Drunken Firefighters?

I don’t know how widespread the problems in this article reach but it doesn’t sound like a good deal to me. I know that nowadays police, military, and many other jobs don’t allow people to drink while they are on duty so maybe firefighters need to modernize and adopt this practice voluntarily before the government does it for them. If they don’t they might tarnish there hero image they have presently in our culture.

Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly
Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)