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Some departments are different, but here, you work a 24 hour shift, and then get 48 hours off.

But, since that means you're working 48 hours every six days, instead of 40 every seven days, you get an extra day off every few weeks, giving you five straight days off. (Unless they're shorthanded, and hire you back for that day at about $1,000 for the day.)

And, unless you're in a crazy busy house, you're getting a few hours sleep each shift.

So, they all have side jobs.

It's honestly great job, which doesn't also mean that they may be required to run into a burning building at some point.

 

Yeah, people line up to work sixty hours plus a week and still need a side job to get by.

I do understand that they get paid when they're at the firehouse overnight. I also know that they get routed out at all hours of the night for fire or medical calls. A lot of the medical stuff is utter bullshit - some lowlife decides that he feels bad and wants to go to the ER and has to go right damn now by ambulance. That happens more often than you would expect.

 

Dude, ask them. It's a perk.

How many jobs with a good salary and benefits still allow you the time to make extra money -- often in cash -- on the side?

 

This thread strictly talks about California. Mileage varies greatly in other locales in which the firefighter unions haven't bought and sold the politicians.

 

Generally the time is a perk, but some have to work side jobs to afford to live in the city.

 

I guess that explains the ridiculous OT. All I know is that in my burg there seems to be a fire station every few miles. What I never see, however, is an actual fire.

 

What happened to his guy?

Firefighter claims paid £125,000 to do nothing as FDNY won't give him work | Daily Mail Online

 

Los Angeles City Employee Retirement System, the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension Systems and the Water and Power Pension System are not part of CalPERS, so they are still allowed to 'spike' pensions.
Public pensions should be based on a percentage of salary/wage rather than earnings. Take OT, sick time and vacation time buybacks out of the equation.
It's just not sustainable.

 

A good look at the la city pensions
Paying for public retirees has never cost L.A. taxpayers more. And that's after pension reform

 

Outing alert. BTE lives in Bedrock

 

The Dave Matthews Band approves.

 

For once in my life I quite agree. There are to many fire trucks sitting in to many fire stations. But the problem is that citizens want the firehouse close. If a mayor closes a fire station and a tragedy happens it can be his job. Dinkens closed a firehouse and after the closure there was a fire nearby and two died. Giuliani pounded Dinkins on the issue in the next mayor's race.

Firehouses