The X-mas Cheer... gone

sutty

Hey all, not sure if this is the right place to post this but here it goes.

I work in charlamount place in D2, about 20 min ago the firebagade and police just pulled the body of a woman out of the cannal. It got some of here in work thinking that must be a very hard thing for a family to go through. But to have it happen so close to Christmas. Family and friends of the woman will be in morning for their loss.

It also got us thinking about the firemen and women that have to go through the experance. How something like that must affect them. I can tell you this, its a job I would not like to do. I guess the point of this is, think about what the gards and fair departments have to go through.. and be thankfull you dont...

hedgetrimmer

A friend of mine is a fire-bridage ambulance paramedic - he gets all the serious cases. He describes his job as "putting people in body bags".

One of his recent jobs was a house fire in which a couple of kids lost their lives. He says that one never becomes immune to the job.

Not to be mordid, but I echo suttys salute to the men and women of our emergency services

Borzoi

My dad used to work as a Landlord's agent, one Christmas morining he had to go over to one of the flats, to let some relatives of the tenant. an elderly lady, in as she woudn't come to the door.

Poor gal had died in her sleep during the night.

Really upsetmy oul fella, as well as the family, as he'd known her for years.

My brother is in the Fire Brigade, and those stories would bum anybody out.....

DeVore

Watch bringing out the dead. Nicholas Cage plays an ambulance worker who faces those sorts of things... apparently its a pretty dark film.

A friend of mine collapsed after a nightclub once and I rode in the ambulance with her. The ambulance guys were incredible, I mean, just brilliant as team. We're flying round corners while one of them was trying to resussitate my mate all the time.
When we got to the hospital the doctors rushed my friend off and the two lads got a coffee like nothing had happened.
I chatted with them briefly (I was still in shock!) but as they were leaving I said the honest truth to them, I said "Whatever they are paying you, its not enough..."
I dont think I could go back out and do it again, certainly not so casually!!

DeV.

Samba

I am not sure what the average retirement age of a fireman in Ireland is but.....

I have a good friend who is a Fireman in Paris (One of the most Dangerous Cities to be a Fireman in)


He works six days a week and gets very little holidays, needless to say he has seen and experienced some very horrid things.

But on the bright side, He is retired by the age of 28 at the earliest and 32 at the latest depending on how he wishes to work.

Not bad

Borzoi

Don't know the retirement age for firemen hire either, but my brother just got his 20year service medal:)

and there's no sign of him going:rolleyes: