Dumb-A$$

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Permalink Reply by Dave, NB 9 on January 15, 2009 at 6:59am

Don't forget about deep road side ditches in the winter time. What looks like a level area, might just be about 3' deep... covered in snow. So your hydrant hook up might be a deep subject. Like wise, spotting hydrants, the wing plows on plow trucks will push a level area back off the hard surface of the road, sometimes back as far as they can push it for future snow fall.

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Permalink Reply by Andy Entwistle on January 15, 2009 at 7:20am

I once got a little excited for a call and pulled out before remembering to unplug the shore-line (driving the utility truck as a probie, not a big rig). So it came zipping out until the reel emptied and then broke free - I trailed about 20' of cord on the way to the call.

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Permalink Reply by Capt 723 on January 15, 2009 at 10:00am

Been there and done that....but only took a three foot piece.

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

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

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Permalink Reply by Andy Entwistle on January 15, 2009 at 9:13am

Even as a Probie, once we had CPR they gave us all pocket masks and told us not to drive by a possible CPR call on the way in - stop and check. In fact since we ran our own dispatch some nights it would even come over as "possible heart attack, Andy, if you are responding, go to the scene." (This was 1986, no portables except the Chief).
Anyway, 0200, that's what I get, never had done it before. Totally freaked. Slam to a stop in front, run across the lawn juggling the pieces of the mask, lady thows open the door and says he's in back. Run down the hall. Trying to remember the rules - it was five pumps to a breath in those days. Luckily, he's sitting up in bed.
"You're breathing!" I pant. "That's really good!" Yes, I know, he replies. "Okay," I tell him, " I just need you to stay calm and the Rescue will be here any minute." Actually, I'm doing fine, he says, but maybe YOU ought to sit down and catch your breath. "Yes," I agree and that's where they found us a couple minutes later. Not sure who need the O2 more.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Ellen Shea on January 15, 2009 at 9:27am

that's priceless....

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Permalink Reply by Capt 723 on January 15, 2009 at 10:02am

I laid my helmet on the front bumper of the engine while I filled out the incident report. When I was done I jumped in and we headed back to the station...about half way there and while on the main street in town I hear on the radio "Engine 28, there is a helmet on your fron bumper".

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Permalink Reply by turk182 on January 15, 2009 at 10:45am

We used to hang out at the station at night and order food well it was summer so we set in front of the trucks and was using the extended bumper as a table.

Well we get punched out for a structure fire assisting a neighboring department jump up put our gear on and out the door when we got to the scene laid a line in. It was a five mile ride and as we walk around the front of the truck found the pizza and pop still on the bumper we lucked out because the pizza box slid into the soft suction troft but the pop just set there.

So when we were done and hose packed on we set and ate our pizza before we went home.

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Mack on January 15, 2009 at 3:04pm

Well you are correct there Dave nothin funnier than watchin somone dissappear in the snow, reminds me of when i was new and the area was flooded with water from the Niagara River, due to a massive ice jamb. When we got off the rig i was walking toward the house to take boots to the residents so they could get out of there home when a hotshot came running up tellin me hey probie your gonna fall into the ditch he grabbed the boots from me and proceeded to go right into the ditch up to his neck. so some days the probies are not so stupid, i noticed the driveway markers.

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Permalink Reply by Engine 32 Capt. on January 15, 2009 at 3:14pm

I hung my turnout coat and radio strap on the large diameter discharge one day. Sure enough, we got a run. I grabbed my coat, but not the radio strap. When we got on scene and I went for my radio, the hair stood up on the back of my neck as I instantly realized where I'd left it.

Luckily, it was still hanging there when I got off the truck.

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Permalink Reply by Ted Bownas on January 25, 2009 at 9:16pm

Left my helmet (not a white one then) on the tailboard one afternoon...it made the ride all the way back to the station fine...but fell off when I stopped in the street to back into the bay...luckily, I straddled it when I backed in...then saw it sitting happily in the street as I turned back from the mirror to close the bay door. :)

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Winterwerp on February 13, 2009 at 10:09pm

On my way to a mutual aide Box Alarm, responding as officer on the engine, left my mask on the front of the engine. While enroute, I was searching like crazy for it in the cab, couldn't find it. Ended up finding it on the side of the road after being PIS.

Also, while we were drilling one Saturday afternoon, talking about water supply, I placed my phone on the Tanker. Low and behold, Tanker gets struck out for a Structure fire as a water supply piece. I forgot completly about that phone. I was on the engine, riding pipe, and went on a transfer and ended up on the second for that fire. Get back, had to walk almost two miles up the street to find the phone still working like a charm. Shocked the hell out of me.

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