Fire Fighters, What Is The Dumbest Situation That You've Been A Part Of? (r/AskReddit)

firefighters of Riddick what's the dumbest person you had to save in a stupid situation dumb boss tried to cross a raging river in zero degree weather about a 300-foot span on a snowmobile he lived but didn't make the crossing and the machine was recovered days later in Maine you are required to get your snowmobile out if you sink it in a lake they don't want those things leaking and polluting so every year you hear about some guy having to hire a diver and such I once had a firefighter tell me he almost died in a house fire while going back into the house to look for the owner a neighbor was concerned about why the firefighter was still in the residence so he asked another firefighter this is about how the exchange went neighbor why is that fireman still in the house firefighter he's looking for the owner of the home neighbor he is right over there with the video camera turns out the owner did not think it was important to alert the fire department he was out of the house instead he was just taking video of the whole event the fire started because the owner had tried to smother his barbecue cook aflame with leftover wood from the siding that had been installed on his home the owner did not realize it would burn burned his whole house down holy Frick people are stupid I'm not a firefighter but I used to do a lot of Disaster Response work Hurricane Floyd Eastern NC I had a farmer with a large family that refused to evacuate his house stubborn bastard River had broke loose floodwaters were coming up fast and the police had given up on changing his mind I drove my truck right up into his yard rolled down the window and asked him to dress his kids in something orange or bright yellow he asked me why and I said so body recovery will be able to distinguish them from all the dead pigs floating around he told me to freak off but five minutes later he had the whole family in the vehicle and they got the heck out the local news station was just reminiscing on how much Floyd had fricked up Eastern Carolina glad those guys didn't end up as statistics we needed to close the main connection through a forest over the winter because the trees were falling faster on the road and we could remove them due to way too much snow falling also the redirection was more than an hour longer due to the snow some cars thought that they would come through but turned around as soon as they saw the trees on the road one semi also thought he'd get through he drove up to the trees and called the fire brigade and complained why we didn't remove the trees as he was calling a bunch of trees behind him also fell locking him in it stood there one month before the trees in the snow could get removed by us at at least the semi can become out we needed another month until the road was free again former firefighter EMT easily the dumbest person I encountered was a mother of four who decided it would be an awesome idea to get a facebook Instagram worthy picture of her kids all under age 10 sitting in a rowboat mother untied it from the dock and thought she'd just pulled him back with the rope that she forgot to hold on to they floated a half mile down the river before the two oldest boys managed to grab a branch hanging over the bank it was really surreal to see four young kids all in matching clothing sitting in a boat waiting to be rescued I have no clue what happened after that they were physically fine just scared a little tired that the mom was in full-blown panic mode and kept getting in our way I hope she's making better choices now years ago we had this call straight out of Caddyshack some guy had gotten tired of this gopher ruining his yard little did he know though he was facing the Sun Tzu of Gophers the homeowner dwelling upon his experience from Vietnam decided that the best way to deal with the Gopher was to treat the situation like a VC tunnel in lieu of a frag grenade he poured a 5-gallon can of gasoline down the gopher hole waited with a varmint gun and lit it off the ensuing explosion caused a small crater to form in his yard I am still thoroughly impressed that there was a proper fuel-to-air ratio in the network of tunnels that allowed for such an explosion to happen however the Gopher refused to surrender without a fight the Gopher ran out of the hole engulfed in flames causing the guy's yard to catch on fire the Gopher sprinted into the guy's shed still on fire and burrowed in to avoid space in the wall where he died like the martyr perk from Modern Warfare his still flaming remained set the inside of the wall on fire as well as several flammables in the end the guy's backyard was ruined and about a quarter of his shed burned down taking out a bunch of power tools and a zero-turn mower he definitely would have saved a few thousand dollars if he had hired an exterminator this reminds me of my dad he hated fire ants always had gasoline around to clean the grease you know well he would get bit by an ant and the fight was on gasoline fetched and poured onto the mound promptly lit and the ensuing commentary delivered deepen I'll show them it's fire I'm not a firefighter but my brother's wife at the time was there was this massive structure fire at a barn in town that drew out nearly every truck in the general area like three towns worth of firefighters trying to get this thing under control during all of this there was some lady who continuously called 9-1-1 asking over and over again what's going on at the farm up the road according to her this woman would have to be a complete [ __ ] to not realize what was going on as the fire could be seen for miles fast forward later into the night and one of the ambulances on scene suddenly leaves obviously not normal for this sort of situation but there isn't much time to question it fast forward still and as things are finally starting to calm down in Dyer under control one of the volunteers on the original ambulance comes over in his own car and shuffles sheepishly over to her and the chief of their department he tells them that there is a woman a little ways down the road who called the ambulance hence why they left and requires a lift assist but absolutely refuses to let EMTs do it no no it has to be a firefighter my brother's wife seeing that the other departments have things under control goes with the man to see what's up apparently it was the same woman who had called 9-1-1 over and over again and when they arrive she is laying on the floor absolutely wailing EMT say they can't find anything wrong from what they've been able to do but with her requested firefighter they are finally able to get this woman they start asking her what happened hoping she might be more willing to share with my brother's wife there and she says I was just feeling a little ignored I figured this would get your attention grown woman just laid herself on the floor called for help insisted on a firefighter when there was no need all because the bonfire was getting way more attention than she was in the 9-1-1 operators wouldn't give her the gossip about what was going on I know she got in major trouble for abusing 9-1-1 but from what I hear from the people on both fire and ambulance she has made a habit of calling for help whenever she feels she's not getting enough attention she sounds like the type of woman who would fake a seizure in public actually no she sounds like the type of woman who would fake a seizure in public because someone else was in the process of actually seizing and she was jealous of the attention too I can recall one specific the specific one was a young girl around teenage years who decided those toddler swings with the seats who stick their legs through like a little basket so they can't fall out was made for a teenage girl she got stuck and lost blood flow to her legs we had to cut her down and get her to a hospital to have it safely removed due to it basically becoming a Toni K on both her legs the other is general but it's people who didn't wear a seat belt in the people they killed as a result you have less control of a vehicle when you are not being held in place so those wrecks are more common as the first sign of trouble your butt moves in the seat and reduces your ability to control the vehicle you also become a projectile if you're lucky you only kill yourself if you are not you wind up bouncing around and killing a passenger also the leading cause of partial ejections and re-entry to vehicles since nothing was holding them to the seats so many times I could have just been there cutting someone out off a seat and then being barely beat up but instead they had been scalped and died or hit their kid or spouse or other family member or friend and killed them one in particular I remember was a large man not wearing a seat belt in an overturned truck he woke up while we were working on him cutting the passenger side up to get down to him as the vehicle was on its side driver-side down he kept asking us how his son was at first we didn't get it then we realized he was laying on his 15 - 16 year old son and due to the man's size we didn't see him the son was wearing a seat belt but he died because his father smashed into him and smothered him to death while we worked rather than just wear a seat belt extender so his seat belt fit also don't lighted us about if you wore it your seat belt won't fire the pretension as if they are not engaged in the slot they are designed that way there is a circuit that is completed by the best being clicked in place which is also how your car knows your passengers are wearing a seat belt or not and sets off that obnoxious alarm there is also a sensor in the passenger front seat of most modern vehicles to detect the weight of a small person which is why your sodas or pizzas at whatever set off the alarm just wear the dang seat belt and don't lie if you were wearing a tie won't be able to pull tons of slack on it when I arrived guess what goes into the report is the determining factor your insurance ceases - if you should have your medical covered as a result of an accident yup I don't know what they do were they information but I have to write it in the report source state vehicle rescue technician and firefighter mostly volunteer at this point there was a horrifying but effective seatbelt advert when I was a kid ninth is England that basically went today Joe killed his mum then sat back down with the kid sitting in the back and belted and smashing into the driver's seat he turned me into one of those kids who would nag everyone about their seat belts but I've been in a couple of crashes since and walked away it wasn't really his fault but we had an old guy in a nursing home get his balls stuck in a shower chair a motorist had a bad alternator and the car died while she was driving the electric lock control stopped working we were dispatched for a person trapped in a motor vehicle on arrival the advice was given to manually lift the lock knob you can easily tell the ones who will not survive the first 24 hours of the zombie apocalypse firefighter/paramedic and suburb both PHX had to transport a guide to the because he was constipated his wife tried to dig it out with a wooden spoon spoon got stuck and her to move it walked in and there's a 250 pound man butt-naked lying on his side with a huge wooden spoon stuck halfway up his butt that is not why he had a spoon up his butt me and my dad are both firefighters and he said one time they went to a house because an elderly man could not get out of the leather recliner because he had been sitting in it for a week straight and his wife would just serve him drinks food and the guy never got up he would just get drunk and urinate defecate himself until he was physically stuck to the chair and they had to cut him out to bikini clad girls had to be rescued from a swift moving river in a canoe neither girl brought a life vest or a paddle something something crap Creek had a drunk guy in an article chaser penguin penguin stuck his beak through the offending drunk guy's calf he got sent home and a report on international treaty breach wound up on some Congress members desk Oh McMurdo how I miss thee while pendulums are powerful dude picked up a metal ring from a hardware store in lieu of paying for an actual dong ring it got stuck he went to the hospital the hospital called the fire department because a dremel tool turned out to be the right tool for the job you guys sure Dremel near the bait and tackle a lot I use mine for small wood projects just ask this question of a firefighter friend he saved the guy who was siphoning gas out of someone's car by sucking gas towards his mouth to start the siphon there would be thief was also smoking while doing it burns happened had a fella who was running from the police he decided to climb on board a chunk of ice that was flowing down the river I am sure he thought he was a genius at the time but the issue is that there isn't really a whole lot north of our town for a few hundred miles so his long-term planning wasn't great eventually we found him hiding in a small icy overhang on the side of the river suffering from hypothermia after a brief stay in hospital he ended up being arrested I was a volunteer firefighter many years back one summer after a long period of no rain two good old boys decide to have a few dozen beers and take their Jeep into a nearby field to go off-roading well - featuring toll corn stalks that are bone dry wind up getting jammed up into the undercarriage which on a 90 plus degree day turns out to be hot enough to ignite a fire the owner of the field sees the situation unfolding from their house and calls for fire and police given the proximity to my location I go directly to the scene after hearing the page go out and see these two buttholes trying to drive the Jeep faster and faster to put the fire out eventually the engine gives out but they won't leave the car I physically had to reach in burning my arms in the process since I didn't respond to the station first to get my turnout gear and pulled them out somehow they decided that remaining in the car would slow down the flames and because they thought it was a good idea to continue driving a burning vehicle around at dry field we now have a significant brush fire and after call mutual aid from another county to help douse the fire State Police get involved I have a nice trip to the hospital and buttholes lose their Jeep and the remainder of their boos former Fire and Rescue firefighter here have helped release several dogs and children stuck in the mechanism part of a recliner chair also a bird stuck in a tree go figure I remember her asking a firefighter about this once and he said a guy who was fricking a woman her husband came home so he jumped out the second-story window buck naked and impaled himself through the upper leg on a fence paling it was one of those fleur-de-lys ones so it flicked up his leg pretty badly they had to cut the paling up of the fence and load him into an ambulance I honestly thought this story would end with someone getting their dangler stuck in something but that's worse that's much worse obligatory not a fireman but they were most definitely involved I used to work in a Nick public grammar school over the summers to pay for college back in the 90s one of the full-time employees was a nice guy but stupid and I don't mean he was slow or anything he just did dumb crap because he was careless one time he loaded up a trailer with like 25 gallons of gas and was driving it back through the main school parking lot he didn't realize that container cracked open and spilled all 25 gallons in the parking lot he didn't want to get in trouble so he thought the best way to get rid of the evidence was to set the gas on fire he didn't realize that burning gas gives off a lot of black smoke and a gigantic cloud of black smoke coming from a school generally attracts a lot of attention from first responders panicking he tries to put the flaming lake of gas out by driving over i.t with his car with a fire department gets there screaming at him to stop driving his car through flaming gasoline they finally get the fire out and just screamed at this guy for like 25 minutes it was the funniest thing I've ever seen I was the dumb coal my cat got her paw stuck under the dishwasher and was screaming bloody murder I couldn't move her poor and I couldn't lift the machine so I sat with her while my husband called the fire department she chewed right through one of my favorite blankets in her stress firefighters arrived not in full suits but heavy boots and pants soon as they came around the corner to the kitchen our cat miraculously was able to free her poor and take off to hide in the bathroom the guys seemed confused but at least it was easy we thank them profusely for being scary enough to free our cat who had zero physical damage not even a broken claw I guess she'd hooked her claws on something and didn't want to let it go for love or money not me but Dad was a firefighter in Nick and once responded to a call at a Chinese food restaurant where the owners walkway was iced over he apparently didn't speak very good English and maybe misunderstood the job of a fireman genuinely don't know they sorted down his front walkway for him and explained that this was 100% not their job they all had a good laugh and the guy gave them all free girls ppl always used to ask him questions about crazy calls and he never enjoyed talking about that so he would always tell that story what happened in 1999 still makes me laugh to this day 20 years later ETA if you plan on commenting something along the lines of 20 years ago 0mg I'm old screw you for reminding me I assure you roughly 40 other people have already beaten you to the punch I get it 99 doesn't feel that long ago let's all move on law it's interesting that that's what so many people took away from this story heard this story from a friend emergency call comes in foreign miscellaneous electrical hazard chief walks in and a woman tells him that the TV in the bedroom is making a weird noise it's turned off but there's a low buzzing sound coming from the area chief unplugs the TV which she didn't think to do and the noise doesn't stop the TV is sitting on top of a chest of drawers so he opens up the top drawer and finds this woman's cell object passing away super awkward obligatory not a firefighter but recently in San Diego a group of suburban moms decided to take their infants up the local hiking spot called cows Mountain it's not a particularly grueling hike as many children and elderly people can do it however there is a heat stroke warning posted at the trailhead not to mention it can get pretty hot here in this last week was no exception with temperatures exceeding 90 degrees while these idiots took their infants up in this heat the trail is pretty exposed and due to its easy accessibility and Instagram worthiness lots of inexperienced hikers flocked to it many times with little to no water because they underestimated how hot and difficult it could be needless to say the fire department Em's and chopper were all cold as these moms had taken their babies up and were too tired and exhausted to come down they had to go up and give water check their conditions and some even carried the babies down I know fires are a lot hotter but I bet they were cursing out these moms in their heads as they had to hike up the mountain in pretty much full gear the moms came strolling down laughing and flipping off the cameras as they were angry people were going to see their stupidity this happened all because they wanted to take a group photo with their infants on a mountain on a hot day I was on a backpacking trip through some national parks a couple years ago and we were repeatedly shocked by how little water most people were carrying but like you're in the middle of the frickin desert and we'd see people with no pack just holding a 20 ounce bottle of water meanwhile I've got 3l in my pack and an extra 750 milliliters bottle just in case Fire Department and the paramedics had to come to my work one day because some kid didn't know the difference between a swimming pool and a splash pad there's this artificial waterfall that goes down into a basin that's only about two inches deep where there's fountains and stuff for kids to play in this kid decided to climb up the waterfall there are multiple signs posted not to do this and decided to dive off into the water below that again there's only two inches deep luckily the kid landed flat on his face so he survived and avoided being paralyzed but he was knocked out cold immediately and would have probably drowned but luckily his mother heard the splat and came running over screaming and pulled him out and for my next trick I shall dive from the roof onto this damp sponge not a firefighter this happened to my son when he was six he was at a Cub Scout beating which was next door to the fire station the firefighters had these racks where they'd lay their hoses out to dry I think the little Scouts were climbing on those racks one day and my son's chubby leg slipped between the bars and got stuck the firefighters had to come use the jaws of life from their own dang racks to free my kid you have been visited by the wealth rat subscribin 12 seconds and he will share his wealth with you thanks for watching if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

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Length: 21min 21sec (1281 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 23 2020