The hardest part may not even be building up the courage to run into a building to save someone else that is the easy and fun part. What takes the most guts is having to ability to talk to a mother while firefighters try to rescue her baby out of a second story window. Or maybe even talking to a person trapped in a car after an accident asking if his/her son in the passenger seat is alive when you know already he is not. This sends chills through your body even imagining this situation . There is no way to forget it, you will hear the voice of the person for months afterwards.
Dealing with this is part of the job if you cant do it then you should look for something else because death is a huge part of this job. Whether youre seeing a person dead after a fire or accident or have to witness one of your own die, maybe even because of fault of your own. Firefighters must stay remain without emotion which is almost impossible to do with friends and families of their own.
Watch this video about real life hardships that these firefighters have dealt with....
This next video is a tribute to the 9 Charleston South Carolina Firemen who died fighting a fire.
You can sit here all day saying this shouldnt have happened but in reality the only way to deal with it is acceptance and that is crucial in this line of work.
The link above does a great job at explaing dealing with death on the job.
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