Fighting Fire with Fire.

As someone who experienced nothing less than professionalism, good nature and empathy from firefighters when my apartment building burned down a year ago, I'd like to send Gantenbein out into a fire sans protective gear with a barely functioning hose, and then see him come back with the same attitude. Firefighters not only risk their lives, but devote their time towards preserving the thing we value most: home. They work astonishing amounts of overtime for a big fire, sometimes unpaid because they put the job first. And they don't sit around nearly as often as Gantenbein suggests, largely because, even accounting for the dryness of summer, fires, as a fire chief once told me, are pretty consistent year-round. Plus, beyond fighting the fire, a firefighter must inspect the entirety of a property, determine the source of a fire, and thoroughly extirpate all sources of the fire. Hardly grunt work.