ok , I got 20 yrs!Starting pay stinks(46k) but after 5 yrs they are at68k.New guys work 87 days per year,after 5yrs 84 days ,after 15 yrs 81 days ,after 25 yrs 80 days per year!We are fire based and union, I stress union because if we were non union they wouldn't give us crap.Fireman work 24 /48 and we work the 24/72, due to a law suit in 1995, they had to pay us or change our hours!We work out of firehouses and we have preference to cross over to the fire side, every class of fireman must have 10% paramedics.Thats to maintain there ALS engines(I think we have 25 ALS engines).