Melissa Writes

I’m home this morning.  Grandma isn’t feeling well and the husband had to go to work today.  So I’m here, reading twitter.  I know exciting isn’t it? So I was catching up on all the tweets that had came through over night when I found one about volunteer firefighters being charged with arson.  It peeked my interest so I checked it out. Why don’t you check it out and read the comments Orangeville Volunteer FireFighters Charged with Arson I’ll wait for you before I start ranting.

You back now?  Read the comment about vollies being dogs?  Yeah can you guess what my rant is about now? Some big shot paid fire fighter thinks he is better then any volunteer out there.  I hate that attitude.  Not because I’m a volunteer fire fighter but because it shows that the person doesn’t have a clue about what it means to be a volunteer. You see we have to do the same training that the paid people do, the only difference is we are doing it on weekends, in the evenings after working all day, and for free.  Our shift never ends, we are only call 24/7, 365, rain, sleet, snow, hail, tornadoes, swine flu outbreaks, you name it we are there.  

That guy thinks something like that would never happen on a paid department.  He’s kidding himself.  Do a quick google search, there are plenty of them.  Heck, a few years ago there was someone who had done it in California that wrote a book.  He was the fire investigator.  Anyone else remember the book?

I hope that the man who called volunteers mutts someday needs our services.  Then he will learn that we are more professional than he is.