I'm a Fireman in Charleston West Virginia

You are a creepy grey alien playing a prank on everyone.

You guys are surreal.

Thanks ...I'll check it often.

Again, not really. Most career fireman don't have to risk anything. The vast majority of cities with fire departments have fire chiefs that make up policies that reduce their risks of injuries. Such policies as in "Let it burn" policies (Google it, it's getting very popular, you'd be surprised that your town or city may have such a policy). They are just as bad as teach unions. Most of it due to insurance or the legal crap with cities.

My town had such lazy firefighters that we had to hijack their fire trucks to put out a house fire because every firefighter that was supposed to be there were not there. Most of them don't even live in our town, they act like career politicians than firefighters. We voted in to pay taxes for our own fire department and we ended up having a corrupt union of fire fighters who demand more for doing nothing. Hopefully next election we're going to completely get rid of them. We've already forced an ordinance through that to hire new fire fighters, they have to live in the town.

What's surprising, my story isn't so different in other places.

Please tell us about this Alien training manual...

thats usually how corporations get rid of problems tho. give someone a new job.then blame it all on him.

wasnt the wtc just sold or reinsured two weeks before it collapsed?

Thanks!

Every fireman in my family save for 1 ,my brother, has had severe injuries in the line of duty. Mostly from falling beams or walls and falling through floors.

My brother, having taken notice of this ,left the fire department

List of most dangerous jobs:

[link to www.businessinsider.com]

not to be a douche, but i would expect all of those injuries with the job im choosing to do, and complaining about injuries in a risk job (like fire-fighter) is like a soldier complain the enemy is firing at him.

You suck it up better cup, in my younger years (back in the 80's) i worked as a fire-fighter for a bit thought it would be a good career but changed my mind. During my time i had beams land on me, i had fire literally engulf my whole body save for my jacket that protects me. I even been burned and yet i do not care for thanks.

my thanks was my pay check and that i brought my fellow crew out with me.

Maybe you should start a thread on it so those of us that are interested can see what he would like to share instead of sidetracking the entire thread.

Thank you Mr. Fireman for your information.

I want to thank you for all you do. I feel so sorry for your community.

Erin Brokovitch will be someone good for you to have around.

God bless you and all your neighbors.

May your situation improve soon.

When you do got to his website (homepage) don't miss his other site links at the very top of the page.
Paleobabble.....The Naked Bible etc.

Who was complaining? It was said " most firemen don't have to risk anything".
I beg to differ.

Well the board is complaing mostly. Your brother leaving was smart, probably the one who sucked it up butter cup and did his job correctly as expected.

Also if you choose to be a fire-man teach your family to accept you one day might not come home, or just quit. I told my entire family if i got cooked i did not want a funeral i even told the chief that i wanted none of that fluffy bullshit and he looked at me as if i was crazy.

most people are too weak minded to accept a glorious death fighting a fire, and most families are to filled with cowardice to properly praise someone who might die in that fire.

You missed the point of that comment...

And in my next post i corrected myself, but i did not miss the comment. My answer was within it the "Suck it up butter cup" part implied guys like his brother.

Ironton was doing the same. Think they planned to shut off on Sun. night. Will see if I can find the link.

I'm just replying to others mam. Don't worry, didn't miss anything he handed out water today.

Holy fu k people!! Erin is there to ride that cash cow! She gives a fuck not!

The spill is expected to hit the Ironton area Sunday evening as it flows downriver from the Elk to the Kanawha into the Ohio River.

“Right now our plan is when it gets here around Sunday evening we will shut off operation at the water plant, not pump, filter and transfer to the tank, and allow that to pass,” Ironton Mayor Rich Blankenship said. “During that time we will have water in the tank.”
[link to www.irontontribune.com]

"Wheresoever thou goeth, sound no horn before thee"

They don't know what that means. Promise, my job is way more hazardous than "fireman". Fire or Police don't even crack the top ten but you'd never know it by the way they carry on.

Where did Mr fireman go.....

You haven't seen California firefighters then. They have luxurious pay, unions, little to no risk of injuries, policies that keep them from harms way, luxurious insurance policies.

Probably got a call to do a strip show for some ladies, cause you know fire-fighters do that in their off time

Well, thanks for being honest. You have to admit that the lengths some of these guys go to is pretty damn silly. Every day I see some guy in a pickup with lights on the top and a four foot wide sticker in his back window reminding everyone within 100 yds that he is a, FIREFIGHTER! Oh, he also has a front plate with some axes and stuff on it that says in bold letters, FIREFIGHTER! I'm worried, honestly, that he might be psychopathic. Oh well.

Yeah fireman was pretty good about the comments today!!

I know I'm paranoid, but this movie is playing right now on TV:

[link to www.imdb.com]

Mr. Fireman, I have some questions that you may or may not be able to answer. If you can, or have any thoughts on it, your information would be appreciated.

This link states some pretty scary things about this chemical:

[link to www.chemicalbook.com]

Highly flammable. Insoluble in water.

Special Hazards of Combustion Products: Vapor may travel considerable distance to a source of ignition and flashback containing explosion may occur during fire conditions. Forms explosive mixtures in air.

R11:Highly Flammable.
R38:Irritating to the skin.
R51/53:Toxic to aquatic organisms, may cause long-term adverse effects in the aquatic environment .
R65:Harmful: May cause lung damage if swallowed.
R67:Vapors may cause drowsiness and dizziness.
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On another site, I read the chemical binds to clay. It is also said to not dissolve in water. If they can't get some clay to bind it to, is it just going to stay in the water, contaminating it everywhere it goes and killing aquatic wildlife?

Both vapors and the liquid sound highly flammable. It's alleged to be a chemical used in fracking. Is that what causes some people to be able to "light up" their drinking water in fracking areas? Doesn't this also create a firefighting hazard? What if you pull water from a contaminated place to use on fighting a fire? Seems it could explode.

This is the materials data sheet in PDF:
[link to www.cpchem.com]

According to the sheet, it may be fatal if swallowed and enters airways.

Most information about the chemical lists hazards as unknown. This one lists many health and environmental dangers. Why the discrepancy?

Since the effects seem to be long term, are the efforts to remove, control, confine it based on a long term effort, or are they just hoping the problem will drift away?

The sheets also stress the importance of protective gear for anyone dealing with it. Since you're likely to come in contact with it through your daily job, have you been issued protective gear and instructions how to use it around this chemical?

Thank you for any information or opinion you might have.