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Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:23:43 PM EDT
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LOL they make hose bridges for a reason.

I put the blame on local PD for not stopping traffic.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:25:02 PM EDT
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idiots  
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:25:57 PM EDT
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stupid should be expensive.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:30:58 PM EDT
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LOL they make hose bridges for a reason.

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I have to agree.

As a non-fire fighter, I would probably pull up, looking for someone somewhere watching the hose and holding people back.  I would probably hesitate, but be bullied to drive over it if someone behind me really started honking, assuming no one there or no cones means drive over it, not knowing how fragile they are.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:31:13 PM EDT
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Don't want people to run over your hose then block traffic.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:32:15 PM EDT
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Yup, the FD and PD.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:36:24 PM EDT
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You can't expect your garden variety house wife soccer mom to have any idea that she can't drive over it. I blame the fire dept and police. At the very least have quick pop up signs saying road closed. 
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:38:33 PM EDT
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Yup, the FD and PD.
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lol PD wasn't even on scene, yet they're "to blame" according to arfcom.  Classic.

Stupid cop handling a domestic violence call 5 miles away WHY U NO SAVE HOS PIEP?!!1

You guys crack me up.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:39:32 PM EDT
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My wife would totally do that.  Guaranteed.  

Id give her the and she'd say "whaaaaat?!"
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:41:32 PM EDT
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Hard to believe the hoses aren't constructed to take being run over.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:43:40 PM EDT
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lol PD wasn't even on scene, yet they're "to blame" according to arfcom.  Classic.
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I'd bet they were already on scene, parked where some of you usually do: in the driveway or directly in front of the house.  When I see you did that, I do everything I can to pull up and get lines down quick so you're blocked in.  It's a game with some of yuns who can't figure it out.  

On this scene, Medic needs to ease off the corner and block the road until more PD shows up.  I do when it's my day on the bandaid box.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:45:57 PM EDT
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They need to be moved by a human being you know. They are heavy enough as it is
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:46:15 PM EDT
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I actually read the article, so I'll take that bet.  What do I win?

"According to IFD, firefighters stopped the SUV, and they requested IMPD. When the driver found out that police were headed to the scene, she sped off."
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:48:23 PM EDT
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So find them and fine them, but I didn't know you couldn't run over a hose.

Hell, most people probably figure you can run over your shitty China garden hose 500 times, why wouldn't a giant industrial one be better?
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:51:29 PM EDT
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I'd bet they were already on scene, parked where some of you usually do: in the driveway or directly in front of the house.  When I see you did that, I do everything I can to pull up and get lines down quick so you're blocked in.  It's a game with some of yuns who can't figure it out.  

On this scene, Medic needs to ease off the corner and block the road until more PD shows up.  I do when it's my day on the bandaid box.
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lol PD wasn't even on scene, yet they're "to blame" according to arfcom.  Classic.
I'd bet they were already on scene, parked where some of you usually do: in the driveway or directly in front of the house.  When I see you did that, I do everything I can to pull up and get lines down quick so you're blocked in.  It's a game with some of yuns who can't figure it out.  

On this scene, Medic needs to ease off the corner and block the road until more PD shows up.  I do when it's my day on the bandaid box.
You might want to try reading the article.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:53:58 PM EDT
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I bet you 90% of the population would run over it. Heck, around here most people don't even know to pull over and stop for an emergency vehicle.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:54:52 PM EDT
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Just needed ramps

Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:55:13 PM EDT
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I didn't know that those hoses couldn't be run over...I guess I had never thought about it before.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:55:43 PM EDT
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They are heavy and expensive enough as it is. The yellow is your clue that I own the street. If you try that around me you are likely to run over a halligan spike up.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:56:43 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:57:32 PM EDT
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You can't expect your garden variety house wife soccer mom to have any idea that she can't drive over it. I blame the fire dept and police. At the very least have quick pop up signs saying road closed. 
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This.  Cones would have solved this.  I bet there were a bunch of undeployed cones on that firetruck too...
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 1:58:09 PM EDT
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No one said you have to be smart to fight a fire. 
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:00:04 PM EDT
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A Golf is a "SUV"?
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:01:11 PM EDT
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So find them and fine them, but I didn't know you couldn't run over a hose.

Hell, most people probably figure you can run over your shitty China garden hose 500 times, why wouldn't a giant industrial one be better?
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It's the size of a firehose that allows it to be damaged.
if you run over your garden hose you only hit it with your tires.
A fire hose is so thick that the bottom of many cars will hit it and there are lots of sharp pointy things under many cars.



Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:01:11 PM EDT
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Just WOW!
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:04:47 PM EDT
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Guy from Florida calling people in Indiana "Dumbasses".  LMAOHave you not seen the Florida threads in GD?
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:04:48 PM EDT
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Was it a white person?
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:05:18 PM EDT
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They can be run over. I've done it plenty of times, in a fire truck. Charged hoselines and driving over it won't typically damage the hose. The car probably snagged something on the undercarriage and pop goes the weasel.

Traffic control, cones, using rigs to block the street are all preferred.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:07:22 PM EDT
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They are heavy and expensive enough as it is. The yellow is your clue that I own the street. If you try that around me you are likely to run over a halligan spike up.
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Yea, way to give a good name to fire fighters.


Yellow doesn't mean shit. At best caution. If you want people to stop, maybe choose red?


And you down't "own" a fucking thing, your borrowing, act accordingly.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:09:05 PM EDT
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I didn't know that those hoses couldn't be run over...I guess I had never thought about it before.
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Our 2" lines get ran over sometimes and all is good. I think the main issue here was it being a 5" from the hydrant and hitting the under belly of the car. It kinda looks like it maybe the LDH storz hose. If that was the case the driver did them a favor by removing 1 more section of that crap out of their inventory. We absolutely hate ours.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:13:02 PM EDT
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FFS. It's a joke. There's an article explaining it. We do this in every fire fighting thread.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:14:06 PM EDT
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I didn't know you couldn't run over a firehose.  I've never been in that situation, but I probably would have driven over it as well, with the mindset of "I need to get out of their way" more than "I need to stay here".
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:14:21 PM EDT
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I guess this is news to me as well. One car will destroy a fire hose?
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:14:30 PM EDT
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LOL they make hose bridges for a reason.

I put the blame on local PD for not stopping traffic.
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Yeah, there's more than a few people out there ignorant to the fact their cars can damage fire hoses.  I don't blame the drivers at all in that.

If fire departments don't want their hoses damaged, they should stop bitching on twitter and get traffic direction, or educate the people in their community.  I'm not even sure if kids going through driver's ed are taught this.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:14:42 PM EDT
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If you want people to stop, maybe choose red?
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If you want people to stop, maybe choose red?
You mean like the lights on the engine that universally mean "Stop, pull over, do not pass go."

“We repeatedly message out that when you drive up on the bright yellow hose in the street, surrounded by all the big red vehicles and flashing lights – stop – turn around and find a different route to where you are headed,” said IFD Battalion Chief Rita Reith.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:15:57 PM EDT
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That's on the FD.  Consider it the cost of doing business and throw it in the pile with the rest of the old/worn out hoses.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:18:15 PM EDT
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They are heavy and expensive enough as it is. The yellow is your clue that I own the street. If you try that around me you are likely to run over a halligan spike up.
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LoL what does the color yellow mean in traffic patterns?

Caution, right?  How many people stop at yellow lights?
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:19:02 PM EDT
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I guess this is news to me as well. One car will destroy a fire hose?
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Technically it took two to destroy it. And it wasn't a weight issue, but a ground clearance issue.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:22:15 PM EDT
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You need to be taught not to run over a 5 INCH HOSE?
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:33:36 PM EDT
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I my experience the only people who have any conception of "ground clearance" are those who have quite a bit more than 5".
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:38:25 PM EDT
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Can't?  I assure you Occifer, my Jeep will easily drive over fire hoses.  

Seriously though, while I didn't know it was illegal or that it would destroy the hose, I know better than do drive over one. My wife on the other hand might.  Her sister wouldn't even slow down because she probably didn't see the hose.  And putting cones by it would be worthless, she'd either drive through them or around them.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:57:41 PM EDT
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 WTF did they think the train would just...........


SMH
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 2:58:40 PM EDT
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I actually read the article, so I'll take that bet.  What do I win?
"According to IFD, firefighters stopped the SUV, and they requested IMPD. When the driver found out that police were headed to the scene, she sped off."
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I'd bet they were already on scene
I actually read the article, so I'll take that bet.  What do I win?
"According to IFD, firefighters stopped the SUV, and they requested IMPD. When the driver found out that police were headed to the scene, she sped off."
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 3:02:51 PM EDT
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Guy from Florida calling people in Indiana "Dumbasses".  LMAOHave you not seen the Florida threads in GD?
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You know what I haven't seen?

Snow
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 3:05:11 PM EDT
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So, she's following other traffic, they have no scene control, nothing saying road closed, etc.  She can just say she was moving with the flow of traffic.  FD should do better.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 3:05:24 PM EDT
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Watch the video. Cars are lined up both ways to drive over the hose.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 3:05:31 PM EDT
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I wouldn't make a habit of laying shit in the road that couldn't be run over.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 3:07:55 PM EDT
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Oh yes I can.

Seriously, I haven't handled a fire hose since Navy boot camp in '93 and even then they didn't say shit about driving over them. You'd think they'd design them to withstand being run over.
Link Posted: 9/19/2017 3:08:12 PM EDT
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As over the top as "fire police" were in some areas that I lived, if they were there it would have now been a heart attack as well.
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