Subculture Case Study

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The subculture that I picked out to study during this semester was the Rapids Volunteer Fire Company. I am a part of this subculture already and would like to express how important this volunteer job really is. Many people do not think of local volunteer fire companies that often when not much is really going on in your community. However, volunteer fire companies have a really important role in their community. Not only do they help keep the community safe, they try to keep the community involved in what is going on. Mike stated that he likes to “help people and better my community during my free time” (M. Moore, personal interview, March 28th, 2016). Since volunteer fire companies are not on duty twenty-four hours so people have to dedicate time …show more content…

You never know how a call will end. You will never know how anything will play out. Every call is unpredictable. Just like 9/11, there were many police and fire personal that were killed fighting a very tragic situation. In the book, “Last Man Down” there was a man named Richard Picciotto that was trapped in the World Trade Center and finally escaped do to his knowledge of being a New York Fire Department Battalion Commander. This book talked about a tragic situation happening and the long road to recovery because of the after math of what happened. This book proves that anything can happen at any time and the after math to the first responders can be unpredictable. Another book that relatable to this is “The Long Run.” This book had a tragedy that happened outside of the line of duty. It all started when a firefighter went for a run in the morning before his shift started and got hit by a truck that turned illegally. Even this proves that anything can happen at any time. This was very unpredictable. This young firefighter had a long road to recovery. He became paralyzed and had to work very hard to prove the doctors wrong to make himself walk and run

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