Ask a firemen

tonyeng4ine · 04-03-2007, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ssbb_lover

How Politically correct, damn ACLU.

I like how you put "Ask a firemen" (plural).

Anyways, here's some questions....

What was the most dangerous thing you've ever done, while on duty?

Do you have a Dalmatian?

What part do you do to help out? Or do you switch off jobs? (i.e. you only do hose duty; or you drive the truck one day, do the hose the next, go in the house and look for people, etc.....)

What color is your truck? (i've seen yellow fire trucks)

What do you discuss when your at the station waiting for the alarm to go off? Things that have to do with your job or how you saw a celebrity last Saturday? Do you separate into male and female groups when you discuss these things, or do you all group together? (I could see you separating, so the guys could talk about guy stuff and the women could chat about Brad Pitt or whatever)

Are the majority of Firewomen hot?

That's it for now.

The most dangerous thing that I can think of was me and my LT "most of the times its with him" went to a dwelling fire and at the time the hose line was in place but by the time we got inside we were kinda stuck behind a door and it was fire everywhere, and im laughing and screaming lol cause the hose wasnt charged "no flowing water or pressure" so that was scary almost fried

My station doesnt have a dalmation but we have a white pit bull with black spots lol we tell people that he ate the dalmation

Every tour of duty is different, its up to the officer during the roll call to tell us what job we each have when our shift starts.. that helps by cutting risk to people and having everyone know what to do.. Each firefighter will be assigned a specific duty it ranges from -

Search and Rescue - This is mainly the job of a truckie or truck company "Ladder" we go inside with no hose line havent it be established already or not and go and search for victims

Nozzleman or Knobman - your job is to go in behind the search team and keep the fire at bay and extingush it... put water on the fire basically

Irons - Your incharge of carrying the Axe/ hallagon tool or w.e "In a truck company every FF carrys these"

Most of the time im search and rescue or irons, we make the probies the knobmen so they can get experience

DONT EVER CALL A FIRE ENGINE A TRUCK infront of a Firefighter they will kill you...

Fire Trucks - Ladders, quints, Squirts, tiller's, Snorkle
Fire Engines - are the one's that can be a water supply and carry water
Trucks do not unless its a Quint, Squirt or Snorkle
FDNY Engines/trucks are Fire engine RED with triple Trim White and Darkish Yellow

Most of the time... like know for instance we all just seperate to our own lil corners in the house or hangout in the TV room... Right now im in my bunk room watching cartoons and playing on my laptop and Wii.. But most of the time were all together hanging out and playing jokes and pranks on eachother.. we dont have any female FF's here, we use to but she was promoted and re-assigned to another company.

In our station we have 1 Engine, 1 Truck "ladder" and a Special Response Unit which is a ford F-250 with a full Tool Storage package in the back for foam and other hazards.

AND YES Female Firefighters are HOTTTTT some of them I swear can be models.... My current GF is a Firefighter in Nj and she is smokin.....

tonyeng4ine · 04-03-2007, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Sovieto

do you agree ladder 49 was a truly cheesy movie?

No.... they truly did capture how our lives as firefighters are and how our loved ones have to deal with the lost of us..

ssbb_lover · 04-03-2007, 11:57 PM

Do you love sliding down that metal pole?

Does it get old after a while? I'm sure it's second-nature to you, but I would think it could still be fun with the adrenaline of the fire in you....

tonyeng4ine · 04-04-2007, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by ssbb_lover

Do you love sliding down that metal pole?

Does it get old after a while? I'm sure it's second-nature to you, but I would think it could still be fun with the adrenaline of the fire in you....

oh its pretty fun !! but its a bitch in a half to keep polished... Everyday we have to polish it or else imagine being burned on the way down lol..

Not that many stations still have a pole left in their quarters its a dying tradition. Plus it cost from what I hear about 35k per pole... Thats

a lil

My buddy whos down in Washington D.C. said they just replaced theres and paid 20k and still owe a lil bit on it lol lucky for him its not his budget but the entire department thats paying for it..

ssbb_lover · 04-04-2007, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by tonyeng4ine

oh its pretty fun !! but its a bitch in a half to keep polished... Everyday we have to polish it or else imagine being burned on the way down lol..

Not that many stations still have a pole left in their quarters its a dying tradition. Plus it cost from what I hear about 35k per pole... Thats

a lil

My buddy whos down in Washington D.C. said they just replaced theres and paid 20k and still owe a lil bit on it lol lucky for him its not his budget but the entire department thats paying for it..

What the heck is that thing made of? Nano-tube? (an indestructible material that is REAL).

tonyeng4ine · 04-04-2007, 12:10 AM

its just plain ole Brass.... and is a s.o.b to keep clean and shinny

ssbb_lover · 04-04-2007, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by tonyeng4ine

its just plain ole Brass.... and is a s.o.b to keep clean and shinny

Why the hell is it 30 grand?!?! Eternal warranty?

"Guaranteed to last...even after The Judgement!"

tonyeng4ine · 04-04-2007, 12:17 AM

Im not very sure but last time I asked that ques. they told me thats what the guys that work for the department and were suits are for...

But yea from what I do remember he buddy said 20k plus not sure why so much and I hope that you get a life time warranty lol

My station has 4 poles but only 2 are used since its a older station.. Newer stations dont even get a pole anymore.. just run down the stairs if your up in your room sleepin

ssbb_lover · 04-04-2007, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by tonyeng4ine

My station has 4 poles but only 2 are used since its a older station.. Newer stations dont even get a pole anymore.. just run down the stairs if your up in your room sleepin

I find poles much more handy....literally.

tonyeng4ine · 04-04-2007, 12:25 AM

hahahaha that reminds me of this one time..
My uncle is the chief of department for Alantic City International Airport in Nj and one night I came to visit and hang out and they had a call for a plane with heavy fumes, and they just finished having dinner and everyone was laughing their asses off from my uncle making jokes..

so as they all went down the pole the 1st guy didnt wash his hands and the pole got really greasy and he went down and fell hard on his ass, before he knew it more and more people fell right on top of him lol

ssbb_lover · 04-04-2007, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by tonyeng4ine

hahahaha that reminds me of this one time..
My uncle is the chief of department for Alantic City International Airport in Nj and one night I came to visit and hang out and they had a call for a plane with heavy fumes, and they just finished having dinner and everyone was laughing their asses off from my uncle making jokes..

so as they all went down the pole the 1st guy didnt wash his hands and the pole got really greasy and he went down and fell hard on his ass, before he knew it more and more people fell right on top of him lol

That's hilarious!

I bet that would have been even funnier to see it happen live.

tonyeng4ine · 04-04-2007, 12:34 AM

You should see some of the pranks we pull on eachother...

One time we had this rookie that was too happy whenever we got a call running around like a chicken without a head.. so We knew after dinner he was a heavy sleeper but only would wake to the sounds or the alarms going off, so we picked up his rack with him in it and turned it around facing the wall..

now normally when the alarm goes off we all jump out of the rack and run to the pole or w.e.. well we made the alarm go off manually and he ran right into the wall at full speed thinkin it was a call. hahahaha that made him calm down a bit and slow his ass down...

ssbb_lover · 04-04-2007, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by tonyeng4ine

You should see some of the pranks we pull on eachother...

One time we had this rookie that was too happy whenever we got a call running around like a chicken without a head.. so We knew after dinner he was a heavy sleeper but only would wake to the sounds or the alarms going off, so we picked up his rack with him in it and turned it around facing the wall..

now normally when the alarm goes off we all jump out of the rack and run to the pole or w.e.. well we made the alarm go off manually and he ran right into the wall at full speed thinkin it was a call. hahahaha that made him calm down a bit and slow his ass down...

Dude, you gotta quit making me laugh! That's awesome!

I bet you have so many stories to tell, your hands would fall off before you wrote them all down.

tonyeng4ine · 04-04-2007, 12:49 AM

you have no idea.. when I got out of the fire academy I was asked if I remembered my ropes and knots training when i said yea they asked me to show them how to make a clove hitch with my eyes closed, thats when 6 more guys grabbed me and hogged tied me and left me outside with a sign " FDNY Probie 4 sale " sooo many people drove by laughing and walk pass.. but its a tradition and other fire houses are far worse

04-04-2007, 02:05 AM

ah ok i see how it is, more love for the firemen than the pathetic cop lmao this has made 2 pages already! its no 15 pages though

seriously i got ANOTHER question/scenario

heres the question first-

you ever go to the FD/PD fights? those boxing matches, hockey games, ect? there WAS a hockey game that i was suppost to go to and ive never been to one but i was a little hesitant- everyones PLASTERED buffed out in their off duty gear and it screamed trouble for me LMAO. ill give it a shot after i got some time on hahaha

and heres the scenario now-

how happy are you that 9-1-1 no longer has their dispatch send you "my cat is up the tree calls?" extreamly right? well not us lmao a lady pulls me and my partner litterally over on my precinct block and she askes us to help get her cat out of the near by tree. because im fairly tiny and my partner is rather uhm....huge, he hoisted me up and we got the friggen cat.....i was tempted to go to the firehouse for "help" but A) i didnt want to be laughed at and B) by the time i got there, the cat might of been confiscated and turned into "pork" in china town lmao

tonyeng4ine · 04-04-2007, 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by The_Loose_Cannon

ah ok i see how it is, more love for the firemen than the pathetic cop lmao this has made 2 pages already! its no 15 pages though

seriously i got ANOTHER question/scenario

heres the question first-

you ever go to the FD/PD fights? those boxing matches, hockey games, ect? there WAS a hockey game that i was suppost to go to and ive never been to one but i was a little hesitant- everyones PLASTERED buffed out in their off duty gear and it screamed trouble for me LMAO. ill give it a shot after i got some time on hahaha

and heres the scenario now-

how happy are you that 9-1-1 no longer has their dispatch send you "my cat is up the tree calls?" extreamly right? well not us lmao a lady pulls me and my partner litterally over on my precinct block and she askes us to help get her cat out of the near by tree. because im fairly tiny and my partner is rather uhm....huge, he hoisted me up and we got the friggen cat.....i was tempted to go to the firehouse for "help" but A) i didnt want to be laughed at and B) by the time i got there, the cat might of been confiscated and turned into "pork" in china town lmao

hahahah YES I have been to a hockey game and a couple of football games... the fights afterwards are always enjoyable to watch..

hahaha awww poor jilly, If you would have walked to that fire house not only would they have laughed at you the guys back at the precinct would have been like why the hell did you go to them for help now they never wont let that go lol... Plus if I was still on the job I would have been like hmm mam we just got a call, you need to call up 3-1-1 hahahahahah

OMG IM SOOO SOOO BORED, there is nothing to do here and most of the guys either feel asleep or watching movies.. =[ im stuck here for another whole day

Leirith · 04-04-2007, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by DRMARIO

Just a random Comment...
Over in England, we can't say 'fireman' or 'Policeman' .
Because it doesn't refer to women also...
Oh, and we can't say Hot cross bun anymore either. Because it refers to 'Christianity'.

LOL, damn it. What do you call them? Hot bun with perpendicular intersecting lines?