Moose_Greyjoy
I DO Not Sow
Chicago got a few. One of my best friend on CFD. And I know few who come through my hospital
I rarely ever see a black firefighter
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My old neighborhood got it's first black firefighters in the early 2000's. We were all black town before that though. The firefighters are still majority white. However another nearby all-black hamlet had black firefighters, so I was lucky to see a few growing up.
NZA
LOL
i actually have heard about ny fd racism. out here in az, i have seen black heads of fire stations even though we are a small portion of the population.
Actually6Foot3
Veteran
had me thinking the other day that the "legacy" points descendants of firefighters get on tests is high-key racist nepotism.
krackdagawd
Inspire.
Gang of em in the newark area 
Nothing about the job is easy
Sure we don’t get a structure fire everyday. But it’ll be a day we have a carbon monoxide leak in a apartment complex , person stuck in an elevator, shooting, psychiatric patients,natural gas main struck, hazmat spill.......In one shift! I can go on and on.
We get calls for everything the police can’t or won’t handle.
Bruce LeRoy
All Star
I had an uncle who was a fire fighter back when John Orr was an arson investigator while secretly setting fires across California. My uncle attended one of his seiminars, he had set fire to a building on before showing up and giving a speech.
I completely forgot about my uncle telling me about dude until I caught the HBO movie Point of Origin back in the day.
They used to have a fire camp program for cats in YA back in the day where they'd train them to go out and be a fire fighter, they'd be up in the mountains in Nor Cal doing that... I don't know if they still do it my brother was in that program but got the boot when Pete Davis got into office and booted all the 18 year olds out of the program.
I completely forgot about my uncle telling me about dude until I caught the HBO movie Point of Origin back in the day.
They used to have a fire camp program for cats in YA back in the day where they'd train them to go out and be a fire fighter, they'd be up in the mountains in Nor Cal doing that... I don't know if they still do it my brother was in that program but got the boot when Pete Davis got into office and booted all the 18 year olds out of the program.
RareHunter
All Star
I’m one. My EMT class it was 5 of us, my fire academy it was 11(3 females included that made it thru)
@Dap Fishin
best job in the world. Plenty of off time, good paying, I can retire in my late 40s, you do see the worst of society though
You have to be in peak physical shape(to get thru an academy), drug free, clean record. Lot of black men cant say they have all 3 unfortunately.
How that schedule doin ya? Do you find you be tired on days off or increased aging or just feeling off?
Hollywood Co
Primetime Reppin
Been working for Atlanta Fire for 3 years now and from the Chief on down, the department is majority black but the department is diverse as any place I ever worked. My grandfather was a firefighter for Atlanta so just like white folks have a culture of family in the field, that happens here in Atlanta. We are hiring btw
My crew is all black and folks on the job like to call that the “soul patrol”
There’s definitely a culture in the fire service that wouldn’t allow a black man to comfortably work in a lot departments around the country especially in smaller cities and counties.
The job itself seems easy... until the craziest scenario happens and it’s on you to figure it out and do your job. It can become a man’s man job real quick because of what can happen while doing it. It’s why recruit school is so harsh.
My crew is all black and folks on the job like to call that the “soul patrol”
There’s definitely a culture in the fire service that wouldn’t allow a black man to comfortably work in a lot departments around the country especially in smaller cities and counties.
The job itself seems easy... until the craziest scenario happens and it’s on you to figure it out and do your job. It can become a man’s man job real quick because of what can happen while doing it. It’s why recruit school is so harsh.
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Don't forget car accidents (I have been cut out of a car with the jaws of life)....my boy has been a FF for about 20 years, he has seen some shyt and got some stories. He was also the 1st person I know that got covid from being on shift in a hospital.Nothing about the job is easy
Sure we don’t get a structure fire everyday. But it’ll be a day we have a carbon monoxide leak in a apartment complex , person stuck in an elevator, shooting, psychiatric patients,natural gas main struck, hazmat spill.......In one shift! I can go on and on.
We get calls for everything the police can’t or won’t handle.
I have been in some situations in my life. I will always have respect for the FF's and EMT's.
Schedule is beautiful man. Some days I sleep thru the night others we’re running calls all night...it depends on the day.
those days we get hammered after 10pm or we have an actual fire(most physically draining thing), I’ll come home at 8am and sleep til like 3-4 in the afternoon. Then the next day I have to myself to do whatever I want.
and I’m 23 so I don’t really feel any of the affects yet
What's that about?
I see them all of the time in Memphis.
I've even video interview a majority Black firehouse for a class project in college.
That’s why I been looking at those fitness clowns on IG goofy.
They couldn’t survive one week of recruit school, we had a guy who was a ex D1 track athlete, still ran marathons...quit within a first few days. Nothing you do in a gym can prepare you to advancing a hose line up to a 3rdfloor, pitch black, Smoky, on air/ SCBA, blazing hot temps.
Comes down to sheer willpower and not letting your crew down.