HAZWOPR kicks ass!
A couple of us from work (I work for the health department) are 40 hour certified. The class was cool, but the 8 hours of recertification every year suck.
Last year, we were suiting up at the recert. It was 4 of us from the health department and about 30 firemen. They were laughing at one of my guys, because he was taking so long to suit up in a level A suit. He looked at the main heckler and told him that he should enjoy it, because it was the only time that he (the fireman) would see him in the suit. The fireman asked him why. He told him that it was because if he ever really had to put the suit on, it would be to go into the hot zone to retrieve the fireman's body. All the firemen stopped laughing and shut up.
J
