You would not thrive in one of our small towns.

Yep. 95% of firefighters in Germany are volunteers, so regular training is necessary, except for bigger cities there are no “professionals” that turn up if things get out of hand. There’s just people with normal jobs that drop everything when the pager goes off and we provide everything from cutting people out of cars to containing chemical spills and fighting forest fires.

Got to play with the water thrower on a TLF in less than ideal weather conditions. Got a nice picture out of it though and hot soup later, so all was fine.