Funny Happenins on Scene

[JGallagher]

I will change from worst call to funny happenings.

One that happened to me during a call was that I got frozen to the snow bank. It was about -45 out. I had a hose to protect the other building. Well any way I decided to lay in the snow bank to help me with the hose. Well boys after about 1h 30 min the Captin came and told me to take a break. I said no problem. Well any way I could not move and I had to call and ask for help to get up.

[wilderness]

We had this large dairy farm that burnt down on a friday evening,
i remember missing the trucks and running into the hall and grabbing my gear and getting caught up with the trucks a few miles out of town, we pulled up on scene and i,m guessing i parked my car 500 yards from the barn on the side of the road, as soon as i stepped out of the car, the heat was unreal, the metal was so hot you could see the studding thru it. i reach for my gear and relize that i,m wearing sweat pants and i reallly don,t need them.... so behind my car i decide to strip down. so their i am in my boxers and just begining to put on the suit and this news lady is running from the barn towards me and ducks behind the car all the while she is taking pictures of me getting my gear on, to this day i have never seen the pictures... i do however hope she got my good side........ i do know she seen a full moon at some point..lmao

[bfrd22]

Lets see.
-30 out, Mobile home fire overhaul. Wet gear, lost my footing and leaned against the hallway wall. froze right to the wall instantly.

Racing out of the pumper grabed and thru on the Helmet and ran up to the scene. FF pointed out to me that the visor normally goes to the front.

Filing the water tanks after a call at the hall, While one of the FF was uncoupling the hose I thought it would be funny to jump on the line and soak him. Timing was all wrong...Jumped on the hose and bounced like a spring board and sent myself flying into the bunker gear rack.

Backing the unit into the hall I thought the FF behind me was guiding me. Nope he was just standing there waiting to see how hard, and how much damage I was going to do to the Chiefs truck.

3:00 am call. Ran into the hall and started thowing my gear on. cursing as storm cause someone screwed with my gear cause it didn't fit worth a sh$%. Then I realized that I grabbed the wrong gear next to my rack.

Complaining how lousy these new boots we have fit, my feet were killing me after about 3hrs, Had put em in my gear the night befor but put em on the wrong sides, Had my boots on the wrong feet.

Oh I have more but gotta go for now.

[wilderness]

NEW PUMPER TRUCK------------------$280,000.00
CHIEFS NEW MINI VAN-------------------$30,000.00
HITTING THE NEW VAN WITH THE NEW PUMPER-----------$2500.00
THE LOOK OF SHOCK AND DISBELIEF ON ROOKIE DRIVER'S FACE


PRICELESS

[firefighter9calt]

Picture this It's winter lake is frozen. Man standing on ice chopping hole. Man starts to sink. Just like the cartoons he chopped all the way around himself.

[LFD_FF17]

haha man some of these are funny. I am going to love being a firefighter.

[bestcoast]

This didn't happen at a call but i thought it was pretty funny. A while back one of our junior members was relentless in his efforts to have his crew show him how to operate the pump so he could start driving. Finally one of our senior members said " O.K. kid follow me, i'll show you all you need to know about the engine." They walked up to the pump panel and the S/M said " This here is the pump panel, this is Lever A, and this one over here is Lever B, and i strongly suggest you Lever B!!!!" Well he got the point and shut his Cake Hole and waited his turn.....cheers.....

[TiSme]

Coming back from a call. Stopped to refuel the truck then return to the hall. It had been and was snowing. On the way back about 30 ft in front of the truck I noticed a skunk on the road (You know where this is going right ;) ). It was too ice out to make a quick evasive move so i tried to ease the truck over and hope I missed. By the time I got back to the hall and got the truck in. There was no doubt the inside back tire of the duallies had struck. So out the door goes teh truck agian. Washed it. Went on another MVC call and then back into the hall. Didn't seem as bad so we left it for the night.

The chief and a couple guys had to respond to another MVC in the morning and appearently when they opened the door and walked in ...... well lets just say there was words :D.

Needless to say 4 hrs of airing out the hall bays and 6 2L cans of tomato juice later the place is once again habitable. Only down side .... now I have to figure out how to get ride of the nickname Squirt!! :eek:

[daveb]

One of the guy's from my hall was out with a new firefighter at the local water fill up with the tanker. As he was shown the ropes how to fill it up. As they we're 1/2 way done one of the local OPP drove up and stoped at the rear of the tanker, rolled his window down to talk to the senior FF. The newbie once the tank was full uncoupled all the water lines, and with the senior FF attention else where hit the dump lever. The tanker dumps all 2000 gal. in about 37 sec. It's a good thing that the OPP officer could swim!

[firefighter9calt]

Had another department in our area lay several hundred feet of 4" hose on the road while responding to a mutual aid call to our dept. They got to the scene and had no 4 " hose on the bed.

[tmehmel]

We were answering a call about a car in the ditch on the transcanada hwy, turns out she tried to avoid a car that was avoiding Ducks crossing the road. One was DOA and when the Ambulance arrived the Paramedics rushed over and asked where is the patient? I pointed at the duck and they said "what, you did't do a c spine?"

Life on the prairies, ain't nothing better!!!:D

[ndvfd_ff33]

Originally posted by firefighter9calt
Had another department in our area lay several hundred feet of 4" hose on the road while responding to a mutual aid call to our dept. They got to the scene and had no 4 " hose on the bed.


lol...Not on scene but going to a mutual aid call..Lookin back and seein the last of our i beleive its 500 or 1000 ft of 4 inch goin off the ass end of our pumper.....

Which dept was that in your situation everett?

[firefighter9calt]

Not going mention any names but it was 2 Dept. to the East.

[kirk_fredericks]

A young university student turned up at the ambulance bay last night to ask for help. Her in-door cat had gotten out and had been in a tree for 36 hours. She had been crying for a day, so her boyfreind and his buddies decided to look for help. The paramedics call my friend Captain Kathy, and she and I went up to see what we could do. The cat was about 10 feet up an oak, and refused my direct order as a deputy chief to come down. The first "Y" in the tree was about 8 feet up, so using me as a human ladder, Kathy went up and secured said kitty. She passed it down, then climbed back down deputy ladder. We went back to the ambulance bay to report the following: "The captain walked all over the deputy chief in order to un-dislocate the pussy"

[ndvfd_ff33]

Originally posted by firefighter9calt
Not going mention any names but it was 2 Dept. to the East.


I'm thinking Initials are NMVFD??? lol


kirk..I've been in that situation before...Bein on the bottom...Its definately not the best...How did the ladys fair at the combat challenge recently?

[kirk_fredericks]

They did fine. The team came in 5th and Kathy came in 7th in individuals. Pretty good for eastern Canada females at the Worlds eh? I've updated our website,
http://wolfville.firecombat.ca

[ndvfd_ff33]

Congrads to them...I agree that is very good finishing for a team at worlds from the little annapolis valley...I heard some of the guys at the hall talkin about hearin somethin about it on the radio...I watched the competition in halifax and you all did very well as did the other teams from the Valley...

[Toxic]

As a rookie I responded to a house fire on our local reserve. There wasn't much left when we got there. After soaking what was left of the house we walked in to the house and I promptly fell through the floor catching myself on the floor joists with my arms. I shouted for the firefighter nearest me to help me. He walked over to me and just stood there looking. I asked for help again this time emphasizing with a few choice words. My head was filled thoughts of falling into a basement full of water and drowning with my turnout gear on. Finally the firefighter acknowledged my predicament and said: "drop down half an inch". Indeed the house was over top of a crawlspace and not a basement.
Live and learn...:D

[shaneb]

It's 2:30 In the morning and the tones go out for a fully involved garage fire. The pumper had a choke problem the last call and nobody wanted to drive her ( the chief does not agree with a stalled pumper in the middle of the road.) I volunteered to drive the pumper, everyone else got in the rescue unit, great nobody to haul hose at the hydrant. We get to the scene I start pumping from the tank and proceed to runout 250ft of high ball. I get water flowing from the hydrant and forgot to shut down tank supply, the Captins hard hat is sitting under the controls and gets filled with water, just I shut down tank supply he comes around the bumper and grabs his lid putting it on as he runs to the scene. Oh did I mention it was -20 outside.

Dec 2nd single vehicle MVA on a rural road, I park my car behind an OPP cruiser and start to run towards incident command, I slip on the icy hard packed snow and slide on my back right beside my Capt. and 2 cops. He tells me to stop screwing around and get into my turn out gear. I come out of the rescue unit and guess what, right to my back again. Walking into the ditch I trip over a branch in the snow and land on my face. My Capt. said, for a joke he was going to send over a cop to ask if I was drinking before the call.

[cdnbacon]

Does anyone have any funny calls they've ever been on. The best I got was when I was up in Alaska. We just got back from practice that was at another dept when we noticed an el comino in front of our hall. As we got closer we noticed something in the pick up bed of the el comino. It was a moose. The driver had hit the moose and it ended up flipping over the car and into the pick up bed.

The moose just sat there staring at us while we tried to figure out how to get it out. We tried to poke at with a pike pole which didn't work.

We figured it had broken it's back and called the state troopers to put it down. That was definitely the most interesting call I've ever been on.

[DFCSmash]

Cat in tree? Nope. Cat owner in tree. Crawled up to get his cat. Cat kept moving up and away from him. It was a weeping willow. He ended up in the lighter branches and froze. Now what do you do? Ladders aren't gonna work. We called Hydro and comandeered a bucket truck. Came up from under the cat woner, and rescued him from the tree. About 23;00 on a warm july night. He wasn't overdressed.

Then we went back up for the cat.

We still laugh about it, but if you weren't on the department when it happened, you won't know thw guy's name. He was mighty embarassed, and 15 years later, very few people know that a) it happened b) who it was. This in a community of about 1500. Now THATS confidentiality.

[firebabs222]

This isn't so much a humorous call , but it is funny the way the Captain reported back to dispatch after we were done. We received a call to go to a house where there was a cat stuck in a desk drawer. When we got there, there was no doubt that the cat had got scared and jumped up into a drawer. He had gotten wedged between the end of the drawer and the top of the desk. After we had taken the top of the desk off and "rescued" the cat, we then proceeded to go back to our rig. Now before I explain the rest, let me tell you that our dispatchers are mostly female. " Dispatch, this is Rescue 1"
"go ahead Rescue 1"
"I just wanted to inform you that we got the pussy out of the ladies drawers and were going back into service"

There was no response......

The Captain then got back onto the radio "dispatch did you copy"

Dispatcher came back "yah we copied" and all you could here is complete laughter in the background. A couple of minutes later, we were still in the rig and dispatch gave another call, and you could still here them rolling.

Just thought you might like to hear this one.

[Scuba]

We were pulling out of the hall in our reserve pumper to setup a fill site for tankers fro a structure fire at a cottage.....
Three of us in the cab of an old 1967 F700, me in the middle, capt driving and another rookie on the pass side - this is one of those good ole trucks with one of the good ole wailers mounted on the front bumper.....Air powered Just like the ones on the Andy Grifith Show...

Pull up to the lane by the river and notice a small red toyota truck parked there, a frequent problem because the area doubles as a boat launch as well as our dry hydrant....Capt tells the other guy ridin with us to jump out and see if there are keys in it.....

Wayne goes to step outa the cab and manages to go square on the switch for the air raid siren......about the same time a half naked kid and his totaly naked GF jump out either side of the truck......needless to say he lost his keys in the process and we ended up dragging his truck out of the way....

[bestcoast]

This one came from one of our dispatcher's (when we use to dispatch ourselves that is). A call came into 911, however their was a language barrier. The caller was stating that there was a tree house fire. So the dispatcher was going through the regular protocols confirming things and such, address, exposures, etc...And an engine company was tapped out for the "tree house" fire. Then the dispatcher re-confirmed with the caller about the info and the guy yelled "no, not tree house fire, tree house on fire, one, two, tree house...!!'...Turn's out an arsonist had torched the back's of THREE houses at the same time....Needless to say a 2nd alarm was struck PDQ....true story, however to hear the story from the guy that took the call is way better I can't really do the story justice but you get the jist of it.......BC.....

[bcfire]

This one came from one of our dispatcher's (when we use to dispatch ourselves that is). A call came into 911, however their was a language barrier. The caller was stating that there was a tree house fire. So the dispatcher was going through the regular protocols confirming things and such, address, exposures, etc...And an engine company was tapped out for the "tree house" fire. Then the dispatcher re-confirmed with the caller about the info and the guy yelled "no, not tree house fire, tree house on fire, one, two, tree house...!!'...Turn's out an arsonist had torched the back's of THREE houses at the same time....Needless to say a 2nd alarm was struck PDQ....true story, however to hear the story from the guy that took the call is way better I can't really do the story justice but you get the jist of it.......BC.....
That is right up there with the "turd-star" at the forum.LOL BCFIRE

[Whitewater_419]

OOoo, I've got another dispatch-related story :)

We were called out to a recreational structure fire (large gazebo) - as we pulled in to the scene, our pagers go off again for another call - bon fire out of control. From my understanding (I'm still the rookie, so my details might be a little funny here), it was decided we'll get the gazebo fire out, since two halls were already on scene. So we get the gazebo fire under control and then someone asks dispatch for the address again, since the first address given was "between [road X] and [road Y]. Person calling dispatch asked them if they realized that both those roads were about 50 kilometers in length, thus a little too long to go 'hunting' for the fire.

Dispatch replied with "just look for the flames shooting above the trees". I dunno about the rest of you, but around where we work, most of these roads cut right through the forests - trees are a good 40-60 feet on either side: Unless the fire is pretty much right beside the road, you're not going to see anything "shooting above the tree line" (simple physics of light travelling in a straight line...) One of the other rookies (newer than me) actually made a rather humourous (to us) comment over the radio about the accuracy/usefulness of dispatch information :)

Anyway, we're all loaded back in the trucks and personal vehicles and the DC tells us that we pretty much have no choice but to cruise the length of these roads, looking for "flames above the trees"

Luckily, we'd gone no more than 5 kilometers when dispatch radioed again to stand down: Someone had called to say the fire was *not* out of control and there was no danger.

[dave5171]

I thought I would start this thread because if we can't laugh at our selfs then who can we laugh at....... and heres the 1st one.

I was working on the computer yesterday when a call came in for a medical. So I jumped in to my car and started to run to the address given.....on my way there I heard a bang, I dropped part of my muffler, I looked in my rear view I didn't see it fall so I thought it was just a clean break...(It's happened to me before on a different car) anyways I desided to keep responding to the call sounding like a sherman tank. I get there and rescue is already on scene and patient was already being care for. I get out of my car and the Chief and othere FF'S on Scene were laughing at me because they had know idea what the hell was coming up the road untill I got there.
I thought it was a little imbarassing needless to say.......So what has happened to you guys, who's got a story?

[Buckster]

Wellllllll....being one of those fellas who is known for wearing shorts year round around......yeah even in the winter i wear them around the house.....anyhoo, one balmy january day, we get a medical call to a gas station, so i just throw on a coat....long story short....helping the medics load their gear and one of them decides to yank ma shorts down....

[firefighter26]

In our department about the lowest job you'll ever be assigned to do is traffic. Even rolling hose is more fun than traffic.

After getting stuck with traffic duty a few calls in a row as rookie was I overwhelmed with joy when I was assigned to man a changed hose line during an extrication. The extrication went well and when it came time for the wreckers to move the vehicles I was told to wash down the area with my line. Well, it was a COLD December morning and the chief who gave me the task was standing about 5 feet in front of me with his jacket open.

Being the eager young probie that I was I wanted to look good so I decided to drop my GPM down and open up the pattern, however, I couldn't see the settings on the nozzle at the time and its settings were not second nature like they are now, so I decided to pull the handle back out of the way to get a better look at the settings....... only thing is, when you pull the handle back the water comes out! and with a chief standing DIRECTLY in front of me it didn't work out for my team!

Needless to say I did a lot of traffic duty after that! Hell, I wouldn't even be on scene yet and I was already assigned to traffic duty!!!!!!!!

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There is a look out on the Malahat that has a set of bathrooms that are solar powered. The usual name for the lookout is Arbutus Lookout, but the slang name is "solar $hitters"... so needless to say when they caught fire even dispatch was getting the names mixed up!!

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Ever seen a white hat go flying across the scene? We were working a fully involved vehicle fire and I was on the nozzle. A rookie was pulling the line while I was donning my SCBA. Needless to say the rookie didn't pull all the line and when the pump op charged it the rest of the line jumped out of the hose bed. Didn't hit the chief, but grazed him enough that it took his helmet off and it went flying across the scene!!! That was a sight to see, coming around the corner of the Engine, fully involved vehicle fire and a chief getting wacked in the side of the head with his helmet flying 50+ feet!

:D :D

[Doug246]

We had one of the funniest medical call that we have ever had the other week.
Get a call for a unconsious male, get on scene and get to patient. His wife said he had been drinking but didn't know how much or for how long. We were able to wake him but, man was he drunk! He tries to stand up, fall face first onto the coffee table. Ambulance and cops arrive. Ambulance takes over from us but we stay to lend a hand. Patient tries to stand again but falls to his knees. Now he is facing the pants zipper of the female paramedic. Ever so slowly he reaches over and starts to undo her zipper on the front of her pants. He does this so slowly and carefully she dosn't even notice! The rest of us has though, and the giggling starts. Finally a cop tells the guy to stop or he'll be arrested. Only then does the paramedic realize what has happened. We cleared the scene right away. I'm sure the cops and the paramedics heard us laughing like loons all the way to the truck.
Doug246

[SkyRanger]

Post funny or embarassing moments that have happened to you or that you have seen at a fire scene

[SkyRanger]

Got a call to a apartment above a store on the main street in our town. We arrive at the scene where an elderly ladies stove had caught fire. The lady had a dog which ran out of the house when we arrived.

3 of us were dispached to catch this dog that ran out. The dog was a 3 legged poodle which we realized can move faster than we expected. Of course I was the one that ended up catching this stupid 3 legged poodle that the owner had decided to dye pink. When I caught the thing after having to tackle it while a number of people were watching, I ended up getting applauded for my effort by the Police, full time ff and volunteers that were watching......on main street in the middle of the day. The only thing that could have been worse was if the media had arrived there in time to witness this.

[arrow]

Yes I said toilet explosion.
A few years ago the pagers go off and yes we could not believe what we were dispatched to but it actually happened. Now for those of you that saw the mythbusters episode where they debunked the exploding toiled read on.
Apparently the guy took a dump and without flushing and sitting there awhile lit a pipe. He proceeded to throw the lit match into the bowl and the methane gas flashed. lets just say I don't think he will ever grow hair in certain parts of his body again. Luckily the burns were minor and other than his ego being bruised he recovered quickly. The toilet bowl actually cracked and broke and he was lucky not to get cut by the porcelain.

[Dynamite]

Have any good stories from experiences you've had on the job? We all love a good story so please share, here's one of mine.

I was working at Dauphin Countryfest this year providing first aid for the drunks...I mean Countryfest clientel - lol

So, Mr. Fireworks...

A very drunk man and his pals decide to set off fireworks in the campground. They weren't supposed to because last year someone set off some fireworks that ended up in someone else's trailer.

Mr."very drunk" Fireworks lights one and plants it in the ground. Wearing baggy jeans he steps over the firework instead of walking around. Well it went off with a bang - straight up his pant leg. He ended up with second degree burns straight from his foot to the groin, about 10% of his body.

The burns were really nasty - just beautiful, pealing at the edges and everything. We had such a hard time containing ourselves when he was brought in...someone shoots a firework up their leg and see if you won't laugh!

Luckily for him at that point he was still completely intoxicated but I'm sure "hang-over" found new meaning for him the next day.

Amy