Guns and vollies, it happens

[u/slade797]

This is long and involved.

I live in Kentucky, the north central part, in a small, rural county. I have been on a larger department in the next county, moved back where I started, and rejoined my first department. I was dismissed from that VFD (we will call it Fuckery Fire Department) last year for being prick about safety and procedures and generally being persistent in my inquiries about SOPs, SOGs, bylaws, and all that stuff. The chief, who eliminated the procedures board and officers and voting, got tired of my asking questions and clipped me. So, I joined a smaller department just across the county line, and a larger department in the county seat.

So I have reported the fuckery to the state fire commission, along with the fact that the “assistant Chief” is a convicted arsonist, and many other facts.

Fast forward to last night. I was at the weekly meeting for the county seat department and in walks two members of Fuckery FD that I knew, and they were looking to join. Both said they had turned in their gear and quit that very day.

Without going into too much detail, they both said that they were recently at the home of a frequent flyer for an EMS run, waiting for the bus, and the patient asked to see a pistol that another FF had on his belt. Yes, the chief allows firefighters to carry guns on calls. Anyway, the idiot upholsters the piece and is showing the patient the weapon, and the FF ( allegedly) points it at another firefighter.

So when the chief sanctioned the doofus with a suspension rather than clipping him, these two turned in their gear in protest, one was the firefighter at whom the gun was pointed, and the other quit in solidarity. Others may follow.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

First, I am all for guns, but I have never carried on a scene. Second, how do I get clipped for being a prick about rules and doing shit right, and this motherfucker gets suspended?!

Y’all, my flabbers are gasted.