Reply #116: and the forest critters.

[Sequoia]

It's a fireman's JOB to be "brave" and a "hero". Being brave and a hero is someone who does things out of the blue, like Joe Blow walking down the sidewalk who see's a house on fire and runs in to save the baby. Cops and fireman are really neither, because they are PAID to do THEIR JOB. I knew a cop once who was written up in the Los Angeles Times for saving a man from a house on fire and he just shrugged it off and said it was "all in a day's work and don't buy me any more drinks." Sadly, said cop, has teriminal cancer now.

At any rate, no death penalty. Think of all the preverts who kill kids and don't get the death penalty, but get out of jail after 5 years.