Friday, May 4, 1979
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Firefighters sav job worth raise
Bv KATE POUND
Staff Reporter
The sound of a fire alarm will bring residents turning out of bed and fire trucks into the street.
The firefighters who drive those trucks, fight fires, do rescue work and teach fire prevention are professionals. Their job is dangerous, tedious and strenuous, they say. And it pays most of them less than $5 an hour.
"As a profession, we're totally underpaid," Mike Lindeman, a fire department engineer, or truck driver, said yesterday.
FIRE LEITUENANTS can earn $2.24 an hour and department captains can earn $6.08 an hour. Drill masters, who are in charge of training, can earn up to $7.71 an hour, but they work fewer hours than firefighters, according to James Woydziak.
Local firefighters receive a startage of $1.52 an hour. At the top of their pay scale, firefighters can earn up to $40 per hour but, instead, they often take them longer than four years to reach that figure.
KU orchestra choruses join; show Sunday
The combined choruses and orchestra of the University of Kansas will join to perform works by Brahms, Hanson and Haydn 3:30 p.m. sunday in Hoch Auditorium.
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The program will include Brahm's "Schicksalslied" (Song of Destiny). Hanson's "Song of Democracy" and Haydn's "Nelson" Mass.
Anderson will conduct the six chairs and the orchestra in the Hanson work and Ralston will conduct the Brahms and Haydn works.
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Hansen gave the imPRESS on his instrument of bumping all the acacia edge or virtually every uneven piece in the Heard archives including "Purple Haze" and "Al Along the Walkweaver."
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vice president of Local 1596 of the International Association of Firefighters.
University Daily Kansan
Negotiations for the Lawrence firefighters' 1988 contract began last month. Firefighters asked for increased longer hours, and a $50-per-hour cost and a 17 percent cost of living pay increase. Lindman, president of Local 1596, is the spokesman during negotiations.
The pay increase, Woydtak said earlier, was requested to bring the pay of firefighters equal to that of other city emitters and to take the bite out of recent inflation.
The U.S. Department of Labor lists firefighting as the most dangerous profession in the country, Woyzydkish said. If a worker is injured or killed on duty, he said.
Both Woydziak and Lindeman, who has been with the department six years, said they thought firefighters were not paid enough, considering the job's danger.
BUT THE MAIN cause of death among firefighters, Lindman said, is heart failure. Firefighting is physically strenuous and stressful, he said.
"We can be sitting around the station, quietly talking and as soon as that alarm goes off, my heart will probably pick up 10 beads," he said.
Physical activity adds to the tension and excitement that follows every alarm, and helps prevent bumps in heavy protective gear, carry and use weighty high pressure water hoses, move quickly, climb ladders and use breathing equipment that can weigh more than 30 kg.
"All of that is extremely hard on the heart." Lindeman said.
Firefighters also deal with the danger of burning buildings and high speed travel to and from the scene.
OTHER DUTIES, which can be strenuous, occupy a firefighter's time when he is not fighting fires. Woydriak said, the firefighters, who work 24-hour shifts, spend several hours a day in training or classroom study, he said. Woydriak is the department's drill master and is charge of training.
training includes participation in simulated fire situations, practicing equipment use and studying new developments in firefighting. Firefighters must know the streets and buildings of a city, as is the location of fire hydrants in the city.
According to Lindman, firefighters are tested regularly on the training session material. They must pass the tests to be permitted to work with cats if they do not do well on them, he said.
Besides the hazards and demands of their duties, firefighters find the job's hours can be a problem, Lindman said and the 24-hour shifts cut into family life.
Lawrence firefighters work shifts of 24 hours on duty, followed by 24 hours off duty. After the third shift on duty, they have four 12-hour shifts a week. Lawrence works an average of 52 hours a week.
"THERE HAVE BEEN people that have quit because of their families," Lindman said. "You just have to restructure your whole life."
The greatest strain of firefighting is the uncertainty of the job, according to Lin-
old before he realized that Christmas comes every year, instead of ever other year."
Woydziak said, "My little boy was 6 years
"When we go out on a call, we never know what to expect." Lindman said.
There are calls all firefighters dread. The call he fehres most, Lindeman said, is one to a nursing home. Older persons in nursing homes get out of a building by themselves, he said.
"We just wouldn't have enough manpower to get them out," he said, shaking his head.
WOYDZIAK SAID he feared a fire in the cathedral House the most because of the size of the room.
"The day that call comes in is the day I leave town," he said. "I just don't want to
Calls to the University of Kansas, which is protected by the Lawrence fire department, have been made.
"People at the fifth and sixth floors—we can't get close enough to our gat器 to learn about it."
A residence hall fire would be particularly frightening, they said, because the halls are too far away from the streets to allow easy access for the fire trucks.
However, despite the dangers of the job and its low pay, both men said firefighters
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