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Busiest Week or Day you ever had
We're a small department and back in 92 we bought a Squrt. We almost bought a 55ft Snorkel. Well we had the engine for almost 3 years and never once raised the boom besides in training. One Sunday we got hit out for a 2pc engine assist in PA at a mushroom fire. We set up at the base of a 30 foot cliff and used the boom. If anyone knows mushrooms they know what thier grown in....POOP. When we were done we were all walking in 2 feet of run off.....2 feet of poopy water.
2 days later the City of Wilmington had a 3 alarm going on and we responded. The only problem was everyones gear smelled like $hit (it was too nasty to call poop by then) so we had to scramble to piece clean gear together.
Before the end of the week we had another assist for a 2 alarm fire.
3 years of never using the boom and 1 week using it 3 tiimes. I think thats the busiest week we ever had. Of course we had busy days, stroms and stuff but for working alarms we had 2 house fires twice.
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Permalink Reply by Avery Dale on
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The past two weeks have been unusualy busy for us as we ran 17 calls from Monday the 19th until yesterday. We ran 3 structure fires - 2 were workers, a train fire, a lawnmower fire, 2 MVA's, a farm rescue, a washdown & 8 medicals.
The busiest day we ever had was a few years ago that started at 5am with a medical. We just got onscene when we got toned 2nd due on a structure fire, as soon as ALS released us we went to the fire. We was putting our equipment back on the Engine when we got toned for a medical back in our coverage. After the medical we was back at the station cleaning up when we got a brush fire. Got the fire put out & was able to go home around noon for about 30 minutes until we got another medical. Just got back to the station when we got a another brush fire. Just got the hoses rolled when another brush fire broke out on the other side of our coverage. That ended up being a multiple alarm fire with several acres that took a few hours to contain. Around 9pm we was just getting back to the station when we got another medical. As soon as we cleared from the medical we was toned back to the last brush fire because it jumped the fire break. Around 1am we was able to go home undisturbed.
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Permalink Reply by Todd on
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During an ice storm a few years back we ran 28 calls in a 24 hours period out of my old station.
A few years ago during a thunderstorm we ran 13 calls in a little over 4 hours. Two weeks ago during a storm we did 8 in two hours.
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Permalink Reply by Danielle Reese on
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a few months ago when it snowed we had about 10-12 MVA's in two days
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Permalink Reply by capcityff on
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We run 18-22/tour at my engine company alone. Busiest around 28-30.
Department runs about 400-600/tour. Around Cherry Blossom Fest and during the heat wave it was around 800/tour. The busiest was probably the Presidential Inauguration. Not sure how many we ran but it was probably a few thousand. We had companies from all over the country come help out since there were millions in the city and it was below freezing temperatures. People were lined up outside ambulances.
Another busy time for the department was around 9/11. I think there were several multiple alarm fires and a few other large scale events that week before the plane crashed into The Pentagon.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Russell on
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The May flooding. Was called back in to work around 1300 hrs. on Sat. and worked until around 2300 hrs. Sun. night. At one point on Sun. dispatch was holding over 200 calls for assistance.
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Permalink Reply by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on
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7 calls at one time. (Vollie district covering 4 townships) in nice sunny summer weather
By the 4th call (and 3 mutual aid depts) - we were like "REALLY?" to the dispatcher... WE can not divide ourselves any further... INVITE more mutual aid !!!
We kept thinking the dispatcher was re-toning out for more manpower / trucks - but each new set of tones was a new call with a new location. It quickly became very complicated who was going where and who was managing who. And town people were weirded out by seeing fire trucks passing some scenes to go to more serious scenes. Staff was hoping from call to call. It was nuts.
Our mutual aid departments needed mutual aid.
We ran out of ambulances (even mutual aid ones) and they had to do laps to the hospital and back. Our small town hospital was quickly flooded.
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On a different day, we had 5 accidents at the same intersection in one day. (rainy, wet dreary grey day) We had a running conversation about the fire department just sitting at the intersection waiting for the next people to crash - no need to leave and come back 45 minutes later. LOL it was a bizarre day
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We've been running out of ambulances as well lately. One company was doing CPR on scene for about a half hour before getting one dispatched. Same day one engine company loaded a victim into their wagon(engine) that was shot in fear for their own safety. The crowd was getting aggressive since the guy wasn't getting an ambulance so they decided they needed to get out of there.
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Permalink Reply by Jordan Bryce Wiser on
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haha all thee squads in the town committed within 5 minutes
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Permalink Reply by Roy Walker on
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We've had our busy days as well but one thing that always amazes us is we do a public display anually for a community in our coverage area . It's on July first ,equivalent to your July fourth. We show up in the afternoon and do a fire demo for them then set up waterball for all who care to participate . They have a huge comunity barb-e-que and at the end of the evening we do a large fire work display. By the end of the evening we are exhausted but almost every year we have had a large structure fire on the morning of this event and that pushes our resources. Non of the fires are related and all have been investigated just pure coincidence.
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Permalink Reply by Rusty Mancini on
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On January 6, 2005 we had a train derailment here in Graniteville Aiken SC. A train hit another train head on, and one of the chlorine tankers had ruptured and killed 9 people. It was a busy week, and one I'll never forget!
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