>>507112518
I'm a probationary firefighter/AEMT. I'm paid by the hour. And I'm even paid to sleep and play video games after 5 pm. (Obviously when I'm not responding to emergencies)
Would I do it for free? Yeah. But I'm not going to sit around the station for free. I'd have to have a real job. And then when there's an emergency, you'd have to wait for me to get to the station, and then wait until everyone else got there, and then we'd all drive out to help you, probably with far less skill and competence because we'd train less (we train one medical and one fire scenario every shift)
So your house would probably burn down before we got there, and you'd probably die or get a IO because none of us would be good enough to start an IV on someone in shock.