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I went to my first local VFD meeting tonight. I got to spray poo poo with a huge water hose and hook up poo poo to a firehydrant and play around in a $250k big red truck. This job is the best job.
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Kashew posted:Fact. Yeah, there's absolutely no doubt about it. I don't think I can wait a whole nother week to do it again. I feel like a 12 year old. (and I'm fine with that.)
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Nov 3, 2010 01:10
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So I roll up to my second ever Volunteer Fire Department meeting. I get out of my truck and start to walk in when all kinds of sirens and loud poo poo start going off. Some guy goes "Hey you wanna ride?" Hell yes I do. It's a car fire. So, we roll out of the station and it turns from a car fire to "Car fire with infant locked inside." Jesus, I should have stayed put. WELP. It was some drunk guy who hit a curb and saw the sparks from his rimzz grinding on the curb, freaks out and stops his car and runs off. No fire. No baby. No anything. Then I sat through a 3 hour meeting about not much of anything really. I did get mistaken for someone named "poptart" though. That was fun.
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Nov 9, 2010 05:24
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Okay bros, what are yalls workout plans? I'm p sore from lugging hose around everywhere. (also, "WE'RE RUNNING 4 LINES WHY ARENT WE GETTING ENOUGH WATER UGH") (you should probably be using that 5inch supply you got tucked away in the corner)
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Nov 16, 2010 05:00
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Why isn't there an ask/tell? I mean, theres this thread, but A/T is way more hi-viz and I see this as more of "firefighter chat" than "Hey ya'll dudes wanna hear some poo poo?"
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Nov 18, 2010 05:58
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Someone else post in here please  Lesson I Learned Today: "These carbon fiber SCBA tanks will fuckin' explode if you drop 'em!"
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Nov 23, 2010 07:11
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Yeah I mean, I wanted to say something and be like "well, what happens if something falls on the tank then??" but the guy has been there waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay longer than me and I wasn't about to start talking poo poo you know?
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Nov 23, 2010 18:40
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Val Helmethead posted:Heya folks! Just checking in here. I've been accepted into my local Fire Department as a volunteer probationary member pending a physical (comprehensive) and an agility test (which pretty much everyone that has ever taken it passes). Frankly it looks like an awful lot of fun. Congrats man. I still havnt been to a fire (I'm getting voted in next monday!) but all of the training I've done so far has been a lot of fun. Question:Tonight we did tanker shuttling/driving training. I know that I have to have a CDL Class B to drive any of the apparatuses, but does anyone know what exactly I have to do to get it? As far as I can tell I just go down to the DMV and tell them to hook me up. Also what's your guys opinion of vollies having lights and sirens on their POVs? Personally, I think it's kinda "look at me" but it seems like everyone else out here has some kind of set up going on with their vehicle. (Not that I'm about to go drop money for anything, I think flashers + living ~3 minutes away from the station is good enough.)
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Nov 30, 2010 08:13
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420 wash trucks errday
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Dec 2, 2010 01:41
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Just got back from a training fire. Interior firefighting is literally better than sex.
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Dec 5, 2010 23:42
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Cage Kicker posted:I start FF1 in a few weeks. This is intensely good news. Well, let me elaborate. I got a call about 10:30 this morning saying "Hey, the fire department in the next town over is burning down an old house, wanna come play?" Well gently caress yeah I do. So, we show up to the fire and hang out and chill with the other departments there for a bit. I was the second group to go in, second on the line. They had lit the back rooms on fire. I was kinda of nervous when we were waiting to go in. As soon as we stepped through the door I thought "Oh God, what have I gotten myself into?" As soon as we turned the corner and hit the hallway and I felt the heat, I completely forgot about being a pussy and went straight to doin' work. I know lots of people compare lots of different things to sex, but honestly, the crazy adrenaline rush, the super-intense concentration, and realizing you're standing in a loving building that is legitimately on fire is by far the best thing I have ever done in my life. You completely forget about how heavy your gear is, how hung over you are, and everything else that isn't mission-critical. It's really hard to describe dude, but if you can get over the initial "WHY AM I RUNNING INTO THE FIRE?" and get yourself in there, you'll understand. Some pics from after we let it burn:  
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Dec 6, 2010 05:19
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Kashew posted:We're not allowed to do acquired structure burns since this:  Why'd it blow up? Youtube comments are all retarded so according to them it's either a nuke or the illuminati.
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Dec 6, 2010 06:23
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 "You're a firefighter?" "yeah, but" "That's so hot. you're sexy" ""I see no downside to this job.
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Dec 7, 2010 18:10
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We need more people in this thread damnit. I wanna talk about how awesome all of us are. Also, FYI, going through the SCBA box with a blacked out mask is p fun.
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Dec 8, 2010 00:28
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WELL I GUESS GO AHEAD AND ADD ME TO THE LIST OF PEOPLE WHO ARE FIREFIGHTERS. ( seriously where the bros at man ) (p.p.s. we let the local HAMRadio old guys use the station for meetings on tuesdays. I walked in earlier looking for something and walked into the middle of a bunch of old guys telling one old guy that he was kicked out of their club. how sad. theyre all like 85 years old at least. also we apparently use the local boy scout troop to wash trucks. :kickinrad:)
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Dec 8, 2010 02:59
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Cage Kicker posted:You can add me as well. e:im rude. Congrats. Wait till you get to go inside a structure fire though oh god 
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Dec 8, 2010 07:41
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Bro's, some girl at a club tonight showed me the "bunker gear dance" which is pretty much a dance that mimicks putting on bunker gear. It was awesome. hth <3
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Dec 9, 2010 09:29
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Kashew posted:Awesome. Now I have a dance to go with my firefighting rap album. I'll have you know, sir, that I recorded the smash hit single "Fire Truck (go woo)" over a year ago. 
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Dec 11, 2010 00:20
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Kashew posted:My first hit is going to be "Make it rain(on them flames)". "Blowin' smoke all day (fan truck anthem)"
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Dec 11, 2010 02:47
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So, we jaws'd a person out of a car, and we're standing around while the EMT's do their thing, and this car stops right in front of the scene, and the fattest loving guy I've ever seen rolls down his window and starts taking cellphone pictures. I've never wanted to punch someone in the neckfat so hard.
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Dec 21, 2010 09:49
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psydude posted:All those months of dealing with fatasses at Outback really helped develop your personal restraint. It was you wasn't it
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Dec 22, 2010 09:25
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Kashew posted:Medic/FF cops advancing bullet-proof-pepper-spray-laced-water hoselines into robbery-in-progress-while-on-fire-and-a-premmie-birth-in-the-lobby banks. You write the stuff of dreams, sir.
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Dec 23, 2010 10:13
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"Trailer house on fire" means "Trailer house that burned to the loving ground a week ago is kinda smoldering a little." Thanks, person who called this in at 6am, you're my hero 
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Dec 23, 2010 14:28
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Is it wrong to want to get toned out to something?
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Dec 25, 2010 04:41
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Well, it's new years eve. Enjoy all of the awesome drunk-driving extrications tonight. And grass fires. e:someone in a big department, please adopt my fd. We can't afford loving radios. Grant money? More like 2-years-too-late money. e2:and by adopt I mean please send us your old radios. We're all analog, so whatever works you know? e3:also some of that globe g-extreme bunker gear would be realllllllllll nice. invision fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Dec 31, 2010 |
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Loco179 posted:Analog Radios are the way to go. Digital Radio's are firefighter killers. I believe there was a Mayday in Texas where someone could not get help because of the radio. They said that it was user error not the stupid piece of poo poo that the city overpaid for. How the gently caress can you say in your right mind you need to be in a quiet area to talk in a loving fire? Holy poo poo that is dumb. Sorry my rant is done there. Yeah, I agree, digital sucks for tactical. But, we can't afford analog radios as it is, and I don't see us going to digital or 800 any time soon, thankfully. With that said, I'm pretty sure my gear is ~10 years old. It's ratty as hell, and my coat has big splotches of tar from a melting roof all over it. And my lid is a huuuuuuuuuuuge piece of poo poo that doesn't adjust properly to my head, has tar all over it, a crack in the shield, and the rubber around the edge is coming off. Being a *real* firefighter must be awesome.
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Jan 2, 2011 09:41
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Backdraft was on sale today at the mall. $9.00 for the special anniversary edition. Hell yeah.
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Jan 4, 2011 10:13
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Another training fire tonight. I feel like a 12 year old girl at a Justin Bieber concert.
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Jan 7, 2011 20:44
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Cage Kicker posted:We had our gear inspection for FF1 last night and my helmet got a no-go...for being made in 1988 Don't feel bad. I burned the poo poo out of my knees last night because of how lovely my bunker gear is. Pretty sure my lid was made in the mid-90's.
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Jan 9, 2011 00:59
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I'm not wearing a shirt. I got new bunker gear.
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Our dispatchers are... not good? " _______ Fire Department, _______ Fire Department, there's a uh... telephone pole on fire in front of George's Tavern." Thanks for the address lady, especially since it was outside of our district and the original department didn't have people to respond. Luckily I'm an alcoholic so I knew where it was 
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Jan 24, 2011 23:04
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Crazy Dutchman posted:I started my EMS career working in a rural area. In one county alone there were five streets named Pine, 20 or more miles apart. Sometimes the numbers can give a clue to a more specific location, but of course our dispatchers would often fail to get the city name. We have "allen" "alum" "alums" and "allens" all in one town. It usually goes like this: "County SO to Fire Department, please respond to 1326 Allens" "SO, 432, was that alums?" "432, roger, allen." "SO, 463, was that allen or alums?" "Please respond to 1326 alum"  In good, not complaining news, we had a new guy show up to the meeting tonight. I'm no longer the lowest on the totem pole. invision fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Jan 25, 2011 |
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Jan 25, 2011 04:39
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Look bro, if you say "my fire alarms goin' off and I see smoke" and we show up and can't find anything, even with the FLIR, then there's no fire. Also, pay for my gas thanks.
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Jan 27, 2011 00:57
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Kashew posted:Yearly retention checks ftw. Even if they are just like $300. Must be nice.  (but seriously, I'm always like 20 seconds too slow to the station, and the majority of our calls are at least 10 miles away, and I get roughly 14mpg. It's killin' me.)
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Jan 27, 2011 01:05
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Kashew posted:Ahhh, you're in bumfuck where you drive to the scene if you don't make the rig? Alright. I see how that sucks. It's just kinda frustrating. The problem (for me at least) would be solved if we had money for radios, that way I could just be like "hey, I'm 10 seconds away from the station, lemme catch a ride." I hate being a little bit too slow and having to follow right behind the truck to a call 20+ miles away, just to show up and have em go "oh, fires out, lets go home"
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Jan 27, 2011 01:24
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Kashew posted:Y'all need iamresponding. 
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Jan 27, 2011 02:03
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So we went from having ~2 calls all month to having 5 separate calls today.
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e: n/m
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Jan 27, 2011 17:39
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6 real legitimate fires in 22 hours.
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Brutal Hammer posted:I've had this thread bookmarked for some time now. I applied in November to become a firefighter and took the written test a couple of weeks ago. I just found out that I didn't make the cut. I was hoping to join the ranks of fire fighter goons, but welps. To be honest, I probably wasn't as qualified as some of the folks that applied this round so yea, I hope the guys with experience and that have been waiting awhile passed. But, meh, that kinda ruins some plans so I am going to go ahead wallow for the weekend. I was really looking forward to the CPAT for some reason too. Become a volly, man. The only downside is you don't get a sweet IAFF sticker to put on your vehicle. But you get to make up for it by having a huge VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER sticker and t-shirts like "TOP 10 THINGS A FIREFIGHTER SAYS BEFORE SEX". You also get to put like $20k worth of lights on your vehicle. It's important that people know! But seriously though, look around your area and see if there are any volunteer departments near buy. Show up to a meeting, introduce yourself, and go from there. e:seriously, who wears this bullshit? http://www.funny-tshirts.com/firefighter.php invision fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Jan 28, 2011 |
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