Sept. 2007,,,I was driving in San Francisco yesterday, and saw a "morbidly obese" fireman in uniform !! How can we keep ,or why, such super-unfit public safety employees ?! Also saw a S.F. policeman smoking inside his patrol car, obviously on duty. Who is going to pay for his lung cancer and certain self-destructive illnesses down the line, but we abandoned taxpayers of the mid-low working income ??!!
They should all be fired, if it is so necessary to be fit to be hired as a policeman or fireman, then it should be the same high standard throughout their career, however short. There are lots of young fit men and women willing, ready and able to take their places. To he-ll with their unions on this public safety crisis issue. No excuses, ala the popular tv show "rescue me".
