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Well I Have not posted on the site in a while but i am a FF/EMT for Houston. Good to see y'all have a form going. One of the funniest calls I made was on Thanksgiving this man comes walking out of his house kinda funny like. and me and the EO ask him why he called, well after a few we finally got the truth from him, it sees he got bored and shoved an Apple up his Butt. lol I assume if was not the first for a forien object to be placed up their.
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MDA Fill the Boot 07 - We had our campaign today, we raised $11,004 in paper and probably have $750-1000. in change! We staffed one intersection and our neighbors King County Fire Dist 20 staffed another. Great day, lots of fun, comraderie and a little competition between us.
Not counting today, we have raised over $50K in seven years! The first year there was only two of us collecting. Now we have the duty crews, our Chief and families carrying a boot. It is very cool.
Not counting today, we have raised over $50K in seven years! The first year there was only two of us collecting. Now we have the duty crews, our Chief and families carrying a boot. It is very cool.
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From: Dufur Or
ok, i have a couple of questions for all of you Fire Fighters.
what is y'alls opinions on the marking of volunteer vehicles as Fire Vehicles?
do you think a volunteer driving around in a personal vehicle marked Fire Department is a no no? should this be something to check with the prospective department on?
im just thinking about options for my truck, provided that i actually make it on a department this time.
anyway, i was talking to my neighbor about joining a Department on a volunteer basis. told him where it was that we will most likely be moving to. he said, "if you tell them you want to be a volunteer, they will ****** you up quick".
so it looks like i may have a good chance of getting on a Fire Department. im going to call the Chief of this Department tomorrow and find out where the volunteer station is (they have 2 manned and 1 volunteer), so i will know if i will be close enough to be a volunteer.
what is y'alls opinions on the marking of volunteer vehicles as Fire Vehicles?
do you think a volunteer driving around in a personal vehicle marked Fire Department is a no no? should this be something to check with the prospective department on?
im just thinking about options for my truck, provided that i actually make it on a department this time.
anyway, i was talking to my neighbor about joining a Department on a volunteer basis. told him where it was that we will most likely be moving to. he said, "if you tell them you want to be a volunteer, they will ****** you up quick".
so it looks like i may have a good chance of getting on a Fire Department. im going to call the Chief of this Department tomorrow and find out where the volunteer station is (they have 2 manned and 1 volunteer), so i will know if i will be close enough to be a volunteer.
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Well I Have not posted on the site in a while but i am a FF/EMT for Houston. Good to see y'all have a form going. One of the funniest calls I made was on Thanksgiving this man comes walking out of his house kinda funny like. and me and the EO ask him why he called, well after a few we finally got the truth from him, it sees he got bored and shoved an Apple up his Butt. lol I assume if was not the first for a forien object to be placed up their.
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From: The Lonestar State
MDA Fill the Boot 07 - We had our campaign today, we raised $11,004 in paper and probably have $750-1000. in change! We staffed one intersection and our neighbors King County Fire Dist 20 staffed another. Great day, lots of fun, comraderie and a little competition between us.
Not counting today, we have raised over $50K in seven years! The first year there was only two of us collecting. Now we have the duty crews, our Chief and families carrying a boot. It is very cool.
Not counting today, we have raised over $50K in seven years! The first year there was only two of us collecting. Now we have the duty crews, our Chief and families carrying a boot. It is very cool.
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Some of those numbers that the big departments come up with are amazing!
On a size ratio, I'm very happy with our total. We have 54 Suppression personnel, compare that to our neigbors, Seattle, with 1000 and their total of $22K......and we do better then "not bad"
We did have some help this year, but it all works out well and we have seen an increase in money raised and participation every year.
One other note, it's pretty cool to have our Chief out carrying a sign and boot!
On a size ratio, I'm very happy with our total. We have 54 Suppression personnel, compare that to our neigbors, Seattle, with 1000 and their total of $22K......and we do better then "not bad"
We did have some help this year, but it all works out well and we have seen an increase in money raised and participation every year.
One other note, it's pretty cool to have our Chief out carrying a sign and boot!
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From: Ranger, GA
i haven't thought about it but i guess ours should be coming up pretty soon. we have a deal worked out with the local wal marts where we can setup shop in front of the store. all stations and shifts rotate on duty toting the boot. we normally do 2 hr rotations. i can't remember how much we raised last year.
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From: Ranger, GA
how bout this screwed up call. this right here proves how careful we have to be nowaday's when we are responding to anything.
I'm on the ladder today and we respond to all structure fires in the city. well around 6 today we're dispatched to a possible structure fire a lady can hear popping in her attic and she can't get her handy capped son out. so we start that way and when dispatch does her call back the first due company is pulling up to the house, so they walk all over each other on the radio and all we hear from e-6 is "laying in the yard." our batt. chief asks him to repeat his transmission and it takes him a second and he says that this is a shooting and a man has just walked out of the house with a gun. so we're all thinking this is some kind of setup for us. we show up and get blasted. since there were no cops on the scene yet they backed out real quick like and waited on the cops to get there and disarm him. there ended up being one obvious dead one and another one that was well on her way.
apparently the guy has had a nervous breakdown in the last few weeks and apparently he's went past nervous breakdown. we were told he had an ak-47 and a shotgun and was shooting at cars, houses, and anything else. well his neighbor came outside to see what was going on and the shooter blasted him and then went in his house and got the vic's wife too. when 6 got there they said he walked out of the house with a smile on his face.
it has amazed me in my short time with the FD (a lil over a year now) some of the crap we have run into. this just shows you how we have to be ready for anything.
by the way the popping that was heard in the attic was bullets ricocheting in the attic where the guy was shooting her house. she lived 2 houses down from the lunatic. the vic's lived next door.
I'm on the ladder today and we respond to all structure fires in the city. well around 6 today we're dispatched to a possible structure fire a lady can hear popping in her attic and she can't get her handy capped son out. so we start that way and when dispatch does her call back the first due company is pulling up to the house, so they walk all over each other on the radio and all we hear from e-6 is "laying in the yard." our batt. chief asks him to repeat his transmission and it takes him a second and he says that this is a shooting and a man has just walked out of the house with a gun. so we're all thinking this is some kind of setup for us. we show up and get blasted. since there were no cops on the scene yet they backed out real quick like and waited on the cops to get there and disarm him. there ended up being one obvious dead one and another one that was well on her way.
apparently the guy has had a nervous breakdown in the last few weeks and apparently he's went past nervous breakdown. we were told he had an ak-47 and a shotgun and was shooting at cars, houses, and anything else. well his neighbor came outside to see what was going on and the shooter blasted him and then went in his house and got the vic's wife too. when 6 got there they said he walked out of the house with a smile on his face.
it has amazed me in my short time with the FD (a lil over a year now) some of the crap we have run into. this just shows you how we have to be ready for anything.
by the way the popping that was heard in the attic was bullets ricocheting in the attic where the guy was shooting her house. she lived 2 houses down from the lunatic. the vic's lived next door.
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From: The Lonestar State
how bout this screwed up call. this right here proves how careful we have to be nowaday's when we are responding to anything.
I'm on the ladder today and we respond to all structure fires in the city. well around 6 today we're dispatched to a possible structure fire a lady can hear popping in her attic and she can't get her handy capped son out. so we start that way and when dispatch does her call back the first due company is pulling up to the house, so they walk all over each other on the radio and all we hear from e-6 is "laying in the yard." our batt. chief asks him to repeat his transmission and it takes him a second and he says that this is a shooting and a man has just walked out of the house with a gun. so we're all thinking this is some kind of setup for us. we show up and get blasted. since there were no cops on the scene yet they backed out real quick like and waited on the cops to get there and disarm him. there ended up being one obvious dead one and another one that was well on her way.
apparently the guy has had a nervous breakdown in the last few weeks and apparently he's went past nervous breakdown. we were told he had an ak-47 and a shotgun and was shooting at cars, houses, and anything else. well his neighbor came outside to see what was going on and the shooter blasted him and then went in his house and got the vic's wife too. when 6 got there they said he walked out of the house with a smile on his face.
it has amazed me in my short time with the FD (a lil over a year now) some of the crap we have run into. this just shows you how we have to be ready for anything.
by the way the popping that was heard in the attic was bullets ricocheting in the attic where the guy was shooting her house. she lived 2 houses down from the lunatic. the vic's lived next door.
I'm on the ladder today and we respond to all structure fires in the city. well around 6 today we're dispatched to a possible structure fire a lady can hear popping in her attic and she can't get her handy capped son out. so we start that way and when dispatch does her call back the first due company is pulling up to the house, so they walk all over each other on the radio and all we hear from e-6 is "laying in the yard." our batt. chief asks him to repeat his transmission and it takes him a second and he says that this is a shooting and a man has just walked out of the house with a gun. so we're all thinking this is some kind of setup for us. we show up and get blasted. since there were no cops on the scene yet they backed out real quick like and waited on the cops to get there and disarm him. there ended up being one obvious dead one and another one that was well on her way.
apparently the guy has had a nervous breakdown in the last few weeks and apparently he's went past nervous breakdown. we were told he had an ak-47 and a shotgun and was shooting at cars, houses, and anything else. well his neighbor came outside to see what was going on and the shooter blasted him and then went in his house and got the vic's wife too. when 6 got there they said he walked out of the house with a smile on his face.
it has amazed me in my short time with the FD (a lil over a year now) some of the crap we have run into. this just shows you how we have to be ready for anything.
by the way the popping that was heard in the attic was bullets ricocheting in the attic where the guy was shooting her house. she lived 2 houses down from the lunatic. the vic's lived next door.
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From: On my way to Hell... Need a lift?
About 12 or so years ago we had a pretty bad gang problem in Little Rock. I actually hid like a little girl on one side of the pump at a scene while there was a shoot out going on on the other side. Nothing like bullets whizzing by your head to get your attention. 
Turn-outs are flame and heat resistant, not bullet proof.
Britt
Turn-outs are flame and heat resistant, not bullet proof.Britt
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From: Piedmont, Oklahoma
We had an oil rig accident a couple of days ago. Something went wrong, we ended up transporting 1 by ground with a leg injury, 1 by air with leg and head wounds, and 1 was Sig 30 from massive head/chest trauma. Not a bad call for an all volunteer department. Been reading this forum and I think that paid and vols need each other. I'm the Asst. Chief of a small suburb of OKC and we work well with each other to overcome each other's weak areas. When we need a ladder we call them, when they need help with a grassfire, they call us. It works out great. We are very strict on our requirements and training, it weeds the ones out that don't belong. So do my guys, they are very proud of what they do and don't want some idiot screwing it up. Be safe out there.