How Many Can Remember Their First Call

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Permalink Reply by Chris on March 31, 2009 at 1:35am

My first job was about 15 minutes into my first shift, 4 bed house involved with fire, turned out to be a chimney fire.

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Permalink Reply by Captain703 on April 1, 2009 at 12:05am

My first call was a double electrocution. These workers were putting hot tar on a roof and got the aluminum ladder into a line that was charged with 7200 volts. There were a few of us at the station and the lights went out. Usually when that happened we would get called to the high school for an AFA. Sure enough we did. I was just a junior then so I had to ride in the tanker. En route dispatch informed us of the other call and we diverted to it, letting the other dept. we were dual toned with take the school call. I was not allowed out of the tanker but I still saw everything. They were able to shock one guy back but lost the other one.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Koontz on April 1, 2009 at 12:37am

My first calls are always the same. Whenever I start a new dept or company, or get promoted, my first call is always the same. Full code, CPR in progress. I have to have the craziest luck ever.

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Permalink Reply by Ken Warr Jr on April 1, 2009 at 7:49am

My first call as a Jr member was a fully involved lumber truck on a side street and as a Sr member it was a mutual aid gas station fire. When i joined another dept, we had 13 jobs in our area the first 8 months I was on!

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Permalink Reply by T on April 1, 2009 at 9:44am

My First Fire call was a room and content fire in a single story house. First EMT call was a fall injury at at a nursing home, My first call as a Paramedic was a CVA at a nursing home. And my first Cardiac arrest to work as a Paramedic was actually a save, The guy walked out of the hospital 4 days later.

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Permalink Reply by RICK on April 1, 2009 at 9:45am

I was on the department for two days and we got a call for an attempted suicide. But the best call was my 3rd call when we got called out for a medical on I-75 turns out it was a small cessena plane that made a controlled landing on I-75 @ East Holly rd. Turns out the guy ran out of gas on his way back from ohio.

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Permalink Reply by T on April 1, 2009 at 9:48am

Funny, actually very funny

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Permalink Reply by John on April 1, 2009 at 11:42am

Maybe because I am still new although going on 4 years but with my current Dept I do still remember the first call it was a car fire at 2 am, and with my first dept there were a few false alarms but one good barn fire I remember too. but I kinda remember most all of my fire calls, although the medic ones are harder to recall since thats most of what we go on.

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Permalink Reply by Jake Fireman on April 1, 2009 at 1:01pm

Ahhhhhhhhhh damnthing, you always put a smile on my face!
First Vollie call....chest pain. I had been in the house about 5 minutes when it came in. I was so nervous I put the bp cuff on the patient inside out. Everytime I would try to inflate it, it would blow off his arm....Duh wheres my dunce cap.
First career call...1 hour into shift, Im sitting at the table..well standing as everyone else sat and Im giving them the "tell us about yourself speech"...The tones go off and Im out the door to a fully involved structure smoke and flame showing. My "old Jake" tells me to take the nozzle to the door and we make entry. I didnt know if I was gonna pi**, cr*p or anything else. But I KNEW I was in the right job for me!

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Permalink Reply by Reg Mathis on April 1, 2009 at 1:10pm

Structure fire at a little cracker-box house(faulty wiring). It was an extremely cold night and I remember thinking "these rubber boots are sexy as hell, but they sure ain't very warm!" Anyway, fire extension into the attic so I got to learn really quickly what overhaul was all about. And the tenant was a woman of some proportion and had the largest collection of "support undergarments" I had ever seen. Must have been at least a hundred BIG bras of all colors and patterns scattered around a side door to the b/r involved. All in all, a very instructional night!

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Permalink Reply by Trainer on April 1, 2009 at 2:52pm

I’m sittin here racking my brain and for the life of me I can’t remember, I do remember my first MVA fatality, my first fire in 2 new trucks, but just can’t recall that first one. There’s something about piling in the back of a van with 5 or 6 others, might have been but I can only remember getting in the van, it sucked.

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Permalink Reply by Simon Holländer on April 1, 2009 at 3:37pm

I think everybody in any firedepartment remember their first call, wathever they were called out to.
mine were after 2 weeks service and fire at a farm, 2 people missing and the building were completly lost in flames when we arrived

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