Post #38763 by Trader Tiki on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 10:47 AM

At the City I work for, most of the fire calls are not for fires, but rather first aid.

Yup, there's not a lot of money in property damage. But medical calls are a good way to make some change.

I've always wondered why they send 1,000 gallons of water to a call involving a heart attack at the local old folks home (that is unless they were on fire also).

From what little I know, sometimes you don't have enough boxes to go around, so whatever gets the personnel over works. Most firemen (west coast, at least) are EMTs/Paramedics. In California it's required to be at least an EMT to be a licensed firefighter. Because in California, we're wacky.