Question for the firemen on this board.

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HFD refused to come check out my house when it was full of smoke and my neighbors tree had just been hit by lightning.

I was told by RogerTheShrubber that public service officers had no obligation to protect the public. So suck it Orphanage trying to escape a fire. Find your own way out.

It’s a rough question, but when you get a report of persons trapped, you definitely go into a higher gear.

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We all wish the police went into the classroom, but until you’re put in a situation of a man blockaded inside a room with an AR and you have a handgun and no body armor, you can’t judge.

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Well it’s literally their fricking job to protect the public even if they aren’t armed up like a SWAT. Plus they would have had numbers on their side too. If police can’t protect the most innocent and at risk members of our society what are they still good for? And I am a pro-rule of law person

Risk a lot to save a lot, risk a little to save a little. If we have confirmed someone is inside/trapped, that is priority number 1. Now at some point conditions might reach the point where life is not viable, if the whole house/structure is fully involved then the chance of survival is basically nil. People will succumb to the smoke before they get burned by the flames. But then again there usually isn’t someone shooting at us when we show up. I would like to think that the officers were ready to go in and engage but they might have been told to standby by their command staff. Some commands/chiefs get caught up trying to weigh every pro/con instead of just making a decision, be it right or wrong. There’s an old joke that C.H.A.O.S. stands for “Chief/Command Has Arrived On Scene”. All that being said I have no law enforcement training, and obviously was not on scene during this tragedy. I don’t want to sit here and Monday morning quarterback but in my mind you risk a lot in this situation and you go in and engage the shooter. Yes you are putting your life on the line, but that’s what you took the oath to do.

Just my two cents.

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until you’re put in a situation of a man blockaded inside a room with an AR and you have a handgun and no body armor, you can’t judge

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Yes. Yes I can. And I just did. What are you going to do to me, coward?

There were children in there. Children. You just said all you ever needed to say for me to judge YOU. Pussy. That’s right. Cowardly pussy defending the other cowardly pussies.

Wanna talk it out? I’ll give you directions to me.

It rubs me the wrong way when people say that you wouldn't be able to say unless you were in the same situation. And I say that if your not going to help me, get out of the way. Strangers run into burning buildings without hearing a scream if they think children or adults could be in a burning building. But watching a cop shove a parent who would gladly go in if they would just step aside is wrong. If my children were in that burning building and it was to late to save them, I might join them in heaven.

And I would like to know why the same people who are for abortion and killing innocent children are suddenly crying for gun control. This is the very reason parents need to be armed.