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Whats your funniest, or yet, Redneck call...
I've been an EMT for 25 years and a firefighter about as long, I've seen some loulous, but the call or should I say calls I went on last week will forever remain burned into my mind.
The tones went off, 911 dispatcher states that we have a 10-70 house fire here in Vina andalso that the caller states that his mother is down in the floor, he thinks she is going to die. So here we go, I pull the ambulance in beside the Fire truck, no smoke showing, yet. A man in his 50s who speaks with a very pronounced lisp comes to the door. His "S" words comes out as "G" . He starts yelling to us that his ghitter is on fire and that mama is gonna die. We all kinda look at each other and he says it again. We make our way inside, still no smoke, yet.I make my way to find a very large older lady lying in the kitchen floor with her pants and panties down to her knees. Well her son, we'll call him Larry, lead the firefighters to the bathroom, and yes, his ghitter was on fire, or atleast it was smoking .Thats about the time I noticed that the lady was wet. At first I though she had wet herself, but no, she was wet all the way up her back. That's when we got the rest of the story...It seams that Larry was gonna supprise Mama with a new electric pottie. Larry just got it instaled when Mama had to go. She said that he didn't tell her that that dam thang washes your butt, and when she pushed the button to flush, she gets a spray of cold water on her butt. That scares her so bad and with her being a large woman, she said that she had a hard time getting away from the possessed pottie. I must have torn it loose from the wall when I tried to get away and that dam thing shocked me, she said. Well she ran out of the bathroom,pants down around her feet when she tripped and fell in the floor and that is when Larry called 911. But he told us before we left that he's gonna get it fixed cause, just think of the money I'll save on TP.
The tones went off, 911 dispatcher states that we have a 10-70 house fire here in Vina andalso that the caller states that his mother is down in the floor, he thinks she is going to die. So here we go, I pull the ambulance in beside the Fire truck, no smoke showing, yet. A man in his 50s who speaks with a very pronounced lisp comes to the door. His "S" words comes out as "G" . He starts yelling to us that his ghitter is on fire and that mama is gonna die. We all kinda look at each other and he says it again. We make our way inside, still no smoke, yet.I make my way to find a very large older lady lying in the kitchen floor with her pants and panties down to her knees. Well her son, we'll call him Larry, lead the firefighters to the bathroom, and yes, his ghitter was on fire, or atleast it was smoking .Thats about the time I noticed that the lady was wet. At first I though she had wet herself, but no, she was wet all the way up her back. That's when we got the rest of the story...It seams that Larry was gonna supprise Mama with a new electric pottie. Larry just got it instaled when Mama had to go. She said that he didn't tell her that that dam thang washes your butt, and when she pushed the button to flush, she gets a spray of cold water on her butt. That scares her so bad and with her being a large woman, she said that she had a hard time getting away from the possessed pottie. I must have torn it loose from the wall when I tried to get away and that dam thing shocked me, she said. Well she ran out of the bathroom,pants down around her feet when she tripped and fell in the floor and that is when Larry called 911. But he told us before we left that he's gonna get it fixed cause, just think of the money I'll save on TP.
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Permalink Reply by Zerkle 523 on -
ive been on the dept for a year and seen some funny stuff the other day we got called out at 20:00p.m for a unknow fire myself and the cheif and a nuther firefighter rolld out are c.54 be for enyone els we got on seen and are 2 engines rolld up soon after.. we never seen unthing so my cheif said we would take the comand 54 through the wood and see if we could see enythang we topd the hill and the cheif turnd on the red lights we got to a wide spot and seen nuthing but beer and people when the seen us they ran like hell we stop and got out and we saw a hole thang of beer so we took it and some other thang and we made a lot of drunks mad that night..Zerkle523
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Permalink Reply by Marty D. Ross on -
My funniest call had to be my first with Clever, comming home from work I found a car in the ditch. No one was in it so I thought that I'll call county when I get home. I went about 1.5 miles and found a young woman laying on the side of the road, using the road as a pillow. I park ed my car in front of her to block on comming traffic. When I tried to rouse her she started to dry heave so I called it in called for an medical unit and law. When the chief of my department showed up. I told him what had happened when I tried to wake her . So he decided to try, Of course she started to dry heave agian, he came back to my car joined me on the hood, and said yep shes fine. When the ambulance showed up ,we told the medic someone we had work with before what was happening, he looked over at his trainee and this one is yours!!!
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Permalink Reply by Robert on -
We had a Structure fire on a wed. afternoon. Most of our people work days and and can leave work for a fire. So We had about 12 people call en route. Only about 4 of us were going the station to pull trucks and meet everyone else on scene. We pulled trucks and made our way to the scene. Where by that time there was a road grader, cement truck, dump truck pulling a loader, flat bed semi pulling a dozer, along with the usual pov's. All vehicles were parked out of the way so we proceeded to go about fire operations. After it was all said and done, during breakdown and clean up, a police officer just happened to mention the look on the home owners faces when the dept. in all this equipment showed up was priceless. They even went so far as to ask the officer if we were already prepared to clean up the left overs of the house. Because he had never seen such a hillbilly dept. response. Turns out this guy was a retired Detroit Fire Chief.
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Permalink Reply by Nathan Enyart on -
Yup you might be a red neck "if you bring a construction company to fight a fire" Hilarious
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Permalink Reply by Holly on -
We recently had a MVA. One of our members happen to be hunting in the area so he pov'd it to the scene. We were waiting for the flatbed to show up when I noticed we had company watching us. I quickly pointed out the fine looking 10 pt. that was watching the goings on from just behind the tree line. Didn't take but a moment before my fellow ff had his bow out and took aim. We got some good steaks outta that call.
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