Im pretty sure everybody has this problem but my station ran a wreck last week at about 2 am on some small back road. When we got there there was one vehicle on its top in the middle of the road and the driver and passengers had ran from the scene. So all we were doing was traffic control and waiting on the deputy to arrive. After ten minutes we keep getting more and more people showing up and getting out of their cars to come look at the car that had fliped. We kept telling them that they needed to go back to their cars and wait or turn around . Nobody listens, we keep telling them over and over but they kept on pushing closer. somebody started counting how many people were there and it ended up being about 40 to 50 people. keep in mind the road is a dead end and there are maybe 20 houses on that road. The deputy finally got there and tried to help us but it didnt do any good. the few of us that were there had to make a wall to try to hold people back while the wrecker fliped the car back over and hooked it up. I have been with the fire service for about 5 years now and i have never seen any scene as bad as that one. And every one of them said they heard it on their scanners. What is wrong with people.
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pull off a section of hose and start spraying
that sounds likea spectacular idea but very unprofessional...i myself have 2 scanners and a discotinued min2 on an amp I work for a privite ambulance service and volunteer ive been on multiple calls where people just show up talkin like they now what is going on i even had some random guy ask me if we have set a second lead out
If someone tries to help because they are a doctor then you just tell them that since they are higher trained they have to transport to the hospital as well. We technically can't transfer care to someone lower and neither can they. When they hear that they have to come with they will back off.
As for the original post, I've never really had the problem like that. Usually we have plenty of police in populated areas. Lucky for us, we have more police per capita than any city in the country. Most are extra agencies downtown but that's where a crowd would usually happen. People are nosey and will stare at whats going on but for the most part it's not a huge problem. In a city like Washington, DC everyone is always in a hurry. They hear sirens all day and night. Most are so annoyed by them that they could care less about what's going on and rarely move out of the way for us. So we have some problems but they are different than those of a small volly department. I guess the citizens all know each other there whereas in a large city they could care less about who's hurt.
I know several people in the area that have scanners. They never show up on the scene. Our fire police respond to every call with us. They do a pretty good job at keeping unwanted people out of the scene.
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