[Doug]

I hate things like this being aired in public. The emergency services and the military employ people to undertake very dangerous and highly skilled tasks, in between those duties they have periods of training and other secondary duties in which accounts for part of their watch.

The rest of the time they are at a loss as to what to do and quite often will find immature and senseless activities to keep then occupied. You must remember that these men and women are highly skill risk takers, often on our behalf. If they wish to undertake these risks so be it, I would rather have a slightly hot creased fireman rescue a member of my family than a half asleep one.

Yes it is foolish and it is stupid. But these things along with gallows humours are what keep these men alive.

What were stupid and irresponsible actions was the news network and other media who publicised this video. It is they who have put others at risk by showing the footage on national Television and stills in the press.