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Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on February 18, 2011 at 4:04pm

Be careful Dee !!!

Transferable tickets my ass... I say - Yippee I get to go to Lion King with Mike without having to shove Dee out of the way... YEAH !

Kevin there are several ways to my heart ;-)

Sarah - its all good - you will have 3000 more to come...

Comment by Sarah on February 18, 2011 at 3:59pm

:(

I missed 3 calls today.
Lol, our bus happened to drive up to one where they were done and driving away.

Comment by Tom Williams on February 18, 2011 at 3:35pm

I do try Heather. :o)

Comment by Tom Williams on February 18, 2011 at 3:25pm

Shoot the snowmobiler....LOL Be careful Dee.

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on February 18, 2011 at 3:01pm

good man Chief !

no pagers - no cells - no electronics... instead enjoy REAL HUMAN interactions and RELAX !!!

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on February 18, 2011 at 2:50pm

You are right Izzy - hugs just seem to get me in deeper twisty trouble...

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on February 18, 2011 at 2:48pm

Wow Tom - you know the way to a women's heart !!

You have very good taste !

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on February 18, 2011 at 2:45pm

Chief Mike - we used our lights more for awareness of our presence - though there is a law in Vermont that vehicles must pull over for red lights. Only about 50% of our dept used them (so 18 people). Lots of people just turn their lights on when they arrived on scene.

We were still STRONGLY encouraged to obey all traffic laws - and we had to earn our light permits - with senority and passing driver's safety training and petitioning the dept and a clean driving record (like no speeding tickets).

We were beat fast and hard by our officers if we did not follow the rules of the road or ever drove aggressively putting others drivers in danger.

We did not run sirens most of the time, except at intersections or in the fog/snow/sleet rain (as appropriate) - which helps dramatically with keeping the animals out of the way of the vehicles... since we had 5 FFs hit deer enroute to night time calls in the dark/fog.

And we used the lights for on-scene safety with POVs parked along weird places on scene in the dark, etc.

We very rarely had issues around my area. And if we did it was community members stating that they wanted all of our vehicles to leave their lights on ON scene - so that they could see them [the FD] as they were approaching a scene.

Though out of courtesy in a few small tight town areas with houses close to the road - we pretty much never ran our sirens at night - since the speed limit is 25 any way.

We also used them to mark locations for other responders - like intersections for ambulances and mutual aid - houses at ends of long driveways - houses without clearly identified house #'s - or water sources for out of town tanker shuttles, etc. Nothing sucks more than mutual aid fire/ems being lost... or even our own guys being lost.

One of our FFs was hit by a car on scene while directing traffic - as she was some distance down the road from the physical working scene - so after that incident we tried to have at least a POV with lights near by everyone directing traffic who was out of sight of the main scene to enhance awareness - like a police car would - to slow the heck down !!!

Icy/foggy roads with piles of accidents or complicated accidents, like on corners - we would leave a POV with red lights to block roads off - or at least slow traffic entering dangerous territory (maybe back 1/2 mile) - before they came literally upon our scene

PD in our district is almost obsolete - they come for fatalities only pretty much.

However, once in our town a PD enroute to a call no the other side of our district hit and killed a child who ran across the street in front of him. The PD had his lights on, but not siren and was not speeding. The towns people were pissed - and demanded that ALL PD use their sirens - all the time in our town. Since they believed that the child - would not have entered the street if she heard the sirens. [now in reality - any car could have killed her - but the police man suffered great emotional distress feeling as though he had not used all resources available to him to protect the community and the life of this child.]

Comment by Tom Williams on February 18, 2011 at 1:59pm

A little sumthin, sumthin for all the lovely ladies of the BRC.........Got to make sure you all have the right Bling!

Comment by Tom Williams on February 18, 2011 at 1:52pm

Chief, lawsuits is definitely a strong card but that is main thing that gets drilled into everyone's head and to always use due regard.

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