My life as a rural firefighter

I chose this subject to try and educate people to the problems faced by fire fighters in a rural setting. One of the biggest problems that I have seen is people that do not yeild the right of way to us when we are responding to a call. Another problem that I have seen is when people have either a cell phone stuck to their ear, radio turned up all the way with that heavy thumping of bass, so where they don't hear the sirens behind them. The trucks that we drive weigh approxitmately 24,000 lbs. and can not stop on a dime as most people think. We have to undergo countless hours of training to take on vehicle operation.