Oh, grow up. Surely there's some practical explanation for this. Perhaps the skirts were used to trap clean air, and if the fireman discovered any survivors, the survivors were meant to stick their heads up his skirt.

How dear, he looks faaaaAAAAaaabulous!  That stance just plays into the whole fabulous theme as well. Is everyone sure this isn't from some 1920's gay porn?

At first, this inspired me to write a long, teary-eyed, bag-pipes-in-the-background comment about how all firefighters, cops, and soldiers are heroes. And then I realized, wait—that's not even a kilt. Dude is wearing a friggin' SKIRT-TUNIC. And also, I'm not the kind of hop-on-the-bandwagon sentimental dumb schmuck to go on about how people are heroes for doing their jobs, anyway. Oh well. Why did I start writing this comment again?