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Re:Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing fac... by mynameishere on Saturday March 23, 2019 @05:04PM (#19472353)
the people we rely on to extinguish our flames cannot afford

What a strange example for you to use. First, firefighters in most urban areas make muchos, muchos dollars. Second, firefighter jobs are extremely desirable, for that reason and many others ("heroism", firefighter groupies, extreme lengths of downtime, early pensions, etc) Third, in poorer areas, volunteers are all-too happy to be firefighters.

As I said, strange example. Maybe you could fret about garbage collectors instead...?

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Re:Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing fac... by mcguire on Saturday March 23, 2019 @07:14PM (#19472863)
California (https://www.businessinsider.com/firefighter-salary-every-us-...):

Firefighters

Median annual salary: $35,440

10th percentile salary: $20,520

90th percentile salary: $57,060

First-Line Supervisors of Fire Fighting and Prevention Workers

Median annual salary: $53,180

10th percentile salary: $28,270

90th percentile salary: $78,740

(Firefighters in Alabama make more than in California?!?!)

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Re:Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing fac... by simonsarris on Saturday March 23, 2019 @08:03PM (#19473070)
He said in urban areas. Here's a job posting for SF:

https://www.jobapscloud.com/SF/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1=CCT&R2=...

Entry Level (H-2) Firefighter

$78,676.00 - $121,420.00/year

Entry level and before any overtime. If you look at individual salaries you see things like one fire fighter making 220K in overtime alone(!). Other make less, but lots and lots are making 300-400K:

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?a=san-fra...

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Re:Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing fac... by jdavis703 on Saturday March 23, 2019 @06:20PM (#19472647)
Cops also make money similar to firefighters. Yet in Atherton (close to Palo Alto), the cops turned part of their station in to sleeping quarters. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be on the wrong side of a gun from a cop who is sleep deprived and probably overworked.
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