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We had an engine company assist and as we arrived we were told to backup the crew inside. Our crew followed the line into the basement...all the way to the tip. The orginal crew dropped and came out the basement from the other door. It was down hill from there. Lets put it this way..Paramedics were throwing ladders...
We were going to the local Racino. First in on an assist. Chief was driving and I was a first Assistant. I told him pull to the front and he said our assinment is by the stables..a long way away. So we sat for 3 minutes watching smoke poor out the roof. Wasn;t the first time we had a disagreement over response locations. Though he was one of the best chiefs we had, and I've known them all.
We were going to the local Racino. First in on an assist. Chief was driving and I was a first Assistant. I told him pull to the front and he said our assinment is by the stables..a long way away. So we sat for 3 minutes watching smoke poor out the roof. Wasn;t the first time we had a disagreement over response locations. Though he was one of the best chiefs we had, and I've known them all.
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Permalink Reply by Just Plain Craig Moyer on
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Well Mandy, We did argue for the whole 3 minutes until the next engine flew pass us. They the Chief finallt realized that we were indeed the first engine in. He's one of my best friends ans we used to argue alot. Once we were assisting on a building fire and first in. There was the turn off into the entrance and the sign on the main road. I wanted to turn and he wanted to go to the sign ???? I yelled at him, You're not the chief for another 30 days so do what I tell you. He's not as bad as I make him out to be ;o)
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Permalink Reply by Jenny Holderby on
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We responded to a brush fire endangering a home in a very rural area, a dirt road off a secondary road. When we pulled up with 2 engines, we took enough water and man power to handle it, we found there was indeed a brush fire behind & around a mobile home. It was fall & the leaves were about a foot deep around this trailer. The owner had arrived home, a bit intoxicated & jumped out of his vehicle leaving it running, the emergency brake cable broke or the car caught fire, I don't know exactly how it did happen. The car left the roadway & crashed into a fence behind home catching the dry leaves on fire. We jump off the trucks & start pulling hoses to extinguish the fire, the owner yells @ us from the porch telling us to leave. The young wife yelled out the window that her husband wouldn't let her & their 3 small children out of the home & that it was getting smokey in the house. NOW we have a situation.
On the orders of the Chief all the fire fighters met on the other side of the trucks. Some didn't want to because they really wanted to put the fire out but the guy told us he had a gun. OH S&%T!! The Chief decided that he & I would distract the man, while others were extinguishing the fire. I knew the guy & as I was talking to him & slowly going toward the porch something went whizzing past my head & hit the truck behind me. It was a beer can. Let me rephrase that, a can of beer he had thrown. I started to back up & hit something solid, my brother & another fire fighter were standing shoulder to shoulder behind me. I continued to talk to the guy while the crew was making good headway with the fire. A few minutes later a car comes screeching up, an older man jumps out &sluggs the Chief who was standing beside the first engine then he starts after me. I heard a scuffle & someone yell, just as I turned I saw the man draw his fist to punch me but the Chief grabbed the him around the neck putting 1 side of his face against his arm which was pretty muscular & the mag light under his ear on the other side. He wasn't going ANYWHERE. Evidentially the wife had called her husband's father as she was terrified that she & her children were going to be trapped in a burning home. HE for some reason decided to come out fighting, the chief still had the guy in a choke hold, when the trooper arrived about the same time 4 fire fighters came from the back side of the trailer, 1 carrying the mother who was extremely pregnant, 1 carrying 2 children, 1 carrying another child the fourth dragging the hose back to the truck. The Chief had a pow wow with the trooper who agreed that the other fire fighters could take one engine back to the station. I had to stay there with the Chief. Another trooper arrived, both men were put in the car in handcuffs. EMS arrived for the wife & children, other family members were rushing up, yelling @ the husband or the wife, the children were scared & screaming . . . it was a huge circus for a while. The two men charged us with trespassing, asault and damaging his car. However, the wife had another version of the story.
Almost 2hrs from the time we received the call the chief & I got back to the station with a trooper behind us who wanted to finish his report & use our facilities. There were a several of our family members & others from the community waiting for us. They had heard on scanners & on TV that the FD was in a hostage standoff with a resident. Wow!! Did that make the news. That was the craziest brush fire I have ever responded to.
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