Politics and Fire - A Dangerous Combination

I am struggling to understand why if politicians know this is deadly profession, why do we have government officials that are willing to cut our personnel and resources to reduce the budget. We as firefighters endure things that most people could never imagine and it gets to me that people in positions of power fail to provide us with the basic resources we need to protect and serve. Furthermore, appointed persons seem to get rich and switch..Once they obtain a rank they forget where they came from and who they were before the rank.. Just venting and it sounding like jibberish now thx

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Permalink Reply by John Crabbe on August 19, 2010 at 5:40pm

If you are affiliated with the IAFF they may be able to help. You can try contacting them though too if not affiliated. Such stuff just isn't put in public because the IAFF can help if specifically asked and develop the statistics etc directly for the affiliated member.