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Don't you hate it when an automatic alarm gets cancelled as soon as you respond?
I know I hate when that happens we would be going down the road and then they will cancelbut im happy that no one is hurt , dying or loseing their home
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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on
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So what you're saying is you hate it when it turns out that someone isn't hurt, dying or their house is on fire?
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Permalink Reply by Tyler R Donivan on
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no thats not what im saying at all its just that they should let us go ahead and respond to make sure evrey thing is ok with the house and owners
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Permalink Reply by Forrest Post on
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If you "hate" going on routine calls like this, then maybe you should think about becoming a garbage man or a secretary.
About 80% of my volunteer departments calls are accidental fire alarm drops. They come in at 1600, and they come in at 0200, and EVERY time they cancel either before we show up, or right when we park the truck. Sure you get excited and run out the door, racing to the station thinking it will be a fully involved structure fire, but just because it's nothing more than a broken smoke detector doesn't mean you should "hate" it. It's just part of being on a fire department.
Just saying.
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Permalink Reply by Tony P on
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Yes Forrest, "just saying" - but without reading. The original post may not have been clear, but " they should let us go ahead and respond to make sure evrey thing is ok with the house and owners" was posted before you wrote an answer. That seems very clear to me.
Now to answer Tyler's amended post. Yes, we get called out often due to both monitored alarms and home smoke alarms, thankfully most are 'false alarms'. Unlike you it seems, once we roll, we continue (but without lights and siren), it's in our SOP's. It does give us the chance to be sure all is well. Have you tried to get your SOP's altered Tyler?
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Permalink Reply by Tracy Lilly on
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I don't get upset that we get cancelled, but I dislike having to get my adrenaline rush back down after getting jacked up.
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Permalink Reply by capcityff on
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My adrenaline doesn't even go up anymore unless its a confirmed fire. When you run 20 calls/tour it kind of wears off. I'll be half asleep for most now. haha
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Permalink Reply by Mahesh Arjun Jadhav on
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its realy good question.
once some one call your control room and you turned out the fire tender then the call must be get completed, though the party redial you and say no need of fire department. it might be possible that it may be a small fire and they have extinguished. but most of the peoples doesent know the seriousness of hidden source of fire which may be left unattended by the inmates*( by the neglegence or due to lack of knowledge of chemisty of fire) also I would like to suggest that this should be the part of 'S.O.P.' of all fire departments.
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Hmmm...it would appear that someone removed their earlier comment to which I responded.
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Permalink Reply by FETC on
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Well being he has 30 days experience in the fire service, this thought process seems to surface fast.
More often than not, that process is missing another chance to blare the siren and drive fast... Like FFChick said, get used to it.
Where I work only the first due company goes with lights and sirens on an AFA.... the rest of us respond flow of traffic, as other citizens do. I bet the speedy turnout and sitting at red lights while responding on a call would just drive him nuts.
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