Who is able to go direct to a call?

I was just wondering on who else can go direct, if we here the trucks are in route we can go direct otherwards we have to swing in and get a truck. Is just my department? The other night i went direct to a mva first on scene!!

0 members like this

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Reg Mathis on August 12, 2009 at 7:25pm

On about 1-in-20 calls do I catch the truck. Usually I go directly to the call. Most of our vollies do.

TCSS

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by walmart on August 12, 2009 at 7:41pm

Depends on the call. If it's a mva normally we don't want people going directly to the scene. It's actually in our sog's. Some of our newer people don't understand this and go directly to the scene. Reason being is that a cluster of pov's on an incident can cause more of a cluster and we normally have enough people on scene. Otherwise people can go direct to the scene. Lots of people don't even listen for the trucks. We have people around our station that are routine drivers

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Angela on August 12, 2009 at 8:22pm

also i should have mentioned that our officers are the only ones that go direct at the time of call all non officers are to head to station and once the trucks are enroute then we can go direct. also we are a paid on call department.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Anita King on August 12, 2009 at 8:23pm

We have paid engineers that take the trucks to the calls. We respond directly to the scene,unless it is an interstate call. On interstate calls, we respond to the station and go on the truck. We carry our turnout gear and air mask with us at all times. SCBA's are on the truck. That's how we roll here.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Derek R. on August 12, 2009 at 10:39pm

Being a rural vol.,there is no possible way I can make it to the station to catch a truck, so I'm always responding in my pov. There were many times I arrived first on scene.......not too much you can do, other than give medical aid to those who need it, do an overall scene survey, or hell,...even grab a garden hose to spray water on an adjacent building.
If the wait seems too long, there is the ever popular game of making a circle with your thumb and first finger on your left hand........putting your right forefinger up through the circle.......then pull it out fast and try to catch it before it comes all the way out of the circle.
tired and rambling...good night all.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Tony P on August 12, 2009 at 10:55pm

I can see the value, the need, in members of a large rural area brigade going direct to the scene, leaving those that have to pass the station to bring the vehicles. I can see no value in members of an urban brigade doing the same; go to the station, get on the truck, arrive on-scene with all the equipment needed.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Holly on August 13, 2009 at 12:38am

I as well as a few other members are permitted to carry TOG in our POV. This is due mainly due to the fact that we live across the bridge from the station. Most of the time we wouldn't make the truck. Of course aside from that only the Chief and Asst. Chief are allowed.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Dustin J. Millis on August 13, 2009 at 4:52am

We only go direct on med. calls, and only if it will take us less time to get to the scene rather then the station. We dont keep any gear in our POV's so really there is no point to us going direct to any other type of call other then a med. We figure its more important to get to the station and get trucks out. That way, everyone has their gear and we have all the water, tools, etc we need off our trucks. Even if we here that all responding trucks for that specific call are enroute, we still go to the station. If all of those trucks have left, they have enough manpower and this way if we have another call there are guys at the station ready go.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Patrick on August 13, 2009 at 6:43am

The only way you are to go a scene if it is between your house and the station or there is no trucks left at the station. As walmart said we don't all of the pov's in the way at the scene. Sometimes officers will go straight to the scene if it is closer than the station.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Bill Brierton on August 13, 2009 at 8:28am

I used to go directly to the scene since I generally had to pass it in order to get to the station. Since I am with a different department now, I generally go to the station unless I am driving to the station and the incident is between home and the station but that is rare.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by CHRIS PUYLARA on August 14, 2009 at 4:34pm

OFFICERS ARE ALLOWED TO POV-ALL OTHERS TO A STATION -RULE IS IF YOU PASS A STATION ON YOUR WAY- YOU MUST STOP AT STATION, IF YOU ARE GOING TO PASS THE SCENE BEFORE THE STATION- STOP AT THE SCENE. YEARS AGO THEY USED TO HAVE GUYS THAT WOULD ROLL TO THE SCENE--AND NO ONE WOULD GET A TRUCK..WELL THATS PRETTY EMBARRASSING- SO THEY STOPPED THAT CRAP..BEING AN OFFICER,IT CAN DEPEND FOR ME-IF I'M AT HOME THE STATION IS 2 MINUTES FROM MY HOUSE AND GO THERE, IF I'M OUT DRIVING AROUND-MIGHT GO TO THE SCENE OR THE OTHER STATION..DEPENDS ON WHERE I'M AT WHEN THE BEEP-BEEP GOES OFF

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Chief Michael Neudorf on August 15, 2009 at 4:20am

For bring your own pov to a scene the department should have sog for this as will as a sog for how to stage pov, ie all povs should be park on the same side of the road.