“This is the behind the scenes of law enforcement that nobody knows about.
You see a [jerk] writing a ticket or serving warrants. But that’s not it.
They come home, and this is what we see. These are the pieces we are left with at the end of every shift.
It’s your spouse puking when they get home from the smell of a burning body because she couldn’t get inside. The first to respond and being completely helpless in any attempts of rescue.
And it’s more than just this day, and this fire. It’s delivering a death call to a family, all by yourself; and holding a grieving mother after delivering the news her son was found dead.