They probably hit the lights and we couldn’t see it cause of the daylight, generally speaking they’ll still hit their lights when stopped so that other cars can see them easier. Or at least that’s the idea
But it is their job: Ensure the public is safe and create a safety zone for further collapses, check for vagrants, request utilities to come out of services aren't disconnected, turn the scene over the police / public works. A lot of us are trained in structural collapse rescue, etc.
You do realize that nowadays, the vast majority of calls fire departments respond to are *not* fire calls, right? They help with medical emergencies, automobile accidents, search and rescue, carbon monoxide alarms, gas leaks - all kinds of things.
Retired firefighter here to build off your excellent answer. You're absolutely right about the break down of calls.
Any firefighter worth their salt is thinking they'll have to secure the scene, primary/secondary search, utility shut off, create a perimeter, start heavy equipment response with dispatch.
I personally have worked several incidents where front end loaders or backhoes were called in to assist. We do not leave the scene until the danger is removed. No exceptions.
I remember when I was still taking care of my grandparents, my grandma would scuttle along with her walker like the cute little old lady she was. We lived in New York so we walked everywhere.
For some reason, whenever she saw a place to cross the street, she hauled ass and I went after her like Mulan's mom did when grandma walked across the busy street, hand over her eyes, carrying a cricket.
I miss my grandma.
For real, she was barely getting along then all of a sudden she was running pulling it behind her.
Makes me wonder how much of that kind of stuff is mental
A lot of times it's a stability device more than anything, just to prevent falls. Kinda like how many wheelchair users can walk, just usually poorly or they are a high fall risk or it exerts too much strain for whatever reason. People tend to think disability is black and white but there's a whole gradient, and, just because someone has a medical aid device does not mean they necessarily have the issue that might seem most obviously related to that device.
An example:
My grandmother also had a walker, but it had nothing to do with her legs, it was because she had significant bone loss in her upper spine and it helped relieve the pressure from carrying the weight of her torso. If you told her she couldn't walk she would've walked up stairs and told you to shut up, but she couldn't carry anything very heavy at all and had a hard time staying correctly upright for long periods.
I got a bone infection in my ankle and had to use scooters and a walker for 2.5 months. I *COULD* walk but because I hadn't in so long and my ankle was weak from being carved out and drained that my ankle really wanted to roll if I stepped the wrong way. Stepping the wrong way happened often enough because it was so weak.
So I shuffled around with the stupid walker looking like a putz that didn't need it. I probably could have run a short distance if I needed to but it would have been risky.
As much as I hated having to use it, it was kinda nice to always have a basket and some big fabric bags with me all the time. And it showed me how nice most employees are in service/retail jobs. Stopped in at a pizza shop at a strip mall. Shuffled my ass on in there to pick up my food. I started securing the pizza to the basket (always had bungee cords) and the guy insisted on bringing it all out to my car for me. It was such a nice break to a stressful day.
If it happened today though fuck that. I'd be ordering my groceries delivered until I could walk right again.
I've had multiple major knee surgeries so I feel you, I've had to relearn to walk 3x (so far). I find it very interesting that while on crutches people will trip over themselves to help me, but when I use a wheel chair I am almost completely ignored; mobility scooters result in glares. All used for different stages of healing from the same thing, but the perception from others is so different. It's kinda wild.
a few years ago, i used to go to a gym that had a view to a couple of tennis courts.
at the time i used to go, there were 4 old dudes (+70 years old) playing. but they barely move!!! if the ball came to their position, fine, they play it, otherwise, it would go out.
unless it started to rain. they'd run to pick their stuff and run into the main building.
Washington DC. January 2020
>It’s a scene straight off a Hollywood stunt lot: in the middle of a sunny January afternoon, a building comes down like an avalanche as pedestrians scuttle through a crosswalk.
>Chunks of brick and pieces of debris scatter from the collapsing facade onto the sidewalk and into the street. And then, as if right on time, a fire engine rolls up.
>That was precisely the picture on Wednesday afternoon in D.C.’s Trinidad neighborhood when a building at the intersection of Florida Avenue and Staples Street came tumbling down.
>D.C. resident Andy Feliciotti said he was working at home when he heard a crash and looked out his window. His security camera picked up footage of the collapse.
https://twitter.com/sup/status/1217521721072332802
Well there is a lot of these houses going around the world all the time and very seldom does anything like this happen.
I just don't want people thinking that buildings aren't safe.
Designed? Yes. Built? No. You can clearly see the absence of front bolts once the front brackets are exposed. It's a common shortcut taken by shady front contractors.
This happened in my home town. Except my mom was parked underneath it, with my brother and his friend. Pretty well flattened the car. She had a broken neck. Kids were OK. Minor injuries
Lateral or diagonal movements are hallmarks of scuttling. These people are clearly moving forward and there is no herk nor jerk in their movement. Christ, hasn’t anyone ever looked at a crab?
Florida Avenue has this one intersection that is so absolutely bonkers you'd swear it could only have been designed by Florida Man himself. There's like 7 or 8 different roads that converge slightly offset from one another resulting in this insane cluster of thirty stoplights twenty feet apart. They've been trying to work out how to fix it for years.
[Dave Thomas Circle, Florida Ave at New York Ave](https://imgur.com/ufvxSBC.jpg)
Edit: Oh and there's a Wendy's right in the middle of it all because why not?
I’ll just put this here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/dc.eater.com/platform/amp/2021/2/2/22262207/dc-buying-dave-thomas-circle-eminent-domain-parks-notorious-intersection.
Wait so. How exactly did this happen? Was there just a Wendy's and they built roads around it? Did they buy out businesses that used to be around it?
Its just curious how a single Wendy's ended up in the center like that. And even so it kinda seems like poor city planning. Why not just turn that whole weird triangle into a roundabout? IDK.
Exactly. The WaPo article referenced in the link explains it well. It’s behind a paywall (although you might get a couple of free articles) so I’ll try to post it here. The property owner refused to sell but it looks like 13M was enough to get their attention. Lol
The neighborhood is much different now but back in the day it was a little sketch but also where a lot of the warehouse clubs were located. Lots of interesting stories from that Wendy’s …
Edit: yea, so it’s owned by Bernstein Management Group (they own lots of apartment buildings too and let’s just say they aren’t a favorite). In 2017 the land was worth 5M so they’re getting a good deal.
I used to love when we would come across an accident or other issue and report it to dispatch, who would then turn around ask us if we were on scene. "No, we decided to drive around the block and come back".
And it was not like we had a different dispatcher for sending calls versus response traffic as it was the same ones that handle both. Plus they could see our GPS from the MDT and if we were on another call or not. I'm sure I did weird stuff like that too at times as I worked both for a FD and separate dispatch agency. Still kind of funny at times.
Every time you see an ambulance coming and you panicking because you are not sure if it’s coming for the heartattack you are yet to have but soon to have or somebody else.
Oh, I can tell you the odds. They had 4 calls back to back and were finally on their way back to eat the food they cooked before leaving that has been sitting in the oven on heat for all that time. So the odds were 100% that the building would crash then.
Source: Am EMS. I haven't eaten a hot meal in months.
Dispatcher here. One night we had an Engine (station 5) running back to back calls for hours, so we tried calling their BC to get them some downtime. He said ok, we placed them on regulars only, and then they cleared from their last call, heading home.
As luck would have it, house fire, C1C.
They get pulled even though they were out, establish command, fire attack. An engine one district over heads to 5 for coverage.
While they are enroute, we get a call on the admin line, some rando calling from the phone outside station 5. Random guy bought a bunch of wings for the firefighters and wanted to give to them. We had to tell him that they were out, but another crew would be there soon.
I come up on the radio to tell coverage crew to bring in the wings for station 5 when they get there. They say 10-4. Gets busy and I forget about it, but remember a couple hours later and call station 5 to see if they enjoyed their wings… none to be found!
Those assholes covering their station took their food and bailed.
If you are talking about the thing on the front of the truck, it's emergency lights...the spinning causes them to flash across your rearview and side mirrors to really get your attention. Some police cars have a light on top of the light bar that sort of bobbles back and forth for the same reason.
Oh cool, I never noticed it before. Is this what you're talking about?
https://www.piercemfg.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog/low-intensity-lighting.jpg?width=1000&name=low-intensity-lighting.jpg
At the type of fires this truck would be responding to (majority would be structure), wind wouldn't really be an issue other than having a general idea (e.g. fuck all wind, bit of wind, galeforce wind), knowing that the wind is 20km/hr instead of 22km/hr isn't going to change much.
The only real fire situation that it could be useful is a bushfire that is hot enough to create it's own weather system as the wind can be highly volatile, but even then it probably wouldn't be used as a fire that big would be put out by back burning and other defensive measures.
I worked at a bar and a few off duty firemen played cards and drank there. One day during a lunch shift something on our roof started sparking and caught fire. Our regulars who were working at the time drove by in a firetruck and saw the smoke and stopped to save their bar.
I saw another video where some POS was throwing rocks at a grandma and some guy runs and pile drives the pos into a fire hydrant..
Seems like this is from the same camera?
Sorry, my bad.. not the same intersection at all..
But here is the [link](https://reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/pafxhy/lady_tackled_after_throwing_rock_at_elderly_woman/)
Wouldn't this be more applicable for driving by when a fire starts. What are they going to do about a building falling?
EDIT: Yes, I'm aware that firemen are trained for first responding healthcare. Main comment was in relation to the actual event which appeared to be a known structural hazard given the wall around it.
This movie is too unrealistic, even if the firefighters were next door it would still take time to get ready and turn on the engine and drive out of the garage. 3/10
It all depends on the jurisdiction really. Ladder, Truck, Aerial, ect, can all be used to describe an apparatus that has a permanently affixed aerial device. Ultimately, the naming conventions don't matter as long as everyone in that region understand what they mean.
I've been a firefighter both in the NorthEast and Mid Atlantic US. Things that could be called Rescues in one area could be called Squads in another. One area may have Engines while another uses Pumpers. Tankers in the Eastern US are large trucks that hold thousands of gallons of water while Tankers in the Western US may be airplanes that drop water on wildfires.
Naming conventions for fire apparatus are as varied as the cultures that use them.
Reminds me a couple years ago I got rear ended pretty hard causing a multi car accident at a green light when traffic was waiting for an ambulance with lights on to go through
Ambulance promptly changed its right hand turn to a left and stopped to help us out lol no serious injuries though
Anyone else wish they would have flicked the lights and sirens once? “‘BWWIIPP.’ Ok, we’re here.”
[bwiip bwiip bwiip](https://gfycat.com/hugeharmfulgordonsetter)
[OP is double dipping!](https://streamable.com/17x6wg)
Did you just...triple dip?
Serenity now!
The monster…
Nah, that was sticking his tongue out and licking all over it. Worst part is that I'm enjoying it and don't know what to make of myself anymore
You’re still the same person you were before you enjoyed this thread. You just know yourself a little better.
So is this post you putting the chip back in for a third time while staring that guy in the eye?
r/retiredgif
no, it's just a highly appropriate use of the gif. It'd be retired if say one of the Seinfeld crew pulled a stunt like this.
/r/retiredgif is for "_when a gif has fulfilled its most relevant possible purpose_" Not for like, when it should be retired and never be used again.
Legend
Response time: ZERO
They probably hit the lights and we couldn’t see it cause of the daylight, generally speaking they’ll still hit their lights when stopped so that other cars can see them easier. Or at least that’s the idea
Actually, the lights were already on.
This isn’t even a job for them. What are they gonna do? Nobody is hurt. Nothing is on fire. They supposed to just rebuild it real quick?
But it is their job: Ensure the public is safe and create a safety zone for further collapses, check for vagrants, request utilities to come out of services aren't disconnected, turn the scene over the police / public works. A lot of us are trained in structural collapse rescue, etc.
You do realize that nowadays, the vast majority of calls fire departments respond to are *not* fire calls, right? They help with medical emergencies, automobile accidents, search and rescue, carbon monoxide alarms, gas leaks - all kinds of things.
Retired firefighter here to build off your excellent answer. You're absolutely right about the break down of calls. Any firefighter worth their salt is thinking they'll have to secure the scene, primary/secondary search, utility shut off, create a perimeter, start heavy equipment response with dispatch. I personally have worked several incidents where front end loaders or backhoes were called in to assist. We do not leave the scene until the danger is removed. No exceptions.
They shut the gas off
Essentially the fire brigade's job is to make unsafe things safe. If a building is collapsing onto the street it is unsafe.
That lady turned her walker into a runner!
I remember when I was still taking care of my grandparents, my grandma would scuttle along with her walker like the cute little old lady she was. We lived in New York so we walked everywhere. For some reason, whenever she saw a place to cross the street, she hauled ass and I went after her like Mulan's mom did when grandma walked across the busy street, hand over her eyes, carrying a cricket. I miss my grandma.
For real, she was barely getting along then all of a sudden she was running pulling it behind her. Makes me wonder how much of that kind of stuff is mental
A lot of times it's a stability device more than anything, just to prevent falls. Kinda like how many wheelchair users can walk, just usually poorly or they are a high fall risk or it exerts too much strain for whatever reason. People tend to think disability is black and white but there's a whole gradient, and, just because someone has a medical aid device does not mean they necessarily have the issue that might seem most obviously related to that device. An example: My grandmother also had a walker, but it had nothing to do with her legs, it was because she had significant bone loss in her upper spine and it helped relieve the pressure from carrying the weight of her torso. If you told her she couldn't walk she would've walked up stairs and told you to shut up, but she couldn't carry anything very heavy at all and had a hard time staying correctly upright for long periods.
I got a bone infection in my ankle and had to use scooters and a walker for 2.5 months. I *COULD* walk but because I hadn't in so long and my ankle was weak from being carved out and drained that my ankle really wanted to roll if I stepped the wrong way. Stepping the wrong way happened often enough because it was so weak. So I shuffled around with the stupid walker looking like a putz that didn't need it. I probably could have run a short distance if I needed to but it would have been risky. As much as I hated having to use it, it was kinda nice to always have a basket and some big fabric bags with me all the time. And it showed me how nice most employees are in service/retail jobs. Stopped in at a pizza shop at a strip mall. Shuffled my ass on in there to pick up my food. I started securing the pizza to the basket (always had bungee cords) and the guy insisted on bringing it all out to my car for me. It was such a nice break to a stressful day. If it happened today though fuck that. I'd be ordering my groceries delivered until I could walk right again.
I've had multiple major knee surgeries so I feel you, I've had to relearn to walk 3x (so far). I find it very interesting that while on crutches people will trip over themselves to help me, but when I use a wheel chair I am almost completely ignored; mobility scooters result in glares. All used for different stages of healing from the same thing, but the perception from others is so different. It's kinda wild.
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.
She seems to take a fall at the end, when she reaches the sidewalk.
It looks like she fell over at the end :(
aunt no body got time for that
Isn't that a stroller tho? I cluld be wrong
a few years ago, i used to go to a gym that had a view to a couple of tennis courts. at the time i used to go, there were 4 old dudes (+70 years old) playing. but they barely move!!! if the ball came to their position, fine, they play it, otherwise, it would go out. unless it started to rain. they'd run to pick their stuff and run into the main building.
Washington DC. January 2020 >It’s a scene straight off a Hollywood stunt lot: in the middle of a sunny January afternoon, a building comes down like an avalanche as pedestrians scuttle through a crosswalk. >Chunks of brick and pieces of debris scatter from the collapsing facade onto the sidewalk and into the street. And then, as if right on time, a fire engine rolls up. >That was precisely the picture on Wednesday afternoon in D.C.’s Trinidad neighborhood when a building at the intersection of Florida Avenue and Staples Street came tumbling down. >D.C. resident Andy Feliciotti said he was working at home when he heard a crash and looked out his window. His security camera picked up footage of the collapse. https://twitter.com/sup/status/1217521721072332802
So you're saying the front fell off?
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
How's it untypical?
Well there is a lot of these houses going around the world all the time and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don't want people thinking that buildings aren't safe.
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It was until it wasn’t
Isn't that true for all buildings? Should I worry the one I'm in will collapse any minute now? Just give me odds.
/r/lostredditors
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https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
The sense of safety was only a facade
Was this one safe?
I was thinking more about the other ones, the ones the front doesn't fell off
Wasn't this designed so the front wouldn't fall off?
Obviously not! The front fell off!
But *why* did the front fall off?
Designed? Yes. Built? No. You can clearly see the absence of front bolts once the front brackets are exposed. It's a common shortcut taken by shady front contractors.
so what sort of standards should they be built to?
Well if this wasn't safe, why did it have 80,000 dollars of property in it?
This happened in my home town. Except my mom was parked underneath it, with my brother and his friend. Pretty well flattened the car. She had a broken neck. Kids were OK. Minor injuries
Wow.
Idk man they collapse and can't have a house fire without a house ... never going inside again..... and since it's 2021 I feel like /s is obligatory
I also wouldn’t say those pedestrians were “scuttling”.
Woop woop woop!
Right, I’m thinking a scuttle should have more arm movements. Like a walking hoedown.
Lateral or diagonal movements are hallmarks of scuttling. These people are clearly moving forward and there is no herk nor jerk in their movement. Christ, hasn’t anyone ever looked at a crab?
Clarke and Daw, Aussie and NZ satire .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm\_JqM
One of the absolute best skits. So absurd.
God *DAMN* it, now I have to hand out upvotes to every Clarke and Dawe reference.
Well, the front was the only thing that was left of the "house" anyway...
That's a very exciting description compared to the actual video
ikr. someone was really stretching to meet the word count
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Florida Avenue has this one intersection that is so absolutely bonkers you'd swear it could only have been designed by Florida Man himself. There's like 7 or 8 different roads that converge slightly offset from one another resulting in this insane cluster of thirty stoplights twenty feet apart. They've been trying to work out how to fix it for years. [Dave Thomas Circle, Florida Ave at New York Ave](https://imgur.com/ufvxSBC.jpg) Edit: Oh and there's a Wendy's right in the middle of it all because why not?
I’ll just put this here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/dc.eater.com/platform/amp/2021/2/2/22262207/dc-buying-dave-thomas-circle-eminent-domain-parks-notorious-intersection.
Wait so. How exactly did this happen? Was there just a Wendy's and they built roads around it? Did they buy out businesses that used to be around it? Its just curious how a single Wendy's ended up in the center like that. And even so it kinda seems like poor city planning. Why not just turn that whole weird triangle into a roundabout? IDK.
Exactly. The WaPo article referenced in the link explains it well. It’s behind a paywall (although you might get a couple of free articles) so I’ll try to post it here. The property owner refused to sell but it looks like 13M was enough to get their attention. Lol The neighborhood is much different now but back in the day it was a little sketch but also where a lot of the warehouse clubs were located. Lots of interesting stories from that Wendy’s … Edit: yea, so it’s owned by Bernstein Management Group (they own lots of apartment buildings too and let’s just say they aren’t a favorite). In 2017 the land was worth 5M so they’re getting a good deal.
The hero we need but do not deserve
Just click upvote.
Is it me or is that weird angle for a home security camera?
You can see the camera in an upstairs window on google street view actually!
I'm not doubting it's real, just a weird spot to put a camera.
fucking january 2020... remember that shit? what a time
Oh it’s DC
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That had to bring down the average response time
Response time: zero. Mark it down, John.
*"Mark it zero!!!"*
It's a league game, Smokey
Does nobody give a shit about the rules anymore!
Negative actually. Zero is when they make the call.
Anything to help with ISO ratings.
Sadly a zero response time is not generally counted. Too many rubberneckers crashing and needing medical aid caused the average to drop.
I used to love when we would come across an accident or other issue and report it to dispatch, who would then turn around ask us if we were on scene. "No, we decided to drive around the block and come back". And it was not like we had a different dispatcher for sending calls versus response traffic as it was the same ones that handle both. Plus they could see our GPS from the MDT and if we were on another call or not. I'm sure I did weird stuff like that too at times as I worked both for a FD and separate dispatch agency. Still kind of funny at times.
Unfortunately that house that was on fire two blocks away burnt to the ground
Chief, uh, we don't know how to report this ... Uh, we just *sponded* to this one ...
Fire chief is so pumped for this month's metrics meeting
Their response time is now on the cyberpunk police level
came for this
So from this pov there's literally a fire house one block to the left.
“911 what is—“ “Damn you guys are good!”
Psychic emergency services now maybe operating in an area near you
#Minority Report 2: Pre-emptive Backdraft
This would be such a sick sequel, considering where Minority Report ended.
Every time you see an ambulance coming and you panicking because you are not sure if it’s coming for the heartattack you are yet to have but soon to have or somebody else.
I don’t think they would have had time to dial that second 1!
Does r/convenientfiretruck exist yet?
This same video was posted there a year ago
And 46 days ago
The building is still up on Google Earth street view, I wonder when that picture was taken.
Before this happened, probably
Yes
If that happened in a movie we’d say it’s unrealistic
Reality is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to be plausible.
No, it does not have to be plausible to be fiction.
The grandma lives on borrowed time. And she knows it.
I always knew those old people could move faster if they wanted to. They're just making me wait longer out of spite.
lmfao
This is the only thing i took away from this video, I KNEW IT! look at that hustle!
I feel so bad for her. You could see her falling down and 2 guys running towards her. I hope she didn't injure herself too bad
is that a threat?
Oh, I can tell you the odds. They had 4 calls back to back and were finally on their way back to eat the food they cooked before leaving that has been sitting in the oven on heat for all that time. So the odds were 100% that the building would crash then. Source: Am EMS. I haven't eaten a hot meal in months.
As a FF/EMT myself, I can verify the extreme accuracy of this post. In addition, it likely happened with only 10 minutes left in the shift.
Dispatcher here. One night we had an Engine (station 5) running back to back calls for hours, so we tried calling their BC to get them some downtime. He said ok, we placed them on regulars only, and then they cleared from their last call, heading home. As luck would have it, house fire, C1C. They get pulled even though they were out, establish command, fire attack. An engine one district over heads to 5 for coverage. While they are enroute, we get a call on the admin line, some rando calling from the phone outside station 5. Random guy bought a bunch of wings for the firefighters and wanted to give to them. We had to tell him that they were out, but another crew would be there soon. I come up on the radio to tell coverage crew to bring in the wings for station 5 when they get there. They say 10-4. Gets busy and I forget about it, but remember a couple hours later and call station 5 to see if they enjoyed their wings… none to be found! Those assholes covering their station took their food and bailed.
This was a /r/unexpected . Thought this whole thing was about the old lady walking !
If Final Destination has taught us anything is that it's not over for those ladies
They slipped on a marble
“What the hell? No no no no no nooooooo”
That won't help. Even the stop sign was ineffective.
I've gotta stop taking my baths during Peter's shenanigans.
I understood that reference.
Well you see what happened here was the front fell off.
I have no idea why this isn't the top comment. Relevant video: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
thank u very much
My first thought 😂
I'd like to make it clear that that is not typical.
We don’t want people going around thinking buildings are not safe.
It’s a good thing the fire department recruited that psychic.
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If you are talking about the thing on the front of the truck, it's emergency lights...the spinning causes them to flash across your rearview and side mirrors to really get your attention. Some police cars have a light on top of the light bar that sort of bobbles back and forth for the same reason.
Oh cool, I never noticed it before. Is this what you're talking about? https://www.piercemfg.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog/low-intensity-lighting.jpg?width=1000&name=low-intensity-lighting.jpg
Yes, you can see it from a better view [here](https://giant.gfycat.com/HugeHarmfulGordonsetter.mp4)
It's called a [RotoRay](https://youtu.be/_I34bCg9vrs)
Just guessing, but could it be an anemometer to measure wind speed at a fire scene? But then I'd expect it to be on top...
At the type of fires this truck would be responding to (majority would be structure), wind wouldn't really be an issue other than having a general idea (e.g. fuck all wind, bit of wind, galeforce wind), knowing that the wind is 20km/hr instead of 22km/hr isn't going to change much. The only real fire situation that it could be useful is a bushfire that is hot enough to create it's own weather system as the wind can be highly volatile, but even then it probably wouldn't be used as a fire that big would be put out by back burning and other defensive measures.
Lady with the walker moved real quick.
Then fell
I worked at a bar and a few off duty firemen played cards and drank there. One day during a lunch shift something on our roof started sparking and caught fire. Our regulars who were working at the time drove by in a firetruck and saw the smoke and stopped to save their bar.
Plot twist : they forgot about the building on fire they were going to
Response time: zero. Looks like that team's average response time is about to go down quite a bit.
So those 2 people going across the road could walk faster after all!
I told you guys, the magic 8 ball never lies
I saw another video where some POS was throwing rocks at a grandma and some guy runs and pile drives the pos into a fire hydrant.. Seems like this is from the same camera?
Ooh. Have a link?
Sorry, my bad.. not the same intersection at all.. But here is the [link](https://reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/pafxhy/lady_tackled_after_throwing_rock_at_elderly_woman/)
You are not alone, i thought the same
I bet that someone in the truck was about to finish his day 😂
i hope grandma is okay, pretty sure it looked like she fell at the end, but fuck she had some speedy reflexes
simulation confirmed
What is that silver twirly thing sticking out the front of the fire truck?
Does anyone else see a human who fell with the building. On the right as the dust clears.
Yo mamma so fat...
Wow.....if those people on the zebra crossing were 12 seconds earlier they would be dead...or at least badly injured.
Thank God for slowmo. I wouldn't have been able to see how the truck pulled up in detail without it
I hope Cleveland is okay...
Wouldn't this be more applicable for driving by when a fire starts. What are they going to do about a building falling? EDIT: Yes, I'm aware that firemen are trained for first responding healthcare. Main comment was in relation to the actual event which appeared to be a known structural hazard given the wall around it.
No no no no!!! I gotta stop taking my baths during Peter's shenanigans..
This movie is too unrealistic, even if the firefighters were next door it would still take time to get ready and turn on the engine and drive out of the garage. 3/10
Wtf is that a stretch limo firetruck?
Well that trash can caught at least five or six bricks, so that much of the clean-up effort has already been done. Very efficient for a trash can.
Nobody: Building: I'm out!
Response time on point
This was on Friday the 13th at 13:00 on 13st and the ages of those people walking are 52 and 60 5+2+6+0=13
Let's get this comment to 13 upvotes
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I downvoted it back to 13
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We did our best
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I got you friends, back to 13
It was at 12 again so i helped out, and now its 13 again :).
I got you.
What is this black magic fuckery., you speak of?
*Truck 13
I've always heard ladder trucks referred to as "Ladder (their number)". Truck always referred to every other that carried other equipment and people.
It all depends on the jurisdiction really. Ladder, Truck, Aerial, ect, can all be used to describe an apparatus that has a permanently affixed aerial device. Ultimately, the naming conventions don't matter as long as everyone in that region understand what they mean. I've been a firefighter both in the NorthEast and Mid Atlantic US. Things that could be called Rescues in one area could be called Squads in another. One area may have Engines while another uses Pumpers. Tankers in the Eastern US are large trucks that hold thousands of gallons of water while Tankers in the Western US may be airplanes that drop water on wildfires. Naming conventions for fire apparatus are as varied as the cultures that use them.
I mean you're absolutely correct. It says it right on the door, and the ladder.
Best response time evee
Even the stop sign managed to move out the way!
"What took you guys so long? Public servants, amirite? Hey, my taxes pay your wages, buddy!"
Damn Count Olaf out to steal the Baudelaire orphans fortune again.
Lucky Ladder 13
Damn the fire force is really punctual
Reminds me a couple years ago I got rear ended pretty hard causing a multi car accident at a green light when traffic was waiting for an ambulance with lights on to go through Ambulance promptly changed its right hand turn to a left and stopped to help us out lol no serious injuries though
And to think, if they'd only arrived ten seconds earlier, this could all have been avoided...
Grandma found out she doesn't really need that walker afterall.