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Best or Favorite Memory of Being In The Fire Service
Everyone has that favorite memory or funny thing that happened. Mine would be my first ride on the firetruck, responding to my first call. For a second I had no idea what to do until someone told me to get my gear on and get on the rig. Longest ride of my life, even though it was like 1 min lol. whats yours? (I am new to the fire service, been in for almost a year, just a few months away)
P.S. this post probably has been started before but lets start a new one for all the new firefighters to share or the older members to share old experiences or maybe they have some new ones.
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Permalink Reply by David Francis on
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My story isn't much but you have to realize the situation i'm about to tell, i'm on a voly dept, and the tones dropped for out dept along with 2 others,which means house fire, well i got to the staion and jumped into my bunker gear and headed to the engine. The engineer was pointing to the capt seat which i've been before but this time I had 4 brand new probies with less than 3 months on the dept and no real firefighting expierence. Luckly it wasn't serious and the lady only burned towels on the stove, so she threw them into the sink, we ventilated the house of smoke, and got my tags from the chief. went home and sat on the front porch of my house shaking with the what if factors but if was worse than it was i knew what i had to do.
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Permalink Reply by ben maguire sr on
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I responded to house fire from work.which was about a mile away.pulled up on scene two story fully engulfed.fire had started a brush fire headed toward clothes line which had the only clothes not in the house. so as I awaited for departments to arrive the only thing I could do was grab a water hose and knock down the brush to save the clothes on the line. and as I was doing so one of the paid firefighters arrived pov and started laughing at me. telling me that the water hose was no match for the house fire. when I tryed to tell him what I was doing the first apparatus was arriving on scene. I didn`t live that down for a long time.
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Permalink Reply by Roy Walker on
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When Iwas just starting with my department we opened a new station close to my house. We didnt have the new truck so were using a reserve tanker as our engine initialy. We got a call to assist anotherc station at a fully involved structure fire around 2am we pulled out of the station and the driver and I could hear the urgency in the voices on the pagers because they needed our water immediatly. I reached for the radio to put us in service but during the day someone removed the radio for service and didnt leave us anything to use in the mean time. I figured the only way to let them know we were coming was to use the siren and the airhorn.The next day the captain was taking calls complaining about all the noise. when the district chief arrived . He laughed at me and told the captain to take the names and adresses of anyone who called in and to tell them that their names were goiing on a list of residents who, if their houses caught fire we were not to use the sirens while responding. I really had to live that one down for a while
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hey roy I know how you feel.my chief would get calls all the time when we ran late night calls. there is this sharpe turn on the street where our station sat and you had to lay on the siren and air horns going around that turn as there was always someone coming around the turn at the same time. finally I told the people in the neighorhood that if I didn`t use the siren then someone was going to get hurt if not killed. that stopped all the calls to the chief.
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Permalink Reply by Eduardo Flores on
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Well for me there are two moments one best one and another the most favorite memory. lets start with the best one we had a 3 story building fire with posibility of people trapped inside so I got assign to the Ladder so has you mostly know ladder do rescues while engine cover us with water or knocks out the fire we got inside did our search found no one but i did found was a little kitten like 2 months old nice cat and know the cat stays on our station house and keep us company while the hard times. thats the best one and most favorite one till this day my first day out on the engine call being the on call EMT-I was for a possible Birth delivery on scene has we arrive we had to call another rig from another station to aid us but no time this baby was coming right now at this moment no medics on stand by has our als medic was on sick leave so I had to do everything I was told on class it got to be a beautiful little girl now 6 years old and comes still to our station and plays around that is my most favorite moment when I held that baby girl in my arms that I brought to this world no other best feeling in the entire world
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Permalink Reply by Zach Pfeifer on
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i have 3. First fire call made first truck with my friend.
2. Riding office in the tanker with my dad driving and letting me run the sirens.
3. best training doing knots and we tied this guys chair he didnt even think anything of the rope on the ground goin to his chair he goes to sit down and we pull the rop which was attached to the chair and he fell then someone said well the knot worked. But the guy that fell got mad but ended up luaghin about it
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Permalink Reply by Ken Swain on
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First structure fire, heavy timbered building...what was funniest about the call, was when I told people about it and mentioned where it was (just off the freeway off ramp at a place called Mustang, east of Reno), all they could think about was the famous Mustang Ranch brothel (and the risque comments about that)...I was given rather a bad time over that...then there was the brush fire I responded to...rather bumpy road leading to the fire...hose bed got to bouncing, and I basically drove out from under the hose load...2,000 foot hose lay to nowhere...didn't live that one down for a while
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Permalink Reply by Paul Acosta on
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My first call 17 years ago was a fire alarm at the local nursing home and we were allowed to get geared up on the truck back then. All for nothin' because it was a false call. But the second call was a structure fire at a local potato storage. Had no clue what to do but the Chief put me on an exterior two and a half line and said spray there. So I did and was sore as hell the next day.
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Permalink Reply by Dave Bauer on
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I was working at a two engine house with a crew that was labeled NAS (no adult supervision). Needless to say we had a great time, and when it came to fires the guys rocked. On a hot windy sunday morning on Oct 91 we raise a scull and cross bones flag with the NAS isigna up the flag pole to get a picture. It was a great shot as the flag was flying straight out from the high winds.
Little did we know what was in store for us a couple of hours later. Just before noon we were dispatched as the first strike team to assist Oakland FD who had a rapidly growing wildland fire that was heading west towards all the residencial homes in hills. As we traveled north we could see a large smoke columm rising up ahead. We were amped because we knew the game was on. Little did we know that we would be fighting house fires non stop for the next 24 hrs. The dry weather and hot winds were pushing fire through the hills, literually blowing homes up. It was unbelievable and the most exhausting experience I've ever had.
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Permalink Reply by Melissa Eastwood on
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My best memory would be my first call. One of the natural gas substations in our community exploded. Needless to say it was a little overwhelming. It sounded like a train. All of the exposed structures around the explosion were on fire. It was like being in an oven. That is one that I will never forget.
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