Re: A Sad Day In Cincinnati, OH

>Much better stated. I may disagree with some of your assumption and you 
>conclussion, but I do not take offense to it. Unlike your previous 
>arguments that , in my opinion, appeared flippant and without merit.
Based on my experience with riding the red trucks (thankfully red, I hate 
any other color) citizen re****ts are notoriously inaccurate. I've been to 
many 'child-trapped and a few all-clear that have both turned out to be 
false.
Jay


Since this is a two-way forum, you kind of have to expect commentary
> on anything that you post.  Being a former law enforcement professional
> and one who has ridden on the red trucks (well, they were yellow-green
> where I worked), I know what these folks do every day.  It is dangerous
> work.  People die.  But in the case that you commented on, the deaths
> were clearly something that could have been avoided, and it was a total
> waste of two very fine firefighters.  This has been happening over and
> over--firefighters rush into fires for no possible gain, and then get
> in over their head as some unusual event happens.  And then they are
> gone.  Someone has to draw a line and put a stop to this.  That is
> what I was commenting on.  Rather than a memorial to all the firemen
> that died in the furniture warehouse fire in South Carolina, they
> should string up the chiefs that let those guys head into a fire
> where there was no possible chance that anyone was in the building
> and needed to be saved.
>
> -john-
>