Posted: 3/12/2013 5:03:20 PM EDT
snafu from hell. I'm at the station and had no desire to go eat lunch, so my boss goes alone in the brush truck, tells me that if we get anything big, he'll meet me there. 30 minutes into him being gone, we get punched out for an home explosion and structure fire. Well fuck. 
(our dept only has one staffed station, and we only have funding for 2 man crews, volunteer back up) He beats me there, 2 other engine companies are inbound, but several minutes out, so I stop at the plug, he pulls the 5 inch and I lay in. One of our guys was already on scene, so he starts to hook everything up while I get packed up. A bystander asks me about 4 times if I wanted him to pull my line for me. I tell him, nicely, 'no thanks man, I got it'. Reasoning being that I didn't want him to fuck it up. After the fourth time, when I'm just about to pull it myself, I see his IAFF shirt. Yep, Captain at the biggest FD in the state.
That was a tad embarassing. 
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Now, What I gather from this is first you stopped to get plugged and some guy pulls out his 5" and you lay into it. Then there was another guy on the scene to hook everything up while you get packed? After that some random guy offers to pull your line while your getting packed up? Mind if I ask what line of work your in??? J/k LOL
I have made the mistake of "blowing off" (<=see what I did there? Lol) a superior when caught up in the middle of some hectic stuff. Pretty awkward and embarrassing. I"m sure he understood. |
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Quoted: Now, What I gather from this is first you stopped to get plugged and some guy pulls out his 5" and you lay into it. Then there was another guy on the scene to hook everything up while you get packed? After that some random guy offers to pull your line while your getting packed up? Mind if I ask what line of work your in??? J/k LOL I have made the mistake of "blowing off" (<=see what I did there? Lol) a superior when caught up in the middle of some hectic stuff. Pretty awkward and embarrassing. I"m sure he understood. Ok, that actually made me laugh.  I don't understand all the fire lingo, other than our guys sound like a bunch of tools on the radio. They are, however a step above the Highway Departments radio etiquette. |
| I wouldn't sweat it, when adrenaline is pumping, alot of shit goes out the window... The few times I have stopped to render assistance for leos I saw either fighting or alone in an open stretch of road.. I always identified myself while approaching, those guys could have said "hey i'm a FF... you need help?" |