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RE: Firefighters
Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Paul Quander added that 40 percent of the city's firefighters live more than 30 miles outside of the District -- some as far as Pennsylvania and New Jersey...

What the hell? I really fail to understand how people can accept commuting 70, 80, 100 miles to their jobs. If you want to live in the middle of nowhere then find a job you can do in the middle of nowhere. Or commute to Hagerstown or Frederick. But there's no way emergency personnel should be living hours away from where they work. I grew up in the middle of nowhere (town of 1500) and there were very few people who commuted over 50 miles to a job.

by MLD Petunia,

There is no right to privacy in public spaces. Likewise to vehicle plate monitoring, to ride a commuter train federal regulations require riders either provide identification or pay with a traceable credit card. But, that is not the same thing as the government being required to identify all users of transportation when identification is impractical. It is not cost effective or practical to identify pedestrians, mass transit users or even cyclists, so the government does not attempt to do so. It is cost effective and practical to identify motor vehicle licencing, commuter train and Amtrak riders, so they do.

by smh I met a Firefighter on a Southwest flight from Memphis to San Jose CA. He worked and had seniority in the SJ fire union and he said it was cheap enough for him to live in Memphis and commute to SJ to work his shift. He simply pushed all his hours together and bunked at the firehouse -basically lived rent free on an inflated salary while his wife and kids enjoyed a mansion. I think he worked like 1 solid week or 10 days a month.

This is obviously horsepoop. No one can "work" a 6 day continuous shift when their working effectively. I don't doubt that some of these guys have built up a stamina to survive the schedule, but they're not going to be fresh and alert in a true emergency and someone's going to die.

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