It’s times like these….
I wish I had a camera. I was walking down Wisconsin today and saw a DC EMT standing on the corner with the firefighter boot out, expecting to get money. Sadly people buy into this farce, that the money is “going to a good cause”. You know, its not. Its going to to some union or a firehouse(I suppose I should say that that money could have been going to a family of a downed firefighter, in which case, I object less but I do not believe it should have been done in such a manor), which, shouldn’t have to depend on the publics good will to get money. Why are firefighter and EMS not expected to be frugal with their spending? Why is it that they buy $350,000 ambulances, when one for $150,000 seems to the exact same job (in DC’s defense, they have really crappy trucks and not Monster Medics but it horrifies me to see how many Volunteer Services have them).
To me it was just humiliating. I could never bring myself to beg for money, especially for work. People from Microsoft don’t stand out on the corner and beg for money, why should EMTs?
Tags: EMS, EMT, Firefighters
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August 27, 2008 at 6:26 am
Are you sure it wasn’t for the Muscular Dystrophy Association?
Every Labor Day weekend, firefighters around the country do a Fill the Boot Campaign for Jerry’s kids.
http://www.iaff.org/mda/index.asp
Not fundraising to support firefighters. Fundarising by a firefighter’s union to support kids with muscular dystrophy.