Oh god, not the gas station sandwiches! 😱 (They are actually the reason, I now keep what my mates refer to as "The Diabetes Box" on the rig during all my shifts. Some snacks, some pieces of fruit, a home made sandwich, etc. - enough to get you through the day if need be, if not all that healthy or appealing. I had a few to many fire standbys or back-to-back long haul transfers to risk not having my nom *on the rig* and within reaching distance from the passenger seat.)
as someone who has eaten many of those sandwiches, i am offended... they are delicous... kinda... if theyre heated up and you have mustard and maybe some mayonnaise ... and you have a couple minutes to wait around for this to become reality....
I absolutely love this one. So true it hurts. I constantly get asked by partners “I thought you were a vegetarian? Why are you eating meat?” Because yes.. that’s why. Now please let me eat because there’s a 500 pound man that knows we have food and is feeling frisky enough to fall in between the toilet and his bathroom sink.
My management wouldn't give me a piece of pizza if I was starving to death in front of them. Other jobs get Christmas bonuses, we get reminded that overtime is mandatory even on Christmas.
@@ratsumatra3003 One of my old agencies I used to work for recently actually bought there new ambulance with a mini fridge installed in the side compartment. Maybe they're on to something.
Was working (EMT) on my birthday, had plans to go to the local ice cream shop and we get a call for an unresponsive, not breathing pt. Head out and halfway there, (about 8 miles into the trip), we got cancelled due to ... (well, figure it out) and my medic partner was like "Yay! Ice cream!" I looked at her, and she was like, "oh.." and then we went and got ice cream.
"A bag of chips and a candy bar is the only thing stopping you from living out your ultimate fantasy of finding out how flammable that boo-boo bus really is." - this broke me. Thank you for the quality content.
“I even watched a guy nebulize a soda one time” Sometimes, you learn something so cursed it makes Dark Souls boss theme start playing in your head. This is one of those times.
@@xCorvus7x No problem. A nebulizer is a machine for folks with respiratory issues (asthma is probably the most common) that turns some form of liquid medicine into a breathable mist. Beyond what a clearly-terrible idea it is to breathe soda, a lesser (but still noteworthy) concern is what it does to the machine. Nebulizer's don't boil the liquid to turn it into vapor, so anything that starts growing due to leftover soda is going to get express-delivery to the next user's lungs.
My high school has had 15 false fire alarms in the last 2 months. Fire department responded every time, and treated it as if it were real each and every time, at least from what I can tell by listening to fire dept. comms on my scanner. I think a sketch showing the first-responder POV on "The 4th alarm call to the same place today?" would be hillarious.
see, in my school, people lit bathroom trashcans on fire instead of just pulling the alarm. not just mine, but others in my region, too. ig kids are just extra here???
In the 1970's and 80's my father was the firehouse cook. After long, cold calls in the winter he would heat soup as the guys were cleaning up afterwards. He said cooking for firemen was basically taking any recipe and multiplying the meat by 2 to 3 times. At one time the captain called him into the office and asked him to cook more healthy options because he was making the guys too fat.
I made the mistake early in my career of trying to make a meal without meat. My officer noticed there was no meat and said to the DC, "we're going to the store as the rookie forgot the meat for the pasta dish🙄"... The DC agreed. The DC was simple man to please for food: meat, starch and a veg. Don't forget the ice cream.
Yep when I came on the Dept they said the average life expectancy after retirement was 5 years. My best friend made it 3 years. So far I have blown WAY past the stats I am already past 25 years after retirement.
Hey, we nurses have a pretty similar diet. You can only replace the point "meat, MORE meat" with "anything that can be prepared and gobbled up in less than 10 minutes" 😁
@@navfree1729 hospital a controlled environment? Um... not in my country, really. That's why many nurses leave the hospitals. I can remember many shifts where I didn't even have time to drink; which is good, because I wouldn't have had time to go to the toilet either. I have seen colleagues who collapsed during the shift because they urgently needed something to eat or drink but just didn't have time for it. A 30-minute break is actually mandatory for us, but often not possible. It is normal that the first opportunity to eat and drink is when the shift is handed over to the next shift.
Woo! Diet plan here I come! Never had one that requires funeral planning as part of the steps, but there's a first time for everything right?! Eat your heart out, Fen-Phen! Oh, wait...
When my father retired from the Fire Dept. he lost so much weight. He went to try on his class A's for a memorial service 5 years later and he looked like a little kid playing dress up lol. He actually went to the firehouse to mess with the Chief and asked for an application on how he can join and got a good laugh out of it. They bought him a new set lol.
This reminds me of how I was a total health nut…before I became a volunteer firefighter. It’s amazing how quickly after finishing Firefighter I that you realize you’re inhaling a cheeseburger off the rehab unit for BREAKFAST at a fire scene and that the idea doesn’t bother you one bit! And the ibuprofen-you need to pop that stuff ASAP after a working fire or major medic call or you’re gonna be moving like Igor with a hangover for days afterwards!
@@SarafinaSummers Considering that ibuprofen works best when taken with a meal/snack chaser, that goes without saying! But I do thank you for your concern regardless. Stay safe and have a great weekend!
Watching this as I'm scarfing down a "fully loaded croissanwich" from BK, after getting off shift and hitting the gym. I literally looked down at my food and went, "Hm. He's right. Cool." Nomnomnom.
There was an episode of Emergency, where Chet Kelly, played by Tim Donnelly, RIP, tried to get the guys at the station to eat healthy. He was trying to get them to eat Wheat Germ and Alfalfa. Finally Gage and DeSoto had to get Dr. Morton to come to the station and tell Chet that firefighters need to eat a lot of protein to do their jobs.
And then at the end of the episode, Chet made barbecue steaks; using his leftover health supplements to make the sauce. The guys backed him into a corner and forced that crap down his throat.
0:21 Bold of you to assume they actually had health in mind when making the food pyramid, and didn't literally decide order of importance by which food group's lobbies paid the most.
My Brother in Law is in EMS and there's a hospital close to where I live so I get to see him from time to time if he takes a transfer there. Theres a couple of restaurants nearby so I like to go get him and his partner some food when they're close so I can take it to them while they refuel for the trip back. Nice chance to catch up for a few min and like being able to get them something tastier than whatever's at the gas station.
We heed more people like you! My husband is a Critical Care Technician in a Level 2 ER and he never gets lunch (even though he packs his lunch, he is still unable to eat it) What you do does help tremendously wjen EMS is on the streets! Thank you ☺
Two words….BED DELAY. Our main hospital we transport to is in the down town area. A lot of the restaurants will deliver there for us. Always a welcome delay. And personally, I hate bed delay most the time.
Ranger Pudding works better: (Military Version) Ingredients are 1 hot cocoa packet, then dump some Folger's coffee chunks ( oops I mean crystals my bad ) to taste or until personal tolerance is reached and Then add a ton of sugar with a lil bit of the good ole "hotish" (something approximating hot water) H20 so you can stir the slurry. By all means , add a second packet of hot cocoa if your mix looks off or it is indeed "too watery" to get that nice firm perfect "brown town" look / feel with it. Use the spoon that you used in stirring process to shovel the slurry into your face hole since it's usually located in the appropriate face hole at the time, not that one! The one with all the teeth (hopefully). And my personal touch? I add Jolly Ranchers which I always keep in my medic bag so they soften up in the "water". Congratulations, you've just made your very first gut destroying Ranger Pudding, which will keep you up for hours (one way or the other) plus now you'll be able to never fall asleep again. So Have fun with it, paint a room while the kids are sleeping (no problem) or maybe you can even beat that boss level that the kids kept you from doing the other day! Maybe prank the wife as she wakes up! Cause who needs sleep right?
@@thehappydragon9491 (Two Thumbs Up) Good choice Sir or Madam, I hereby wish you luck with the "coffee farts". A little tip though? If your farts do not knock a maggot off a gut wagon (when, or more likely, If you can do so), then your mix is off and needs to be corrected. Let me know how your "experiment" goes in a civilized setting because I'm looking forward to the data since I already have the data for all the uncivilized ones. Should be interesting. And Yes it IS Normal to Hallucinate on the Third or Fourth Consecutive Day without sleep, so by all means have fun with that too. It's your brains way of going "are you even listening to me?!!!"
@@warsprite1888 Lol. I'll let you know Monday night how it went. I think my roommate even has some of that horrible powdered espresso I can add to it. Cheers!
I've been out since July due to an OTJ injury and figured I'd spend this time to figure out how to eat healthier when I get back. Than I watch this video. I was then reaching for a bottle of ibuprofen literally as Jason mentioned it. All hope is gone.
At my old department it was pie and ice cream at the top of the cart. One FF once very carefully cut the bottom out of A shifts ice cream carton, ate half of it. Then carefully refilled it with cold water until it froze, then put the bottom back on it. Thus appearing to still be full of Ice cream.
Burritos, chips, Gatorade, coffee(for the old men), energy drinks... Snickers... You don't want fiber... Can't leave the station pinching off a fence post... Ibuprofen killed my stomach and liver.
In the near future with how bad municipalities are messing with the budgets, I fully expect ambulances and fire trucks to have sponsored livery akin to NASCAR. *Radio Screech* "NESTLÉ EMS 24, Pfizer EMS 18, Goodwrench Engine 62, please respond..."
@@slumbynature4557 LMAO!!! I want mine sponsored by the local mortuary! Miller Memorial Medic 666 respond to priority 1 traffic address…. Cardiac arrest. No CPR in progress, unk down time, poss 1144, stage…scene is not code 4.
This man speaks the truth, my father did 30 years as an engineer and this was more or less the routine. You also eat about 2.6 times faster than everyone else because inevitably a call will come in.
Damn. This is so true. I've spent plenty of time at the firehall with my dad and therefore I've shared plenty of meals with him and the others. We've eaten some pretty weird stuff and they've mixed so much stuff to create one thing. So half the time I didn't know what I was eating. All I knew was it all looked good, smelled good, and I was hungry so I ate it without questioning it. 3 quarters of the time it was good. The other quarter not so much. I was too hungry to care though and ate it along with my dad and everyone. else.
Thank you EMS for helping ER nurses get through our shift. If it wasn't for your ems snack/break room, there'd be many of us that wouldn't survive. We love our EMS!
Hahaha ending part had me crying with hysterical cynical laughter... Someone at my dept made a flowchart to show how long our guys lived after they retired....on average 6months...to just shy of 3ish years....glad to see the FD is the same as the PD
When I broke my ankle pretty much all I was eating was high protein so eggs ,tuna ,chicken ,sausages etc surgeon said 6 months to a year to heal I was up and walking and out of my cast in 3 months flat also lost like 30lbs by cutting our carbohydrates and sugar . I’m conflicted because I normally just eat grains fruit and vegetables legumes etc it had been years since I touched animal protein at all but I can’t argue with the results .
@@Feroce nah I can’t be that restrictive with it because of the very real threat of losing my gallbladder it’s genetic my grandfather father and older sister already lost theirs :( so I’ve gone back to eating my usual fruits and vegetables and stuffs
I knew a guy who would down Instant Glucose for the energy spike so he could study for his Pharmacology section in medic school. (20 years later he is now a diabetic... who could have seen that coming.)
ROFL! Don't leave us night shift nurses out of that glorious food pyramid! I just found your channel and I had to sub! I'm medically retired now--but oh how true to life your stuff is! And I totally get your humour! I only get to talk about the "good ol days" with hubby now (also a retired nurse). So much joy and laughter from watching your stuff tonight! Please please keep it up!
This is why I always thank firefighters, paramedics, police officers, nurses, and doctors, for their service, whenever I encounter them. That, and the fact that I would not have lived to see puberty, if it weren't for them.
Or the non meatheads who are developing tremors from all the caffeine and simple carbs but don’t have any time for anything meat based and desperately need some protein to help stave off a total metabolic melt down.
@@QemeH You have warming cabinets?? We couldn’t even dream of such things in my day, even for their intended purpose. Nothing like hitting a critically ill patient with a bag of half-frozen fluid on a cold winter’s day.
My daughter/partner and I always claimed that we could not go to nice restaurants after the first few months in EMS. We ate so fast we could make sparks fly from plastic silverware and tended to discuss decapitations over dinner.
I wish I was friends with a few first responders, so when I was bored I'd just cook a big ass meal and give it to them. Like Goulash, or Shepard's pie. Think they'd appreciate free hearty food
@@layna-heyhey ~ Nah. Just tell 'em you wanted to do something nice for them. It'll be appreciated. If you're really not sure call first (non-emergency of course lol), and tell 'em what you'd like to do and ask if that's okay. They'll most likely say you don't have too, but if you want to that's fine and appreciated.
My grandfather was a fireman for almost thirty years after coming home from WWII. He got a decent pension and retired at 52. Lived another 43 years. Whatever that career did to him, it didn't involve an early heart attack, and even kept him healthy through a serious bout of alcoholism that he finally fought his way out of.
@@TheAlison1456 Possibly. If you think about the original study on survivor bias from planes shot down in WWII, the lesson learned there was not to ask the question, "Why do we keep getting shot in these areas" but instead, "Why do these planes survive?" That's the question I'm asking with my (admittedly) small sample here.
"diabetes causing yum yums" "And Ibuprofen is the cherry on top of this pyramid of inevitable cardiac arrest" CRACKS ME LIKE NO OTHER X"D HAHAAHHAAH OMGGGG
Damn, I really wanna give him a hug right now... It makes me sad to think of how overworked these guys are but they're somehow still so nice at the same time...
So... after this video I sure as hell gonna carry a pack of honey peanuts and a snicker bar or two with me. It's not for me, if something happens and first responder comes, it's for him. I won't know if I live, but I'mma gonna get that best treatment with 'em snacks
@@AB_Evans I won't have offence while having seizure... but I'll be defending with pockets full of snack and getting diabetic treatment for cardial arrest XD XD XD
When I had an elderly friend living with me, I had EMTs visit on a regular basis for one medical emergency after another. I always had sack lunches made up with sandwiches, fruit and home made cookies and to go drinks for the EMTs ready to go as I figured they were probably getting hungry by 3 am. I figured they should get something tasty for their trouble.
I'm laughing because we got called to a safeway for a guy destroying it and assaulting staff. Once he was tackled and cuffed we look up and there was the fire department with ice cream they were buying in their hands.
Don't forget that if you do cook, you're starting with ingredients that are all the temperature of the grocery store produce cooler because of that call you got just as you reached the checkout.
As a food service/deli worker, that looks just like my own food pyramid. Lol Some parts of the explanation also feels very familiar 🤣 Not as extreme though, of course
Thank you guys for what you do I used to do bailers in memory care and thats only 16 hours in a shift so you guys are monsters though I did used to enjoy the drunk feeling you got after the weekend was over kinda like your brain was picking up static lol would pick up breakfast at the bakery next door to my apartment and serenade my cats with songs of how I loved them while they napped peacefully in my lap and we drifted off together eventually waking up enough to drag myself to bed
B.REASON 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 MY EMTs. ... They've saved me many times.. While we laughed together in the ambulance trying to get me to open heart surgery !!! We were all so giddy because of lack of sleep.. !!! We had a great time of sarcasm and laughter that even the surgeon couldn't believe I was the patient.. Not the right age.... Not obese... And laughing as we made it through the emergency doors... What a night 😂😂😂 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 MY EMTs !!!!!
My great uncle Henry who im grateful for taking me in and becoming my guardian was fire and rescue and did counsel on aging did fire and rescue. At 16 he had more energy than me at like 60+. My cousin, his daughter did something in emergency was the reason i was helped. Ever since then ive had huge respect for people who do the job. I love watching these because it reminds me of them ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Now stop making all the firefighters jealous because I noticed your evil grin when you told them, that's just mean, cause not everybody has an instant caffeine IV hookup in their rig. Bad Buck! And how did you get the city comptroller of all your money to let you sport a mini mini fridge? Did it involve blackmail? We want to know!
Going from call back to post up west broadway, I decided I wanted lunch. so I pulled out my bag, poured the BBQ sauce on the sandwich and ate it. along with the salad. My partner from the passenger seat: "uh bro you want i can drive you know"
Went to visit my niece in KY a few years ago. She lives on the edge of downtown, where there's a fire department right down the street from her house. I decided to take a little stroll one evening to check out the town. As i was approaching the fire department, i saw a small herd of firemen walking in the general direction i was headed in. I was taking my time, checking things out in a touristy kind of way, so the firemen out-distanced me pretty quickly. I had just made it into town when I noticed the firemen again, headed back to the fire station, all with ice cream cones and cups they'd just gotten at the little creamery on the corner.
It's the nights that do it! I was fine while taking only day shifts for about 6 months, even lost some weight!! but the moment I started doing nights again, it's the 3 am candybar, the 5 am caffeine reload number 10, and every other shift it's the birthday cake for someone!! I swear I wasn't a diabetic before coming to the er, I sure as hell would be one now.
God dang.....honestly...hospital truck drivers have been the most awesome charactered people I met....their charisma and character felt like I met a famous person...no lie. Idk maybe it was just the one that I was taken in when the covid vaccine wrecked my body terribly.
I never really realized how godly a burger in a small cardboard box is until think about in the context of a giant muscleman picking it up and cramming it into their face as they run screaming through a fire station.
My uncle was a fireman for years and worked a lot at the Headquarters station just 4 houses down from my house. I lived in a small town, so we had Headquarters and two small stations people would rotate to. When they fired up their grill, the whole neighborhood could smell the good food they were grilling. I used to bake dozens of cookies for them and also grill brats, burgers, hot dogs, ribs and pork burgers for them. They loved it and it was a payback for a job well done! I eventually got used to hearing the sirens go off all the time. Also, for bringing home my dog that was an escape artist from my fenced-in backyard. My dog would go there every time! I guess he followed the food smell. One year, my 10 cousins and aunts and uncles went there to sing Christmas carols since my uncle was working. They all thanked us.
All food needs are met at the 7-Eleven and CEFCO. Sour cream and onion chips, cheddar and sour cream chips, all beef hotdogs on the roller thing… And a Coke that comes in a size cup you could use to soak your feet if you had enough leisure to get a foot soak. Oh yeah. And candy. Don’t. Forget. The. CANDY!
after my last paycheck went bust, I didn’t sleep for a good 132 hours and I can tell you from what very little I ate, this sums it up almost shockingly. But then I remembered oh wait, no he has a point,
@@firestorm165 no clue, started last Tuesday night/Wednesday morning and it kept going till early yesterday. Sure I got sleep but back to it today. I also drank a half gallon of jungle juice from the halloween party and I also didn't get drink or die, though my liver and heart must hate me
The Food pyramid of myself and my fellow staff at our small zoo. The base: Water. You better have a strong bladder because it's this or stomach acid fighting you for the next few hours and there's no way you've got time for a bathroom break. Tier 2: Snacks. Much like firefighters, we have a tendency to hoarde little snacks in places, especially HQ, so that if we have a spare second we can sit down and cram some oreos or gummies down our throats. Tier 3: Leftovers. What's for lunch? Well if you have the time to shove it down your gullet then whatever you cooked for dinner last night unless you managed to find the willpower to make a sandwich. The Top: To the tune of hallelujah: IIIII-BU-PROFEN. IIII-BU-PROFEN. IBUPROFEN. IBUPROFEN. I-BUUU-PRO-FEN~ and the occasional muffin that the founder will bring in for us What're your food pyramids folks?
@@mrbigsmile3902 Pain killer for us. Probably for them too. I mean really if you were hauling around 300+ pound patients and god knows whatelse your back would be f-u-c-k-e-d FUCKED.
Veterinary medicine, especially overnight emergency vet med: The base: Water, coffee, energy drinks; anything to keep you awake and going. But not too much as you may not be able to use the bathroom for a bit. Tier 2: Candy or whatever fits in your pockets or tool pouch. There's no food on the floor and you may not have quick access to the breakroom, so no place to hide snacks. Tier 3: Lunch? On a good night you get to clock out and eat. But make it simple and quick in case you get called back on the floor. Most nights you eat whatever you can shovel in your mouth on a ten minute break. Usually something leftover from the previous shift that you hope won't give you food poisoning. The Top: Pain medication. Keeps you going when you can't feel your feet at the end of a shift and your back is seizing up to the point that you aren't sure you'll be able to get back up once you sit down.
Not a firefighter but the local station comes to my store to get food frequently. They always seem to eat healthy. They're always getting fresh meat, vegetables, milk and eggs. I'll see some frozen stuff come through too.
As a person who works for a newspaper, that ice cream rule is also true is also for me. That or cake. Cake is the easiest. Also, our sports editor said the "sports reporter dinner" was a can of Coke and a pack of Pop Tarts. Easy to carry, easy to eat, always in the vending machines in the breakroom.
I remember growing up riding with my dad on his way to work and he would always stop in the morning and get a dr.pepper and some form of candy on the way. I guess he was just getting a head start. He lived off dr.pepper I never saw him drink anything else he only carries water in his bag for the search dogs.
Well, at the grocery store I work at two local fire departments regularly stop by just to buy food. It's even funnier when they both show up at the same time and see each other.
This is an excellent, truly an all-natural pyramids for any first responder. Maybe as footnote, adding two other items: 1) entertain the "customer" and 2) trying to study while doing all this.
