This Annoys Volunteer Firefighters 🔥

from episode 66

[Dr.Deschutes]

This couldn't be more true. Sometimes few new people on my department seem to care more about ordering new shirts and sweatshirts than doing anything else.😅

[unreasonable-man.bsky.social]

My last year of high school, we were living almost directly across the street from the local VFD. One day my mother had a grease fire in the kitchen. She knew enough not to throw water on it, but couldn't put it out herself. According to her, while most of the younger guys were throwing stuff on the trucks and trying figure out where our address was, one older guy walked across the street with a fire extinguisher and put it out.

[rileymerson]

Genuinely want to at least look into volunteer firefighting in my area. My girls dad is a volunteer and he loves it. Taken me on a fire call once and it seemed awesome.

I’m pretty skinny though although I am fit for my size. Used to work on masonry and chimneys so I’m no stranger to ladders or hard work.

That said, I have embarked on a weight gain journey and started working out regularly because I know for a damn fact I don’t got what that takes. Not putting anybody else down, but gaining weight is hard for me and I’m just real with myself that I don’t have what it takes yet but I’m willing to work towards it.

What she said in the second part stung for a second, but I’m working hard and seeing success and I’m happy ultimately.

I want to volunteer so I have some meaning as opposed to an image. I’m happy but I lack real purpose in many areas and I love doing good for people.

Gaining is hard for people who are underweight. Anybody else trying or unhappy with their size on either end should love themselves and genuinely try to improve if that’s something that will bring you happiness.

Just felt like sharing! Thanks if you read this :)

[ubernate]

I have so much respect for them regardless of their individual abilities, they give the appropriate jobs to the appropriate people. Some guy took out a pole in April, live wire on the ground, bout half an acre of my land was on fire within a couple minutes. These guys were on scene within 5, fire extinguished and the guy on a stretcher headed to the hospital within 10. Awesome response time

[robertstephen]

I was a volunteer for thirteen years of my young life and I worked as a professional pediatric ER tech for twenty three years. The volunteers that are out there really do care about there community and are some of the finest people I have ever met. You could say some were not up to snuff but on a whole they did a dam good job. We also had professional fire fighters, ER Dr's, and RN's that volunteered. They all have to pass the basics such as fire recruit training. They had to pass EVAP and drill once a week to and stay certified in all sort of training. They had the option to become EMT's and to become wildland certified. To conclude I would say that it a good thing to do for your community and it's pretty thankless at three in the morning on a highway in the middle of winter as your shivering and getting rained on and trying to save a drunk who just wrapped there car around a power pole just so you can go home and go to work at 7:00 am.

[keithmerce]

The only time you see them is at the pancake breakfast and the community events. The only time they are at a fire is if there grill catches fire.

[traceybenna]

I am wondering if the Turtle Creek volunteer fire department ever listened to this podcast . It would be hysterical to put this on blast over the radio that volunteer firefighters have .

[ShinningDarkness]

I tell you what as a Midwesterner that's built different I can let u know I have two blown disks and I am about 300 lbs and if your under that I would carry u up the ladder as high as you need to go just to see the smile on your face. God bless ya all.

[DocSalvatar]

Met a dude like that. Even named himself army ranger in all his video games too. Never served in the army and only volunteered for a couple monthes before he couldnt keep up.

[Andrew-ehxs]

Here in north Iowa our little department has the joke. We never lost a foundation 😂

[Mr.Winchesterr]

There was this fella in my gym class right before I graduated, he always had he radio with him and his pager, the mustache, the shirt, and even the supped up F150 truck with a spotlight which he never used. All he talked about was fires that he never helped put up it was always “I was there but like they didn’t need me” or something like that, he had himself an ego problem especially when you questioned what he did during fires.

[StatiCraft]

Turtle Lake? Grew up there. My dad was a volunteer firefighter in a nearby town. Absolutely correct though. What’s nice though is half the department will be ready to go at the nearest bar to the hall

[markusgeimer]

I didnt think i could make it as a firefighter but after hearing this, im rethinking it

[andyhobaugh]

Worked with a kid that became a volunteer fire fighter. Put the lights on his truck, carried the radio on his hip( always with the volume as high as it would go). Wore the t-shirts, got a tattoo....
Never went to a fire. I mean not one. The only time he wanted to go was when he was at work, which was a part time evening job that he was at for about 4 hrs a night. He would bust into the supervisor office and try to get her to let him go to a fire which we all knew he wasnt going to go to, he just wanted the night off. She would say no. He would then hold his radio up to his ear all night and look worried. Burnt was very forced and over dramatic. The little department he volunteered for finally after like 6 months made him hurt all his stuff in because he never showed up.

[nf]

I once knew a volunteer firefighter who started a forest fire, well one day he was smoking pot in the woods and somehow or another started a massive forest fire, well he ducked through the woods over the railroad through the police departments parking lot and showed up on the scene with the other firefighters and fought it with them, somehow the department had no idea who it was but the guy had told my brother way back my brother in turn reported him to the fire department.

[tbspromotions]

I went to a school with a kid who was one. He always mentioned his dad was one and the dude always had the shirt on and the truck and had to mention it. I’ve never met any other one since lol

[jordanhilton]

You just described every volunteer firefighter I've ever seen

[triw]

lol she just described my dad when I was a kid. I totally agree but he ended up being fire Chief so….

[tomcondon]

Wranglerstar got kicked out of the volunteer fire department. His kid put on a fire helmet, "Yer out!"

[zenandtheartofskateboarding]

i guess it’s probably different in other states but when my dad signed up there was a pretty tough fitness evaluation at the end of training