I never thought that there would come a thread where I even remotely agree with PrimitiveMan. That day has come. Skam, if how you act on this forum is how you act with rescues, then you seriously should consider counseling or a break. This is not a slight towards you by any means. I have done the VFF thing, so I sympathize with being pissed off at stupid calls. However, stuff happens and people cannot always control their situation. I have been on fire calls before, plenty of them, and I can assure you that the last thing on our volunteer crew's mind was to hassle the victim for donations. Thing is, they remember. We pulled a kid from a car that flipped over in a creek one time. When we were doing our Boot drive, his dad gave us a very nice check. We didn't have to hassle him, we didn't remind him that his son shouldn't have been texting while driving, nothing. We simply did our thankless job and went back to the house. In the house, yes we bitch. That is where it should stay. Our job can suck, but we NEVER take that out to others. We NEVER let those emotions affect how we do our work. Now, you seem to have a ton of experience, but you should really take a minute to look at what you type before you hit 'submit.' How many people do you honestly think would give money to a SAR or any volunteer organization if they heard how you talk about them?
) that are needless, but it seems like a much more professional approach to keep the complaints to other professionals, and just do your job.