Having worked in 9-1-1 comm center, it can totally happen! All it takes is accidentally touching the wrong button and it is TOO late.. Fire dispatch takes priority over fixing an oops, so gotta say, enjoy the rush and get the next one.
Same here...woke up two stations in the middle of the night, only one was on the call. Canceled the incorrect dispatch and waited for the phone to ring...but it didn't. I hope they got back to sleep.
@@chandlerwood3833 Well good, the lost of life and property is never really a good thing to get excited about. I was bored in the comm center I worked in, wished to have anything happen, even just my phone to ring... next call was a house fire where a child was killed.
@@Duster911 I hate to see people's stuff burn up yet at the same time I'm out of practice at a core part of the job. You best belive my volunteer department has caught fires left and right. Only when I'm at work tho
It's very confusing when the same outdoor siren is used for fire call-out, tornado's, air-raids, and civil defense. It's hard to know if one should hide, run, jump, dive, or kiss their butt goodbye.
I worked at a historic tour railway and the firehouse was right next to us. They would sound off the outdoor siren to call the local firefighters to the house. The town that I was in was very small and the town was surrounded by large acres of farms and farm land. It did scare me a few times when it happened. Thinking the same way. Should I duck for cover or something?
A steady tone generally is what's used in peacetime situations iirc, and has historically carried the meaning of "check your local news source". An attack warning is the only one allowed to wail the siren up and down and up again.
I honestly don’t see why people get so shy like we wanna stare at their shit lol like it’s more noticeable for me cause I gotta big ass bludge and i just change like a normal person while others are going into stalls and shit lol
Once, our tones went out about 20 times in a row with no voice notification. I never found out what happened, but it sounded like someone was banging the dispatcher on the panel!
No the worst is when you get called for a dwelling fire at 2am and it turns out that someone decided to make popcorn and burn some, this setting off their fire alarm.
@@Firefuzz11 lol..right. A few winters ago we were dispatched, in the middle of the night of course, for the pool house on fire at one of our local city parks. It was one of those bitter cold nights where the snow was a fine powder. Turns out that what the caller thought were flames and smoke was just the wind blowing the "powder" like snow around in the orange glow of the street light
Just false alarms at 2 am in general 😂 not as bad as a volley because we get a little more time to have the adrenaline wear off but still a bitch to go back to sleep. Can't imagine how much of a pain it must be for the career folk.
@@Firefuzz11 Nope, one better… You’re dispatched to 123 Main St for the structure fire and as you’re rolling up, dispatch tells you that it’s 123 Main St in a totally different jurisdiction on the other side of the County and nowhere NEAR your area. THOSE suck more than anything!!! Makes ya wonder what questions are being asked sometimes when people call 911!…
Town I grew up in had two timers for the siren, one would suspend the automatic mechanical phone and the other would howl for noontime. The suspend timer broke one day and screwed up 12 lunches.
The closest association I have to this was getting a Cease Fire called while working as a RSO (for those not in the firearms sphere this is NEVER a good thing) only to rush down to where it was started to find out a young kid had seen a deer passing along the brush line and was afraid it might run across and get shot.
@@MrKachannie If you've ever lived through say a Tornado warning for the area you live (like it should hit YOUR town not somewhere near) or any other natural disaster it's a pretty similar adrenaline response. To be clear a Cease Fire on a gun range generally means One of Three things has occurred: 1. There is an object down range of the Firing Line (a physical line/barrier where shooters MUST step up to in order to fire their guns) that should not be, IE. people, animals, vehicles, etc. 2. A person has been Injured while shooting, this is an emergency situation and as such ALL shooting should Cease to avoid splitting the RSO's attention between helping the wounded and also managing the range. 3. Some form of Emergency has occurred that has made the range unsafe, IE. Weather, the actions of a shooter on the range, the two above mentioned reasons, and many many more that aren't worth listing. All three of these main reasons are VERY dangerous on a range where you have live ammunition in real firearms in the hands of people, this is why a Cease Fire rule exists, NRA regulations state a Cease Fire MUST involve the unloading of every firearm and tabling of every firearm IMMEADIATELY, there are NO exceptions to this rule and people found to be breaking it can (depending on range rules and location) actually be charged with a Felony if they aren't careful. It's a very nervewracking situation no matter how well trained you are or how long you've been doing the job and so while the kid DID make the right call obviously it had me more than a bit on edge the rest of the day.
When they announce the units that were assigned to the car, their unit, engine 23, was not listed over the radio. So they weren’t actually assigned to the call that was being made
@@kuiper921 as far as dispatch end, most areas now have buttons to click to "tone" each department. These guys would have got the original message, "fire" "Medical" but their specific audio tone went off. While clustering for a rig, dispatch confirmed who was needed at that time. It was not them
They did that a few days ago here in Berks County PA. Strausstown and Shartlesville got called out because the dispatcher got the township instead of the town. The call was in Hamburg Borough, and so Hamburg and Shoemakersville got called immediately after and Strauss and Shartle was recalled just after the dispatcher corrected with calling out the right companies.
Had one happen in Shreveport La years ago a friend of mine was working B shift and they called for a house a fire well the issue was there station was 30 minutes form where the fire was at they called them over the pavers they left the station when they arrived and said engine 2 is on scene the Chief came and said what are y’all doing here we didn’t respond y’all.
Most 911 dispatch centers have a list of stations that automatically appear on the computer screen when they receive a dispatch and all they have to do is click one thing and it sends out the tones for a specific type of call.
Happened just this morning at 6am "Oh...no problem....I pissed the bed when the tones went off....so I had to get up anyway" I think dispatch figures if they're awake on a Sunday morning....we should be too
@@TxEMTEthan well it really depends. Ive seen some that have racks with all their names on them with they equipment. I guess it really just is a person thing.
Nah, it will cancel/reset everything that has been activated. So , just ride it out and listen to that House sireen. It doesn't happen too often. What they should have done was,announced on the dispatch channel for this company and it's responders to disregard the fire alerts.
@@fmartinjr I couldn't understand it partly the acoustics, the quality of the video sound or maybe troubles with my hearing. It sounded like the verbal alarm was repeated rather than canceling the call. The bottom line here is that from a layperson in firefighting, it's easy to misunderstand what was being said. I wondered why everyone was just standing there and not getting ready to move on the call. LOL
The loud air raid siren you hear in the background is the fire department's Station Siren , it's job is to alert volunteer firefighters to get to the station to run a call.
@@fmartinjr most modern CAD systems can create ad hoc pager lists based off the units being dispatched to a call, and push the list to the encoder. In the center I worked in in the early 2000s, the only time we "pushed the buttons" on the paging encoder was if the CAD system was partially or fully down.
Who's the clown that would ask a question like that? Maybe he's the engineer. Maybe he's the IC. All these clueless non-firefighting know-it-alls making comments.
@@ffemtx4 LOL!! That’s a good one. Yep. I’m a non fire anything. Only been been “fighting what you fear” long before you were even thought of. Long before your favorite place to fight a fire is from “ hitting it hard from the yard”. geesh, ketchup d**ks glad we got jolly vollies so the career guys can have a good laugh from time to time.
@@dannermanner5506 "...long before you were even thought of." You must be a gem to be on the job with. With all your assumptive, negativity. BTW...Been eating smoke since 1989. L.U. #2. I'm going to sound like you for a moment and guess YOU weren't even "thought of" at that time.
@@ffemtx4 how bout since ‘79. And I’m betting you’re the guy who runs to HR cause you got you’re feeling hurt. The reason that pranks are no long tolerable in your department. You’re the type that don’t belong in the service. So, go on and complain. See how well you be accepted at the table of hard knocks.
sooo, im somewhat confused. is this like a half staff half volly department, or was there inclement weather, because ive never heard of a fire sire for a paid department
@@turtles02 yeah, I know that, that’s why I’m asking. There were men there before the tone, suggesting a paid department, or at least staffed, yet the siren going off after the tones suggest a volly department. There are some departments though that are half staffed with paid AND volly, didn’t know if this was one of those
@@Thatweirduncle A lot of the Stations where we are have alarms that sound outside after the tones especially in busy areas. They along with flashing lights warn traffic and pedestrians that emergency equipment is about to deploy from the station and to keep clear. Quieter than the ones used to summon Vollies, they can still be heard a good 100m away
@@k1mat I’ve seen warning lights and speakers for the tones to go off outside, but never of sirens, though that’s a good idea, makes sense to let people know, and a siren like that is definitely an effective way to do so
Yeah sucks when your getting paid to sleep . And the call to go to work turns out to be a false alarm. And you get to go back to sleep. Waaa.... Waaa...Waaa....
Nah Joe,this is a mixed crew house. Full time, part time, Volunteers coming from home, active Volunteers that live in quarters. The jawn that was closest to me is Volunteering at this house.
seriously how slow can they go..... like dude stop texting on you phone. what a joke..... No wonder they realized it wasn't legit before they mounted up. All milling about disheveled looking clueless
@@ffemtx4 all I’m wondering is what made the dude filming decide he wanted to film. Seemed like he was just filming everyone for fun then it turned into a fake call lmao…
Or most likely what really happened was they heard their tones and siren but not their station or unit numbers on the dispatch, the dude texting was looking on the fire dispatch app to see if he could find the call on his phone to see what it was. I used to do this when I was an officer to get the address and whatever details about said call.
@@darrylking2500 so put the helmet on first then pull the hood over it? Spoken like a true vollie! Sorry it took me so long to respond but I was working my day shift