Two Chicks & A Firefighter

Aren’t we all working for a common cause?

Is there any reason we cannot just get along? Is it someone’s ego or something much more? You are correct, I have never put my life on the line for others, but I am pretty sure if I did, I would want anyone and everyone to have my back. Why are police officers so determined to arrest firefighters? Aren’t they just trying to keep everyone including them safe? I personally would prefer a speeding motorist ramming into a huge fire truck instead of the emergency responders working the scene. Personally, you just need to take examples like Arlington’s Engine #11, as proof to that scenario. If Engine #11 was not there, how many people would that SUV driven by a drunk driver have killed? Unfortunately, 3 firefighters were injured, but at least not one of these injuries was a fatality.

In my opinion, when you arrest a firefighter at the scene of an accident that they are working, you are doing a great injustice to the victim of the accident. You are taking away a pair of capable hands (usually at least EMT certified, if not higher) to at least assist in saving or freeing someone’s life. What if the rolls were reversed? Do you think that police officers would enjoy firefighters arresting them in the line of duty? Sometimes an ego can be checked with something so simple as, “Do to others, as you would have them do to you”. Check your ego at the door please and use your brain.

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