On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, when most folks are sitting down to enjoy dinner with family and friends, public safety officers, doctors and nurses and others in service industries still have to work. It’s not always easy – crime and accidents don’t take a break on holidays. The Sacramento Press asked some of them to share their holiday work experiences. These are their stories. FIRE DEPARTMENT: “(Christmas) is a pretty loaded day,” Doug Bruce, an engineer with Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, said Friday. “There is a lot of last-minute things going on, so there is a lot of traffic out. We keep busy.” Bruce said calls to the fire station can be strange no matter what the day,

California nurses represented by the California Nurses Association are holding rallies today in response to a recent court injuntion against a proposed strike. Nurses are upset over staffing ratios in the UC system and are saying they are not providing the quality of care to their patients that should be expected. Carol Robinson, the chief nursing officer for the UC Davis Medical Center, said the nurses' claims are unsafe and "untrue." But nurses disagree, instead stating they are looking for safe staffing, continuity of care and patient safety. Jody Ramos, a UC Davis Med Center nurse of three years, said she has foregone her lunch and breaks in order to provide quality patient care,