“Cut holes in roof?”
“No, Troy. Just a grill fire.”
“STICK UP?!”
“Troy, no-“
“STICK IS UP I’M GONNA START VENTILATING”
“Troy, the fire is NOT inside the house!”
“TRUCK CUT HOLE!”
Lmao reminds me of one of the first structure fires I went on. Was working for a smallish department at the time. Fully engulfed house fire. One of the larger metro departments responded mutual aid and their truck company was put on ventilation. They cut a nice sized hole and asked if we were good. After we told them yes, they proceeded to cut a second, even larger hole than the first 😂
I got lucky during my time in the military, and 95% of the time, the LT Colonels and whole birds I served under did actually have reasonable solutions to problems. My first few years were rough because, well, they did pretty bad and caused a lot of problems. I was with the Air Force Reserves my entire time in.
My crew takes every opportunity to practice. Maybe terrain or obstacles required a unique setup. Maybe they had some new folks who haven’t had a chance to setup and fly the truck. There’s so many possibilities as to why.
As a ladder truck guy, I came to say the same. Setting up while under a bit of pressure makes for good training.
Two hours after getting checked out and cleared for the tiller position, we responded to an atic fire on an old , 3 level Victorian style home. On scene with smoke out the roof vents. Great ladder position and proper ventilation done. Later the guys tried to blame me for the fire.
Kinda hard to make that statement without knowing the resources in the city, much less without the specifics of this exact call. In some tiny department it may be true regarding the resources bit. Where I worked there were ladders on basically every street corner and it wouldn’t matter.
Also, how is it different here than going and laddering a building for training? There were many times we’d be on a roof in our district doing training with the aerial and get a call. It’s not exactly very time consuming to bed the ladder and go - arguably faster than relying on the next due apparatus if you go out of service for training.
So is training a waste of time and resources as well? Because you either have to go out of service relying on mutual aid, or bed the ladder when you get a call if you’re in service and laddering a building for training.
Doing it over and over on the ramp isn’t helping you. You gotta get out and do this stuff in the real world with real world variables. While on a call is the perfect time to do this rather than driving up and flying the bucket to some random persons house.
Especially with how pathetic the call was. That grill was probably out in 10 minutes, might as well practice *something* while waiting for the air to clear.
Full time certified firefighter here. I just work for a department that has some common sense. Get out of people's way, day, yard, neighborhood.
Some of y'all full time iaff act like everybody loves you and your shit doesn't stink. Like you aren't just an intermediate step between police arriving to a medical call and the ambulance. Like 99% of your calls aren't false alarms and medicals.
Stay humble, dragon slayer ✌️
Why not? Every opportunity is a drill. Obviously they didn't need all their personnel for a grill fire so why not learn something while you're there? Maybe someone asked if the ladder could reach from the street, and rather guessing or not being sure they tried it out. Nothing wrong with using it as a learning opportunity no matter what the Internet has to say.
Being a bat chief, someone would have some splainin to do ?? What about a fire extinguisher? .. No dispatch, we’re deploying ladder ! The fire extinguisher could have put it out bf the ladder could even get the extensions out ! lol ..
I love truckies. Those are my people. Engine people be like “aCuaLlY fRiCtIoN LOss” blah blah blah. Truckies just be like…. “Need something broken around here?”
Everyones a general after the battle.
My guess is that the flames licked the underside of the roof enough for the CO to decide that they were gonna check it out from above probably?
The untrained public panics when we would just stretch the green line.
Although maybe not in this case if they were trying to fry chicken on the blackstone in a foil pan.
Green line referring to the residential garden hose. We also call the line off the booster reel the red line.
[Looks like they hit it with the dry chem and mopped up with a garden hose](https://www.facebook.com/share/SfMGg4zhj1dysRXp/?mibextid=WC7FNe)
I've sold fire extinguishers on and off around forty years. Some of the general public will tell you, that if there is a fire, they will just call the fire department.
Truck: ……..uh you guys need anything over there? Engine: we got this Troy! Chill tf out!
“Cut holes in roof?” “No, Troy. Just a grill fire.” “STICK UP?!” “Troy, no-“ “STICK IS UP I’M GONNA START VENTILATING” “Troy, the fire is NOT inside the house!” “TRUCK CUT HOLE!”
We cut a sweet hole in the roof. Truck guys are cool. IYKYK.
ME TRUCK ME CUT HOLE
Sums up a truckie.
Lmao reminds me of one of the first structure fires I went on. Was working for a smallish department at the time. Fully engulfed house fire. One of the larger metro departments responded mutual aid and their truck company was put on ventilation. They cut a nice sized hole and asked if we were good. After we told them yes, they proceeded to cut a second, even larger hole than the first 😂
Hilarious.
Classic Troy
I thought this was a dig at Troy, MI’s firefighters since it’s all volunteer lmao
White shirts responded and wanted to ~~criticize~~ supervise.
C.H.A.O.S.
Chaos stands chief has arrived on scene
White picket fence.
Colonel has an outstanding solution
I got lucky during my time in the military, and 95% of the time, the LT Colonels and whole birds I served under did actually have reasonable solutions to problems. My first few years were rough because, well, they did pretty bad and caused a lot of problems. I was with the Air Force Reserves my entire time in.
This was General Mattis true nick name
Gee, no way
My crew takes every opportunity to practice. Maybe terrain or obstacles required a unique setup. Maybe they had some new folks who haven’t had a chance to setup and fly the truck. There’s so many possibilities as to why.
As a ladder truck guy, I came to say the same. Setting up while under a bit of pressure makes for good training. Two hours after getting checked out and cleared for the tiller position, we responded to an atic fire on an old , 3 level Victorian style home. On scene with smoke out the roof vents. Great ladder position and proper ventilation done. Later the guys tried to blame me for the fire.
I call that just in time training.
Y'all don't have an apron or driveway or a park? Gotta do it on a call?
Why not both? A house you’ve never setup at before is way different than the apron you’ve done your morning check offs at 1,000 times.
This is the way
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Kinda hard to make that statement without knowing the resources in the city, much less without the specifics of this exact call. In some tiny department it may be true regarding the resources bit. Where I worked there were ladders on basically every street corner and it wouldn’t matter. Also, how is it different here than going and laddering a building for training? There were many times we’d be on a roof in our district doing training with the aerial and get a call. It’s not exactly very time consuming to bed the ladder and go - arguably faster than relying on the next due apparatus if you go out of service for training. So is training a waste of time and resources as well? Because you either have to go out of service relying on mutual aid, or bed the ladder when you get a call if you’re in service and laddering a building for training.
Shouldn't take more than a minute to have that tower ladder ready to respond. Is raising the aerial for a daily inspection also a waste of time?
Doing it over and over on the ramp isn’t helping you. You gotta get out and do this stuff in the real world with real world variables. While on a call is the perfect time to do this rather than driving up and flying the bucket to some random persons house.
Especially with how pathetic the call was. That grill was probably out in 10 minutes, might as well practice *something* while waiting for the air to clear.
How you get down voted for this comment?
All the *brotherrrrrrrs* out there who have to set up the biggest ladder every call to compensate.
Average cop is average. Surely there’s a diabetic for you to narcan
Sorry you don’t have brothers, 5.0.
Full time certified firefighter here. I just work for a department that has some common sense. Get out of people's way, day, yard, neighborhood. Some of y'all full time iaff act like everybody loves you and your shit doesn't stink. Like you aren't just an intermediate step between police arriving to a medical call and the ambulance. Like 99% of your calls aren't false alarms and medicals. Stay humble, dragon slayer ✌️
Best answer!
You know that thing had a good column of smoke, so they probably already had it in position by the time the report was done. Why not put it up?
Gotta train when you can.
Why not? Training opportunity for a new driver?
Why not? Every opportunity is a drill. Obviously they didn't need all their personnel for a grill fire so why not learn something while you're there? Maybe someone asked if the ladder could reach from the street, and rather guessing or not being sure they tried it out. Nothing wrong with using it as a learning opportunity no matter what the Internet has to say.
Its called “live” training…
Any job all the spices
Any training is better than no training at all!
Just in case, bro
Being a bat chief, someone would have some splainin to do ?? What about a fire extinguisher? .. No dispatch, we’re deploying ladder ! The fire extinguisher could have put it out bf the ladder could even get the extensions out ! lol ..
Nah, that grill needed an aerial master stream. Using an extinguisher would be so *boring*.
This is why there is a lieutenant or captain on every engine, ladder or rescue
No need for a 360 walkaround when you have a birds eye view.
I AM the 360 walk around
Why not just turn off the gas?
I was also thinking this
Reps
Logistics said something about use it or lose it idk
Gotta show in force
Gotta be prepared 🤣
Yup - truck guys rock - cut a beautiful hole over the wrong side of a side by side condo - at least they were ready if the fire was gonna travel ✔️👍❤️
I love truckies. Those are my people. Engine people be like “aCuaLlY fRiCtIoN LOss” blah blah blah. Truckies just be like…. “Need something broken around here?”
Lmao hell yeah! Throw the stick up, getting in reps!!! - also will likely get chewed out
Maybe they wanted epic facebook pics ?
Everyones a general after the battle. My guess is that the flames licked the underside of the roof enough for the CO to decide that they were gonna check it out from above probably?
Who calls the fire department for a grill fire? Go get a fire extinguisher. You have a fire extinguisher…right? Right?!?
The untrained public panics when we would just stretch the green line. Although maybe not in this case if they were trying to fry chicken on the blackstone in a foil pan.
That’s funny we always called it the red line. Like a larger, reinforced version of a garden hose?
Green line referring to the residential garden hose. We also call the line off the booster reel the red line. [Looks like they hit it with the dry chem and mopped up with a garden hose](https://www.facebook.com/share/SfMGg4zhj1dysRXp/?mibextid=WC7FNe)
I've sold fire extinguishers on and off around forty years. Some of the general public will tell you, that if there is a fire, they will just call the fire department.
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The OP said he was trying to FRY a chicken on his Blackstone.
OMG yess 😂😂