This week I spent some time riding with the City of Boca Raton Fire Rescue Station 8 in south Boca Raton. Being from New York City, I expected to find myself in an exciting situation where I was going to see some crazy fires and rescue some children from the burning debris. At least that’s what I was hoping for, but then I realized that 1)if that was the case then I couldn’t ride in the fire truck because it was too dangerous for me and 2) this is Florida were life is not that hectic. This, to say the least, was very disappointing, but nevertheless my curiosity took on another mission, which was to observe what a Boca firefighter really spends time doing.
To start off, a lot of the firefighters are volunteers with the exception of high ranking officials in the station that get a fixed salary. When I say that the majority of them are volunteers does not mean that they don’t get paid, it simply means that they sometimes have other jobs on their free time. Four hours at the station and not a single call came in. In fact, the only time that the fire truck was used in the entire time I was there was when the guys got hungry and went to Publix to get something to eat. Since this was not an emergency for the firefighters I got to ride the truck, which was a really exciting moment for me. After munching on a sub sandwich, we had a “session” of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Gears of War. Although I didn’t get to see any “NYC style” firefighter action, I did enjoy the time spent with them and I appreciate and admire the work they do for us.
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Your doing a great jobs with all of your blogs. They are very interesting and I think you should honestly think about signing up to do this on the side and for fun. They are very attention grabbing if that makes sense (grab the readers attention).
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