Cops vs. Fire fighters

This pastr week I was on spring break & had the chance to run calls with my volunteer fire station. We had several calls on one day. The first was a structure fire at 0500 in the morning. It was a perfect scene when it came to interstaion cooperation and communication. The problem was the county sheriffs deputies passing several engines on their way to the scene and running a few responders in their POVs off the road. Later that day around 10 pm we had a drunk hit a power pole. We were toned out and when I arrived on scene a deputy almost hit my vehicle & he had run a fellow responder off the narrow road. Then the deputy jumped through live wires & pulled the victim out of the vehicle. Do any of yall have this kind of problem with the law enforcement officers in your areas? Are they cooperative or are they like the ones in mine?

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Permalink Reply by Marie on June 15, 2008 at 8:16pm

in my county, we're all same team the second the sirens go on. sure theres joks etc etc and differences of opinion sometimes, but overall its a very good relationship........ you wont see FFs bustin ass to a call anywhere near like they do to an OFC or FF down for a regular call, and same with the PD guys.

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Permalink Reply by PFC Harmon on June 15, 2008 at 8:52pm

I think everyplace has that problem but in my area its usually the greenhorn cops giving the trouble much like rookie firefighter. Time teaches them that we have to work with each other.

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Permalink Reply by Ni on June 15, 2008 at 10:20pm

We actually get along with almost all of our local LE, The Sheriff's Department are great guys, get along with them all, there is a small issue with a City PD that likes to Pull PoV Responders over but that rarely happens, (But it happens) other then that its not that bad.

We have several members of our Department that work LE.

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Permalink Reply by Christy on June 15, 2008 at 10:41pm

Our county works great together...fire, EMS, LEO's. We have drills together and the cooperation on calls couldn't be better. I have worked here just over 3 years and I really can't say anything bad about any one of them. They have our backs in a heartbeat. I guess I am lucky to work where I do.

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Permalink Reply by Marie on June 15, 2008 at 10:57pm

have you been drinking is not against the persons constitutional rights, its how one goes about gathering info as to why someones driving behavior was as it was........... do you really want your local cops NOT asking that question? how then pray tell would they keep drunks off the road so they don't kill people? how would they figure out that uncle bob was actually in the middle of a diabetic emergency that needed immediate medial attention?.........

I can see why you have issues with cops in your area based on the way you think, go for a ride-along with a cop, preferably on the graveyard shift on a saturday, trust me you'll gain a lot of respect for what those guys deal with..........

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Permalink Reply by J.R. Fitzgerald on June 16, 2008 at 1:07pm

In my county I beleive you have to have no higher than a third grade education, We even had a State Trooper pull something like that. He went as far as to climb into the EMS bus while they were workin on a lady we just extricated. So no its not just where you are.

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Permalink Reply by Matthew Cosgrove on June 16, 2008 at 1:30pm

I have had ssome problems with our cops...now its worse that we went to "Public Safety" Now we are all the same dept. All run by a damn police chief with no firefighting experince. The newer cops are cool but the ones who have bee around for a while ruin it for everyone.

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Permalink Reply by Aaron Robbins on June 16, 2008 at 2:19pm

ours dont do tht kind of stuff we work good togther

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Permalink Reply by Terry on June 17, 2008 at 5:00am

I have to hand it to our sheriff's dept. The Pontotoc County Sheriff's Dept. in North Mississippi gives us vol. ff's whatever we need. We even have a deputy that is a ff on a neighboring dept. (S.O. 6). If he is off duty then he responds as a ff. But if he is on duty he respond's as deputy. While it can take easily 5 min. before our engine rolls, he is already close to the scene requesting additional backup such as, power company, or other fire dept.'s, or ems. In return we help the deputies with traffic control, search and rescue. We all have a good relationship and work together watching each other's backs and taking care of each other. Because we are brother's and sister's in the end.