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That’s Chicago’s new EMS service.
I had a Dalmation in the firehouse once.
This is better.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I’ll just let the general populace in on this old firehouse secret.
SNS ran over the station house dog with the engine. We did. Everyone does. Dalmatians are insane and stupid. They don’t like sirens.
Maybe back in the days of horse pulled steam engines and bells they were cool. Nowadays Dalmatians need to be heavily sedated just to walk around a firehouse.
Poor dumb ass dogs.
Makes sense with price of fuel being what it is.
no offense, but ….
I’ll be more impressed when the dog-powered beer wagon pulls up to the house
Burr, hose folder
MARCH 19, 2022 AT 9:12 PM
…actually, my then-fiancee turned out to be allergic to Dalmations so I had to give him up.
…but if I hadn’t, it probably WOULD have ended that way, he dud not like sirens or bells in particular…
You fibber! You ran that engine over the dog on the way to a call and then had some scrub like me shovel Skipper off the driveway.
Then when you got back you chewed me out for dumping Skipper in the trash instead of giving the schizo dog a military funeral with bagpipes.
Sorry…..sorry…. painful flashback
When I was a kid my Dad owned two beagles he used for rabbit hunting. They would start howling anytime a police car, ambulance or fire truck would approach with the siren blaring. Most of the time they would start to howl before any human could hear the siren.
My little OZ pup just went wild hearing that.
Burr, diamond plate polisher
MARCH 19, 2022 AT 9:58 PM
“You fibber! You ran that engine over the dog on the way to a call and then had some scrub like me shovel Skipper off the driveway.”
…the now-wife named him “Pogo” after the 101 Dalmations character before she found out he was an anaphylaxis risk to her.
I love her, but she’s not always super original when naming dogs.
FWIW, she DID name our hypoallergenic Bichon SkippY many years later, a painting of which you can see on this very site, but I’ve so far failed to run over him also.
And I WAS the scrub, so I didn’t do a lot of delegating. Only when I was fast enough to get the RF seat on the first-in unit, and even THEN I had to give it up when a Lieutenant showed up.
So if anyone got handed a puppy scraping shovel, it was ME…
“Then when you got back you chewed me out for dumping Skipper in the trash instead of giving the schizo dog a military funeral with bagpipes”
True story…just as I was learning to pipe, the wife caught a mouse in a trap in the laundry room and made me take it outside.
I made it the first time I piped “Anazing Grace” at a funeral.
Even if the casket looked suspiciously like a garbage can.
It was funny at the time, less so when I actually DID start piping at real funerals…
Jethro, my friend had a tiny dog that she took everywhere with her. One evening, I was over and a group of us were trying to teach the doggie to howl. She tried, throwing her head back and making a tiny squeak. We went on to something else after she just couldn’t get the howl out.
When the party was over, I needed a ride home so my friend and her dog took me. As we approached my house (near a wetland), the doggie threw her head back and let out a splendid howl. My friend and I praised her and she kept at it, even as I got out and they left.
What happened is; there were coyotes living in the wetland and they were howling, even though my friend and I couldn’t hear them. The doggie could and she responded!
All I know is we were a pretty obscure volunteer house until we ran over that damn dog.
Then it was like we were “in the club”. We had fire people coming out of the woodwork telling us similar stories at stations…..everywhere.
Kinda’ wanted to burn down our own station house to see if we could gain entrance to that club.
Burr, back to full turnout on the side of freeway in July.
MARCH 19, 2022 AT 10:33 PM
…The most (publicly) embarrassing thing we ever did was leave a K saw on the roof when a basement fire in a heavily, illegally partitioned basement got away from us while ventilation operations were in progress and the Chief shifted to defensive exterior with exposure protection (no, it wasn’t me even though I was usually a roof rat, I was #4 on a 4 man interior attack crew feeding hose around a corner when #3 chickened out and almost ran over me leaving, screwing up the entire initial attack on THAT particular occasion), and it stayed there until the roof fell in and it ended up adding its own literal fuel to the fire in the basement.
We found the misshapen lump of motor during the post fire investigation (fire cause: sleeping smoker in illegal basement bedroom). We turned it into a Trophy of Shame as a “Lost Equipment Award” given out to whatever doofus lost or destroyed the most expensive thing every year at the annual Christmas party.
Post script on that basement fire.
The County called us to that same address after that fire for what THEY classed as a “Rekindle”, apparently because their primitive late-80s dispatch computer told them we had been there for a structure fire previously.
Problem was, this was 5 weeks later and the fire was in the building materials for the NEW house they were building.
The County wasn’t always infallible either, is all I’m saying…
SNS, I once found an overlasher in an alley and called the linesman super to find out if anybody lost a lasher. Just because it was a Western Electric lasher didn’t mean it was OUR lasher.
He said, “We have never lost a lasher! Who the hell would lose a lasher?”
I agreed, you’d have to have your head up your ass to lose a tool that big, and heavy.
Anyway, I took it back to the shop and a week later the four man line crew who had it were suspended for a week a piece.
Tom was giggling.
The linesman super actually called me and thanked me.
Do you carry these externally, like in a ladder rack or other outside storage?
We had ax holders on the outsides of the engines, and every now and again some dufus would not push them in all the way so they’d fall off when you slammed the door.
Never lost one driving though. Just while packing up.
No. A fully loaded lasher weighs about 85 pounds. It’s a precision instrument… if set up with precision.
They generally are tossed into the enclosed portion of the truck.
Wow.
Worst I ever did was lose my helmet. Found it the next day.
But bagpipes for a mouse. You would have fit right in.
And the big lasher….was it in the case or just layin there looking like a giant alternator?
Ksaw. Meh. I burnt out a chainsaw oncet. Got grief over it, but I felt kinda’ macho.
Criminey!
You guys……get a room.
Handy N Handsome
MARCH 20, 2022 AT 8:36 AM
“Criminey!
You guys……get a room.”
…we have one.
…you’re in it right now.
…feel free to join in if you wish, if you’d like to discuss YOUR tool, be it burnt, run over, or simply lost and found…
No, Burr, it wasn’t in a case. You’d be a very brave man to open a case like that in an alley in DC… or even a paint can.
It was just sitting there like a piece out of a spaceship. Which is probably why no one stole it. I knew what it was.