pan6467

In another thread I set up my belief that very few people who were police and fire would stay at their posts during and immediately following the hurricane in NO. My argument is that these people have families and would most likely leave their posts to make sure their families are ok and to be there for them.

Keep in mind 99% of these firefighters and police have probably never gone through anything like this, have never seen anything like this and if they trained for this, training is one thing, in reality, the horrid effects and the true stress will cause reactions to differ.

This is a huge reason we need FEMA to respond faster as they are more likely to be able to operate without having families in the danger zone and are trained far better to respond to these events.

Please answer the poll honestly, answer it as if you had been there in the post of the police or fire departments. It'll be easy to say "I'd stay the course and expect everyone of my coworkers to" when you have not truly been through this.....

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"