Different wavers you're going to meet on emergency scenes
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2022
- I've met every single one of these people. And even a few that I couldn't talk about. Which ones did I miss?
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Always loved the frantic waver on the sidewalk in front of the house with flames rolling out the windows. Never would have found it without their help lol.
I've met those people. They brag to people that they showed the firmen where to go when it's a fully involved 2 story residence with enough smoke in the sky for the whole county to see.
In Germany we have something we call "Anfahrt auf Sicht" that's when you don't need directions because you can see the massiv column of smoke from your station xD
They missed the house is dark, no lights, no address signs etc. If I came POV for those, i would leave my car by the driveway so the ambulance could find the place.
People want to help.
Recently read an old British mystery, set in WW II, and emergency workers were trained in ideas (this sentence is getting away from me) to suggest to people who were frantic, ideas of what to do to help.
Like, you know, in London during the bombings, "Look for any feet."
Of course, in Britain there was a strong sense of "This is everyone's war" and the government was intent on giving everyone something to do to help.
One farm couple, the man had a secret job, assigned once a week as a coast watcher. The wife had a secret job carrying relayed messages from the coast watchers to nearest duty station. They kept the secrets. Sometime in their 80s they finally told each other.
If anyone's interested, therel's a great BBC series "Absolute HIstory: The war time farm". About 10 episodes, reenactors living the life.
I feel like that's the type of person you could probably say something about bottled water to and they'll gladly jump in their car, speed off, and come back 20 minutes later with a back seat full of bottled water and snacks.
I'm not a firefighter, but that 'whatever' guy just... brings up so many strong, passionate, _hateful_ emotions in me.
Whatever..
@@Jehty21 😡
Might just turn around and leave the scene.
Drama queen
Most checked out phone addicted co-workers. Strong familiarity. 😬
Met em all. The frantic waver usually takes you into someone CAOx4 who stubbed their toe. Calm waver tends to take you to someone in respiratory failure.
Also to the cops, we can't see the road very well when you shine your retina destroyer 9000 hand light in our faces.
What? a 50 million lumen light in the eye makes you to not see the road? Pathetic.
Do not stare into the beam with your remaining eye :)
So true!!!
I wanna hear all your work experiences lol
Damn, this hits hard. Apologies to all the EMS drivers that I have blinded over the years :-(
The pace car is so real. Honestly, in rural areas they are super useful. Especially for wildlands fires trying to find field access for the trucks and such.
Oh I love that. Especially since they centralized our 911 services.
“The address? I don’t know the address. Do you want me to go to land development and find the lot number?
i live out in the country and we have to meet the ambulance at a main road my dad was having a heart attack and dispatch was like bring them to x the abulance will meet you there.
Thank you!! Ambulances routinely can't find our property. And it's not even that difficult. We're a small little community with about 20 homes down a dirt road and we frequently have 911 calls too. You'd think they'd have us memorized by now.
I usually have to meet them a quarter mile out because GPS puts our address WAY off the main drag. And people can die from that shit.
Pace cars that act as temporary Ubers/Lyfts for fire crews and equipment are extremely useful, when the fire apparatus is unable to traverse the long narrow gravel driveway or road.
Duck and tree stand hunters, the dog did it!
Seriously? The 13 Bitch U Should Come Home cans didn't fool the game warden either.
I was the pace car at one point. There was an RTC in a pretty remote neighborhood with a lot of convoluted narrow one-way roads and dead ends that *everyone* gets lost in at least once. Negotiating your way out of there is a huge pain in the neck already with a regular car, let alone a bunch of fire engines. So I figured some guidance would be in order. (My theory is that the neighborhood evolved out of desperation when those getting trapped in that maze figured it would be easier to just stay and build a house than to try and escape)
What's RTC
@@jpeterman9699 Road Traffic Collision. In Australia we call it an MVA (Motor Vehicle Accident).
@@000Responses In America, we call it TTC (The Traffic Collector)
Your theory made me laugh a lot, thank you :D
I get the feeling, the houses around our street have evolved, from the same necessity ^^
cops flashing lights in your face must be a universal thing because it's the same literally halfway across the world LOL
this
Its in the SOP for sure
I can't speak for international cops, but I know Maglite tends to do that to a lot of people.
What country, if you don't mind?
Here they use lazers.
I work security. Waiving down first responders for me consists of "Shine flashlight from above towards my badge" and "Raise other hand up while trying to maintain eye contact with first responder guys." 9/10 times it works every time. One property, though, EVERY time dispatch gives them the place right across from us (which is basically mirrored) and I get ignored, they go in, them come back out "Oh, was it you that called us? Dispatch did it AGAIN!"
Fellow security here. If I do use my flashlight for directions, I point it at a downward angle and use the beam to indicate. I think cops do it the way described in the video sometimes because they are used to traffic stops where they have to illuminate the driver's face and don't mind the driver being a bit disoriented when they walk up, so they get into the habit of not being terribly concerned about light blindness. Also, they're directing the FD, so there's a chance they're even less concerned. Just a guess.
@@jameswoodard4304 "less concerned" LoL
Again? How often you have people out.
@@jameswoodard4304 Actually, the police WANT the driver walking up to be disoriented. It helps them get false positives on DUI tests and makes it more likely they'll be able to search the car.
@@ep_med7822 I dunno about ego, I understand them not wanting to take from, their perspective, some random dude's assessment. I'm a repair technician and 99% of the time when a customer comes in and tells us in detailed technical terms what's busted on their appliance they are WAY off the mark. You should lead with your Qualifications like "hey im a medic" so they know you're not just some random guy and actually know your stuff.
We could always tell how badly injured a patient was by how far back the cops were standing and pointing their flashlights. If the cops were across the street and shining their lights into the front yard we knew the patient was really messed up.
Truth!!
Wait how?
why would they move away from a wounded person?
@@kabhes9040 Though most cops are trained as an EMT or in first aid, they are not involved in patient treatment very often and do not feel comfortable doing it. My comment was a little tongue-in-cheek.
@@DeathnoteBB Because whoever is closest has to do the paperwork write up cause it's "their scene." :-P
I have literally experienced every one of them.
The freaking out waver is the best. Especially when it's a fully involved structure fire. It's almost always a man, they are usually standing within 50 feet of the building with giant flames and smoke showing from every window and door while jumping up and down, flailing their arms and yelling, "it's over here!".
Same for the ones standing in front of the massive car wreck that's blocking the road.
Yeah. Definitely a man thing. We are required by our basic programming to be "doing something" in an emergency even if it's not actually helpful.
At least they're not having a hysterical meltdown?
What I wouldnt give to hear the conversation in the fire engine when the "freaking out" waver is out with the huge house fire XD
@@Danspy501st I’m a volunteer firefighter and we see frantic wavers a lot, but we really don’t say anything about it because we understand the stress and panic they’re experiencing lol.
I actually went on a false waver once. Well, I got the real patient. The crew that was originally sent ended up transporting the fake waver. The original caller called because he was having chest pain and shortness of breath. The crew responded and made scene at the correct address but was intercepted by someone, whom we later found was a homeless psych patient who roams the town calling 911 all the time. He happened to be on the street, saw the ambulance coming and started waving. On contact he started claiming to have chest pain. They thought it was their call and transported him, never making contact with the original caller. The original guy called back mad as hell that no one had come to his door an hour later and that’s who I got to transport.
This sounds incredibly familiar to me.
Was the homeless psych guy arrested for that?
@@kevinthomas895 Not that I know of.
@@kevinthomas895 We live in a society where we shelter and praise people with mental disabilities when they do shit like this and instead of letting natural selection take it's place and weeding the bad genes out of our society we try our hardest to care for them and to let them reproduce...... just makes no fucking sense try to fix what's wrong with them or let them die and not waste resources that could have been spent on people who actually fucking need it. especially this transgender trend going around we shouldn't let the minority speak louder than the majority.
I think every firefighter dreams of doing 2 things: Shoving LDH through a broken car window parked in front of the hydrant, and moving a cop car blocking the road with the bumper. Or maybe that's just me
Nope, definitely not just you! Never got LDH through the windows but did drape it across the hood, that was satisfying.
@@jeffw8611 did you make sure it was the dirty, gritty one? I think there should be a hose that is super gritty just for such a purpose. That would help to ensure that the idiot remembers not to part there again...
Their was this one time this idiot with armored glass parked at a hydrant. I almost peed myself as I watched the Rotary saw come out.
NOPE. I want those CHP type bumpers so we can just push whoever’s in the way outta the way
I cannot help my eyes from wandering from your comment to your profile picture. Let's Go Brandon.
The amount of frustration that could be had at nearly every step of this life or death job is near maddening.
Lol, the cops! Spot on! EVERY SINGLE TIME! 3am pulling up to a scene with multiple high powered tactical flashlights blasting us in the eyes, yeah guys, we can't tell where we're going with your 3 lit up squad cars blocking the scene, lol. I had to resort to blasting them back with our search lights after awhile.
Basic rule of firefighting - cops are taught to render aid (and consequently can’t help themselves with being in the way) AND have ZERO concepts of proper fire apparatus placement. Ya gotta deal with it… (and I’m allowed to say this as I’ve been on both sides of the badge - red & blue)
This seems like the appropriate response.
Turn night into day.
Good man! I aim mine upward if I'm going to use my lights, like a "beacon" -- especially because my light actually has a "hey, this thing gets HOT" warning on it.
The "Freaking Out" Waver is both hilarious and incredibly accurate. I always think, "Aww, I remember my first emergency."
My partner always says something like "Oh look, the house is on fire." or "Must be a rollover, not our call." when he sees these types of people. (Inside the ambulance when nobody but me can hear it, obviously, folks!) It's always hard to keep a professionally caring and "worried" face after these lines :D
@@QemeH Oh, man. Some of the greatest one liners are said right before we get out of the rig. It makes me sad that we don't have time to write them down and save them for later.
@@SamPanamaOfficial I swear we could all write the most sarcastic book in history if we were able to write them down before we got out.
@@SamPanamaOfficial 🤣 we have a guy at our dept. who is actually writing down stupid and funny things we encounter at work. The book is going to be called ..."I can't make this shit up!" Yeah,we all have a dark swnse of humor....thank god👍
@@wholetruth9591 That'll be a great seller.
I had to call an ambulance for my mom, once, about 1am and I lit up the front of the house (only house within 3 blocks that had lights on) and stood on the front lawn playing the part of the calm waver and they still just drove right past (down a residential road with siren blaring at 1am). About 10 houses up the street they figured out, "woops" and backed all the way back with the backing beeper blaring. Sorry, neighbors. (It was a legit emergency and mom died in the hospital about a week later.) But the ambulance crew was great--calm, kind, efficient. And it was one of those "it was finally her time" things (she'd been saying every Christmas for the last 7 years "I think this is my last Christmas", but doggone if she didn't hold on).
Damn.
My condolences!
I think the weirdest way I've seen someone flag down emt was with a flare. Visiting a friend that lived in huge multi building apartment complex look across the parking lot to see a dude waving a flare from his balcony and an ambulance pulling up
I guess it worked, so not all that weird.
@@tuvelat7302 true, if it looks stupid but works then it's not stupid but now the guy had a flare burning for 30mins on his balcony
@@tuvelat7302 I'm sure lighting a super hot and long lasting flare on the balcony of an apartment likely completely made of wood is perfectly safe...
@@ginacalabrese3869 many balconies are made of concrete.
Then his apartment catches and you have the rare scenario in which an emergency was caused by being *overly* prepared.
Sometimes there's a whole group of them.
For example, we had a car wreck on a straight stretch of road, multiple cars tangled into a giant mass of twisted metal, plainly visible for a good 1/2 mile and there are at least 20 people lined up along the last hundred feet or so frantically pointing at the wreck.
Yeah, thanks for your help, we couldn't have found it without you!
Everyone wants to useful, even when they're doing absolutely nothing.
ok cool, next time i will ignore emergency just to not look stupid
I was unintentionally the "whatever guy" once because my neighbor down the street once gave 911 my house number instead of theirs, for some reason, and an ambulance pulled up outside my house. I thought maybe they stopped to ask for directions to a house (I've lived here all 37 years of my life), but the Medic showed me that they sent my house number from dispatch. We were both super confused until we saw my neighbor a few houses down come out the door and start waving. Thank goodness that mistake never happened again.
I was the security guard that one shift supervisor couldn't comprehend needed to be informed any time emergency services get called.
"Hell, I dunno. Let's check the obvious places while I try to get the idiot shift lead to answer his phone."
60k square feet of indoor space in four buildings, about 15 acres of yard area with 8-10' high racks of material, and you don't think maybe the guy at the front door should be told where EMS needs to go when they show up?
The frantic waiver usually screams a convoluted story like "He had testicular cancer 10 years ago, and now we think it's back because he only peed twice tonight" from the front door for all the world to hear, while you're just trying to pull the gurney out of the ambulance.
I remember when my house burned down I was the calm waver. I just sort of woke up, saw that there was smoke, and firefighters coming up to the building. And I walked around, half-asleep just sort of figured "Meh, looks like hell of a mornin", grabbed a soda or beer - don't remember - complained that the fridge was apparently out - and opened the front door for the firefighter to say howdy 👋🤠
Their response was a resounding "WTF ARE YOU DOING - GTF OUT OF THERE"
The fire looked a lot worse on the other side of the building and in/on the roof - but my side looked perfectly okay at the time. I just thought my roommate had burnt something cooking or something, but If I'd stuck around in there much longer all calm and dopey I would've prob died 😅
I wonder whether your air quality had decreased to the point where your thinking was affected.
When I did a first aid course the instructor made fun of people waving like they're guiding a plane for a landing, then told us this is exactly what we should do
That seems like a strange choice, unless it was something like "Yes, you may feel ridiculous, but this is the best way to get treatment for the person as rapidly as possible. "
@@JaniceLHz Yes, that's exactly what it was. He said that finding the exact location of the patient when arriving at the address can take far too long so having someone waving like crazy to get their attention and then guide them to the patient is actually helpful.
I was "The Taxi" one time. I work at a golf course. Some dude slipped and broke his tibia and fibia way down the course, so I waved down the guys and took like 4 firefighters in a limo golf cart to the scene
I'm not gonna forget the shit eating grin I had when I knew I could tell this story over and over.
How the hell does get a compound fracture in their legs playing golf? Seems impossible unless you were trying to do something stupid and abnormal. WEIRD.
@@TheCriminalViolin Or the golfer was old or otherwise had compromised bone density?
@@MonkeyJedi99 Thus why I asked. Even that seems unlikely.
@@TheCriminalViolin old people get delicate.
@@TheCriminalViolin Have you ever seen a resort-type golf course? Those things have hills literally everywhere. You can't see 50 feet down the course because there's always grass right in your line of sight.
I was a frantic waiver once...in 6th grade. It's how I got the nickname JDFMSS or Junior deputy fire marshal spotted skunk. I was wearing pants that had accidentally gotten bleach on them. Good times
Lol.
The skunk part was because you stinky
The fact that I have been every kind of waver here makes me rethink my life honestly.
Even the "whatever" waver?
@@whynotanyting so he says
@@ChaoticNeutralMatt I believe that the sarcasm was evident here. It was my attempt at humor.😌
@@ibrahimrobinson8508
What a bizarre "joke" to make. Of course some people are going to take your comment seriously, especially since you said it was a "fact" that you've been every type of waver.
@@rockinrootbeer1795 Welcome to the internet.
The "stand on the porch and turn the light on and off" waver is the kind I've been before at night.
Oh my god yes. Everyone with a front light should do this. And if they don't, throw them flashers on in the driveway and stand out in front of it ready to wave frantically for a few seconds. Anything that uses lights attached to the power grid or a car. Only thing better would be a really distinct landmark in an otherwise bland neighborhood. Like a giant chicken statue that they tell dispatch is "clearly visible at the end of the driveway, can't miss it, swear to God it's the most visually quirky thing for miles."
@@notablediscomfort good to know my idea was a good one for once 🤣 and now I'm thinking about putting a giant chicken in my yard
@@Random_ness I'm gonna buy a tank for the driveway
@@phantomaviator1318 😂 should be pretty clear which house is yours!
@@phantomaviator1318 which model tank are you thinking about?
As a retired firefighter of serving 30 years and retiring last year, I've absolutely have seen everyone of these. LOL!
On the way to a scrub fire we were informed that the other responding brigades tanker had put a cone out on the driveway since the caller was now guiding them to the fire and not waiting for us. We drove right on past that cone, disguised amongst the few dozen other nearly identical cones marking the roadworks taking place at that driveway…
I really wanna wave at the firetrucks each time, but knowing that they might think it's an emergency, I don't do it
When they are running lights and sirens?
@@epiccsx no
@@ministersoundsnation6192 you could probably wave then. Just do it casually like one hand, and not waving back and fourth
How about a thumbs up instead?
Accurate video as always lol... side note got a pic with ya at FDIC today, when i did ya said "Ill take a pic with Tyler first to another group" spent a solid 5 min figuring out how you knew my name till i realized i had a giant name tag on 🤣🤣. Was awesome to meet someone whose made a name but is still super nice, attentive, and awesome to everyone! Thanks for that Jason!!
My brother works as a fire service dispatcher, and they had a police officer call telling them that there was a partial building collapse, they got all kinds over there, mobilised all the search and rescue, got the dogs out. Turns out a plaque had fallen off a building...
Being in rural EMS, I get a lot of the pace car. But the pace car is an ATV going a couple miles back a "road" to someone's camp.
I am so glad I do not fall into one of these categories. I'm the "Give relevant information to the first responders when they arrive, guide them to the victim/patient/emergency, answer any questions they may have, and get out of the way while remaining nearby in case I am needed" guy. I used to work at a hospital as a security officer, so this was how I learned to respond in an emergency situation
The "pace car" 🤣 I had one on a quad take us up the gnarliest dirt road for a cpr in progress call 🥴
I’ve wondered about if you can’t get in. What if he had a sled? Would you guys just ride in?
Many moons ago, rolled up on a working car fire...we're talking fully involved...with a pair of frantic wavers all but doing gymnastics as they pointed towards it, and to top it off, as I rolled in Abba's 'SOS' was playing on the music radio. (Yes, I was a volunteer, following the first in engine in, and responding P.O.V. )
Lol
I am a cross between the calm and freaking out waver. Because when I am sent out to wave down the fire truck, I rush out, stand there looking confused and then end up doing what looks like an impression of mario jumping to get their attention. When they stop I hold my arms up like they just won a game. Then calmly tell them what I know as help them find the person in trouble.
Lol, I'm pretty much the same. To be fair, I stand on the sidewalk and there's always a bunch of cars parked bumper to bumper all the way down the street, so I have to jump up to be seen. Usually I calm down when they pull up, unless it's really bad, which has only happened once, then I'm like "get your ass in here". Never done that at an obvious emergency though, only to medical calls and a traffic accident where the cars were on the side of the road and hidden from the Firetruck's view.
Same, because i've had to call the ambulance 4 times in my life, and despite, freaking out on the driveway like a tweaker with a seizure, they run by every god damn time.
I wave like im trying to get a helicopter to land lol
So i always wave at my fellow brethren who service where I live, and I know a handful of them. So doing work on the house see a rescue drive by lit up and just wave like I always do. Truck stops everybody jumps out, stu, two medics and Lt, I’m thinking man one of the neighbors called I’m surprised they didn’t call me. LT looks and me and says what can we help you with today. SMH! Im like no I didn’t call I was just waving, turns out the address was like 2 blocks down. Pure jackass moment on my part. Yup delaying pt care, this guy….right here! 👍🏻👍🏻
Maybe a thumbs up would be a good choice: communicates positive vibes, unlikely to be confused with waving them down.
So... did the "False" waver turn into an actual medical emergency afterward?
The look gave me vague "I'm about to send you to the hospital" vibes.
In all my years (25+) in Fire/EMS, I have run into these types at least a few dozen times....each but none of them beat the 'directions' of the off duty home heathcare nurse or podiatrist trying to direct scene activity at a bad multi-victim mva.
And I thought I got weird looks over the pampers = bandages idea.
This made me realize I'm a Calm Waver. I was a theater employee when The Exorcism of Emily Rose came out and someone had a seizure in a packed auditorium near the climax of the movie. Since out theater was in a mall, I was asked to meet the paramedics near the mall entrance and guide them. I didn't want to freak people out (those in the theater were freaked enough) so I did that calm wave and showed them to the auditorium.
PD never fails to park directly in the way
Can you pleeease do a video on the different types of people that ride with the victim in the ambulance? I've been that person before and I'd love to see that list!
I'd love to see that lol.
I did the "cop" one during a call in a school fire alarm.. Was locked outside and a heater was burning. My crew opened the door opposite of me at the far end of the corridor I was. I flshed them like that throught a window since I was outside and my radio (found out on that call) wasn't keeping charge and was basically dead at the start. .. It worked haha
The one time I’ve had to wave down ems I just kinda stood there waving my arms
Jason, it sounds like you need another PSA to instruct the proper way to guide medical and fire responders to the scene.
I've had to be the pace car once for an ambulance. 😂 A guy collapsed in a decent sized storage facility and he called himself but fire couldn't find him and a friend and I ran found looking also and finally found him laying on the ground down one of the alleys on the far side so while friend directed the engine to him while I went and parked at TY he entrance waiting for the ambulance and showed them to the location, walking them to the location would have taken too long, friend that was with me works security at a local hospital and aparently said the guy was released a day and a half earlier. Normally don't do the pace car though. 😅
Edit: there also used to be a railway line running through there so the storage facility is chopped up a little weird and said gentleman was on the other side of that area which you wouldn't know was even there.
The wave guy. I lost track of how many times when someone either wave or says hi but they are pointing out to someone behind me. I can pretend to ignore but it still gets me every time.
The waver has great importance in rural areas where you aren't going to find that gravel driveway that leads to a house 1/4 mile back in the dark.
I have been both a "freaking out" waver AND a "calm" waver, depending on how bad the situation was.
Had soooooo many freaking out wavers! We also had lots of long driveways (500 to 1000 feet or more), always waved as we went by and let them run back up the driveway. You have to take simple pleasures when you spend 2 decades + doing this job. The cop waver was dead-on true.
Definitely ran in with the first in med kit like that before, to the wrong house, through the snow lol!
Your videos make my morning coffee more enjoyable
That last little breath 🤣 a tiny breathy prelude to losing your sh*t, like yes, this is it, Imma beat this guy senseless.
Seems like that LEO needs to learn rule #1 from the first responder bible:
_Die Hausnummer gehört der Drehleiter_
(lit. "The house number belongs to the ladder/aerial", meaning that the first responding unit with roof access capability is the only unit that should park right in front of emergency address, everybody else picks a different spot - and yes, that also applies on medical calls as the ambulance always pulls slightly further than the address, because (a) the stretcher unloads from the back of the rig and (b) we leave space for extrication crews if needed)
Oft gelehrt, aber immer wieder missachtet. Dann dürfen alle umparken, sofern noch möglich
Other than the It's German part of this seems obvious. Not sure why American cops don't get it.
@@x--. So many times I see cop cars parked at 45 degree angles in the middle of the road, across sidewalks, in front of parking lot entrances.
It's like they have to have their cruiser LOOK like they did a power slide into place.
@@MonkeyJedi99 the scene management I was taught for this is that it makes your stopped vehicle easier to see and inherently directs "meerkats" away from the scenes
And if it does get hit chances are it's not going flying into the scene
I desperately need the frantic waver. I could kiss one every time I see one.
When it's 3 am, no addresses to speak of...
Thank you, eager wavers. Don't feel self conscious. Just thank you.
Some say he carries a handful of napkins in his pocket for that rare occasion someone might need one.
He has an old grampa style pocketknife without a lock so when you need to cut a thing, you don't have that awkward moment where you try to figure out how to close the knife.
He's really good with kids and has a superhuman ability to calm down a crying baby using just a funny face and some headpats.
*He waves frantically at emergency personnel because he knows the numbers on his mailbox are about as visible as his hair color, and he's bald.*
He is the most convenient man in the world.
You nailed it brother , don't forget the do you really need the lights on guy 😀
This channel is such a gem.
Due to where we live we have to meet up with the Emergency services at the highway and have them follow us up. It is really easy to get lost up here we are up in the hills and deep in the trees. Lucky enough one of the neighbors bought a retired fire tanker and all of us have at least 3,000gal's of water on hand for a fire. His idea was that he could if anything keep a structure fire from becoming a wildfire so far 3 times it helped. So in short all of us up here are that Pace Car driver.
I would like to see you do a "every kind of driver reaction to firetruck/ambulance"
the lock the brakes upper, the go to the shoulder but continue doing 70mpheer, the no f's given continue as usualer, the everyone pulling over to the right i'm gonna pull over lefter, the chase carer - right on back bumper, the you'll never catch me copper, etc
As a Firefighter and Paramedic, I've experienced them all.
This man is hilarious and just so awesome! Doesn't hurt that he's so cute too!
We had a drug seeker that lived in a small trailer that if we stopped we would have to carry him out of the back bedroom. That meant a stair chair or “sheeting” him out. We noticed right away despite him always being alone we saw someone at the curtains at our arrival, that meant he would jump in bed just as we arrived and he could get into character. I found out if I drove past his place as he if I didn’t see him when I came back around the block he would be waiting at the curb and I could walk him into the ambulance.
The cop with his little flashlight had me crying 😂😂😂😂😂
The pace car guy is great when you have no clue where you’re going. Thanks, bro!
Used to love the ones that watch you slowly go by and then get pissed because “didn’t you see me?”
I used to "just wave" until a firetruck once stopped at my house and asked if I had called them. I said that I didn't and the dude yelled at me why the F... I would wave at them if I haven't called...
Do a ''solute'' wave instead, if you know what that is. Lol
Maybe a thumbs up as they pass
“Guys, right over here” and waving a flashlight! Brilliant!
Despite how we laugh at the wavers, I'm glad they're there, except the false waver, screw that guy. haha
cops don't seem to park in the way where I've worked, but I have been boxed in by them on a DOA scene a couple of times smh (I work on an ambulance)
when you guys aren't on an emergency call, is waving okay? I've always waved at firefighters, I didn't know that I shouldn't. I never do when it's lit up, of course, but I'll always just give a polite wave and a smile. If that's also bad, I'll stop, I just never knew
@@cyn_na_mini you're fine doing that! We do sometimes run calls no lights or sirens but if we get confused by you smiling and waving, that would be 100% our fault for not indicating we're on a call. Even on no lights and sirens call I'll flip on the lights as I get close to the scene.
@@dscrive that's good to know, thanks! And I'll make sure that my intentions are clear, I would absolutely hate to impede firefighters. I do mostly only wave when I'm in the car
@@cyn_na_mini as long as your hazard lights aren't on, that won't cause confusion. It's the folks standing near the road that cause problems 😂
Yeah, blame Dispatch! Definitely wasn’t your Engineer that got you lost! xP
I’m surprised you have not done an instructional video of how citizens should pull over to the side when a Police/Ambulance/Firetruck (sirens on) are behind you next to the shoulder
around here, there are laws but the fines aren't severe enough.
let's ignore the people that are simply scared out of their wits and act like a deer in the headlights.
there are idiots that pull into and use that "free lane" everyone made for emergency services, clogging it back up.
education on how to react properly is on the rise though.
everyone's handing out free bumper stickers, billboards showing which way to pull over.
no shoulder roads are simply delightful though.
everytime I see traffic not moving for multiple engines im literally screaming at them to move
THATS NOT COMMON SENCE? WTF
This channel is absolutely hilarious👍👍👍. Haven' t seen anything that funny on youtube for months! Thanks!
Only one you forgot is the flight technician, signaling everything from when to apply your brakes to which gear to use while maneuvering into a parallel parking like he's directing an airliner into a terminal.
Then there is me, tow truck guy...somewhere between "cop" and "calm waver" 🤣
I love the “shine a flashlight right in your side mirror guy” at 2am while you’re trying to back into somewhere.
I love that you're poking a little good-natured humor at one of your own with the policeman and the flashlight. You seem like the one I'd want to have show up if I need help.
As a cop, you kinda nailed us lol.
Right? It's like, well... fuck
I beat you here so I guess I should show you where the house is.
If you didn't want me to scortch your retinas maybe you should've beat me to the scene
Oh my car is blocking the road????
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Last time I directed an ambulance (at a wedding!) I used the "both upper arms to one side, the lower arms straight up doing the windscreen wiper" 😁 (the entry was at the inside of a curve outside of town, me standing on the other side on a steep slope, confusing passing traffic 😁)
Literally met EVERY one of these lmao... my personal favorite is the no numbers on the house or mailbox cant be bothered to wave what took you so long guy though....
I have to call them so often, I've set my house lights to flash red and blue. Kinda hard to miss that sign 😂
LOL THE PACECAR😂
By far my favorite one haha
Experienced all these people.
Even had the caller who can't wait for you to arrive on scene as it has been a whole 4 minutes since the the call to emergency 000 number (I'm in Australia) and loads patient in their car and races past your ambulance, all lite up on the code 1 lights and sirens call, in the opposite direction to hospital and does not even stop when they see you driving by to the call residence.
lovely neighborhood. I'm a big fan of all the greenery.
😂 I always make sure my shop isn’t blocking y’all’s box or apparatus. But plenty of others just tactically park wherever lol.
This is the stuff that makes you get through the week
I've met most of these, But the pace car actually helps a lot especially when you honestly don't know where the emergency is sometimes they can help you quite a bit, the whatever waver i always wanted to smack for some reason
Absolutely correct on all of them. Either big city or small village they are out there.
Listen I try to keep my squad out of the way but when you bring 2 battalions, an engine, and 4 ambulances to a lift assist... my squad is bound to be in someone's way 😂
"Oh, I didn't call 911, I was just wavin'."
😂😂😂
"House is right up here."
"How can you tell?"
"They're doing the dance - see?"
This is scarily accurate. Also there is the "nobody"... as in, nobody anywhere... no patient, no caller, no call back, nothing...
I absolutely love driving just past the wavers, so the ass of the rescue can line up with the driveway and watching them freakout as if we're leaving and didn't see them. 🤣🤣
I'm the "meet them in the parking lot because our apartment is tucked away weirdly" waver.
The false waver is why stubly nodding your head to cars is better XD
Spot on as usual.
Fully admit I was the frantic waver. The ambulance guys were not coming far enough down the street had all the lights on and was waving a flashlight like a airplane crew. My dad was having a heart attack. Nothing like being paniced, thinking your dad is gonna die, fighting to get the ambulance to see you so you can direct them to the trailer he is in, and have them drive up literally all smiles and laughing. Nice little jovial wave like yep we see you young lady having a mental health crisis on your front lawn at 2 am while your dad is struggling to breathe and too weak to stand on his own.
The cop with his flashlight 🤣 so true!
Oh my lort I've totally done the flashlight thing to y'all! Keep up the videos this one has me Rollin!
I was a 'waver' at a fire but it was for good purpose. The unit that was on fire was in my condo building which happened to be the last building along the driveway so my waving and talking to the driver was to get them to the end of the driveway to my building and the condo on fire.
Spot On for All of them!!
I especially love the cop one! 🤣
They drive me crazy on scene! 🤦♀️
I’m amazed at the amount of variations of said wavers XD. Hilariously well done!