The Best Job in the World: Learning the Job

This new series of oral history books is called The Best Job in the World because that’s how most guys (and a
few gals now) describe it. There’s usually a colorful word inserted between Best and Job. I leave it to you
to fill in the blank. This series will bring the oral history forward to the 21st Century with all the dramatic changes that come with it. The span of time is about eighty years, the last sixty of the 20th and the first twenty of the 21st centuries are remembered. From firefighter to Director, all ranks of the Fire Department are represented. Each had to begin their career as a probationary firefighter learning the job.