Epoch Times - What is So Rewarding To Be A Firefighter?  #californiainsider
Aired: 2023-11-13
Duration: 00:51

[00:00:00]  I was a young firefighter.
[00:00:01]  We were responding to a young man who had a bee sting and went into anaphylactic shock and was in full arrest.
[00:00:07]  So I told my partner, I said, we don't have time for an ambulance.
[00:00:10]  You drive to the hospital.
[00:00:11]  I'll take care of it.
[00:00:12]  I'll give CPR. And we took this young child to the hospital.
[00:00:16]  We ended up saving his life.
[00:00:17]  Fast forward 20-some years, came to the station, knocked on the door.
[00:00:22]  I was a battalion chief at the time, and he said, you don't know me, but remember that call on, and he named the street, and you saved my life.
[00:00:30]  And he's now an attorney.
[00:00:32]  So those are the things that are so rewarding.
[00:00:34]  You help a lot of people.
[00:00:35]  They have chronic medical conditions that you respond on a lot.
[00:00:39]  You respond on them sometimes twice a week, three times a week.
[00:00:42]  They become your family, too, and they're happy to see you when they're in distress.
[00:00:46]  They know it's comforting for them to know that you're there to help them.
[00:00:50]  The reward, yes.