Mr Simmons, It is sad commentary on adult life that you feel that the fire personnel sit around and get fat. Today's fire service does a GREAT DEAL more than you probably realize. The days of sitting around went out with the horses. Go to one of the fire stations and look for yourself at what they do on a daily basis. Training, maintenance on equipment, training, fire inspections and pre incident surveys on buildings before they possibly have a fire medical training and the list goes on and on. So, as they old saying goes, until you can walk in OUR shoes do not speak to what you do no know about.