And the ability of these FDNY crews to suppress and put out fires shall decline proportionately. There was a REASON that a fitness requirement was put in the list of qualifications for training as a fire fighter, and it has nothing to do with race, gender or college GPA scores.
It has everything to do with being able to put out fires. With dispatch and with minimal losses to life.
Darwinian selection may manage to remove a few of these of lesser abilities, but unfortunately, their failure could seriously threaten the lives and capabilities of much better qualified individuals, and also the victims of these conflagrations.
Fire and Police Departments have been fighting this BS for at least 40 years.
They dumb down the tests until an idiot could pass and even then they cannot get their quota’s. Some come up with a residency requirement and some have Cadet programs in schools.
They hire the habdicapped and then the handicapped need more help and more quotas for promotion. They end up destrpying the Fire service and then they wonder why.
Been there seen it done, watched the greatest Fire Dept. in the world turn to sh$t.