How to tell your local fire department isn't up to standard

They stop for beer on the way to the fire.

The firehouse siren goes WE WE WE.

When the engines pulls up to a fire you can hear the firemen screaming like little girls.

The engine only goes down hill.

The engine has 2 different colored doors

Its just better to let your house burn then call them.

The turnout gear is Bedazzaled.

The communication system consist of 2 baby monitors and a walkie talkie from Radio Shack

The ladder truck only goes up 37 feet

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Permalink Reply by WestPhilly on February 26, 2011 at 10:14pm

1. At least we stop for our beer on the way back from the fire. (And only if the fellas do a nice job).

2. N/A

3. If the department has juniors/explorers responding, they might actually be little girls.

all goes downhill.

5. One color door for the "interior" guys, and one color door the the "exterior" guys.

6. And if you didn't pay the damn subscription or buck up for some pancakes, you got no business calling them in the first place.

7. With every conceivable whacker gadget under the sun attached.

8. Probably works better than Philly's mega-million dollar system sometimes.

9. That's 37 feet more worth of ladder truck than the ladder truck a lot of departments don't seem to have at all. (According to some of the stuff I've read right here on FFN).

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Permalink Reply by WestPhilly on February 26, 2011 at 10:31pm

4. Sometimes it ...

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Permalink Reply by Vic Silverfish on February 27, 2011 at 12:48am

Hey! The bedazzaling is so I'm visible to traffic!

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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on February 27, 2011 at 1:33am

The turnout gear is bedazzled. To f***ing funny.

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Permalink Reply by Norm Tindell on February 27, 2011 at 7:16am

Still laughing my A** off! I'll have to find that list entitled, "How you know if you're a redneck firefighter."

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Permalink Reply by ashfire on February 27, 2011 at 9:33am

They have dogs trained to howl on the engine when they respond because they couldn't buy a siren for it.
They use old deep sea diving helmets with long air lines as SCBA.
They use hemp rope for life lines and once and a while burn a little to relax.

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