Firefighter test asked job candidates how many 60-foot hoses they'd need to bring if a fire was 350 feet away

[luiza]

Next news flash; WATER IS WET

Bad News .
Dry water is very common and easy to make .

Dry water is a form of "powdered liquid", an air–water emulsion in which water droplets are surrounded by a silica coating.
Dry water consists of 95% liquid water, but the silica coating prevents the water droplets from combining and turning back into a bulk liquid. The result is a white powder.

Discovery and preparation​

Dry water was first patented in 1968 and quickly found use in the cosmetic industry. In 2006, new work with dry water from the University of Hull ( My first degree University) increased interest in its potential use in other fields.

Dry water can be made by blending a mixture of silicon dioxide dust with water.

And you need 7 or more hose sections . You cannot tell the homeowner that their house burned down because your boss did not spell out all the parameters .
Top marks for 10 . Lateral and creative thinkers .

 

[fncceo]

5.83333333 hoses.

The house burned to the ground as I searched everywhere for .84 of a hose.

 

[Independent thinker]

Geezus.... Can you imagine a fire hydrant 360 ft away and they only bring five hoses? Why? Because they thought five was enough!

Reminds me of an episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond". There was a fire in the kitchen and Raymond runs out to get the garden hose and brings it into the house and it stops short of the kitchen and when he presses the nozzle only a trickle of water sprays out.

 

[ColonelAngus]

We should definitely do this with surgeons.

RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU WANT A DEI SURGEON CUTTING ON YOU.

 

[sparky]

One does not become a FF on paper.......~S~

 

[Edgetho]

Reminds me of an episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond". There was a fire in the kitchen and Raymond runs out to get the garden hose and brings it into the house and it stops short of the kitchen and when he presses the nozzle only a trickle of water sprays out.

One of the best SITCOM's ever. And I hate sitcoms. With a passion. Since some MORON invented the Laugh-Box, TV has been almost unwatchable.

Ever gone somewhere with someone..... Maybe a Movie, maybe a Club, and that someone just takes all the oxygen out of the air with their over-exuberance?

That's what a laugh-box does. I might want to laugh a half-second later but the laugh box beats me to it and I lose interest.

And how do they justify a laugh-box in a "nature setting''?

The media is collapsing of its own stupidity. Deservedly so. It tends to attract 'The Stoopid!" in all its facets.

 

[luiza]

One does not become a FF on paper.......~S~

Absolutely .
Paper burns .
Recent research finding .

 

[sparky]

So do FF's 'Lu

i was the replacement for one

~S~

 

[Edgetho]

Absolutely .
Paper burns .
Recent research finding .

How about when something 'Burns your butt'??

 

[SeaMajor7]

I'd say bring all of them.

 

[Leo123]

In a wild fire, they try to surround the fire with hoses so, it might take more in that case.

 

[sparky]

>>

~S~

 

[sparky]

Next news flash; WATER IS WET

and part Oxygen......~S~

 

[Foxfyre]

I interviewed for a meat cutting job once and the interviewer interjected the questioning with simple math problems. It was weird.

I buy meat in bulk these days and we break it down into ounces per portion so we can freeze it and then thaw out just what we need for a meal. Basic math is pretty useful doing that without having to weigh each portion.

The lack of the most basic knowledge these days is frightening. Without the calculator in the cash register telling them, a huge number of cashiers working fast food windows or whatever could not figure out how much change you should get from your $20 bill if their lives depended on it.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Possibly the most absurd end result of leftist DIE politico-religious ideology.

"Math is racist". What would be a reasonable question to ask of a firefighter, except in the DIE infected ideology of the left.

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Firefighter test asked job candidates how many 60-foot hoses they'd need to bring if a fire was 350 feet away

I once took a qualification test to be a firefighter in Virginia. I knew I was overqualified when I had to talk to the test administrator about a multiple-choice question that had no correct answer listed. It required you to convert from kilometers to miles but had the conversion backwards. I eventually went back to school and became a math teacher.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Why guess?

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Funny!

You do realize the first picture is not the US military, but Brits.

Rachel Levine as he is known, is not in the military.

Eisenhower famously only wore his top three ribbons on his daily uniform as he had too many to fit. The military has gone in for far too
many qualification badge and ribbons in the era since I left the military in the 90s.

The last one is a quality find!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I interviewed for a meat cutting job once and the interviewer interjected the questioning with simple math problems. It was weird.

An interviewer for my Navy college scholarship asked me to give me the definition of a right equilateral triangle. I misunderstood his question and answered for an equilateral triangle and then he asked again stressing the "right" part. I then told him that was impossible and followed up with the definition of a right triangle. They didn't ask any more questions after that. I got the scholarship and went from an E-4 on active duty to college in the reserves for 4 1/2 years and then got my commission.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

question 1. Is malformed. An AK-47 is magazine fed. No clip.

Not in gangland or Hollywierd.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

One of the best SITCOM's ever. And I hate sitcoms. With a passion. Since some MORON invented the Laugh-Box, TV has been almost unwatchable.

Ever gone somewhere with someone..... Maybe a Movie, maybe a Club, and that someone just takes all the oxygen out of the air with their over-exuberance?

That's what a laugh-box does. I might want to laugh a half-second later but the laugh box beats me to it and I lose interest.

And how do they justify a laugh-box in a "nature setting''?

The media is collapsing of its own stupidity. Deservedly so. It tends to attract 'The Stoopid!" in all its facets.

Do you mean a "laugh track"?

 

[Woodznutz]

The house burned to the ground as I searched everywhere for .84 of a hose.

Blame it on poor water pressure.

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