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Old 06-21-2017, 12:50 AM
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Originally Posted by 57ChevyFI View Post
As much as I respect firefighters and appreciate everything they do, I've never understood why they get paid to sleep on 24 hour shifts. Why don't they do 12 hour shifts or some other rotating shifts. I can't think of many jobs where you get paid to sleep, just wondering.
If firefighters worked a 12 hour night shift, wouldn't they still sleep?
Or would you want them to stay awake in case their services were required?
To me it makes more sense for firefighters to work 24 hours shifts.
That way they can spend the days training and cleaning the trucks and equipment, and at night they are on call.
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