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Embarassing Moments part 37
One of my most embarassing moments, we were assisting on a tree into a house on Ferris Rd. This was before we had map books on the engines. Ferris Rd was only a block long of a 20 mile road. We got so lost we ended up about 5 miles away and callboard calling us every 5 mins. We finally found it coming back from the other direction.
While I promised myself I would never get lost after the above incident, while covering a station during a funeral we got hit out for a house fire. I'm thinking I know right were that is. So we along with an engine from Jersey go rolling following the stations ambulance. As we're coming to the road the ambulance keeps straight. I look at the officer and he says follow them. Okay the Street while not numbered would have been 42nd St. After getting to 30th I'm yelling at the officer that the street was back there. He saying follow them (the ambulance) At 25th st I say the hell with this and turn around and go back coming in the opposite direction. Come to find out the Ambulance crew was also a cover up crew and had no clue were they were going.
But the worst..I was an officer and heard the disptach as 307 Manlove Pl. So I repond to that location and give the report, nothing showing etc etc. An intoxicated man comes to the door like nothing it wrong. .....the problem was the correct address was 307 Cedar Ave cross street Manlove Pl. And they had smoke showing.... took a while to live that one down.
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Permalink Reply by Just Plain Craig Moyer on
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Ref to #3, our sister company had a house fire behind the fire house. 76-1 responding.... couple of minutes later 76-2 responding. 76-1 onscene fire on the first floor have 76-2 lay in. 76-2 onscene fire on the 2nd floor have 76-1 pick up the plug.....76-1 to 76-2 were you at...76-2 we at the fire bring the line in....76-1 to 76-2 you bring the line in. yeah...one went right the other went left out of the firehouse and had two working alarms on the same street at the same time a block apart.
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Chinn on
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i live on a waterway and one day a fire started on the bank on the other side of the river. our brush truck and an engine was dispatched as mutual aid to the department across the river. i was sitting at the station on standby when we got paged out to the boat ramp on our side of the river for a outdoor fire, smoke and flame showing. when we got there we got off the truck all geared up with airpacks on and everything. the boat ramp was loaded with people who were watching the fire we got called out to.... the same fire across the river was visible from the boat ramp full of peolpe who watched us get off the truck ready to fight a fire. never heard so many smart ass comments at the same time in my life.
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Permalink Reply by Izzy ( J. Bade) on
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well, I'll put one in here. yep, gone to the wrong address before. but this was way back when I was a volunteer, my first department, right out of FF school. we were all on our way to a party, everyone dressed up.
well, tones drop, we go to the call, wasn't anything more than a dumpster fire, so it wasn't long before we were back.
after the call, Im at the rack, removing my gear, and can't for the life of me figure out why the rest of the guys are standing at the front of the engine, just watching me in the bay.
well, since we were all dressed up, went to the call, guess what, I had a dress on. and as the bunkers came down and I was folding them around my boots, well, uh, the dress stayed where it was, all bunched up at my waist. it took me a few minutes to figure out why they were all standing there, yeah, I was embarrassed, but, whatcha gonna do, I pulled my dress down, told them a few expletives, we all laughed, but boy, it took me a looong time to live that one down, especially because of the "underthings" I had on, underneath that dress.
LOL. to this day, we still laugh about it.
I've also been frozen to a roadway. LOL. was on a 2 1/2 inch, doing a water curtain for an exposure during training, and was sitting across the hose like I was taught, but we all failed to realize just how deep that puddle was, yeah, it was cold, but didnt realize that I had frozen to the roadway. they shut down the line, and I couldnt get up. they had to break up the ice to get me up.
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Permalink Reply by Brandon Guttery on
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Ok just so you guys and girls know it is not only the fire fighters who &*%^ up ........... new to the current role called to a vegetation fire late on a nice fine sunny day ............ after driving 45 minutes to the call under lights and sirens I get to the farm ...... get directed to the gate access to the paddock where the fire was and got waved through ........... looking straight into the sun I couldn't see the road went off to the right so I went straight ahead .............
Took 3 big burly fire fighters bouncing on my back bumper and the truck in 4 wheel drive to get it back onto the track so that I could continue through the field to the fire ............ needless to say as an executive officer I had to put up with a fair amount of ribbing for a while after that ................
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Permalink Reply by Capt. Chris W. Button on
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We turned on the street going to a reported house fire. Just after turning, the driver slows down to check the address numbers. He asks me, "What was the house number?" I said, "I'm not sure, but I think it's that house down the street with the smoke coming from it." Smoke by day, fire by night. This ain't rocket surgery!
While pre-incident planning, my brother and a FF went into a gas station with the form to update. The FF asked to see Mr. Beelow, the manager. My brother thought this sounded strange so he peeked over the FF shoulder. He quietly told him, "That says 'see below'" and walked out to keep from laughing in his face. The line for manager said "see below" so I guess he thought that was the manager's name!
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Permalink Reply by joemac on
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During training exercises one summer night, we were practicing with 2.5 inch lines- water fights, where you try to push a 55 gallon drum mounted on an overhead cable, against each other. It's sort of the opposite of a tug of war.
I'm on the nozzle with three guys behind me... we doing pretty good, advancing the barrel, when the guy behind me, all 265 pounds of him, slips. He holds onto the hose and takes the other two with him, leaving me with an out-of-control playpipe, which went wherever it wanted, despite my attempts at controlling it.
The chief, who was standing to the side, got blasted in the face, knocking him backwards, his helmet flying.
After the line was shut down and we went over to him, we were absolutely horrified to find blood gushing down his face.
The stream had hit him so hard that it split his eyelid and upper cheek. The blood mixed with the water on his face and made it look a lot worse that it was. He took a couple of stitches and wore a patch for a few weeks.
It took a long time for me to live that one down, even though it really wasn't my fault.
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Permalink Reply by William Bills on
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Well i'm sure everyone has had a situation where they have lost a length or two of LDH out of the hose bed. Well I have a story that may top them all. In our department, it is a standing procedure to roll an engine to the scene of all MVAs. One night we had a call on Interstate 90. it was a rollover with multiple injuries, at least one ejection and two pinned in the vehicle. as apparatus is responding down the thruway, the responding enging hit a bump in the road, and then another, and then the coupling for the LDH bounced out of the hose bed and landed on the raodway. Of course the coupling for 5" hose is heavy, made itself an anchor point; off the hose started to furrel. I was in the vehicle driectly behind and you can imagine what a sight that was. You got it, ALL 1,000' of 5" hose was nicely laid down the east bound lane of Interstate 90. Well we go to the scene and thigngs appeared as they sounded. 30 min. cut job, all transported to hospital. Thankfully none with life threatening injuries. While we were on the job, State DOT as you can imagine was not happy. What's the easiest way to remove 1,000 feet of LDH from a roadway? State DOT rolled a road gratter, drop the blade and angle it off the roadway. Yep, ruined every single couppling on the entire stretch. OOOps got a new meaning, and a price tag that night. Needless to say, that driver will NEVER live that one down!!
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Permalink Reply by Travis on
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I had to jump out of the fire truck fast to shut my lights off on my truck then get back into the fire truck.But when i got out i did not see the ice so i started running and fell flat on my face that was pretty damn funny.
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Permalink Reply by Patti Walz on
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Oh My Gosh!!!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Vincent Webster on
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I have a couple.....first one we were called to a smell of smoke in the house and there was an attic fire. We masked up and went through the attic hole in the master bedroom closet. After a few minutes, fire was extinguished and overhaul completed we came down the attic ladder and I tripped over something on the floor and fell into a pile of clothes. When I came outside a few guys started commenting on my attire....evidently a purple bra attached itself to the cyclinder of my air pack and I had no idea. Lets just say that Christmas that year I was able to give my wife a few bras for Christmas thanks to the guys at the firehouse.
Second was just a few weeks ago. We went along with our squad on a possible stroke (ALS calls we assist and their was about 10" of snow on the ground). The call was in a condo type complex at the end of a dead end street. In order not to get stuck by the vehicles and snow, the squad parked in the neighbors driveway. We arrived a minute or so later and the engine crew knows to get the cot and take inside to the squad crew. The squad crew also needed a stair chair so I grabbed that. When I started into the condo I went to the door of the driveway or squad was parked in. I am not sure who was more surprised, the gentleman eating dinner at the table or me realizing I was in the wrong house. After getting the patient into the stairchair I ran down stairs and started a IV bag for the medic. I went back inside to see if I could help on the stairs.....of course I made the exact same mistake as I did a few minutes ago. I said sorry, and the gentleman kindly replied "come back and I'll have a bowl of soup for you" and just smiled.
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Permalink Reply by Firefighter30 on
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This exact thing has happened to us at our department up there on July 1 (Canada Day), in our town we have a fireworks show at the local park and we are asked to be on stand by....two years on a row we had it happen, just as everyone, including the fire trucks, are trying to leave the park when we get paged out for structure fires.....what a cluster it was trying to get us out of the park and trying to get the cops to get traffic flowing at the park entrance to get us out of the park, both times they turned out to be false alarms....so lesson learned the years following....put one truck outside the park, and one truck just inside the park entrance (but we now have our second fire hall that opened this summer, so we'll just have guy stationed there during the fire works show)
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