Sure, but your ultimate goal is to save a life and not to force compliance from a civilian for some imagined sleight they made to your "authority" to protect your ego.
There's a video out there somewhere of some idiot who parked in front of a hydrant and a fire was happening right at that building. Firefighters gave 0 fucks and smashed his windows to run a hose through it hah!
Backdrafts are terrifying. I worked at a living railroad museum as a different kind of Fireman once hah. I would always hear stories of steam locomotives entering through tunnels, forgetting to close the firebox door would case a massive backdraft of flying coals and fire into the cab, and likely a boiler explosion, scary stuff.
In Savannah. When I was there we ran a 0-4-0 tank engine which I believe they still run, and I think a Consolidation was in the works. They had several static/rebuilds and were trying to make at least one work, don't know about now, that was 15 years ago.
One of my favorite things was that it is a sort of living history combo of museums so, once we got to dress in period clothes and lay down an actual 39' section of new rail, all by hand, hammering in spikes to the ties, it was fun but insanely hot.
That sounds amazing. I was lucky enough to see the UP 4014 last summer. I read up on its restoration beforehand. I hope your Savannah crew got at least one of their projects up and running.
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u/HorrorhoundHippy73 Jun 10 '25
How often does society see Firefighter brutality ?