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Permalink Reply by Patience Ryan on February 23, 2009 at 12:29am

his name was in his. though my name wasn't in mine.

Permalink Reply by Rhys Emery on February 23, 2009 at 11:46am

ok here's mine and feel free to laugh l. I was at a buddys house when we got paged out for a structure fire on a near by street. well I was closer than going back to the station to get on a engine so i just respoded pov. I got to the street and started down it. Then I asked the stupidest question in my entire career. ready I I radioed dispatch and asked "Base 10 Emery " dispatch"go ahead" Me " uh yea which house is on fire agin" Dispatch " the one with smoke coming out of it " Ok I see it iam on scene at this time." then the cheif gets there and I realize I made bigger mistake Iam at the fire and I didnt go to the station and whats at the station Thats right my gear so I drove back to the station and got my stuff. but to this day my nick name is hotshot cause I think iam tough enough to fight fire with out any gear. thanks bowing now while you all laugh at me.


Oh and now i carry my gear in my car.

Permalink Reply by ECB on March 1, 2009 at 8:29pm

Been around 32 years, so I have done/seen a bunch. Lets see...my biggest dumb a$$? It would have to be the first time I responded as an Assistant Chief. I knew I was gonna be the IC for the first time, responding to a garage fire. Had a good header ahead. I turned into the drive way and stopped the car well out of the way. Jumped out looking over at the garage that was going pretty good. I went to reach for the back door handle to grab my gear...no handle. To be more to the point...no car. Seems you should put it in park when you get out. It rolled across the lawn and bumped against the house. No one saw it, but hey...if you can't laugh at yourself, your the only one in the room that isn't.

Permalink Reply by Andy Entwistle on March 16, 2009 at 12:53pm

So I guess if you are brand new with a white helmet that makes you a "probie-chief" and you should be allowed a couple goofs - right? I'd been 2d assistant chief for about 3 days (just this past January) when the call comes - we're going mutual aid to a structure fire in the next district. My role as 2d asst. chief is to go to the firehouse and push out the trucks before I respond. I fill the engine and send it out. Couple more guys roll in, so I man the tanker and send it, then put two more on the second tanker, and the last three or four on the rescue. Then I went along behind, very proud, until I got to the scene. My rigs have the street clogged and the IC is puzzled because the box alarm sheet (oh yeah!) only calls for the one engine. Meanwhile my chief had to call a cover for our empty station. So we talked later and now I am an expert on the box alarm assignments.

Permalink Reply by Chris Larson on April 21, 2009 at 10:24am

soo my first fire i think it was a week after i got my gear i get to the station and ride out with the chief in the rescue truck we got on scene an i jumped out all excited and start getting to the engine an i heart the chief say "hey junior need your helmet?" he grabbed it off of my gear stand for me when he saw it was the only one left there lol

Permalink Reply by josh tompkins on May 21, 2009 at 11:08pm

great stories! here's mine, you should love this: im still a probie with my department and i have the opportunity to ride with the chief to the fire expo just recently in harrisburg pa, which was great btw. im still learning and its a volunteer dept so training isn't every day like i wish it was. well back at the expo the chief and i are checking out all the apparatus because he wants a new one. and we are talking to differents reps about our engines as well. a nice gentleman obviously affilliated with the fire service somewhere decides to ask the probie, that's me, about my department's rigs. im thinkin uh oh. he asks, "is that chassis on engine 3-8 a four guys?" i proudly answer, "nope only two guys can ride in that truck." turns out that wasn't what he meant. lol well, needless to say, i learned a few things just by hangin with the chief at the expo!

Permalink Reply by Ron on June 16, 2009 at 10:21pm

A firefighters father worked for the Health Dept., removing struck deer from roads. He called the station to see if we wanted a newly deceased deer. He brought it to the firehouse where we hung it on the end of to ladder at the rear of the engine to dress it out. A short time later while taking a coffee break, we received a fire call. The Lt. usually shuts the door after the rig pulls out and there is the half dressed deer swinging in the breeze. We did a quick maneuver to remove it and still made first in!

Permalink Reply by Mike Langford on June 27, 2009 at 11:34pm

don't feel bad I called 911 for directions to a fire call!!!! LMAO
My Chief really enjoyed that one.

Permalink Reply by NewYork Probie on July 15, 2009 at 12:38pm

First live fire training ever. We're rollin in on the training grounds, simulationg a real response, captain turnas around and says ok, hit that hydrant. Immediately the procedure goes through my mind, I jump out, grab a portable, a light, and head the the back of the engine. i grab the jaffry valve and pull some slack down on the 4", wrap the hydrant and give them the all clear, as the truck is screamin down the road layin 4" I realize, oh SH*# no hydrant box, no tools, im screwd. Luckily someone else noticed and cam runnig back with the box. In my defense tho, we always trained with 2 guys on a hydrant, one got the box and one got the valve, that night it was just me. Better to mess up in a training then the real thing tho, I will never ever forget the hydrant box again.

Permalink Reply by Justin Scott on July 23, 2009 at 5:59pm

lol i dont know anyone who hasent done it one time or another

Permalink Reply by Justin Scott on July 23, 2009 at 6:06pm

on one of my first calls as an EMT with the FD in Va. we were filling the city station while they were on multi calls ( MVA with entrapment on I81 and also had a working apt fire). we got called to this apt on the 5th floor for a EMS call( elevator was out of service). it was my job to make sure we had all the equipment we needed. needless to say i thought we had everything
but come to find out i had forgotten the O2 bag. i remembered this just as we were about to knock. since i was a probie and there was another emt with us, guess who had to run back down to the rig. also did i mention this is in Va in august and it was in the high 90's out. needless to say i tend not to forget any ems stuff when hopping off the rig

Permalink Reply by Patience Ryan on July 24, 2009 at 3:37am

got a similar one for you. thankfully it wasn't a real call just a practice run with green crews on our new medic truck. Me being one of the most experienced medical people in our station (into my 4th year as an EMT)and the lead for the scenario with a newbie crew (no exp since FR training). So we're given our 'dispatch' 47 yo F pt feeling dizzy & complaining of chest pain I believe it was. The last group had a pediatric fall scenario. I grab everyone gloves since that was the side of the truck I was on (we didn't start in the truck, just next to it), the other two were to get the gear. we get part way to the house and one of our instructors stops us. He, of course, asks me what gear we have and I look back and see one man has the backboard and the other the main jump kit. no O2, no monitor. So back to the truck we go for the right stuff. My fault as lead not to make sure my people had the right stuff, or to double check that they knew what stuff they needed to bring. We hadn't even talked about it. I just kinda assumed they knew. (the other instructor teases me to this day about it. both instructors are also our station officers, they are also the only other EMTs in our station)

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