How about some laughs?????

[Speedi120]

How about we lighten up and laugh for a little while?

I want stories.......tell me about the funniest call you have ever been on.

For instance.......I didn't know that some depts. still rescue cats. How about ****er spaniels, if I throw mine up a tree will the fire department get her down? (just joking, no hate mail, I love my crazy mutt)

I didn't know that people call 911 for spiders in their pillows.

And I didn't know that as a fire truck goes around a corner, the nozzle could fall off, get hooked onto something, and the hose come off the truck.

Let's all have some laughs... http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/biggrin.gif

What do you say?

[eCappy]

Back in the 60s and 70s I belonged to a small 2 engine 1 truck volunteer fire department, and for two years our chief was Billy "Big Butt" Johnson; a swell guy, and a great chief who had a big, no ... make that an enormous butt, and he was very sensitive about his nickname.

One morning we had a truck fire on the street right in front of his house. Big Butt had already gone to work and missed the fire. We put it out, returned to quarters, and I stayed behind to do the paperwork. The firehouse phone rang, so I answered it, and it was Big Butt calling to see what had happened.

He said, "I heard the sirens. What did you guys have?"

I said, "Truck fire in front of Big Butt's house."

"Big Butt's house?" he asked, "Big Butt? Did you say BIG BUTT! Hey, do you know who this is? Huh? DO YOU KNOW WHO THIS IS??"

I said, "Do you know who this is?"

He said, "NO."

I said, "Good bye Big Butt!" and hung up.

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[wrongWAY]

A few years ago we had a kitchen fire in a large local hotel. The evacuation of the guests on the upper floors was going well, but the guests attending parties in two banquet rooms weren't very cooperative. They kept going in and out, and in and out through the lobby. We kept telling them to get out and stay out, but the same people kept going in and out, and in and out. We started to lose our cool - but then we found out it was a convention for TWINS.

[RANGERXX]

WE ONCE HAD A FIRE ON JOHN STREET AND CALLED
FOR HELP FROM NEXT TOWN,ENROUTE THEY WERE
TOLD TO DROP A LINE TO THE PLUG AT THE
BOTTOM OF THE HILL,THEY DROPPED 1500 FT OF
3INCH TO THE TOP OF THE HILL,TROUBLE WAS
THEY WERE ON JOHN AVE!!!!
IT WASNT FUNNY TO THEM,BUT FOR 2 YEARS
AFTER IT STILL CAUSES A LITTLE GRIN.

[Break-N-Entry]

Before becoming an officer I was assigned to Central Fire Headquarters for several years. All the surrounding companies had to come by us for fuel and gas. One red hot broiling summer afternoon in 1975 the Fire Chief wanted someone to gas up his 3 year old 1972 Ford Custom 500 Chief's car and check his oil. No one wanted to leave the ice cold air conditioned day room so everyone claimed they were too busy. The Chief came out of his office and went to do it himself. After a few minutes he came in all sweated up and asked for two quarts of oil. A few minutes later we were banged out for a car fire out on the interstate highway. As we pulled out of quarters we could see the Chief hurrying to add the oil. Just as we got on the interstate the Chief pulled up along side of our engine and sped off to get ahead. Just then the hood of the Chief's car blew open and folded back across his windshield. That's how he got the new 1975 Chief's car.

[Speedi120]

those are great.....keep them coming....surely there are some more stories to tell...COME ON give'em up.

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Where is IWood, JMP, Woodman, CFD, Quint? Come on it's been a rough week how about making me laugh.

[NCFiremedic]

Without going into too much detail let me just say this. If you ever go to a reported fire at a dog kennel make sure the hydrant you wrap is a REAL hydrant. http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/biggrin.gif

[jj1967]

About ten years ago my dad and I were sitting in the station waiting for couple of guys to show up to go play golf. Got a call for a bathroom fire. In 35 years, dad had never seen a bathroom fire. Pulled up, nothing showing. Entered the bathroom and found a gentleman face down on the floor, pants around his ankles, and second degree burns to his buttocks, and ahem...delicate male appendages. Seems his wife cleaned the toilet with a lighter than water flammable cleaner. He sat down with his Sunday sports section, lit a cigarette, and dropped the still lit match. FLASH. Was hard not to laugh at the poor guy, but the surgeon general does warn smoking may be hazardous to your health.

[jj1967]

Also got a great rescue call once involving a young lady and a semi frozen Armour Hotdog, but unfortunately its a little risque for this board. Use your imagination. Poor woman lives down the street from the station, hard not to laugh every time I see her.

[Speedi120]

JJ, is that bathroom story true? I think I have heard that one before. http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/wink.gif

[jj1967]

That bathroom story is very much true. I did post it here before in one of those humorous dispatch threads. The hot dog story is a great one too, but I think I'd get banned for life if I told it. http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/smile.gif

[Speedi120]

lol well jj, you know, that makes us wanna hear it even more. maybe you should start an email list. http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/biggrin.gif

[Speedi120]

http://www.emergency.simplenet.com/Goofs/Real_Goofs.htm

[pyroknight]

Strangest bathroom call I ever went on was the lady who proved you CAN get your toe stuck up the tub spout. Probably not something she tried again.

[jj1967]

Speedi,
If you really want to know the whole story send me your e-mail address. With a disclaimer. About not holding me responsible for the content. LOL

[Speedi120]

lol, ok JJ, mail is on the way. http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/biggrin.gif

[Wally57fire]

About 2 weeks before i joined my department our company got called out for mutual aid on a house fire. The main engine out of station 1 rolled with a 5 man crew and the are heading up the highway and about 1 mile from the station the look back and all the 5 inch was laied on the highway right down the center of the lane. I still hear about that one the claim it was the best 5 inch drop they ever made but it was in the wrong sopt. ( the reason was someone didnt strap the bungee cord down that holds it in)

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[fjbfour]

Since you're looking... and discussing a list:

Check out the Emergency Services Humor List. Details can be found at http://www.egroups.com/group/ES-Humor or at my Fire Department's page shown below in my signature. Posts go out Mondays and Thursdays.

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Town of Superior Fire Online (http://superior.isonfire.com)
Opinions expressed here are not necessarily that of Town of Superior Fire.

[eCappy]

These incidents didn't happen at a fire or drill, but are related to the fire service.

When I was a kid back in the 50s my friends and I would always have a real good time Halloween night throwing rotten eggs at each other. We never even thought to start fires or pull false alarms, but we did like to knock over outhouses. Knocking the firehouse outhouse over was a big challenge. It was a big heavy "three holer" and the area had no cover, no bushes to hide in, and sometimes a fireman would even stand guard. One Halloween night we heard the fire whistles and thought we had a golden opportunity to knock it over while the firemen were away at their call. We ran to the firehouse, looked around, and saw that our coast was clear. 5 maybe 6 of us ran up to knock it over, but the firemen were expecting us. They had pulled it away from over the hole in the ground. Instead of knocking their outhouse over we all went straight down the hole. (We all got even with them by joining up a few years later).

The first truck I served on was a 75 foot all wood ladder truck built in the 40s. It was a beauty. We had to pull pins and rotate the turntable by hand, it had big springs to help us elevate it, and a big brass ships wheel controlled extension. It saw years of action, but I remember one funny incident it was involved in. One afternoon the Mayor wanted us to use the ladder truck to put a big brass eagle he obtained on top of the flag pole at town hall. We pulled up and naturally a crowd soon assembled. Our Mayor never passed up a chance to be a big shot, and seeing the crowd he quickly climbed the ladder with the eagle in hand. Just as he got to the top of the ladder a crow began attacking him. The Mayor, screaming, yelling, and calling the crow every curse word in the book tried swatting it away - but not before the crow grabbed his toupee and flew away.

[Speedi120]

LOL, That was funny Cappy, that is one scene I would like to see......flying toupee...that's just to funny.

Thanks for the link fj.

[WOODMAN]

Ok Speedi here we go,I was sitting home on Sunday afternoon getting ready to go on vacation and the chief calls and asked me to
round up a few guys and get to the mayor's
house to his dog off his roof seems the dog chased a cat and got stuck.We get there raise the ladder to the roof I figure no sweat be home in ten minutes grap the dog and the dog bites me in the arm,I jump up forgetting that I am on a roof causing me to slide off the roof into a tree breaking branches on the way down landing in a heap on the ground breaking my collar bone.Since then they don't let me go after animals, missed my vacation and the dog came down by himself after every one stop laughing at me.

[eCappy]

Can I tell one more?

Animals can really give firefighters a headache .....

One night a woman calls the police and says that there are weird noises in her attic. The police arrive and they determine that there is a bat, maybe two in her attic. The police call the dog catcher; but he says he was hired to only catch dogs and hangs up, so the fire department gets called out. We arrive and our Chief decides that one of us will volunteer to go up and catch it with a net the homeowner has out by her pool. The Chief wants the volunteer he picked (a guy we call "Tiny" 6'4" 285 pounds) to gear up and to wear an SCBA mask for extra protection. The lady says that there's no attic floor, just floor joists, and warns us to be carefull. By now there's 10-12 firefighters in the house, 3-4 police officers, 2 EMS workers, and at least 3-4 neighbors. Up goes Tiny armed with a flashlight and a pool net. It's quiet, real quiet; maybe too quiet - all we hear are the floor joists squeaking. Everyone's looking up at the ceiling following Tiny's squeaks. All of a sudden Tiny lets out a scream, stumbles, and comes crashing through the ceiling. Three maybe four small bats fly out the hole and begin to swarm around the room. Everybody, and I mean everybody, all 20-25 of us, myself included, let out yells, and head for the stairs to get outside. What a logjam. What a bunch of chickens! Tiny was OK, but the pool net wasn't.

[Speedi120]

Cappy, there isn't many telling stories, so tell me as many as you like. You don't have a video tape of that do you? http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/smile.gif

So let me get this straight. If I throw my dog up a tree, and she stays there, I can call 911 and get lots of firemen to come visit me? http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/smile.gif

It amazes me that people call you guys out for this stuff.

I have been told that some departments refuse to do the cats in the tree calls. Guess it depends on the departments.

[WOODMAN]

We just use a 1-3/4 line on cats sends into the next yard in a hurry,just kidding we will
response to just about anything.

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[WOODMAN]

Cappy just where to you work? we never had bats but we did chase a goat and a pig down the street on night that got away from the police station.

[Speedi120]

Uh Woodman, where do you work? Pigs and goats and a police station? Sounds like Tiawana (spelling ?) or Mayberry.
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http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/smile.gif Woodman, that sounds like a funny story, how about telling us?

[pyroknight]

Tiajuana (it's Spanish, ya know, Mexico). I've watched co-workers attempt to herd cattle on foot. We chased a bat around the fire station for about an hour one night. I picked up a WHOLE bunch of snakes when I worked in AZ, but the worst job I ever had was driving the van with the barrels of snakes (about 50) out into the desert to release them. It's a pretty spooky feeling when you hear a couple dozen rattlers behind you every time you step on the brakes.

[shiver]

[Speedi120]

sticking my tongue out at pyro. However, it is nice to have someone that watches over me and always points out my mistakes. lol http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/wink.gif

I spelled it that way, then decided that it didn't look right. So I changed it. At least I knew it wasn't spelled right.

are you sure it is Mexico? I was thinking Canada http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/wink.gif

[Break-N-Entry]

Well, if you really want an animal story:

Our downtown enginehouse is in a very friendly residential area. The neighborhood is really great to us. The house next door is owned by a retired couple that go to Florida for a week or two each year. They used to ask the firefighters to look after all their pets while they went away. (Note: I said "used to ask").

While they were away we would take turns walking the dogs, feeding the cats, their fish, and their prized parakeet. On the day that they are due back we find out that the cat knocked over the bird cage and killed their parakeet.

We got aboard our engine and drove around with the dead bird to 4 or 5 pet shops until we finally found one that matched the dead one. We got back just in time to make the switch before they got home.

We thought we had them fooled, but just as they walked in and started giving us hugs the new parakeet started talking, "Hello, hello, hellooo, helloooooooo" which was something the old dead one never did!

[WOODMAN]

North Jersey Speedi,the town next to us at one time had meat packing company that killed
the animals on site and these two animals did not want any part of it and took off running.Our great police dept.caught the two
and being a Sunday the animal control people
take a little longer to show up so they placed the two in the lock up cell in the police station,it worked till someone walked in wondering what all the noise was and the next thing you know out the cell the go out the door of the police station back past the fire house causing some traffic problems. It was a sight to se police, fire,chasing these two poor things,after about 20 minutes we catch them again and we ended up tieing them to the tree next to the fire house .

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[jemar]

FOR BIT OF FUN GO TO www.darwinawards.com (http://www.darwinawards.com)
People do some STRANGE THINGS.

[Speedi120]

you know, I have not quite figured out how to draw a picture of confusion........
How did this post turn to bathroom and animal stories?

Uh, does someone have something funny that happened in another room?


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Come on, surely there are some of you that have some funny calls to talk about.

[Firekatz04]

Okay Speedi, it's time for me to throw one or two in. Sorry but they also take place in the aforementioned bathroom.These weren't my dept., but they were close by, and one even made this website about two months back. It seems a local resident was using a porta pot and got stuck. He, um, fell through. He slid in but got stuck trying to get out. He had to get cut out with a sawzall.

Second call - EMS and rescue were dispatched to the local mall for a person stuck in the restroom. There was some discussion over the radio as to why EMS and rescue were called... why not just unlock the door? It seems this woman went into the restroom to do her "business" and she couldn't get out... oh, did I mention she was EXTREMELY pregnant. LOL!!!

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[Speedi120]

You know I think I read that story. Didn't he lose his keys or something?

[CFD14]

Have you ever seen how far or high someone can jump off a truck when there is a dead bull snake in the drivers seat. It wasn't a fire truck but it still makes me laugh ten years after the fact. If looks could kill, I wouldn't be here today.

[1627]

OK Speedi this is a little embarrassing but here we go.

We got toned out for a woods fire when we got on scene the only way to get over to the fire was to go over a pile of ceramic toilets that’s right this person had a pile of toilets in the back yard. Anyway it was fine on the way up but on the way back down my foot went through a couple of them and I had to get some help getting out. First time I can say I ever got stuck in a toilet


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Leon Bass
Jr. Firefighter
SWVFD Station 16

[Speedi120]

http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/eek.gif

Uh, guys, is there something about bathrooms, or bathroom fixtures?

I mean, somehow one of you have found a way to tell me a story about commodes being outside. Now I am not complaining but, I never would have thougt to associate firemen with commodes, inside and out. lol

Is there no one out there with a funny story about something other than a bathroom?


Thanks for the stories though. keep them coming even if they are about bathrooms.... http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/biggrin.gif

[Speedi120]

Not sure how true this is, but can you imagine being the paramedics on this call.....


The following is taken from The Miami Herald newspaper:

A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the house in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle and somehow, the motorcycle slipped into gear. The man, still holding the
handlebars, was dragged through a glass patio door and along with the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house. The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room, and found her husband laying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle laying next to him and the patio door
shattered. The wife ran to the phone and summoned an ambulance. Because they
lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the several flights of long steps to the street to direct the paramedics to her husband.

After the ambulance arrived and transported the husband to the hospital,the wife uprighted the motorcycle and pushed it outside. Since gas had spilled on the floor, the wife obtained some papers towels, lotted up the gasoline, and threw the towels in the toilet. The husband was treated at the hospital and was released to come home.

After arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle. He became despondent, went into the bathroom, sat on the toilet and smoked a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into the toilet bowl while still seated.

The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and her husband screaming. She ran into the bathroom and found her husband lying on the floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was suffering burns on the buttocks, the back of his legs and his groin. The wife again ran to the
phone and called for an ambulance. The same ambulance crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the street. The paramedics loaded the husband on the stretcher and began carrying him to the street. While they were going down the stairs to the street accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the husband had burned himself.

She told them and the paramedics started laughing so hard, one of them tipped the stretcher over and dumped the husband out. He fell down the remaining steps and broke his arm.

Now THAT is a bad day...




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[LOFD_E511]

This one sticks out, told to me by an FEO. A couple years ago before I was a volunteer at my department we responded to a chest pain call, the patient was asked what the pain felt like, he replied with:
"Well, it feels like my wife is sitting on my chest, like an elephant." unfortunatly he didn't see his wife peeking in the door until after he said that, he then relized his mistake and soon said, "Well, maybe not an elephant, but a horse."

The FEO then looked at the patient and said, "Uhh, R*ck, I don't think that helps to much!"...

I thought it was funny... I guess you just have to hear the FEO tell it!!!!

Richard
Sutter County Fire - Station 5
Live Oak, CA

[Speedi120]

Wacky 911 calls

A call came into 911 Emergency because two couples were going to share a hotel room and there weren't enough towels.
A man called 911 and said: "Please connect me to Seitzerland."

A lady called 911 because of a fight going on in a parking lot. When asked to describe the combatants, she said: "I'll try. There's one man, and he's dressed like Elvis. He's kicking another man who's laying on the ground and screaming 'You ain't nothing but a hound dog.'"

Another person called to report he had the hiccups.

A thirteen-year-old boy called to report he had "stuff" coming from his navel. Paramedics examined the boy and all they found was belly-button lint.

A male complainant called and requested police call gas stations on all exits of I-95 to find out which ones were open.

A woman called emergency to report she had seen a wild mouse in her house.

Someone called 911 to report the parrot got out of his cage and is in a tree outside.

A man broke up with his girlfriend and wanted police to go by her house and report to him the owners of any cars, other than hers, in her driveway.

A man called to report he had a roach stuck in his ear.

A guy called to ask if they delivered dope. When the person answering told him it was the Sheriff's Department, he hung up.

Another winner called to ask when the Cinco de Mayo celebration was. (Cinco de Mayo means the 5th of May)

A female complainant called to request a police officer come to her residence to change the battery in her smoke detector. She couldn't reach it.

A drunk called 911 to order a pizza.

A woman called to report that someone had trespassed on her property. When asked how she knew this, she reported that the person had trimmed her rose bushes, and she knew it was her next-door neighbor.

A person called to find out the number to the police station.

[Truckie from Missouri]

This happened just last nite...

Our station is getting renovated, and there is one of those huge dumpsters in the back lot. I was showing another firefighter how to use the new thermal image camera (TIC). He was walking around, checking things out, and noticed a hot spot on the dumpster. He showed me, and it sure looked like one. We felt the metal, and it was very warm to the touch. Curious to see if we were about to have a dumpster fire, we got a pike pole and started digging... I turns out that during the 100+ degree day, the ceramic toilet in the bottom of the dumpster had retained the heat longer than the steel walls, and was now radiating heat off... http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/cool.gif

This one happened several years ago, when I was a station resident at a small town vfd...

The dispatcher calls me and tells me there is a parrot stuck in a tree at the city park. So, wait until it flies down! Then she informs me that this parrot cannot fly, that a gust of wind carried it up to the tree. Ok, I'll bite. I took the particulars, finished lunch and then got in the pumper.

Given the nature of the call, I figured it might be best to just do it, not make any fanfare about it, and get back to the house fast! Our station was a few blocks from the sherrif's office, who did our dispatching. The dispatcher who called me was outside on a "fresh air" break. I saw her as I drove by; she saw me and quickly put out her cancer stick and scambled back inside, and I just sank in as low as I could get.

3-11, are you en route to the rescue?

Very weakly I replied Yes.

10-4, stand by for tones.

DIspatcher, I don't think that'll be necces~ Too late. Now scannerland knows, as well as every other fire department in the county. She broadcasted every detail of the call... Man, oh man, am I gonna get some ***** for this!

So anyway, I arrived and met the indiviual where I was told he'd be. He explained that this bird's wings are clipped, so he doesn't fly. When I questioned him how this bird that doesn't fly got 18 feet up that tree over there, Oh, a huge gust of wind came along. Huge gust of wind my left big toe! I then explained to him that we were in a of a high pressure center, and that there was no wind to be had, except for that of passing vehicles, and perhaps when we break wind. http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/wink.gif So I then again asked how the bird got up there... he then admitted it's been a while since the wings were trimmed...

Ok, now that we got that clear, I explained my plan. We would try one (1) time only with the extension ladder. "Plan B" is that water cannon on top of the truck.

We set up the ladder, I held it while he climbed it, and just as he got to the bird, you guessed it! It flew to another tree. So, away goes the ladder, on came the pump, and then I started squirting water. I aimed it at the truck of the tree, at the base, and slowly worked my way up, then the bird got the point and flew back to it's cage. Only used a 1/2 tank, too! http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/biggrin.gif

Ken

[Speedi120]

Ok Well that does it. I love my pooch to much to have her shot out of a tree by water guess she won't be thrown up any trees any time soon.

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Thanks Truckie, me and my son got a good laugh out of your story.

[PGFD236]

We had just completed training one night when we decided to head back to the station.
I jumped into the drivers side of our depts
suburban and FF Wade Brent jumped into the passengers side. We also had 2 Explorer members with us riding in rear seats. I started to drive off when i realized neither Wade nor myself had our seatbelts on. I stopped the truck and told him to buckle up. He got his belt on before I did and I told him that in this model of truck we had to click the belts on at the same time in order for mine to lock. I told him to lock it on 3,
I counted out loud 1,2,3 click. I looked at him and said great job, he was so proud. I looked into the back seat to find our Jr.s with tears in their eyes from laughing but not out loud so Wade never caught on. Returning to the station I asked Wade if any of the probies knew about the seat belt system and if not show them. He grabbed 3 guys and started giving a class on the proper way to engage the belts. The new guys
looked at him like he had lost his mind.
After 5 minutes I went out to the truck looked at Wade and said gotcha. I thought he was going to have a heart attack chasing me.
Wades a good guy but damn gullible. Stay Safe

[Truckie from Missouri]

At a wreck many moons ago, a deputy and I got the grim task of looking for a patients amputated arm. http://www.geocities.com/captmigen/puke.gif We found it a short time after we started. This arm is where the victom wore his watch. We looked at it, then eachother, and simultaneously said, Takes a lickin' & keeps on tickin'! http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/biggrin.gif

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I once went to a reported house fire. A teen was smoking in the bathroom, and heard his parents come home earlier than expected. He ditched his cancer stick in the trash can after he thought it was out. The trash can was immediately adjacent to the toilet. The heat from the resulting fire melted the PVC on the supply pipe, and that pressurized water started putting out the fire. We took the report and left. The parents later came by the station to tell us the damage would be fixed, and that Junior would be doing extra chores for quite some time to pay it off... http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/biggrin.gif

[Speedi120]

Uh, Truckie,

Your little guy that is sick, is uh, SICK.

How did you do that?

[NCFiremedic]

Please don't keep us in waiting!!!! How'd you do that?

[Truckie from Missouri]

I am a Jedi Knight! The Force is strong with me! http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net2/love.gif

Don't believe that? Good, you shouldn't. I just like keeping the rookies jumping! http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net/icon82.gif http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net2/ukliam3.gif

Instead of quickly surfing, just take a http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net6/walksmil.gif around the internet and you'll find some resources!

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[Speedi120]

Truckie,
That is not fair. As helpful as I have been in my post and you won't help me out here. Hmmm a fireman that won't help a lady. Man this is a sad state of affairs.

[medic3401]

Speedi 120,

We are from the dark side!!!

We have put our two half brains together to make a full brain and have figured it out. http://smilecwm.tripod.com/cwm/thinkerg.gif

Just go to his post and edit it and you can see what he typed to get those ultra cool smilies!!!!

Hope this helps.

NCFiremedic and medic3401 http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net7/beerchug.gif


The dark side will always conquer! http://smilecwm.tripod.com/cwm/killtard.gif

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If a fire is an emergency to the fire dept., who do they call?

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[medic3401]

Just trying something out.

[medic3401]

Just trying something out.

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[Speedi120]

Thanks Gentlemen http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/wink.gif

something is wrong and I can't get it to work http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/frown.gif

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WOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!! it worked. now where do I get more?
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[Fyrball105]

ok, I guess it is finailly time for me to step up and embarass myself. I got two stories, I don't know if they are funny or some may take them as stupid, but i did them and now I look back and laugh****

First we was dispatched to a Structure fire, fire located in wall around chimney, it was Christmas morning, kind of cold at that time, on arrivel found a log cabin which ment a lot of chopping to get to fire, as we was fighting fire in wall. I was hit by an emergency call from mother nature, I had to do a quick seach of the now fully smoked structure. Every thing turned out ok, I left the room as I found it. Still hear about that one " he's so tough/stupid he took a S**t in a burning house."

2nd story nothing about bathrooms (for speedi) dispatched too a structure fire, could see header before we got there, knew it was a good one, as the pumper rolled up I gave size-up and opened door to exit truck, my driver decided he didn't like where he was parked, the truck never stoped, as I hit the ground my feet needed to be doing about 30 MPH but wasn't, yeah oh yeah I fell I went spinning down the road on my back. The fall didn't hurt but the noice I got from that yard full of people didn't help the pride department any. I was able to go ahead and fight the fire, we was able to hold the fire to back half of structure...

[Truckie from Missouri]

Truckie,
That is not fair. As helpful as I have been in my post and you won't help me out here. Hmmm a fireman that won't help a lady. Man this is a sad state of affairs.


Not fair? You asking for a special favor? Why is is a sad state of affairs? Letting you learn for yourself rather than just giving you the answer is my philosophy. No sad state about that. Equal opportunity is what that is. I thought you wanted to join a fire department someplace? http://smilecwm.tripod.com/owen/newbie.gif Asking for special favors will get you nowhere in the fire department. Here endeth the lesson.

Ken

[Truckie from Missouri]

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[Speedi120]

No, none of my post have said I want to join the fire dept. As a matter of fact I have stated several times that I have no interest in becoming a firefighter. But thats ok Truckie. You aren't the first fireman on this forum that wanted to teach Speedi a few lessons. If learning a few lessons and proving that I have it in me to play with the big boys, then so be it.

[Truckie from Missouri]

There was a bad wreck one day. The patient's car had left the road and overturned several times, amputating the left ear in the process. Agressive treatment was yeilding marginal results. The patient's condition was still declining. Rescuers were constantly sttempting to asssess responsiveness. Hey, wake up! Can you hear me? Squeeze my hands! Wiggle your toes! The patient remained unresponsive. A short time later the patient was air lifted to a trauma center. It wasn;t three minutes later when someone found the amputated ear. He picked it up and held it in front of his face, Can you hear me now?

[Speedi120]

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There Truckie, that one is for you


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[Firehoney4]

I recently attended a class during which the Instructor showed pictures of a rescue incident.

Apparently when the homeowner left for work, he didn't realize his dog was outside. When he got home 8 hours later, he heard a strange noise coming from the woods behind his house. When he investigated, he discovered his 100 lb. German Shephard on a tree limb, 30 feet in the air, hanging on for dear life. He'd been there all day after chasing squirrels. The FD did a great job considering the distance and terrain they had to take their equipment.

[firefighterbeast]

A painter, was painting the inner walls of a country out house, had the misfortune to fall through the opening and landed in the muck at the bottom. http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/eek.gif He shouted fire! fire ! fire! at the top of his lungs. The local FD responded with sirens roaring as they approched the PRIVY. Where's the fire called the Chief. http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/confused.gif No fire replied the painter as they pulled him out of the hole.
but if I had yelled S*&^ S*&^% S&^% who would have rescued me???? http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/tongue.gif http://www.firehouse.com/interactive/boards/biggrin.gif

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[Speedi120]

LMAO!!! I liked that. http://smilecwm.tripod.com/sally/lol.gif

[fireflyer]

I was a sophomore (meaning "stupid fool") in college and it was our group's first year on the VFD. We were all excited and just rearing to go all of the time. So much in fact that we got a stern hour + lecture from our chief on acting and looking professional at all times. A couple of days later we get toned out to a structure fire (we did not get many fires, just a lot of extrications and high angle rescues- so we were more fired -bad pun- up than ever). We arrive in the support vehicle with all 6 of us in airpacks and ready to go. It is around 7 at night during the winter and the glaze of snow that had partially melted during the day had turned into ice by then. We all took off running up to the chief for our assignments and he was standing in front of the structure with the home owner. They were at the bottom of a small incline, so as the first of us began to arrive and apply our brakes, we lost traction. All six of us together fell and slid right past our chief and the home owner and kept on going about another 20 feet. We were the poster child of professinalism with that maneuver. It turns out it was a false alarm- and we learned a valuable lesson about why we don't run on fire scenes (and got another lecture!).

[fireflyer]

To build on the sophomore year, we were all en-route to a structure fire a few months later. We were (again) really pumped up and ready to go. As soon as the support truck stopped we all assumed (translated "*** u & me) we were at our destination. We had our masks and SCBA on, but were no breathing air. Thus our masks were fogged up and we could not hear very well. The first person out just took off running down the road- so the rest of us assuming (see above definition) they knew where they were going followed them at a dead run. Our captain said he stepped out of the vehicle to see what was going on and just saw 6 glow-in-the-dark figures running off into the distance down the dark road- with the structure up ahead of us about a block. By the time they caught up with us to herd us back to the support truck we found out it was just a small trash fire and was out on arrival.

[Lewiston2Capt]

I have a couple. I wasnt on either but they are legends in my Dept.
One day we were called to a residence for an attempted suicide. The Amb crew arriving on scene found a pt lying on the ground with a ladder and tree branch lying next to the pt. apparently what happened was the person was attempting to hang themself when the ladder fell over and the sudden load on the tree caused the branch to break, now the person had a twisted ankle and broken arm, as well as rope burn around their neck.
Talk about a bad day.

One more. Called to an MVA car vs pole just down the road from the station during the winter. Arrive on scene to find two males in a midsize car with spider webs in the windshield. The front seat passenger (unrestrained) had impacted the winshield and the tip of his nose had pushed through. When he fell back the widshield cut off the tip of his nose. A search for the missing body part ensued and soon it was picked up and packed in gauze to accompany its owner to the hospital. Unfortunately on the way to the hospital the body part melted. Apparently the body part found was a chunk of bloody snow/ice. http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/net6/nuts.gif




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[FireLt1951]

I remember one that seems to stand out. We were called to an incident where the report of a fire in progress was given. When we arrived, the lady of the house told us that her husband was upstairs in the bathroom and had suffered seriuos burns. We proceeded to the 2nd floor and found the individual laying on his side. We checked out his condition and he had 1st degree burns on his rearend shaped like an O, he also had a small bump on his head. I asked the individual what had happened. He stated that he went into the bathroom to relieve himself and was smoking. He deicided to throw his cigarette into the toilet while was sitting on it. Unkown to him, his wife had been trying to clear out the nozzel of a hair spray can just before he sat down. BOOM he was thrown across the room headfirst into the wall. Luckily the injury was not severe and he decided that a trip to the hospital was not needed. Needless to say he was a little upset with the wife. JJ has a similar story, so this may point to the need for warning labels on toilets http://www.firehouse.com/forums/smile.gif.

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[FireLt1951]

Here's another one that was quite interesting. We were responding to a dwelling fire about 5 years ago. When we pulled up there was smoke bellowing from the second story of the dwelling. We proceeded to lay line and entered the front door. we found a couple laying on the floor having a good time (if you know what I mean). We ordered them out of the house immediately. Having been told about the fire they left with no clothes on. After leaving the house, the woman next door was standing outside. She suddenly went back into the her house grabbed a baseball bat and starting chasing this naked man down the street. Turned out it was the womans hushand apparently being nieghborly. Fortunately she never caught up with him, I'm not sure if he returned to the house or not, but I bet he waited a long while.

[Firewalker454212]

well, here we go!I was working one night in Green Valley and we got toned out to a diff. brthng. We arrive on scene and go in the house.To greet us is a little ****er spaniel that is black,white,and brown. the thing lookes like a used q-tip my partner says.we all start laughing at this poor dog.anyway, we transport the woman up to Tucson and I'm in the ambulance with her and a firefighter that rode up with us.All of the sudden she sucks in her dentures and spits them at my partner across the ambulance.My partner got this dumbfounded look on his face and I started laughing at him!The woman didn't get what was going on and she got mad at us.Trying to calm her down I told her he wasn't prepared to catch her dentures.In reply she said she was trying to hit him with them to get his attention.Then we tryed to start an iv. He went to insert the iv and she screamed bloody murder.We didn't even touch her with the needle.We get her to the hospital and she gets put in the same area as a man we had transported earlier with a bad lac on his forehead.she realizes that she might be next and starts fighting the nurse.That was a funny call that I hope doesn't happen again soon!lol