Dispatch versus Reality

Dispatch versus reality.
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[@landoncarter9239]

As a dispatcher I can confirm most 911 callers are either the most over dramatic people or people who are severely underestimating the problem. There is no in between

[@Kitsune1989]

I was one of those 'not sure if it's an emergency' people not even a week ago. SITREP: I have a savannah monitor, one that is not tamed down due to the previous owners neglect. He managed to latch on to my finger, admittedly through carelessness on my part. The thing about monitors is they clamp down and don't let go. They also deathroll like Crocs and shake their head like a disgruntled dog. This is a big lizard, although not full grown, at around a foot½+tail. You can not physically open their jaws without mechanical help that's how hard they clamp down when they aren't really trying. My friend and I tried everything we could to make him let go, from attempting to pry his jaw open like one would a dog (which didn't work at all and only made him clamp down harder), to tempting him with food, to annoying him in an attempt to make him open his mouth and snap elsewhere. It took two people to hold him, so not some gummy mouthed little garden lizard that's more funny then painful. They have a bite force strong enough that you can hear your notoriously difficult to actually break finger bone slowly splintering. Much like if you slowly tightened a shop clamp and didn't stop when it hurt. Now, on one hand, the monitor is reasonably secure and it's been long enough that unless I move any part of me he's not trying to clamp down further atm. On the other hand, that could change in a second. One of us could shift and set him off into a 'its not dead yet gotta kill it all' mood and we'd be at best struggling at worst he'd really clamp down and if he decided he needed to clamp down that bone would have splintered into several pieces no doubt about that. He also still wouldnt have let go and I'd then have a splintered, internally bleeding, crush injury that couldn't even be treated until he got off my damned finger. Not really a good place to be. So we called non-emergency and outlined what had happened, what could happen if he actually went for it (I didn't want to be considered a low priority just because we only have small harmless lizards native here. I made sure to mention the size of the lizard and that their jaws can crush small bones as they were designed to crack snail shells like an egg. But I also made sure that they knew my friend and I did have the animal held still for the time being). We were told to hang up and call emergency. So we did, because after hearing the situation the *dispatcher* determined it was a 911 call not a get there when you can call. Yeah, everyone showed up. From fire truck (because they have paramedics with them) to cops, animal control, fucking social services. By the time they showed up he had let go (like 5minutes later, thanks asshole could have saved us a call). But the way their jaws are designed, on the surface there's not much to look at. Not even stitches because we had made sure to keep him from shaking/deathrolling (and I've dealt with enough truely dangerous animals not to panic at pain or jerk back). However, after flushing it with saline to get rid of the mild amount of blood(and I've had papercuts more bloody) they felt around to make sure the bone was okay because I had stressed to the operator that they can break bone and that I could hear the bone breaking (in slow-mo. PSI is more fun to hear about then experience believe me). I may have also held the phone up to the lizards head so THEY could hear that I'm not exaggerating when I say 'breaking'. They couldn't feel anything more then bone fragments, like pebbles in a bag. Yeah, they went from 'damnit another exaggeration' to 'oh fuck me it actually was an emergency this time'. Then because the actual ambo was taking its sweet time and there really wasn't much they could do on scene that they hadn't already done I decided to get the lizard out of his bag and show them that it's a decent size lizard (especially compared to the one inch wonders we get here, or someone's pet cresty) and pictures were had. And who wants to watch the crocodile wannabe when it's allowed to freely go after prey. Yeah, about a dozen deathrolls in a row, shaking his head side to side, using his claws to rip apart the poor hornworms...they can be quite dramatic eaters. I suppose adding that was what he was trying to do to my finger was overkill. Let's just say that if I had done the panicked flail that a lot of people instinctively do when bitten by something, instead of calmly sitting down and keeping him as still and immobile as possible I could have lost a sizable amount of my finger via ripped forcibly off. At least I can say I was the most interesting call of the day :) Bet that one's making the 'did you hear about my latest weird call' gossip amongst the Depts/dispatchers. Apparently the animal control guy showed up because the operator didn't relay that it's a pet not some random escapee and social services for some reason thought I was a minor despite nobody asking for my age.

[@JesusisLOVEJohn-]

Thank you for your service!

[@kevinwiles-assignmenteditor]

15 years working in local news, monitoring scanners for breaking incidents. I've lost track of how many times I've heard calls like this come over the radios. A colleague of mine once heard a call dispatched as follows "Caller states she's looking out of her window and the house across the street has big flames shooting from the roof" First due company arrives on scene, speaks with the caller, and provides a situational update - "The caller was looking out of her 2nd floor window. What she saw was the sun rising behind her neighbor's house. There is no fire, all apparatus will be returning."

[@sergeantpommes]

We had something similar a few months ago. An elderly gentleman had alerted the fire department because he noticed flames and smoke on the property of a TV station. Accordingly, many units were alerted. Had to look for our "fire" - it turned out that he saw flickering brake lights without his glasses as flames. The smell of smoke was caused by his cigarettes. Sometimes you can't make this stuff up....

[@blacky_Ninja]

@@sergeantpommes Imagine you‘re so old that you actually forgot that you‘re smoking. And are still allowed to handle fire on your own…

[@Kelly_Ben]

I got numerous calls for the neighbor's house on fire, when it was just the dryer vent giving off steam.

[@kevinwiles-assignmenteditor]

@@Kelly_Ben That is such a common occurrence around here during the winter months.

[@chromasux2]

"Passerby called in large flames behind the house, right at the treeline, whole backyard lit like daylight". Arrive and go around the home, was a bunch of boys running around a bonfire with spotlights flashing the trees and everything else around. Had to show off the engine to the kids then.

[@HM2SGT]

Best. Fire. Ever. “Car Fire”=Railroad tie curb in a dirt car park. There was a half empty can of pop nearby, I poured it on the smoldering timber. *Mission Accomplished!*

[@SheepdogSmokey]

I rode on the flatbed of a brush truck most of the time, spraying one side of railroad tracks, the other side was our neighbor city, we'd waive at each other putting out what RR brakes cause.

[@marissasue319]

And the traumatic, nauseating injury 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@LouT1501]

@@SheepdogSmokey tie fires, oh yeah!

[@aaronwild2894]

Your bravery knows no bounds sir. I salute you

[@jeffjohnsisland5551]

John Hinterberger wrote a column for the Seattle Times. Long time ago he wrote how his wife like poisons for unwanted grass and weeds. John liked fire. He dribbled a bit of kerosene on the grass which was growing over some ties. Neighbors asked if he was going to “light the whole neighborhood on fire again. He said nope, burned off the weeds and the fire was out. At midnight the fire dept was out battling flames six feet high.

[@mikesmith-po8nd]

The opposite is true too - something dispatched as a very minor run turns out to be "Ohhh..crap!"

[@Del_S]

"Small dumpster fire behind gas station at beach" Unmentioned: The oil tanker that ran aground, crashed into the gas station and set the dumpster on fire.

[@hannahmeixner6616]

I had a nosebleed turn into a cardiac arrest lol

[@karlo134652]

And they should make a skit out of this too. XD

[@Kohay114]

Yeah, I’ve had that happen before… “Fall with no injury” = code blue

[@146TS]

EG: automatic fire alarm turns into officer on scene with fire through the roof

[@muddydave01]

There was one, small grass fire, two trucks sent, under control when the landowner returned, had a heart attack in the car, ran off the edge of the drive and brought down a power line. That was different

[@TheEDFLegacy]

Hope the homeowner survived that!

[@elgenetiamzon1062]

Someone must have summoned Murphy or mentioned quiet.

[@Lucky9_9]

I very much appreciate that in both the imagined scenario and in reality, dude's gag reflex was triggered for equally ridiculous reasons in both 🤣 Excellent attention to detail. I give this 6 out of 7 halligans. I'd give you 7 but the rookie managed to lose the last one under suspicious circumstances attempting a roof vent.

[@outsider344]

Oh man this hits way to close to home. Dept is totally gonna replace that halligan soon... And luckily we didn't need that vent the new guy was making in the wrong corner anway

[@moviewolverine89]

"I need to go to the hospital, my back is hurting really bad." "Did it start hurting after you got hit?" "No it's been hurting for 6 years." 😑

[@mysterymayhem7020]

Rather that than the guy who tells you his back is hurting, but he needs a minute because he's on the phone with his lawyer. Allstateitis anyone.

[@HariSeldon913]

6 years? Go home, wait until 3am, THEN call 911.

[@nikitasalgio3758]

"im having a heart attack" - EMS rushing to get there, patient is already standing outisde their house door with suitcase packed, handing you the bag while they sit down inside the rig to strap themselves in..... Routine check up at hopsital, not wanting to drive themselves and wait.

[@RICDirector]

Flip side is: Its been hurting for years but its suddenly much worse. Dont write stuff off without ALL the details!

[@chrisboaz5179]

Having worked both sides of the mic, it was always a challenge to get an accurate picture from callers of what had happened. However, one of my last calls on the engine was for a "non-injury mva with a gas spill". At least that was what PD dispatch had advised our fire/ems dispatch. When the chief arrived on scene, he quickly upgraded the single-engine, non-emergency response to a first alarm for the gasoline tanker truck that was lying on its side with a partial rupture!!!

[@mikegardner186]

When our guys complain about inaccurate dispatch info, I remind them that the caller is the weakest link in the process.

[@computerrodeollc]

JOBTOWN !!!!!!!!!!

[@GhostBear3067]

One of those instances where you just wonder how something can be so technically correct yet so wrong...

[@anjhindul]

Ya... I know that... ask for any kind of description... "it was a car" nothing more... for a drink hit and run guys job guys... get a camera!

[@ChronicBongitis420]

@@mikegardner186 where I'm at it seems to be the opposite as I've called for a fire that was an actual fire told them exactly where it was in the middle of the field with GPS coordinates. Dispatch must have given them the wrong information because they went the complete opposite direction.

[@homieyes4602]

"OH man I cut my finder" that made my day 🤣

[@goldenegg7447]

this is the first time I've ever seen an original comment without a like from the content creator, but the comment on that comment actually got the like. crazy stuff.

[@HariSeldon913]

I wish it was like this on the private side. for us its: Dispatch - patient weighs 170lb, there are 3 stairs at residence reality - Patient weighs 350, there are 27 steps with steep turns at both the top and bottom

[@WiIdbiII]

Hah. 350 sounds a little light these days.

[@stephenbigott1175]

Feeling your pain on a similar one last week

[@FelixMangrove]

More often than necessary.

[@Green__one]

@@WiIdbiII Dispatch today said they had a 690lb individual, 38" wide.... Our stretcher is rated for 700lbs and the interior of the ambulance is 39"... *sigh* Luckily for me, I wasn't on the crew that had to deal with it today! My last 450lb patient actually walked down the 2 flights of stairs from their apartment, which was lucky because I *REALLY* didn't want to carry them.

[@Serenity_yt]

Just had a 313 lbs home transfer yesterday. We sat him in our wheelchair drove to the top of a little Hill (his flat was at the bottom, the house was built into a step Hill and below was another house, no street access from there only through stairs from the top) and let him roll down the Hill with my collegue leaning against the front and me hanging onto the back to break. Fun times.... . He has to go back for Chemo next week fingers crossed Im not assigned to get him up again. The best case ever was a transfer to a care facility though with patient at about 330 lbs almost completly non responsive after a stroke and in a bad condition in general, almost didnt fit the stretcher. Well we arrived there and the staff unironically wanted to put pt in a building on the 2nd floor, with a single lift that barely fit a normal wheelchair.... they asked us to carry pt upstairs with a stretcher blanket (we couldn't get under them without risking them falling of anyways). Seriously what were they thinking? With pt condition as bad as it was within a few days theyd have to call EMS again, whod in turn have to call the fire department to get them down again. We refused and they magically found another room in a building which did have a large enough lift.🙄 *We have a Limit of 264 lbs we carry over that we're not responsible for getting them up anywhere, there are specialist services for that. And we're only 2 ppl per ambulance in most cases. For a stretcher blanket you need at least 3 for lighter patients and a full 6 for heavier ones which works out most of the time when staff/family there helps and takes the light feet part. But there were only 2 (very reluctant) nurses available for help not nearly enough for that much weight and we couldn't call reinforcements bc we were well out of our response range, we only do non urgent transport so we're not connected to the emergency services.)

[@KingMMO_PvP]

We need the flip side of this Dispatch: Respond C2 for knee pain. Reality: Amputation of leg

[@quillmaurer6563]

Or that classic situation: "I'm having some difficulty breathing, severe cough." "Okay, is it a wet cough or dry?" "Dry I think. It might be caused by the smoke (coughs)" "Smoke? Are you a smoker?" "No, my house is on fire though."

[@JobTlks]

Yesterday: striking a box for a structure fire. Receiving multiple calls. Multiple calls for an elderly woman and child trapped on the 3rd floor… Single. Malfunctioning. Smoke detector. 👌🏼

[@Kelly_Ben]

😆 🤣 😂 Or it can go the other way. When I was dispatching, I got a call for a rollover. The driver was out and walking, but appeared to be intoxicated and agitated, so I told my caller to keep her distance and let me know if anything changed. FIVE MINUTES LATER she casually says "Boy, I hope they get here soon, the car is on the tracks and a train is coming through soon. " #%^^#@@$%!! Can we LEAD with that next time!?

[@kenbrown2808]

Chief: "so why did you take a truck up a logging road?" answer: "because when we got dispatched it was a rollover with entrapment on a highway intersection."

[@hellinkillar5057]

Truth

[@dugaldjohnston688]

@@hellinkillar5057 Absolute.

[@toddb3226]

Yea, but half the 911 calls I take where the caller says "I don't know if this is a real emergency, but.." end in rollover w/ ejection / fire / stabbing / kidnapping.. (not all at once..usually. :p )

[@skyrim654]

I shit you not, on my first day in training for a dispatcher position I had a lady call in screaming bloody murder because she was petrified of a spider sitting on the front door...

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

@@skyrim654 Lol. I feel for the spider! She probably got scared half to death by that woman.

[@daQuietsho]

"usually"

[@andrewpena9041]

I was one of those "I don't know if this is an emergency" callers. Story: one day our CO detector downstairs starts going crazy. So I opened windows and called poison control, they told me to call the fire dept. So I looked up the fire department non-emergency number and called, they said "I can hear your alarm, you need to call 911". So finally I call 911, they told me to close the windows then get everyone outside. They show pretty quickly and determined that the exhaust from the water heater was blocked and dumping straight into the house. Scarry thing is we bought those detectors a week prior to that day. It was the middle of the day and nothing was on fire so I didn't think it warranted 911, the firefighter said we wouldn't have woken up the next morning.

[@cromulom2223]

@@skyrim654 that, is fair

[@Matt-mq1ep]

Soooo true. Small rural volunteer dept here, we cover 1 township each in 2 different counties. Its like playing the telephone game when the second county calls our home county to pass on info and dispatch us.

[@outsider344]

Single vehicle rollover, no injuries, Non blocking. RP left scene. Arrive to find 2 motorcycles wedged in the tires of a motor home thats across the highway. Ambulances 30 min away...

[@skyrim654]

For a meme video, this is more well put together then some Hollywood shit that is out there..

[@marissasue319]

💯🎯💯

[@tillhirte6285]

Volunteer from the countryside here. Got awoken right after going to bed on a weekday by the alarm: "Truck fully on fire in the middle of town". We're from a neighbouring village, but we also get called for anything with fire/ a vehicle accident. Hadn't even left our village when the neighbouring brigade called off all backup. The truck was indeed in the middle of town, but only having engine troubles, very much without any fire involved.

[@joshuaobelenusable]

When I was still a baby, I had a lockbox fall from the washing machine and the latch caught me under the eye. No 911 at the time, rural fire service got the call as "man trapped under filing cabinet"...

[@andynagray9824]

The slow motion scenes were dope! I love everyone's facial expressions

[@black_wolf9]

Dispatch: Drive 20 miles down the dirt road. When you come to the 5th fork in the road, turn left. Drive 5 more miles til you come to the burned stump and truck sized boulder. Stay to your right. Pt is 3 more miles down on the left.. My Chief: We're out of service. Me: Is that Todd's place????

[@leopoldfreiherrvonbernewit4747]

Rural VFD for the win, my dude :D

[@idcanthony9286]

Now, this is an underrated comment. Lol.

[@mook_butt8037]

Could not be more true for EMS too. “Priority 1 medical” for SOB and chest pain, turns out to be an asthmatic with allergies who’s actually totally fine and just needed to pop a Claritin.

[@marissasue319]

What's SOB again??

[@marissasue319]

Shortness of Breath??

[@TheSnailTrail207]

@@marissasue319 yep you got it

[@marissasue319]

@@TheSnailTrail207 Thanks 😀 Been looking at Steveioe's ER shorts these days 🤣

[@charltonhudson9846]

Lol. I was thinking he was calling the person an sob. Lmao

[@pdrake458]

Love it, as a tow truck driver we get the opposite, dispatch tells us it's a simple tow so they book 2 more tows after, then you get there and the cars in a ditch flipped over 50ft off the road lmao

[@adamt4742]

as another tow truck driver, I can confirm this. one of my first recoveries was called in as "I think I need a tow truck, my car is stuck in the ditch a little bit", turned into: in the bottom of the ditch and upside down

[@pdrake458]

@@adamt4742 on winch outs I always ask are all four tires touching the ground lmao

[@ninakaiser2930]

Can’t stop laughing and had to watch again and again! 🤣🤣🤣

[@HM2SGT]

What are we? Big. Damn. Heroes. Sir! Ain’t we just?! 😁

[@caileanm2009]

Ah wasn’t expecting to find a fellow firefly fan,

[@HariSeldon913]

Shiny!

[@paulketner5077]

Some people juggle geese!

[@jamesgizasson]

Yeah, and if wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak.

[@lovelight6973]

I'm an EMT new to the field. While I was in the process of getting hired as an EMT, I worked with a woman (client) her home in that was a frequent flyer. She called 911 hung up. 911 calls back. My client says she has bad stomach pain, high blood pressure, nausea and wasn't feeling well (giving vague info). (In reality she always has stomach pain because she eats terribly and refuses to take medication to calm her stomach down, and she's always had high blood pressure and takes medication for it). The 911 dispatcher I said what the symptoms are and I told her. Then she asked if she's ever had abdominal aortic aneurysm. I already know where she's going with this. I immediately said ma'am I don't think it's anything like that. Explained to her my clients baseline symptoms and this is typical. Also explained to her her history of being a FF. That her stomach pains are nothing serious and why she doesn't want to take the medicine for her pains (so she has an excuse to call 911). Fast forward 5 minutes later. The fire department, AMR, a truck and a couple other rigs show up. Just for my client to say I feel better now and gave him the finger to get out. The firefighters then told me that the dispatcher said she had possible AAA. 🤦🏻‍♀️ They were pissed (rightfully so). Looking at me like I'm an idiot wondering why the dispatcher said that. They said they almost got into a crash on their way. I tried to explain to them when speaking to dispatch when she was asking about AAA, I was worried she was going to go with that and that I explicitly stated to her this woman's a frequent flyer and she's done with so many times. But they cursed at me (which is understandable). An hour later my client calls 911 again and hangs up. 🙄 I'm so glad I don't work with her anymore.

[@Kelly_Ben]

I worked at 911 for 10 years. They held us to extremely strict standards, and ignoring protocols or downgrading calls was cause for suspension or termination, and possible lawsuit. So when Bertha calls yet again to say she can't breathe, while sucking on her menthols and yelling at her 20 cats, we still had to send it echo level. We'd try to find a professional and vague way to get the reality across, but liability always wins... if this is the time it really IS an AA, or respiratory failure or whatever else, guess who's losing their job and maybe getting sued? Not this dispatcher! 😆

[@jbtwofour]

I once got a dispatch call, "One vehicle MVC. Extrication IS needed." We showed up, and there was a motorcycle that lost control. The rider was already in the police car giving his statement.

[@HvV8446]

So... You guys just cut up a police car?

[@Addrit85]

Sorry. We try but we can only rely on what the public tells us LOL. I can’t tell you how many structure fire calls I’ve sent out with multiple calls stating heavy black smoke only to have trucks arrive and find a pot on the stove. Sigh. Just know that for many of us dispatchers, we are equally disappointed when a call turns out to be nothing lol

[@marissasue319]

OMG 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@neilkurzman4907]

That black smoke is very toxic.

[@146TS]

Seems to happen a lot with vehicle fires, too.

[@Addrit85]

@@146TS Yeah. Many broken radiators mistaken for smoke/fires.

[@146TS]

@@Addrit85 I've also seen overheated brakes and others turn out to be "unfounded." (IE: searched up and down the highway for the reported vehicle and nothing found.)

[@ptaylor4923]

I was a security guard/EMT. One day kids run over screaming, "Taylor, you've got to come with us. She's broken her leg." I get to the scene & find a little girl has had a gate slammed on her hand... no leg injury. Another time I'm at a oak and people come running saying a teenager is stuck on high rocks and needs help getting down. I call for Sheriff's Mountsin Rescue and head to the scene because to me "stuck" could be wedged in and unable to breathe. When I get there I find a teenager proved out,,half in and half out of a lake, scrapes and lacerations to his back and indication on a quick head to toe that he's got an injury to his spleen. Tha dispatcher only relays what they're told and people on the scene are frequently less than reliable. 🙄

[@HM2SGT]

It’s pollen season in Central Texas. Sometimes it’s so thick in the dells and valleys and vales that it looks like smoke… I bet you know the rest!😳🙀🤦😩🤷

[@michael7324]

We have been called to dozens of structure fires that were nothing but steam from the homes dryer.

[@Amradye]

Points for not just peeing on it 🤣

[@BenEMT]

Dispatched to a motorcycle crash, sounded a bit bad and there was an extended time to reach the scene. Rural system, no trauma center. Called for medivac. Rolled up, motorcycle with minor damage, no patient in sight. Just a group of bystanders talking. One was my patient. Apologized to the medivac as it was preparing to land, placed them in service. Did a standing immobilization of the patient. Got him flat, "I can't breathe!!" Tension pneumo, awesome! 😂 Did a quick needle decompression, he felt better, released from the local ER a few hours later. Basically, what looks bad might not be, what looks like nothing may be more complex.

[@marissasue319]

And the traumatic, nauseating injury 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@robertgordontaylor]

So True !!! One of our recent calls, "Old man trapped in lawn chair. Heavy Rescue also responding."

[@dollchuu]

Lmao! All those cinematic takes for just that last scene did it for me 😆 thanks so much for the videos ❤

[@FireDeptCoffee]

Haha, it's our pleasure!

[@robsalisbury2550]

Dispatch: “Multiple callers smoke and flames seen” First Due: “on scene nothing showing”

[@daQuietsho]

I'm nowhere near involved in this accident and I feel called out 😆 😆 😆

[@dadtype2339]

My first fire call was for, according to Fire Control dispatch, was for a barn fire with live stock still inside, we arrive on scene IN A NEIGHBORHOOD!!!! LOL, and in a backyard is a wooden shed, though be it a good sized one, painted like a classic barn you know red with white trim, cute, and yes it had a fire going not super crazy and it wasn't a barn, and the live stock inside, course we were all thinking horses or cows, was actually a small chicken coop....yeah, a heating lamp fell over bulb down into the bedding and caught fire. Thankfully the chickens and chicks were saved and so was the barn, I mean shed...lol. An odd call we had was for an MVA wherein a driver had collided into a Beer Delivery Truck, and we of course thought it was a tractor trailer, turned out it was like a Ford Sprinter, the driver was drunk but okay, as he got out all these Bud Light beer cans came out and were all over inside his vehicle, but what the delivery vehicle was, lol yup, a Bud Light Vender, he was okay too. And to top it off I cracked open a Bud Water our department kept on our utility rescue for us to drink. I couldn't help it, just had to complete the circle. Most of the time Dispatch is pretty good but there are some calls that didn't exactly line up, and of course they get their info from the 911 caller who is dishing out this golden info. So, dispatch isn't entirely to blame, not their fault for an over exaggerated person who dials 911. My biggest fear is I get into a wreak and I'm unconscious, and some good Samaritan who doesn't know that it's just the radiator venting off coolant and think the vehicle is smoking and about to blow up like in the moves and thinks I need to pull him out, and I have a neck injury and this joker pulls me out and now I can't walk or worse moves my C4 which is fractured and now I can't breathe and I die....biggest fear right there..and now yours too.

[@talaeyn8326]

As a dispatcher.... Yeah, that's about right. Oh, except for PD arriving on scene first seeing the smoke and calling out sight of flames with no other info.

[@talaeyn8326]

@@CRDubU Ah yes, telephone tag, where everybody gets pissed, and where eventually first responders build up a solid contact list in their phones of other first responders due to annoyed dispatchers going fuck it give em their personal cell, see how they like this shit.

[@thorhh]

The "I cut my finger" had me in stitches!

[@JoeRocket1504]

We still roll with the pump cans. They are amazing

[@firefighterfan2010]

Cool One FDC! A Dispatcher is always being busy and answering calls.

[@SheepdogSmokey]

Yep! Dispatch - THE WORLD IS ENDING! Reality - minor stuff.

[@nagaviper1169]

The guy at the end ready to hurl. 🤣🤣🤣

[@pathull3963]

The guy say aw I cut my finger And the guy throwing up made my day

[@rab7889]

True for EMS too! I get it, it's better to assume the worst and come prepared, but talk about crying wolf!

[@kilethetormentor7687]

Seems about right,love the videos keep up the great work.

[@warhawk3136]

My favorite is the tone for possible car fire that ends up being a car overheating.

[@DavidHBurkart]

Hahahaha, so true!!! This is like the everyday!! We need a skit for the opposite, which is a bit less often, but heightens the pucker factor; when the call comes in as routine, but is anything but routine when you arrive... Frankly, you could run this video in reverse, and voila 😂😂😂😂

[@55CreeperHunter99]

that sirrrup pump at the end killed me

[@firemedic6509]

Had a call last Saturday night. MVA on I-10 with entrapment and fire and helicopter response. First engine arrived on scene extinguished with a dry chem found no entrapment and canceled the helo. 🤣

[@martintaylor5943]

These are so good and bring back the great memories.

[@susansusan6612]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 “Oh man, I cut my finger” “🤮”

[@william.maclennan9061]

One of your best yet. Keep them coming

[@minchkin8936]

never have I seen a more accurate skit

[@rolanddeschain9139]

I'm not a religious dude, but GOD BLESS the firefighters!!!

[@jascollinscork]

😂😂😂😂 not the ending I was expecting 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@ananass8030]

Working with a dispatch, can confirm

[@Arkain7]

I had a room mate who decided it would be a good a idea to make tea out of marijuana. The EMT had to be called because he thought his lungs were trying to crawl out of his body and couldn't breathe.

[@muddydave01]

Volunteer in the NSW RFS. Number of times we'd get called back to investigate something smouldering on the ground, 200m inside the burnt area, because a member of the public saw a bit of smoke or flame.

[@Beandiptheredneck]

This is so true 🤣

[@erikaclark3870]

First call of the day, dispatch tones us out for a female pt in lockup having pregnancy complications. Dispatch calls me to say pt reports she's one day late for her period. Skepticism ensues, but w/e, let's mosey on down. We get on scene, pt is 40w +1, contracting regularly, and fixing to pop out a kid while we're waiting on an officer to ride with us to the ED. It goes both ways, my dudes!

[@veramae4098]

His FINGER! IS HIS FINGER ALRIGHT???

[@FireDeptCoffee]

All good!!! Still attached!

[@Green__one]

Our dispatchers are not allowed to exercise any common sense. There are certain keywords they listen for and they have no choice but to code the call according to those keywords even if they know it's false. End result: "first party caller [...] patient is not breathing" (and yet they can talk on the phone? hmmmmmm....)

[@milkaella1]

I laughed way to hard at this 🤣 😂

[@phoenixmastm]

I mean, to be fair, Dispatch just be relaying what the people tell them. That said...those calls must be the biggest JOBTOWN! disappointment ever.

[@bjverzal]

One of the best ever.

[@LongWalkerActual]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Been there!!!

[@gator7082]

I needed that.

[@codydewell9475]

Why is noone talking about the earpro attached to the helmets...absolutely genius. Saves your ears from the saws. And if it somehow was also a radio for when your masked up it would be an amazing tool!

[@colinmerritt7645]

Top notch cinematography!

[@ally8614]

that ending was beautiful XD

[@izelaazsha5744]

It's so true 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@craigkulbaba7564]

So God damn true, it hurts!!! LOL

[@brettvanmellaert4971]

That was amazing🤣

[@outsider344]

Possible fatality. Vehicle with unresponsive driver on side of road. Awake friendly man from roadside nap on long trip...

[@rchrdjms62]

Where did y'all find that fire extinguisher?

[@thatfishingnoob]

Lol, this can also be substituted with call slip versus reality.

[@grandwaha]

We get a REALERT for an audible alarm with possible light smoke from a window " adding 3rd Box, Tender Task Force & a second RIT team" While it turns out everyone on scene is updating with a working structure but Communications is still dispatching the original call.

[@inherentnature5938]

My new favorite!

[@Alexis-un5lb]

Jason's face be like Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 😱

[@kenmeinken8115]

OTOH -- Dispatch "Vehicle fire, only one engine needed". Department rolls 2 engines and tanker, per department SOP. Dispatch: only one engine required! Information not given to dispatch: car was in the garage. As it was, they still lost half the house.

[@GreatFoxGodOniKitsune]

That fire was MASSIVE

[@Jonathan_From_TT]

They have to much fun with these

[@marissasue319]

@ 0:19 @ 0:29 Retch guy 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@jayffemt]

Patient not feeling well- STEMI. Patient states severe pain and difficulty breathing- mild cold. Fully involved structure fire with entrapment- camper on fire two people outside in pajamas. Smell of smoke- full-blown structure fire, caller in uninvolved room sniffing the air for smoke.

[@jameslockerbie6868]

I swear the caller, said THE CAR IS ON FIRE!!!

[@jonathanparker3313]

This channel makes me laugh so much love it

[@FireDeptCoffee]

Hahaha, thank you!

[@johns7734]

This is why, when I'm on the ambulance, I always respond lights and sirens TO the scene. What I find on arrival may bear NO resemblance to what I was dispatched for. Also, scenes are dynamic. The "ill person" may be a "CPR in progress" by the time I arrive. However, I rarely use the lights and siren on the way to the hospital unless the patient really needs it.

[@Squirrel_8018]

So true

[@asmodean26]

Normal day at the office. ;-)

[@robertknight3196]

We're using "ProQA" and are faced with everything being either a structure fire or a cardiac arrest. Talk about FF blueballs...

[@Damsurf77]

So this is not only me. It's a worldwide situation.

[@AdamDilloo]

the most pittiest gag has been located...

[@jb6712]

Assuming you meant "piteous," there being no such word as 'pittiest.'

[@marissasue319]

@@jb6712 😂🤣😂🤣😂 Maybe, "pitiful"?? 🤷🏼

[@Flyingratcarcus]

yes

[@mrmofo36]

pretty high production level here

[@queeny5613]

Awesome

[@KingOfGamesss]

...yeah it really is quiet out there Today...

[@quillmaurer6563]

[Q runs by screaming with flamethrower]

[@anacolon1348]

Hysterical 😂