Severe Winter Weather: How Do You Voulnteers Respond?

As a Vollie..Winter is normally my busy time. What with motorists going off the road, hitting each other, and all that fun ice! High winds taking down trees, and power lines, and the occasional chimney fire. (Not one of my favorites to do..that damn chain gets heavy fast!)

What Im looking for here is to get a better idea of how you people of the Winter locations deal with calls this time of year?

I ask because just last night I had a call for simple stand by at a vehicle off the road. It was on a high, and hilly road. No trees to block the 20+ mph winds. That made the temp 25-30 below zero. It was so nasty stuff. I think I have some slight frost bite on my ear! Its pretty sore and hurts to touch it. I had plenty of firefighters in POVS on scene, and canceled a truck responding from station, Just to keep it safe and warm. Snow drifts, and bad viability is nothing for people to be out in.

What are you Vollies doing for this winter? Most go direct with gear? Or are you still rolling your trucks?

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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on January 2, 2010 at 7:51am

they plow and periodically (at night) pick it up and take it via 20 ton dump trucks and dump it either in a large open area or the river....it is nice to see snow...but gets old really quickly....shoveling it gets old...that shit gets heavy.....LOL