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Not anther Silly standard..or is it?
Ok Bros and Sisters...here is the grand scheme ..lol..naaa just a what do you think...a few months back i made a post about a trend starting where the riggs are being held back while chief responds to a call..as i figured everyone thought it was bull..now the new thing is..when we get hit for a CO alarm the dispatchers are told to only hit all line officer pagers and not the Dept. they are to respond via radio and actual that they will (one of them..yeah right)..to the call...if they find something..we are hit out now..we all know how fubars arise so whats the view here ?.. we all know that at some point the oics will forget a radio..or 2 will be near by..whats going to be the sop or for that matter the result when the dept. tones go in..and here is the thin red line of this..we are a district and 2 companies are an auto respond meaning tones go and my company and sister comp. go this means between the 2 companies we could have as many as 4 oics at a co..and other 5 coming to the house to get crew out...on one hand i can agree with it..cause if all are out no threat and all is well why get riggs out..but flip side..what if the co turns to be a co that really is a fire..or smoke..that takes us back to us being left back while the lone ranger cruises a call..not liking it to much oh and if an oic doesn't call in within ..lol..5 mins then we all get hit out..anyway
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Permalink Reply by Tony P on
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I read the OP as though this was for calls other than CO, that the CO response had just been added to the mix. CO calls I can't comment on - they don't exist here.
All of our calls are rated as lights and sirens or normal traffic, this is done by the call takers using SOP's. The OiC of the first out truck can upgrade/downgrade as he or she thinks fit taking into account further information given on turnout. To respond a single person (or a group of individuals), in cars, no trucks, when a call has been received for an 'emergency' ? Seems extremely irresponsible to me.
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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on
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Do the officers have SCBA's in their vehicles?
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Permalink Reply by PFC Harmon on
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At my day job ( a natural gas utility), we respond to CO calls with just one person. In my area the fire departments don't do much at gas related calls. To respond to you're post though I think the chief has a bit of a god complex.
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Permalink Reply by Joey "BigShow" De Piano on
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like a general on a battlefield lol
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in their POVs no thats why in part i posted this, secretly waiting for the day we respond to pull one of them out
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by no means am i bothered just wondering other opinions on these "new ideas" if you will to call responses, i mean one culd probe deeper and say it has an undermind in its madness like making less calls we are marked in for to lighten up losap or stypen checks?..at any rate more curious state than worried and no not an officer ...yet
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Permalink Reply by Eric on
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As I said in the post you spoke of about holding a response in station and as you said in this post, what if the OIC rounds the corner and there is something far worse than a simple alarm malfunction? Now, I've heard that many departments will have a meter in an OIC vehicle and it's for this type of situation. On the other hand, as previously mentioned, what if it's smoke or fire? I know that our CO meter is on our engine and that responds to any CO call. Our OIC may beat the engine there and that's fine, but when we get to wherever the alarm is going off at, we not only have the meter, but the water just in case. The same with the other post, if an alarm is going off we respond just in case.
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I meant to add that when a fire department does respond to our CO or gas leak calls it's for ems standby, traffic control, or the possibility of fire. Not much use for an officer in a SUV.
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