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Permalink Reply by lutan1 on May 15, 2008 at 6:44am

I don't remember my first call, but I do remember my first MVA- it was a Sunday morning about 0700 hours, about 18 years ago.

Single car ran off the road and into a tree, striking on the drivers A piller and causing the car to spin around 180 degrees around the tree, trapping the driver.

We arrived and extricated with a 3 man crew (An OIC and myself and senior member on the tools). It wasn't till on the way back to the station that the OIC made the comment, "Did you see her mouth? You could have stuck a tennis racket sideways into that!"

I was so focussed (And shitting myself!) that I didn't even see the injuries but with the impact, the A pillar actually sheered and struck her in the face.... :(

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Permalink Reply by Barry on May 15, 2008 at 8:53am

My first fire call was a fully involved structure fire, an apartment building housing college students. I got to pull the handline and attack, only have it to be taken off of me by an older member, I was a little mad but it eventually worked out in the end, that was 33 years ago.

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Permalink Reply by LT Lake on May 15, 2008 at 9:59am

My first call I can look back on now and laugh. We got paged out to a lightning strike. Lighting had struck a large pine tree next to a house. The lightning had traveled down the tree through the roots and into the rebar in the concrete pad. The lightning had used the rebar in the concrete pad in front of the garage to find ground. Every place the pad met the garage floor a large piece of concrete had been blown out and put a dent in the bottom of the garage door. There where three places you could pass a basketball into the garage without opening the door. There was one rebar that had been attached to the basement wall of the house and where it used to be attached was now a 3 foot diameter hole in the wall. I found all this out after the fact by looking at scene photos. Well when I arrived on scene I approached IC in full PPE and asked where I was needed to which he replied what. So I asked "what do you need me to do?" “Lake your on traffic control” I had been given my orders so off I went and there I stood in the middle of the night with a traffic sign and a traffic control lamp on a dead end gravel road thinking to myself traffic control what f^*#ing traffic. Ten years later I'm still here and I do get the chance to hold the traffic sign now and again but now its because it needs to be done not just to give me something to do.

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Permalink Reply by TexasFire on May 15, 2008 at 10:17am

My first call was a CPR in progress and guess what...I did the compressions, as a good rookie.

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Permalink Reply by Trey Taylor on May 15, 2008 at 10:46am

My first call was an attemped arson on a county tractor. I was still in fire school, so i wasnt all to sure what to do. I live 500 yds from the scene, in a little town in the county (pop. 10) Theres a major history of arson in this little town (1 wharehouse, 6 homes, 1 occupided residence). So I rolled out of bed grabbed my radio and ran outside, barefoot & in my baseball shorts. When i got on scene I put on my gear and saw a deputy tryin to extinguish the flames with her fire extinguisher. She couldnt hit the broadside of a barn with it. The chief from our backup station, arrived and told me what to do. He then reached up on top of the axle of the tractor and grabbed the chunk of burning lighter wood. That was the end of my first call. Then the investigation proccess by the deputies because I got on scene so fast.

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Permalink Reply by F.D. 17 on May 15, 2008 at 3:38pm

My first call was a car fire right on the outside of town. The thing I remember most about it is we almost hit a dump truck in an intersection trying to get there. I was facing backwards in one of the jump seats on our engine when I felt the driver slam on brakes. I turned around to look out of the windshield and just about all I could see was the trailer to that dump truck. That got my heart beating a little fast but it all turned out ok, the car was a total loss by the way. Haha.

Stay Safe on scence, enroute, and returning to the station.

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Permalink Reply by Rescuefrog on May 15, 2008 at 4:06pm

My first call was on the day I officially was a member and had no firefighting training and it was a stove fire that went up the wall. I didn't have turn outs yet so I rode with the Asst Chief. I couldn't do much but was allowed to go door to door to evacuate some of the apts. I was allowed to go in after the fire was out and smoke had cleared just to take a look. I was already an EMT for 6 years when I joined, so was able to be part of the ems crew.

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