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[轉貼] Taiwanese Firefighters = Superman?

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2012/07/01 02:12:37

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台灣許多勞動力和專業的價值都慘不忍睹

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-809412

Days ago, I went to watched the move "Ladder 49" the famous movie about the firefighters, risk their life to save the others. In the features of the movie, one of the actor says:"They (firefighter) are doing such a dangerous works, but they can only get so much"
From knowing many firefighters in Taiwan, after listening to their complaining of the working environment, salaries, working details, I can say nothing butTaiwanese firefighters are real supermen.
To be honest with you, firefighter's job could be the most dangerous job beyond all the others. For example, you can become a military but never fight a single war; you can be a bomb squad member but never remove the bomb. However, being a firefighter, you will not miss a fire.
In Taiwan, although there is not a lot of LODD (Line Of Duty Death) firefighters compared to the U.S.(From 1952 to present, there are 90 line of duty death firefighters), our so-called "paper works", muti-task, and bureaucracy can really hurt the firefighters.
I collected the data from a facebook group formed by approximately 9000 Taiwanese firefighters. Here is a task list they have to perform, however, instead of saying they can do the following list, they are actually suffer from them.

1.Mutifunctional medical emergencies (such as regular medical calls, mental disorder calls, incontinence, car accidents, suicide calls, alcohol/drug influenced, water rescue, psychological problems, having a nightmare, cannot pee in the middle of the night...and so on.) Taiwanese EMS (Emergency Medical Service) have to face lots of different types of emergency incidents. These calls can be varied from a large truma patient to the ridiculous call such as have a white hair or wake up by the scary nightmare. After return to the station from the call, they have to do all the paper documents include upload the incident full report to the emergency medical network. In some cities, they even ask them to send out the card to sympathize the patients)
Just to clarify, Running with the ambulance and act like one of the medic is part of the Taiwanese firefighter's job and sometimes, EMS won't have enough people to take the ambulance out.

2. Firefighting (putting out all kinds of fire just like every firefighters do)

3. Special vehicles operator (include tanker, chemical units, rescue, squad, jeep, ladder/truck, heavy rescue., rescue boat...and so)

4. Catch all types of animals and livestock (cats, dogs, snakes, crocodiles, foxes, monkeys, pigs, bees, fire ants...you name it. According to one of them, they have to catch a chicken because it fell off into the water)

5. Inspect and give out the citation for the expired or illegal stored gas steel cylinders

6. Inspect and give out the citation for the illegal stored fire works. include underground fire works factory.

7. Perform a CPR instruction in every company, factory, schools, club...(and the class materials must be attracted to the class attendents)

8. Fire Prevention (All kinds of fire prevention include the little drama. must be performed along with the prevention in every places they go)

9. Muti-document workers (all the activities expenses, official reports, all the calls details and paper documents, training documents_

10. Supervise the fire prevention custodians (inspect either their license expired or not, whether they have the regular trainings or not, whether it is following the rules or not)

11. Inspect the fire safety (all kinds of commercial buildings, residential buildings, schools, retail stores, super market, shopping mall, factories and so on. Check for every fire extinguisher, smoke detector, emergency exits, emergency lights, emergency alarm system, sprinkler system and more)

12. Perform as a janitor or cleaners (like washing the roads, clean the road blocks like trees, clean the leaves, bushes, wash down the livestocks' excrement on the road )

13. Muti-Tasking (not only the emergency calls, they often got call out for the "key fell into the storm drain", "lock him/herself out of the house", "supply water to the household who need water", " park the car for the new driver"...and all the ridiculious calls)

14. Free Mail delivery (deliver all the fire station related and government activity related mails between stations and stations in every cities)

15. National Security with the skills of removing the chemical attack bomb (have to deal with all the chemical attacks, so now we know they are not only going to learn how to fight the chemical incident, they also have to know how to disarm the bomb)

16. Apparatus Inspection (have to know how to deal with all the apparatus's problem, fire company does not have the mechanic to check the apparatus, every firefighters have to know how to fix their apparatus. Wax and clean the apparatus, this include inside the tires, under the hood, under the body, and all the tools)

17. Computer Technic (has to know how to draw, design, do the reports in computer sofeware and have to self-learn the computer skills)

18. Have to memorize all the streets, roads and know the location of every fire hydrants

19. Athlete (3000meters, weight lifting, full gear to climb the 10 story building, push up, sit up, 30 kg rescue drag...)

20. Diver and lifeguard. Every firefighters have to know how to dive or river/water rescue

21. negotiation specialist (have to negotiate with the suicide patient)

22. Daily punching bag for the officer (the one who did good has to be blamed and punished along with the one who didn't do good; the one who did great but don't know how to fawn on the officers has to be blamed and punished; the one who did great and know how to fawn on the officer has to be blamed from the fellow firefighters; the one who did great, know how to truckle, and has the good relationship with others have to be blamed, too, because the officers afraid to loose their jobs)

23. Speech specialist: has to know how to "talk"

24. Robot (with lots volume of calls, average 4 hours of sleep...)

25. Have to do something else for the officers like buying the lunch, clean the office for the officer.

These are the tasks that Taiwanese firefighters have to perform almost daily. People might ask, from doing such a lot of tasks, they must get treated well? No. As far as the treatment, monthly salary for a Taiwanese firefighter is average $2,000 U.S. Dollars, in a big cities such as the Capital of Taiwan-Taipei City, and the second biggest city Kaohsiung city, their average salary is about $6 per hour, In the other cities, the average salary is about $5 per hour. And the volume of calls is still that high compared to the main cities.
Talking about insurance, unless you are killed in the action like LODD, Taiwanese firefighters will not get any other accident cover. In the other words, if you are injured while performing a rescue, you will not get any cover.

After I read the article in the group, I feel that I am really luck that I can become a firefighter here in the U.S. but not in Taiwan although that is where I came from. Taiwanese firefighters can be the most mutifunctional firefighters in the world. They are suffering from doing all the stuff in such a short amount of time. All the works and jobs are falling on the fire department, with such a huge stress and pressure coming from the public and the officers, Taiwanese firefighters are getting sick and overwhelm. Their jobs cannot be distribute fairly, for example, water company is responsible for the hydrant; cleaning department is reponsible for the road block and trees. By writing this article, I hope people all over the world can understand how much responsibility the firefighters have to carry and how much pressure they are suffer. Please pray for the revolution for Taiwanese firefighting system and everyone come home!

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