We are a single company station. And we have... count em... three halligans on the pumper! Those were on the same side of the truck, vis a vi, I was too lazy to walk around and get the Butt head axe from the other side. 
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We've got 3 halligans of different length, 2 sledges of different weights, and one of each kind of axe in the officer's front cabinet on our engine as well.
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Oh god help you. Look at what you said...now you've done it.  I wish someone cooked for me at work...I'm relegated to the drive through doughnut place. 
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Sorry about the lack of firearm. While I cannot comment on the capabilities of our station to forcibly resist attack at more than a pike pole length, suffice it to say. However, public display of "things that will get you fired " didn't get me where I am today. Note: no booze either. ETA; holy shit! that post sounded like Nipsey Russel! Does that make me black? |
Almost as bad as using the "Q" word. 
Shit - most of the n00bs idea of dinner at the 'house is take-out.  I'm one of the few guys who still cooks our own sunday breakfast.Of course, a lot of that change has been the newer administrations "busy-fying" us during "business hours", to make sure we're "working" when the hillites (City building is above us on "the hill", thus, pollys (politicians) are also called "hillites") comes strolling through. Of course, it makes no difference that most of our ambulance calls are from 1600-0400 when the pollys are fast asleep in thier own warm beds. When one of the past Chiefs started this BS, telling us we needed to "prove" we were "working" I offered to call the pollys whenever we went to a call in their ward - even if it was O - Dark early, just to give them a friendly notice that we were still "on the job"  It wasn't well received. 
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I thought it was just us that were afraid of the "Q" word. New guy started in dispatch one day. Wasn't a whole lot going on. New guy: "Man, sure is q**** in here, is it always like this?" Everyone else in room:    of course, all hell proceeded to break loose. Nobody talked to him for like three days. Damn rookies I hate admin that decides they need to find "busy work" for us. I have enough shit to do that actually makes sense thank you very much. |
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Our rookie is a well known "White Cloud". In the two years he has been on our Engine, we haven't had a single fire... except when he is on vacation. It is spooky. The dude takes a swap, we are riding. If he is Temp assigned to another company, something is burning. When he comes back, rats can raise generations of young in my boots without my noticing. |