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How Many Can Remember Their First Call
The first call I answered in NY was a false alarm. My first call here in SC, I will never forget.
It was a structure fire where we lost a mother, and three children. It was a very difficult time
for the entire fire department. This is not the way anyone should have to answer their first alarm, but it happens. I can only prey that I don't have to come accross another alarm such as that.
It was a structure fire where we lost a mother, and three children. It was a very difficult time
for the entire fire department. This is not the way anyone should have to answer their first alarm, but it happens. I can only prey that I don't have to come accross another alarm such as that.
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Permalink Reply by Smoke Eater on
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My first call was a double electrocution. These workers were putting hot tar on a roof and got the aluminum ladder into a line that was charged with 7200 volts. There were a few of us at the station and the lights went out. Usually when that happened we would get called to the high school for an AFA. Sure enough we did. I was just a junior then so I had to ride in the tanker. En route dispatch informed us of the other call and we diverted to it, letting the other dept. we were dual toned with take the school call. I was not allowed out of the tanker but I still saw everything. They were able to shock one guy back but lost the other one.
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Permalink Reply by Jason Koontz on
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My first calls are always the same. Whenever I start a new dept or company, or get promoted, my first call is always the same. Full code, CPR in progress. I have to have the craziest luck ever.
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Permalink Reply by Ken Warr on
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My first call as a Jr member was a fully involved lumber truck on a side street and as a Sr member it was a mutual aid gas station fire. When i joined another dept, we had 13 jobs in our area the first 8 months I was on!
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My First Fire call was a room and content fire in a single story house. First EMT call was a fall injury at at a nursing home, My first call as a Paramedic was a CVA at a nursing home. And my first Cardiac arrest to work as a Paramedic was actually a save, The guy walked out of the hospital 4 days later.
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Permalink Reply by RICK on
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I was on the department for two days and we got a call for an attempted suicide. But the best call was my 3rd call when we got called out for a medical on I-75 turns out it was a small cessena plane that made a controlled landing on I-75 @ East Holly rd. Turns out the guy ran out of gas on his way back from ohio.
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Permalink Reply by John on
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Maybe because I am still new although going on 4 years but with my current Dept I do still remember the first call it was a car fire at 2 am, and with my first dept there were a few false alarms but one good barn fire I remember too. but I kinda remember most all of my fire calls, although the medic ones are harder to recall since thats most of what we go on.
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Permalink Reply by Jake Fireman on
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Ahhhhhhhhhh damnthing, you always put a smile on my face!
First Vollie call....chest pain. I had been in the house about 5 minutes when it came in. I was so nervous I put the bp cuff on the patient inside out. Everytime I would try to inflate it, it would blow off his arm....Duh wheres my dunce cap.
First career call...1 hour into shift, Im sitting at the table..well standing as everyone else sat and Im giving them the "tell us about yourself speech"...The tones go off and Im out the door to a fully involved structure smoke and flame showing. My "old Jake" tells me to take the nozzle to the door and we make entry. I didnt know if I was gonna pi**, cr*p or anything else. But I KNEW I was in the right job for me!
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Permalink Reply by Reg Mathis on
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Structure fire at a little cracker-box house(faulty wiring). It was an extremely cold night and I remember thinking "these rubber boots are sexy as hell, but they sure ain't very warm!" Anyway, fire extension into the attic so I got to learn really quickly what overhaul was all about. And the tenant was a woman of some proportion and had the largest collection of "support undergarments" I had ever seen. Must have been at least a hundred BIG bras of all colors and patterns scattered around a side door to the b/r involved. All in all, a very instructional night!
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Permalink Reply by Trainer on
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I’m sittin here racking my brain and for the life of me I can’t remember, I do remember my first MVA fatality, my first fire in 2 new trucks, but just can’t recall that first one. There’s something about piling in the back of a van with 5 or 6 others, might have been but I can only remember getting in the van, it sucked.
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Permalink Reply by Robert on
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My first call was a Fatal MVA. A convertable mustang2 that rolled over into a ditch at high speed then ended up back on the roadway top down. When we arrived all you could tell was that it was bad. Blood and parts everywhere. After we got the door off the medics did there thing and called a ME. Not a pretty first run but it made me a stronger person I believe.
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Permalink Reply by Jared Rahr on
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My first call was a structure fire outside of town. We have a volunteer dept. so the stationed isnt manned at all. I happened to be there talking to my dad ( the police and fire share the building). The pager went off and they said stucture fire and I was all excited. I was the first person in the station, i wasnt sure if i should get on the first out truck cause i had no expirience. but then i took a jump seat and went with the truck. I helped the operator set up the fold a tank and then got to back tankers in. During overhaul the chief and captain took me inside to look at what they thought started it, and then showed me smoke patterens and some other stuff. It was a call I dont think i will ever forget!
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