Quote of the day

[stevekennedy]

"People in the emergency services are good at what they do. They have to be. Lives depend on it. They're far smarter than the caricatures fronted by popular media and seldom credited with the sacrifices they make or the emotional dues exacted. The job is thankless, dangerous, and underpaid. They deal with the worst imaginable people under the worst imaginable circumstances. Yet it is the toll - the emotional toll - that in the end is the most dangerous occupational hazard of all."
- Doc Ford from Randy Wayne White's "Dead Silence"