With the respirators we have been issued by my ambulance company for this pandemic we all have Vader moments, especially when we get new filters. Also the ambulances all sound like they are manned by Pyros from Team Fortress 2.
The last piece of cake that grows smaller and smaller until it's to small to bother eating but yet never small enough to throw the container away. ..... it's an art form
and then there are those guys when you can barely hear them, or they mumble, "okay, and where's the scene?" "it's at akjflkrflrfu" "excuse me, what??" "it's ksrjgerui" "WHAT?" "urhlieruhwilru"
The worst are the guys that try to give orders over the radio while wearing the scba mask. Instead of putting the mic near the speaker for the mask, they just hold it up to their face away from the speaker so you can’t understand anything they say.
So that's what that is. I have seen a young man do that. Had a fanny pack on and they said "getting for the guys, chili tonight!" I knew Fire Fighter, did not know why. So it's your training, cool.
@@dbe_manny Ditto I'm fire-rescue and on our rigs we keep all the lights on and just hit the master. No point it turning them all off when there is a master
Retired for three years now, but if I'm watching a fireground video and someone's PASS device actives I will immediately "shake" and then wonder why it didn't reset. My wife (a dispatcher) will just look at me and laugh. ** Another great (and truthful) video Jason.
@@hansisbrucker813 Our SCBA's (self-contained breathing apparatuses) have a built-in PASS device (personal alert safety system) that becomes active when you open the air valve. If you stand still for too long, the PASS device will begin to sound a low volume alert indicating that it is about to go into full alarm mode (indicating a downed firefighter). To reset the PASS device you need to induce some body movement, hence a quick "shake" of the shoulders to reset the alarm. After 38 years in the fire service this has become an automatic reaction that still exists in retirement 🤣. Hope this explanation answers your question.
Some of my biggest pet peeves are with the radio. There's the 10 second "ummmmmm........." Without stepping off the mic. There's the person who keys up and takes a big breath in, like couldn't you have saved us all the time and done that before and not subjected to us to what sounds like a jet plane taking off in our ears.
I got one for you that I did once wasn’t in a fire truck it was in my helo, I had my radio on VOX and we went in for a gun run well let’s just say we all lost a bit of hearing after that moronic move lol
The radio bits also apply to military. We had the vaders, the overtalkers, the hot-mikers, the ummers, and the guy who felt the need to use the vehicle radio when he was close enough to just talk to us.
The last part about trying to tell Dispatch that you're on scene....1000% Spot on!! I laughed out loud at that....now everyone in church is looking at me. 🤷♂️
I just woke up my poor niece and nephew laughing! Trying to say you're on scene, back in service, etc it never fails that you get talked over. I hated that when I was an EMT. I did have to laugh at a few of our city officers who always talked over each other and would get so angry. If we saw them going to say something while we were on scene we'd quickly jump in... We had to lock ourselves in the rig after doing it to one officer 4-5 times in a row. He was a bit upset with us... It was worth it
I've never been a firefighter, I've never had any sort of training in the field, and I probably never will, but for some reason I'm watching these videos
@@hannahbanana3298 it's a movement Sensor so if you get hurt in a fire or stuck in a building and can't mi e your team get notified and can find you by the noise:)
@@valcalmets6233I tell people that it’s like a motion sensor, only backwards. And I remember in Firefighter I when we were doing burn drills, how one probie’s PASS device would start beeping and five or ten of us would all start shaking and wiggling at once because some companies had Scott units and others had MSA’s, and the different SCBAs had different sounds on the alarms. And doing fire prevention demos was always crazy with the SCBAs because those PASS devices going off are freaking _loud_ in an elementary school cafeteria! And when we took them off and forgot to turn them off, we’d know it pretty fast!
I just wanted to say I love your channel. It’s awesome! But also, it makes me think of my dad, who was a 20 year paramedic. He passed last August after medical complications from a stroke. Thank you for all that you do.
I was at my county's volunteer academy, and my chief came up to one of the other departments to do a demonstration, and I said "Hey Chief" and he says "How's it going, shake your back" as my PAS device starts to get louder while I'm oblivious to it at the time.
all spot on! especially "the dance." always funny to watch the truckies on the roof...you could almost set your watch by em. one by one, lil shake here, lil shake there...probies were always mad fun to watch, and then hassle later.
I’m currently going to school to become a firefighter & after watching this, I seriously can’t wait to serve my community & make these types of memories with my crew mates.
Your killing me Smalls!!! LMAO then there is always the BE ADVISED guy. We had a captain who had to place a dollar in a jar every time he said "BE ADVISED". We bought a new grill in a month.
I love your videos please keep on making them please it makes me laugh and smile when I'm down thank you so very much love you guys please be safe out there God bless
If you really want to piss off you colleges, you can pressurize the BA set slowly enough for the low-air bell or the whistle to go off and keep going until the needle on the gauge is no longer in a low-air sector.
Study math and science, you'll need it for foam ratios and more! It's hard work but very rewarding for those with the heart for it. Good luck and Godspeed Caleb! Check into your local FD's for any chance to be an Explorer or just hang out and learn, my tiny VFD had kids come up all the time and we'd always spend time showing them the station, trucks, etc.
Every time we do out truck checks we do the SCBAs at the same time and no one takes them out of the truck and every single time one of them will go off and nobody thinks theirs is going off.
I’m only 22... did some training in college as a volunteer in Alabama to be a volunteer.. I’ve always been so amazed at the lifestyle .. and the first time i used the jaws of life? Omg orgasmic
Yeah, when there was a fire on the roof, and u calmly wath "dismounting" this roof from doorway leading to the building, but u still have your pack on so u shake like every 30 sec xD
"You know what forget it" *says to who ever is listening in the Universe without keying the radio "we're on scene" *mic drop* hardest i've laughed in a long time hahaahahhaha! thank you for your content man! helping me keep my chin up!
'Dispa...' *interrupted* 'you know what, screw it, we are on scene' OMG I felt that. In my volunteer department we were training with multiple trucks and communicated with the station. The radio was set up to the training channel and to scan alarm channel so we could hear if an alarm came. Every time I tried to call the other truck or station, dispatch started to talk to other departments trucks. Eventually I got to call 'en route' about half way to the training spot.
Dead man alarm is the best and worst thing for a firefighter xD just when you get in a good posisition with the hose it will start and you have to shake your hole dammm body XD
screw it were on scene hahah I had that happen in Jan and got super pissed when I did give up the other guy when clearing up said "you gonna call clear?"
