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invision posted:Is it wrong to want to get toned out to something? In a sense yes, but it's somewhat expected.
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I mean, you can wish for a fire alarm without feeling bad, but who wants one of those?
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Kashew posted:I mean, you can wish for a fire alarm without feeling bad, but who wants one of those? All I ever wish for is an elevator, a patient that walks, or BLS backup. After that it's all good.
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invision posted:Is it wrong to want to get toned out to something? Nope! I am here to do my job. Had a crappy tease at 1 am Double Residence with Entrapment. Food on stove. I have not had a good fire in a month. Been on room and contents but nothing good.
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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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Dec 31, 2010 20:27
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invision 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. You do not want my gear after it is done. We are issued 2 sets of gear under five years old. The G-extreme gear is not all that anyway. Look at the new Morning Pride stuff. It is actually made well. I have 2 sets of the G-extreme at the moment. I miss my old morning pride. I have the middle of the road and the best G-extreme stuff. Small Departments never ever freaking ask large departments to hop onto bids. We buy fire gear in bulk but its middle of the road style stuff. It is still decent. We get deals of leather boots ( we are issued rubbers ) and leather helmets. Since we have to always work off the bid system its always lowest possible and in my State if you hop onto that bid they have to give you that price.
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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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Well tons of grants out there. You would not freaking believe the wasted poo poo people have bought on grants. Does a FD with only 2 story houses really need a 100 foot tower ladder or a huge heavy rescue when there are 5 already in that county. We even get grants for all sorts of stupid poo poo. We bought 90 more SCBA's this year to replace 90 8 years old units off a freaking grant! I think this is going to dry up soon. There are services that specialize in getting grants. Talk to them. There is a program for fire department that are not doing so hot to get surplus equipment and trucks. We donate hose and stuff to them but our poo poo is horrible when we are done with it. On the other hand smaller departments donate stuff that is nicer than our new stuff.
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Jan 3, 2011 02:03
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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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We had our gear inspection for FF1 last night and my helmet got a no-go...for being made in 1988 
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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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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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Yeah, turns out hard hats and helmets have an expiration date.
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invision posted: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. Ahaha my pants got a no-go too, they're too old. I am assured that I'll have new stuff "before the live burn." 
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Jan 10, 2011 00:57
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I'm not wearing a shirt. I got new bunker gear.
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Jan 21, 2011 02:53
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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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invision posted:Our dispatchers are... not good? Our dispatchers get I87 and I787 mixed up all the time. It's horrible.
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What frustrates me the most is when we get calls that come from PD or other similar agencies. I've been dispatched to calls in subway stations where all we get are an intersection and nothing else. Show up at 42nd St and 7 Ave (the middle of Times Square), ask a dispatcher where our "sick" patient is, only to have them ask us if there is a subway station there. Cue 20 minutes of walking up and down the largest station in the system looking for someone, who they had ended up taking to an office deep inside the station. What if the person had actually been sick? Every thing that was done on that call made it more difficult for us to find the person in question. That's actually one of my pet peeves about our dispatch system. No matter where the call is we always get an intersection or some sort of address. If you see W178 St/Fort Washington Ave you are supposed to know that is the George Washington Bridge. If you see Imlay and Browne Street in Brooklyn you are going to the Cruise Ship terminal and potentially on a boat (motherfucker!!). A friend once got dispatched to JFK airport from Manhattan and if I remember right was given the address of JFK Expressway/JFK Expressway. WTF!
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senor punk posted:if I remember right was given the address of JFK Expressway/JFK Expressway. WTF! That's ridiculous. But you know, fixing that would take like an extra 2 hours of programming work, dude. TWO WHOLE HOURS!
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Jan 25, 2011 00:12
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dispatchers take a special pleasure in giving confusing addresses. I once got told that a call could be at two possible intersections on the same street but they were 20 miles apart. I went to the wrong intersection first.
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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.
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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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Had my first All Call the other day. Overhead sprinkler system pipe burst in a nursing home. I am now qualified to use a squeegee.
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The most fun I ever had was in a basement filled with 2 inches of heating fuel. We dumped so much loving kitty litter down there. We basically filled the basement with 3 inches of it.
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Jan 25, 2011 07:41
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Crossposted from the AI stupid pictures thread: Anyone notice anything off about this?
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But how was he supposed to know there was a fire hydrant there when the parking spot is all covered with snow!
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Kashew posted:The most fun I ever had was in a basement filled with 2 inches of heating fuel. We dumped so much loving kitty litter down there. We basically filled the basement with 3 inches of it. I stopped by the firehouse last night to catch up with some people and I noticed your stats for last year were non-existent. Are you all burned out?
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senor punk posted:I stopped by the firehouse last night to catch up with some people and I noticed your stats for last year were non-existent. Are you all burned out? Completely. I'd still love to do firefighting, but not there.
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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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invision posted:Also, pay for my gas thanks. Yearly retention checks ftw. Even if they are just like $300.
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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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invision posted:Must be nice. Ahhh, you're in bumfuck where you drive to the scene if you don't make the rig? Alright. I see how that sucks. And yes, retention checks are nice. It works out to about a dollar for every call, drill, and work detail. I guess we justify it by putting a yearly value on our services by calculating total man hours provided at something like $10 or 15 an hour? We're handing out a few thousand in retention checks instead of a few million in pay checks. Kashew fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Jan 27, 2011 |
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Jan 27, 2011 01:17
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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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invision posted: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" Y'all need iamresponding.
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Kashew posted:Y'all need iamresponding. 
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Kashew posted:Y'all need iamresponding. I saw that when I stopped by the firehouse the other day. Interesting concept, and not surprising in the least that they bought into it, since that department has to work to find ways to spend all the loving money that they get each year.
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senor punk posted:I saw that when I stopped by the firehouse the other day. Interesting concept, and not surprising in the least that they bought into it, since that department has to work to find ways to spend all the loving money that they get each year. FD #11 got it first and it really helps fill out engines when antsy drivers(read: all drivers) want to leave right when there's 2 other people on board. The only reason the old timers bought into it was that we had a 6 month trial that they got to see in action before we had to actually bring it to the membership. It's had a very real positive effect on responses and no one can really argue with paying the pittance of a subscription fee. Kashew fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Jan 27, 2011 |
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Jan 27, 2011 03:41
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So we went from having ~2 calls all month to having 5 separate calls today.
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invision posted:So we went from having ~2 calls all month to having 5 separate calls today. I spent my overnight digging out hydrants. 
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invision fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Jan 27, 2011 |
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