Different Fire Department Officers

[hansorsic]

3am: exists

Engineer: if I'm up, everybody's up

[brysonwiley]

That moment you realize you’re the code 3 or nothing guy😅

[Jon]

Early in my FD career, the department I worked for based your annual pay raise on your performance evaluation. This is where I learned that there were only two kinds of officers - The "nobody is perfect so nobody gets a perfect score" officer, and the "I'm not screwing with anyone's pay" officer. All the other types were just noise!

[jlane]

My daddy drove the rescue truck. He used to tell people that he always wanted to be a fire fighter when he grew up. Now he's a fire fighter, he just needed to grow up. Lol! He was promoted to crew chief right before he got diagnosed with cancer. He fought hard to live long enough to meet his first granddaughter, my baby girl, that was 9 months old when he passed away. He was, and still is the greatest man I ever knew! 😢❤

[Ebact]

I know a lot of 3am Code 3 guys, gotta make sure that tumble weed gets out of our way for that toe pain.

[georgecrosby]

The always Code 3 guy has met the "It's 3 a.m. nothing's out there backing out of my driveway guy"

[GhostBear]

1:02- in ambulances that is how some of us get involuntarily turned into flight medics for a second or two...

[andrewmyers]

I keep dying laughing at the speed bump one. We had this one engine driver who always loved to blare sirens in the early morning 😂

[RedT...TheOriginal.NotANumber]

Love it! Out of the captains in my dept, the new one is the first type ("forgot where he came from"). Hopefully he'll mellow out. Soon.
The other one is the "don't make me work" captain. I absolutely love being on shift with this guy. The crew knows their job, gets stuff done, so the captain really *doesn't* have to work. It's a great system.

[praack]

Speed Bump- How many of us have run with that guy!!!

[Nello]

I can respect the don't make my job harder officer. Simply put, you know where you stand.

[hpa]

0:40 - all of us would make that face when dealing with a micromanager regardless if we were a firefighter or not

[Blackhole]

0:54 my lieutenant (or the german rank to that) once had what I named a "remember pain' for couple days after he tried to reach for the siren button.
Remember pain:
A pinch you feel after your engineer slap your fingers after you have forgotten that the button of the sirens is not yours to touch.
You can order to turn them of with the consequenze that the engineer will also turn off the lights won't go over any red light, faster than the speedlimit etc. (except maybe when arriving in scene) but you do not touch them...😉😅

[TheAero]

This might be a touchy subject, but I'd love to see a video on the different types of volunteer first responders (fire/ems/whatever). I think there's definitely some room for humor in there, plus I feel like you could sneak in some discrete lessons on the what-to-be's and the what-not-to-be's, lol.

[intel_v]

2am: exists
that guy in the sportscar without a muffler: if im up, everybodys up

[ambulance_boy]

Seems like the same kind of officer that wears a black t shirt under the white uniform shirt...

[freezinweasle]

"Code 3 or nothin"
We paid good money for that Federal Q, I ain't wastin it!

[malloc]

We have a fire station near my house and we're on one of their main paths. A "Code 3 or nothing" guy definitely works there, but most of them are great. I don't really blame them, people are terrible at waiting at cross streets for emergency vehicles here.

[jerrykinnin]

As a 2nd gen trucker. 1st thing I learned at 4 or 5 years old was if it's in arms reach of the driver(DAD) in a seated position. It's in the driver/operators/DAD's control. That hand slap still hurts. And I'm 48 yrs young.

[kimlockhart]

I was driving a new Captain on a Rescue Rig to an alarm, just before we 10-12ed, we were told our assistance wasn't needed, so we started to return to quarters. I took a round about way back so I could talk to my mate, a Lt. on the first responding rig, and quickly left the scene. After a couple of blocks, the new Captain decided I wasn't taking the correct way back and proceeded to give me directions, he was a part-time taxi driver, I then pulled over to the curb and pulled the air brakes and came to a complete stop. He asked what I thought I was doing, I asked him if he wanted to drive the rig, his reply was to look straight ahead and keep quiet. There ended his first lesson as a Capt.
Please don't get me wrong, I really liked this guy and had always got along great with him, but we had to set our tolerances early in our relationship, he was a great Capt. and we continued our good times together afterwards.