Firefighter Thread or (EMT/PD/LEO/Nurse/Paramedic) roll call!

New volunteer FF here at a small rural FD in South Carolina. I've only gone through support class, Recruit training isn't until September. In the meantime, I'm attending meetings and signing off my support tasks.

I am a veteran, and the biggest thing I miss about the military is the comradery. I also really want to serve my community directly and this is probably the best way.

 

Texas NR-EMT-Paramedic/RN

 

RN in Greenville SC here

Swing by the SC regional thread and introduce yourself if you haven't already!!

 

I think I'm in there. Is it the SC roll call and the other SC BS thread or is there a first responder specific one?

 

The SC BS and gossip thread is where all the SC folks hang out. There isn't a first responder specific to SC

 

I agree with you but ol boy said he works for a full time dept.

 

Gotcha. I can't hardly keep up with that thread. Leave for 5 minutes and it's 4 pages later.

 

No kidding man, you gotta stay on top of that one haha

 

Ah... guess I wasn't paying attention

Don't know why you would put lights on your POV if you worked for a paid / professional dept?

 

I missed that post. But I run with a combo department, every one of our paid guys are volly's at their home departments and all have lights on their POV's.

Fairly certain 2 of them are also Chief officers as well.

 

Only with volunteer FD's here. All EMS is paid. I've never had lights on my POV.

 

Same here. I don't understand the lights on pov thing. Sometimes I don't even turn the lights on on the big fire truck for bs calls. Pushing people through intersections is dangerous

 

Agree. We've found even running emergency to the hospital only saves maybe 2-3 minutes on 25 mile trips. Not worth the bs it causes. Takes longer to get through when everyone scatters and has no fucking clue what to do.

 

We don't transport in my department but county ambulance only runs light on priority 1 calls (unstable als)

 

Previous engine.

Current engine.

 

Yikes you guys ran the hell out of that oldie

 

The current engine a 2008. It is the first one we got new and not a hand-me-down.

 

This is a pic from a couple months ago. My truck was babysitting a silo fire and this is a house fire about 1/2 mile away.

 

State of CT has a lot of volunteers running lights/calls in POV's. My town has no staffed stations so when there's a call everyone is either responding to station to get equipment or direct to scene to start first responder efforts and give a size up. I have two blue led packs in front and a blue arrow bar in the back window. More useful for directing traffic than getting anyone to move over.

 

Hate when that happens.
I'm on the EMS side though. But when you're at a house for tooth pain and you hear a call about a cardiac arrest or rollover with ejection and the next closest truck is literally 10-12 minutes out, it makes me angry.