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iamvff
02-20-2005, 07:42 AM
This is a little long winded, but worth it....

You Might Be A Rural S.W. Manitoba Fire Department If...

1. Your two way radio transmissions all begin with "Breaker, Breaker"

2. You have ever been dispatched to a working "cow" fire

3. You ever put out a cow chip fire

4. Your PASS alarm goes "Yeee Haw"

5. Your dispatch center ever said "Y'all can't miss it"

6. You used your rescue air bags as furniture at the fire station

7. You refill your air bottles at the local gas station "Free Air" hose

8. Your department has a Rescue Bubba and a Rescue Cow for training

9. You only wash down the floor in the station to "keep the dust down"

10. Your radio call signal is "Wheee doggies"

11. You have to mark the department out of service two weeks during deer season and every Sunday during the Winston Cup Race

12. You bought a computer so you could get NASCAR Online on the Internet

13. You count reading fire magazines in the bathroom as training hours

14. Your last four fire department raffles were for a shotgun...and a member won it each time

15. You borrowed the department's quick dump tank so you could have a neighborhood pool party

16. Your safety officer is the person who broke his arm at the last house fire

17. Your rehab consists of a cold beer and a pack of "nabs"

18. Your last serious fire was your fire department BBQ

19. You used your "good" fire hose as a bumper on your boat dock

20. You have a shotgun rack in the back of your fire truck...and got two bucks on your last call

21. Your Hurst tool is on loan to the local body shop

22. You use a hanging noose knot for all your rescue operations because it's real adjustable

23. You don't allow a person to join the department unless they own a pickup

24. You wore a hole in your fire boots...while wearing them at your full time job

25. You keep 2 packs of "Red Man" in your turnout gear for "mergencies"

26. Your departments brush truck doubles as your hunting truck

27. You voted against the last person for chief because he was a Gordon fan

28. You painted your new rescue truck to look like Earnhardt's race car

29. You borrowed the fire truck to use the spotlights for deer hunting

30. The directions to your last house fire was "Go down past the last house you burnt up"...and you know exactly which house they are talking about

31. You ever went diving in a swimming pool with your SCBA equipment...just to see how it would work

32. You must take the battery out of your tractor to put in the fire truck before you go on calls

33. Your preacher borrows your PASS alarms each Sunday for church to keep the congregation awake

34. You consider "2 in and 2 out" to be two guys in the cab and two on the tailboard of the truck

35. The last girl you kissed was named Resci-Annie and you enjoyed it so much you are thinking seriously about asking her out.

Borrowed from internet
be safe
iamvff:)

wilderness
02-21-2005, 08:05 AM
yeeee haaawwww i like them there number 12 yeeees siiir reeee
28..... yeep thats a gooood one aaalllsssssssssssssssso