings, mostly gang related. The concern wasn't so much the dirt bags targeting medical staff, it was the scum mistaking EMTs for cops and shooting at us because the uniforms were very similar.

A friend of a friend whom I was speaking to during a gathering on Christmas Eve was droning on about gun control, yada yada yada, because of Sandy Hook and now this. I told her "Yeah, I agree. Some people died in the fires too. We need the government to start outlawing matches as well."

The situation in New York emphasizes my point that we need better mental health care because "crazy people are crazy and will find a way to kill people if they want to." That's also not to mention that (from what I heard) the guy had already been to prison once for killing someone.

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

That's also not to mention that (from what I heard) the guy had already been to prison once for killing someone.

17 years for Beating his Grandmother to death with a Hammer....real prince of a fellow

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

17 years for Beating his Grandmother to death with a Hammer....real prince of a fellow

Thanks. Too lazy after all the catchup work today to look it up.

Mental health is the real problem here. (That and not disposing some of these people into a bottomless pit)

[Sea Dangles]

Firefighters can be annoying but this seems excessive.