Recent Calls

i thought there was a topic for this...but i couldnt find it...

just got back from mva, car vs motorcycle with 2 people on the mototrcycle, air lifted the 2 motorcyclists, pretty major

Best one i've had yet. Dispatched for a motorcycle MVA, well you can guess were hauling to the scene. We arrive and its a stinking scooter, well we get the guy boarded and in the back of the truck. We ask him what happened. He says, "I was riding when a buzzard flew in front of me and crapped on my face and I lost control. We couldn't stop laughing at that one.

buzzard?

Yeah

what is that

Lol, think of an oversized crow.

I laughed so hard it's not funny when I read that, Lafferty.

Buzzard: Wikipedia on Buzzards

See here ours are really dark brown almost looking black. So, we just call them crows on steroids.

haha we call those hawks..for lack of being scientific

No, there's a difference between a hawk and a buzzard. We have both.

Just had a shooting, one shot. Airlifted with clean shot through abdomen. Suspect barricaded with possible hostages or friends not sure, swat is geared up incase. Got to love meth houses.

I gotta be up in five hours, looks like no sleep tonight while waiting on situation.

Alright. 2 alarm house fire going right now, I'm bored and not tired, so I'll update this post as stuff happens

11:36EST - House fire reported
11:44EST - Mutual Aid dispatched, Task force to the scene, task force to headquarters for the cover assignment
(On scene: 3 engines, squad, ladder, 4 ambulances, and the volunteer truck (whatever they call it))

11:50EST - Mutual Aid Coordinator on scene 2 houses going, one well involved, second has flames in the attic


12:05am - 30 minute mark
Command reports Two 2.5 story woodframes, visible fire in main fire building is knocked down, now heavy fire in the second building. primary search in main fire building negative so far,


EDIT: Nevermind. Apparently Mutual Aid has new trunked fireground frequencies I can't get. Oh well. I'll be surprised if it's not on the news tomrrow or no pictures or anytyhing, so I'll let you know when theres pictures and stuff tomorrow.

just got back from a bedroom fire, was a heater type unit on top of a cabinet thing..well that seems to be the cause at least..still under investigation..made a great stop on it though..all on the helemet cam..

pics of it: http://www.orleansfirewire.com/MORF_Structure_10072011.htm

Your a yellow helmet?

What's the difference? (here everyone is yellow, there aren't blacks, red are officers, and whites are the chief officers)

Here yellow is probie, black is regular, Red Liet/Capt., White Chiefs. Exept for our wildland gear, they have yellow light weight helmets.

Makes sense, our probies come with SERT on their backs, as they all just came from SERT, the training centre in the province.

ok my only queston is what the hell are the red turnouts all about???

I know here we have red vests the command officer for the scene wears. Some departments use red jackets instead

last night, the battery pack for our school's elevated sports cam cought fire while I was useing it... thats about the closest thing to a call I have ever been on...

ok..so

hannahan: no, i think you were looking at the wrong pic, im in the 11th one down, where you can see a bunch of the trucks, there is a man in the blue shirt, i am just to the right of him...

everyone: ok so the dept you saw with the yellow helemets, they are kinda different, all their FF's have yellow helemets, capts/ LT's have red helemets with red jackets..and the chiefs have the white helmets with white jackets..

but for my dept and most others with the exception of that one..all our FF's have black helmets, probies have orange fronts and orange stickers, but we dont really issue them to our probies..we could care less, capts/Lt's have red helemets, and chiefs white..since im an explorer/ jr firefighter whatever you want to call it...i have a black helemt but blue tets on it

I never posted here... but I was asking myself that question...
GET OUT OF MY HEAD! *Goes and makes tin foil hat*

my bad..i meant floan...i saw the red and black badge..my bad

Video: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8251401/massive-fire-at-melbourne-oil-factory

back from mva, car into a pole...lets say for investiagtion sake..the driver was not using his best judgement while driving

I probably heard it before lol. Dang, I love Australian's and their appliances too. Now I want Vodafone service too!

What the f*ck is it with aussies and air pollution...

lol!

lol. xD

back from a working barn fire, actually kept this one standing, made a nice stop on it on the 2nd floor

wow that almost never happens! props to you and your FD

haha, it actually wasnt us, it was our neighboring dept..we were the second in pumper..all we did was load hose and stuff..but hey, we got a good ride out of it

Derp I just got back from a barn fire too. Hay loft completely involved. Put a good 30 minutes of work on the deck gun into it, got so bored on there started looking at ERT on my phone lol.

I'm glad to say that I never have, and most likely never will experience a barn fire living where I live. They sound annoying. lol

Eh they can be interesting. Had one breach a hole in a grain silo and cause a pretty big explosion back in 05' when I was on the engine. Never forget that truck, we had to have been like the only guys running in a 70s/80s Ambassador pumper in 2005.

haha, we had a silo on fire once, well the corn inside of it...but we got there and were like hmmm, who do we fight this, had never had one before..so we decided to call in a 100 ft quint and we opened the top and just sprayed water down into it, and then we cut a hole in the side, what a mess, all that corn just flowing out

I would've let it burn, and brought a movie or too... Mmmm popcorn

Correction, I would've tied the silo to two tractors, and pulled it back and forth, so it would get even heating, and the corn would pop nicely

haha, yea we heard that joke for about a year afterwords..haha no one around here, for how rural it is, has had a silo full of corn on fire..and for the record..it didnt make popcorn

Wow... that was really dangerous, you should be really thankful that
there wasn't an explosion, especially with all that agitation with the
water. Not to mention water does pretty much jack shit and is really time consuming. The best way to
put it out is to empty the silo/bin, and for the love of god, just don't
get near the top. Burial in a grain silo is NOT FUN AT ALL either.

There was a barn fire here over the summer. Huge barn, thick black smoke. There were 14 towns there and over $1 million in damage. Look it up on Youtube, you'll find it. Cause is unknown.

D.McGuire wrote:Alright. 2 alarm house fire going right now, I'm bored and not tired, so I'll update this post as stuff happens

11:36EST - House fire reported
11:44EST - Mutual Aid dispatched, Task force to the scene, task force to headquarters for the cover assignment
(On scene: 3 engines, squad, ladder, 4 ambulances, and the volunteer truck (whatever they call it))

11:50EST - Mutual Aid Coordinator on scene 2 houses going, one well involved, second has flames in the attic


12:05am - 30 minute mark
Command reports Two 2.5 story woodframes, visible fire in main fire building is knocked down, now heavy fire in the second building. primary search in main fire building negative so far,


EDIT: Nevermind. Apparently Mutual Aid has new trunked fireground frequencies I can't get. Oh well. I'll be surprised if it's not on the news tomrrow or no pictures or anytyhing, so I'll let you know when theres pictures and stuff tomorrow.

They just uploaded some pictures from this fire.
http://unionfirefighters.org/2011TampaPl.html

Then here's pictures from a fire earlier that day if you're interested:
http://unionfirefighters.org/2011KawameehDr.html

photos, story, and audio of the barn fire i was telling you about where we had a good stop on it: http://www.mcfw.com/?p=5710

Wow, that's a small barn.

Yeah, the one here was like 5 times that size! It had like 40 horses (all of which were saved).

Wow Doug, Union gets a lot of fires!

Yeah, we get like...1 per year!

Yeah They get quite a few. Probably anywhere between 25-30 per month, but maybe only about 5 that require mutual aid for a cover assignment, and maybe 1 or 2 that require mutual aid to the scene, which is for the most part just a FAST team.

Union's got 3 stations, and their paid so they can usually handle it on their own with 3 on duty engines, 2 reserve, 1 on duty truck, a reserve truck, a squad, and the rescue (ambulance, not like heavy rescue truck).

The first one I posted for Tampa Place was a 2 alarm, with mutual aid to the scene and at the cover. The Kawameeh drive one only had mutual aid to the cover assignment.

Yeah cuz you just posted one a little awhile ago too. And 25-20 per month...that's like 1 per day!