Dual language requirement for Emergency services?

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10-05-2010, 07:33 AM
Saggy

Dual language requirement for Emergency services?

In Oregon Forest fire fighter supervisors MUST speak Spanish as well as English.
If only one person of a crew speaks only spanish----the supervisor MUST speak Spanish also-----or be replaced. Oregon will not require their firefighters to speak English.
Saw this as a news story on the internet---repeated from Fox News. Someone tell me this is BS.
So things like "The tree is falling on you", "come up out of the ravine" and "The roof is falling in on you"--- have to be repeated in two languages?
BRILLIANT!!! JUST BRILLIANT
10-05-2010, 07:41 AM
TxMusky

Ah the depths we have fallen to should be apparent by now. Its not how well a person does the job that matters, its how many different languages one speaks. Screw em, let the whole state burn then. That is just plain stupid.
10-06-2010, 08:13 PM
Dave Grubb

Instead of getting your shorts all in a wad and before going off on your rants at least find out if someone is jerking your chains.:nuts::hatoff:

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The old saying, “Rumor can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on,” is borne out in information circulating on the web and elsewhere that claims the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) is firing and demoting fire crew bosses that do not speak Spanish.
10-06-2010, 08:16 PM
Phillbo

I hear there is porn on the internets.
10-06-2010, 08:24 PM
chew 'n' spit

Oh mierda mis pantalones están ardiendo, por favor, extinguir, and so the water was turned on............
10-06-2010, 09:46 PM
DanH

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Originally Posted by Phillbo

I hear there is porn on the internets.

:maybe: Link please :drool: , itz a dull night here :hatoff: