r/Firefighting • u/Big_River_Wet • Nov 12 '24

Photos This is ridiculous

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I’m all for the fun and games, but bringing SCBAs into the kitchen? Nah. We all know these things can only get so clean.

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u/best-of-max Nov 12 '24

Clear nope from here (Germany). We have a strict separation between turn out gear and the clothes we wear inside the station. We do it for obvious reasons, like minimizing the risk of getting cancer by being exposed to the toxins you bring home in your gear from a fire or any other call. But as I read, that's pretty much common ground everywhere.

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u/tacosmuggler99 Nov 12 '24

I’ve worked for two cities and both were strict on no turnouts in living quarters. They’re to stay on the bay floor and there only when not on calls or training

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u/Nasty____nate Nov 12 '24

We here in America we love some extra cancer. Plus when we get it we can go in debt for medical care like real men... 

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u/Ok_Buddy_9087 Edit to create your own flair Nov 12 '24

Should get yourself a cancer presumption law. City pays for it.

Oops… silly union talk again.

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u/best-of-max Nov 12 '24

Don't forget that medi care is equal to socialism. I hate it that we Europeans are so weak and unmanly

... but no, for real, I looked up what the fitness tests for NYC's firefighters include, and compared to that most of us here in good old Germany are cream puffs.