I was at the firehouse once and answered the phone-it turned out to be one of our deputy chiefs, who was on paid duty at the station in the next county (we're part of their box area) alerting us to the house fire call they had and letting us know we were about to be called. I hung up, screamed "MOUNT UP!" to the guys, and right when they were asking me for more details the klaxon went off for us.
All along Southern Quebec there is contracts with US Departments. Here in Franklin County NY, Fort Covington, Constable, Burke, Chateaugay help allot or have contracts in Quebec. Same in Vermont.
We had a kid in our senior class in high school that was a volunteer. When he was on call and got one, he just left everything and got out of there with everyone saying to be careful. He usually had his fire uniform all bundled in the passenger seat of his truck. Our class just helped clean up his stuff and put to the side like it was nothing. If school ended and it was important then a close buddy of his would take his stuff with him.
@@NWLegacyChannel here in BFE Ohio it was very common for middle-schoolers and high schoolers to be associated with the local fire departments in some form or another. I have two friends who were with the department since before they even hit puberty who now both work for the DC fire dept.
Every person on that department that responds is pre screened at both customs their passport/nexus is recorded as a "emergency traveller" and they do not have to stop at customs responding but when they come back the chief fills out some paper work and all of the responders sign it .
@@amoss.zachywacky9041 Fire departments have a thing called ''mutual aid" where if something is getting out of hand for the equipment they have, they will call on a neighbouring department for assistance. So what happened here was something had gotten out of hand for the Canadian department and they called for assistance from their friends across the border.
Sketchers Dat light up there’s reasons you might want to have such an agreement too. On both sides, if it gets out of hands, extra help is important, and can benefit greatly. This could save you a lot of damage during large fires. Plus, imagine a forest fire near border. If you don’t contain it, it might as well even cross the border Theses agreements are based on the concept that, is something is happening that is getting out of our control, there is additional help that can be called nearby. Near the border, thoses extra hands and equipment may be easier and faster to get from across the border. The same thing applies for the us. If something is getting out of hand, they may call Canada for help
I just love the maximum chill everyone in this clip had, from the completely casual "I gotta go to Canada" from the chief to the sympathetic "We'll make do with what we have" from the interviewer.
I hate it when I'm home and nothing happens, but when I go run errands in the county seat and my phone starts blowing up because we got a call! THAT drives me nuts like nothing else in the world!
Last time I decided to spend some time at the station just as available and on standby, literally didn’t get a call. I was going to stay for 4 hours. I was getting ready to leave, boom ambulance call. So I get my call in. We got back to the station and we’re sitting around filling out the run forms and what not. Boom another ambulance call. For us on average each medical is about an hour or so ish. From transport to turnover, to back in quarters. So by that time it’s already been 2 1/2 hours or so. I had a non firehouse related meeting at the firehouse that night so I ended up at the firehouse for 9 hours lol.
I know I won't convince you that most volunteer departments are fairly high quality, so I'm just gonna drop a quick fact. You have 2 choices in 90% of the country: call the volunteers, or call nobody 🤔
Everyone has done the pull into the parking lot, leave the truck running with lights flashing and sprint to the fire house. You can always tell if it was a bad call when you go by the firehouse and all the doors are open and lights are still going on personal cars.
yup did that for a medical....spent the whole ride home from the ER looking for my keys...hell i didn't even pull them out of the ignition of my car (shut it off though) lol
agree totally, theres been a lot of that and more over the years. we've even had guys come in so fast that when they slammed on the brakes they skidded into the through the wall of the station!most of us leave our car keys in the ignition. the local people in our town know the cars of those of us in the fire brigade and will pull over on the road to let us pass when the siren go and we're on the way to the station
That happen when my department went mutual aid for station coverage and we couldn't get in so they went to car to car to hopefully find someone left their keys in the car and someone did
HAHA I know what you mean-lots of times I'm one of the last ones flying into the parking lot and scrambling to get on the engine, and every so often the seat belt doesn't retract enough to let the car door slam, leaving the door open a crack. Thank the gods we live in a rural town and not in the DC-Metro area where I grew up!
*clips pager on pocket just to make sure everyone knows we've got a ff/emt....:: we've all been there making sure our tones are set high in public not vibrate lol
It's that way for Lunch, Dinner, date night, school events, parties and any time you have something to go do and tones drop for the volunteer. Days you have nothing to do and no calls seem to go with it. I would not trade any of it.
Join the club! I've been a volunteer for 18 years, and I've had so many meals, holidays, parties, etc. interrupted by the tones going off, and yet I wouldn't trade any of it for the world. And I tell people "It's never boring." Some days nothing happens, and other days we get slammed right from the jump. You have to WANT to do this, but it does get a hold of you like nothing else in the world. It just goes with the territory.
That's great to see these departments along the border have mutual aid agreements! Different flags on our shoulders but brothers and sisters nonetheless!
What a nice gesture! Dropping what you are doing to fight a fire in Canada. Because of people like you I wear something every July 4th to show our neighbourly (sorry we spell it with a "u") support. God Bless America!
@@kim98677 Their Job is to fight fires in their district. They voluntarily are responding to a request for assistance. I think what's admirable is they take it just as seriously as any other call.
Weer not soo different you and us, eh! It's aboot time we put aside er differences and creck open some Mooshead lagers. I'll meet'cha at yer local Tim Hortons and we'll have a real hoot of a day.
@@awj03130 my fulltime job is in EMS and I'm on my volley FD I had to shut off my pager cause I've been doing so much work on the testing side of things and kept getting woken up by calls that all turned out to be false alarms. (I talked with my chief and we have enough guys that I can take a leave of absence and not disturb the flow)
Happens all day, every day LOL. Literally, every time we have to do some shit with the public (or anything for that matter...), we end up getting a call. We stopped cooking at our station. We're so damn busy... there's just no point. We eat out 3+ times a shift. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Plus a few snacks.
That was pretty cool. I like how you went on to film the firefighters arriving, gearing up, and then responding. I think it really captured the day to day life of this fire station.
Absolutely no one: RUclips Algorithm in 2020: "wanna see a 1 minute clip of an interview with a fire chief get cut short by a call from 8 years ago?" Me: "might as well."
Harambe still lives in this case you have to make a priority decision! You have the time to finish (a bit faster and rougher) so you can respond relaxed. The girl have the time to finish it on her own way while you on duty 😂😂😂
How dedicated are VFF's? While recovering from a Motorcycle accident I participated as much as I could in my Department. On July 4th one year we had our parade through the area. I rode with the Chief in the brush truck. Right after we got back to the station we heard EMS get toned out for a Heart Attach in our area. One of our Captains was running around, "WE GOT A MI CALL". The Chief said for him to take a crew on the Engine. At which time I informed the Chief that I was his only Medic. Chief looked around and said get a crew on the Engine, someone take Luke on the Quick Attack truck. I hobbled around the scene not really thinking about the fact that my leg was in a cast. The Woman was still conscious and alert. Started her on O2 took vitals. Even used my cast to calm her down when she kept apologizing for having us come out there. That wasn't the only call I made during my recovery. Not even a broken leg could keep me from responding to calls.
Shortly after I started EMT training, my husband and I found out we were pregnant with our older daughter. By the time we were able to do ride-alongs with the rescue squad as part of our training, I was six months pregnant with her. It made for some crazy moments in class and on one call where getting to the patient involved climbing up and down a loading dock at a warehouse. Getting up was relatively easy, but getting off that loading dock was not so fun because the word "jump" was definitely not part of my vocabulary at the time. Picture the scene in "Auntie Mame" when Agnes Gooch was trying to sit down on that super-low sofa and you get the idea. Throw in the guys on the ambulance laughing like hyenas at me trying to scootch my pregnant butt off that dock, and you get an even better idea! Needless to say, we joke that she's been a firehouse brat right from the start because she was running calls in utero!
LOL Our firehouse was hosting a First Responder class years ago (now they call it Emergency Medical Responder here in Maryland), and right in the middle of roll call, the klaxon went off. Half the room left (our guys), and the instructor was about to resume the roll call when I said, "You might want to wait a minute!" She asked why, and right then the house siren blew. When it wound down, I said "THAT'S why!" and the rest of the room cracked up. You do NOT want to be in the parking lot when that thing blasts, let me tell you-my husband and I live 1 1/2 blocks away, and if we have the windows open it practically sounds like it's in our back yard.
snattle rake I have no idea! All I can tell you is that it’s been on top of the station longer than I’ve been a volunteer there (over 20 years and still counting) and it’s LOUD.
We have CAD alert (ours through Active 911) which usually gives us a good head start on the pagers, depending where we are in the pecking order. On the other side, we’ve been at lunch in a restaurant, all of us, pager goes off, I look down, LT looks over to see if I’m screwing with them. I take off, he’s right behind me, we’re already peeling out of the lot when the CAD goes off. As well, since our pager and siren tones are the same, we get maybe a split second notice on the pager before the siren winds out. Our house siren is an STH-10. Very common. I can hear it, on a clear night, from my house, three miles away, over the railroad grade behind the hall (about the same height as the building), a river, a hill, a hospital, a valley, and another hill.
jfsa380 We got CAD alert installed several years ago, and our captain rigged the alert on it so that the volume will startle you but good when we get a call. Then we have the klaxon system, which starts with the old bell and leads into this electronic alert that has both a voice stating the vehicle response needed and also this electronic noise like a game show buzzer. THEN we get the dispatch from headquarters, followed by the house siren going off if it’s a fire call (the house siren doesn’t go off for medic assist calls for some reason). We also can subscribe to Active 911 through the firehouse, and those of us in the loop can also get automatic text messages when we get a call. So we’re a mix of the old and the new, and it’s pretty wild.
2020 the special year, and we are still watching this and love firefighters all over the world! We thank you for everything you do for us! Greetings from Germany 🧡🧡🧡
I will use this opportunity to pay tribute to my Dad. When our house burned down, the fire was fought by three volunteer fire departments. When we moved, my Dad, an old WW II vet, joined the volunteer fire department that served our community at the age of FIFTY because he thought he owed something back. Talk about the greatest generation.
This made for a way better video than just a boring old interview would. The way that guy screeches his truck tyres as he parks and then legs it into the fire engine is awesome. Dedication.
Taking care of business doing there jobs the paramedics and firemen deserve a lot of credit your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks don't work to hard great job great catches as usual way to go you guys rock thanks ! Joe
"I gotta go to Canada". I'm a retired firefighter from St Stephen New Brunswick. We have a long standing mutual aid agreement between our department and Calais Maine. We roll automatically to structures and industrial fires. The only time things got complicated crossing borders was for a brief period after 911. Two countries, One mission was our slogan.
I live in Calais and I know I've seen the trucks go over the bridges both ways. Respect for St Stephen from this old Blue Devil Funny note from town history -- during the war of 1812, Calais didn't have any gunpowder to spare for 4th of July celebrations. Despite being literally at war St. Stephen gave Calais some gunpowder for their holiday.
Is mutual aid in general something firehouses informally come to an agreement on or are there hard coded rules in place that there must be some kind of mutual aid? Of course I'm not sure how that differs from multiple alarms
@@alex-internetlubber Typically it is the at the discretion of each municipality. There are things such as expenditures that have to be agreed upon to cover the cost of responding. In our case, the agreement is over 100 years old and was initially founded on mutual respect and cooperation in time of need. Over the years as liability became more of a factor, crew insurance policies had to be negotiated to cover departments working in two different countries.
when i was 17 out with friends we played with fire and one of my friends accidently put a hut on fire but the fire fighters saved a lot of the property. thanks to their quick work the damage was only around 10,000€ and eventhough i didn't cause the fire, me and my brother still helped my friend to pay for the 10,000€. I paid 4,000€, my brother paid 2,000€ and my friend who caused the fire only had to pay the other 4,000€. this was a lesson for a lifetime not to let friends play with fire like that. Without the fire fighters it would've probably caused five times the damage, that would've been quite a lot of work to pay it off. So we are thankful to the firefighters who did a great job!
My friend’s relative is a fire fighter guy in New York City, we went up there one time and he let us look around the fire station and in the middle they got a call and went out sirens blaring it was kinda cool
That's EXACTLY how it goes with firefighters. I worked on Live Rescue for 9 months and they'll drop anything and everything as soon as the alarm come through. In fact, when I was with them, they had an app on their phones that told them about local emergencies. You'd often see them moving and halfway ready before the call even came through their alarm.
I come from extreme northern New York. Across the lake from Vermont. Almost all, if not all, of our fire departments have contracts with Quebec to send firefighters to each other's scenes when required. When you live in the sticks, sometimes the quickest help comes from another country.
The Fire department is without a doubt the best run "government" service in the Seattle area. They invented Medic-1 back in the 70's here. They show up almost instantly (within 4 minutes) unlike the cops (30 to 90 minutes). They save lives & property and almost never give you a bill (only for repeated false alarms). Every regulation they have makes sense and is because at least two people have died because the regulation did not exist before. By far the best tax dollars I have ever spent.
They have a job to do and there time and efforts and service are deeply appreciated thanks to everyone who responds keep them safe out there have all the respect and appreciate you guys thanks job well done you should be proud keep them safe out there ! Joe
It is great thing that towns that border Canada and the United States both help out each other. I have seen both the Swanton FD and those fire departments from the small communities on the canadian side cross the border to help each other out.
Idk if any other Firefighter does this but everytime I hear a freaking Monitor V go off my adrenaline starts pumping even if its on a RUclips Video. Ive been woke up many, Many, Many times from a dead sleep by my pager.
My Boy Scout troop meets in the local firehouse. We've learned to identify the tones and listen to the radio during our time there. If there's a call, all the boys who can drive run outside with everyone's keys and move our cars in the parking lot out of the way, so the firefighters have room to come screaming in. We figured it's the least we could do for them since they let us use their space for our meetings.
If I remember correctly it was for a fire alarm in a residence for the elderly. There is mutual aid between some towns in Franklin County USA and some towns on the Canadian side along the US border. On the Canadian side the cities are; Saint-Armand, Bedford, Stanbridge east, Fréligsburg and Sutton. Maybe Dunham too, not sure about this one. On the American side the towns of Swanton, Highgate, St-Albans, Franklin and Richford are part of it. Not sure for Enosburgh and Berkshire
If this interview didn't get interrupted, no one would have seen it.
Maybe 😂
No shit
exactly! lol
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How many times have we all heard chief yell "WHERE?!?!"
djraptorx One too many scary times bud.. Haha
I was at the firehouse once and answered the phone-it turned out to be one of our deputy chiefs, who was on paid duty at the station in the next county (we're part of their box area) alerting us to the house fire call they had and letting us know we were about to be called. I hung up, screamed "MOUNT UP!" to the guys, and right when they were asking me for more details the klaxon went off for us.
dragondancer1814 what happend after that?
@@thefonz2854 They went and did their thing.
@@thefonz2854 They lit up their flashy lights and woo woos to put the wet stuff on the red stuff.... Or stage at the end of the street ....
"WHERE?!" was expected. "I gotta go to Canada" was not. Had to laugh at that. Especially in light of, "WHERE?!" suddenly taking on a new meaning haha
Probably in southern parts of Quebec nearby of Saint-Jean-sur-le-Richelieu
I gotta go to Canada was probably the best line in the video
wonder how TSA treats them at the border control point coming back ??
All along Southern Quebec there is contracts with US Departments. Here in Franklin County NY, Fort Covington, Constable, Burke, Chateaugay help allot or have contracts in Quebec. Same in Vermont.
@@somethinburnin Not to mention HAVFD having jurisdiction on both sides to beging with
The guy running from his truck into the station resembles me racing home to take a shit
Bill Bu 😂😂same
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Bill Bu read your comment while it actually happened
nah you never move that carelessly with a man-sized turd poking out, you handle yourself like the bomb squad
i got interrupted by a firecall while watching this video. how ironic
WasGehtSieDasAn a bunch of people are saying this and now I'm glancing at my pager waiting for it to go off lol
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Same
Now the question is it the tri-monthly structure fire or another crackhead OD?
We had a kid in our senior class in high school that was a volunteer. When he was on call and got one, he just left everything and got out of there with everyone saying to be careful. He usually had his fire uniform all bundled in the passenger seat of his truck. Our class just helped clean up his stuff and put to the side like it was nothing. If school ended and it was important then a close buddy of his would take his stuff with him.
Thats so heart warming ngl
"Good morning class we'll be having a pop quiz on last night's reading"
"Wow crazy I just got a call, gotta jet gl tho"
seems a little young to be a fire fighter but thats pretty cool
That's the way it should be for everybody.
@@NWLegacyChannel here in BFE Ohio it was very common for middle-schoolers and high schoolers to be associated with the local fire departments in some form or another. I have two friends who were with the department since before they even hit puberty who now both work for the DC fire dept.
Every person on that department that responds is pre screened at both customs their passport/nexus is recorded as a "emergency traveller" and they do not have to stop at customs responding but when they come back the chief fills out some paper work and all of the responders sign it .
Why did they have to cross the boarder
@@amoss.zachywacky9041 Fire departments have a thing called ''mutual aid" where if something is getting out of hand for the equipment they have, they will call on a neighbouring department for assistance. So what happened here was something had gotten out of hand for the Canadian department and they called for assistance from their friends across the border.
@@FrostyJ95 Because fire is everyone's problem.
@@ShiningDarknes And because as much as we have sucked at maintaining that relationship over the last couple decades, we are brothers.
Sketchers Dat light up there’s reasons you might want to have such an agreement too. On both sides, if it gets out of hands, extra help is important, and can benefit greatly. This could save you a lot of damage during large fires. Plus, imagine a forest fire near border. If you don’t contain it, it might as well even cross the border
Theses agreements are based on the concept that, is something is happening that is getting out of our control, there is additional help that can be called nearby. Near the border, thoses extra hands and equipment may be easier and faster to get from across the border. The same thing applies for the us. If something is getting out of hand, they may call Canada for help
I just love the maximum chill everyone in this clip had, from the completely casual "I gotta go to Canada" from the chief to the sympathetic "We'll make do with what we have" from the interviewer.
It's always the worst when your in the bathroom and the tones drop.
I hate it when I'm home and nothing happens, but when I go run errands in the county seat and my phone starts blowing up because we got a call! THAT drives me nuts like nothing else in the world!
You ain't kidding. I've had to "cut one off "myself a time or two.
Been there Lol
Last time I decided to spend some time at the station just as available and on standby, literally didn’t get a call. I was going to stay for 4 hours. I was getting ready to leave, boom ambulance call. So I get my call in. We got back to the station and we’re sitting around filling out the run forms and what not. Boom another ambulance call. For us on average each medical is about an hour or so ish. From transport to turnover, to back in quarters. So by that time it’s already been 2 1/2 hours or so. I had a non firehouse related meeting at the firehouse that night so I ended up at the firehouse for 9 hours lol.
"Sorry capt, can't pinch liquid..."
Chief: "I hope you got enough!"
Interviewer: "Oh this is more than enough!"
I want to personally thank the guy with the light bar on his S-10 for his service.
The only person on here with respect lol. #TYFYS
Not to mention the pulling in to the apron Mach-10
Vollys here to protect us all with their beer guts, shitty trucks, and power pole family trees
I know I won't convince you that most volunteer departments are fairly high quality, so I'm just gonna drop a quick fact. You have 2 choices in 90% of the country: call the volunteers, or call nobody 🤔
@@j.adamwegs2882 Actually you can call a private FD as well, but you need to subscribe to the service and most of then suck ass, like really bad.
I like that it’s a bunch of firefighters showing up in these comments. Thank you all for your bravery and service to your community and beyond
Everyone has done the pull into the parking lot, leave the truck running with lights flashing and sprint to the fire house. You can always tell if it was a bad call when you go by the firehouse and all the doors are open and lights are still going on personal cars.
yup did that for a medical....spent the whole ride home from the ER looking for my keys...hell i didn't even pull them out of the ignition of my car (shut it off though) lol
Shit man, if I did that in my town I wouldn't have a car to get home.
agree totally, theres been a lot of that and more over the years. we've even had guys come in so fast that when they slammed on the brakes they skidded into the through the wall of the station!most of us leave our car keys in the ignition.
the local people in our town know the cars of those of us in the fire brigade and will pull over on the road to let us pass when the siren go and we're on the way to the station
That happen when my department went mutual aid for station coverage and we couldn't get in so they went to car to car to hopefully find someone left their keys in the car and someone did
HAHA I know what you mean-lots of times I'm one of the last ones flying into the parking lot and scrambling to get on the engine, and every so often the seat belt doesn't retract enough to let the car door slam, leaving the door open a crack. Thank the gods we live in a rural town and not in the DC-Metro area where I grew up!
0:22 with the hand on the pager leaning over.. We've all done that
haha, yes yes we have.
Fink Response Videos yes
Fink Response Videos It's the universal volunteer firefighter sign for I might be done with this conversation
Lancaster lmao, that "I'm ignoring you because you keep talking over the description numb nuts" look too.
*clips pager on pocket just to make sure everyone knows we've got a ff/emt....:: we've all been there making sure our tones are set high in public not vibrate lol
Alarm goes off.
Fireman: Lunch time.
Chief: WHERE!?
Fireman: Canada.
Chief: I got to go to Canada.
Enters Canada:
*you now owe $100,000 in taxes good sir*
@@jays5926 I’ve been to the States multiple times and our shit isn’t much more expensive than yours
@@roddydykes7053 English and the way people express themselves is so... peculiar. "Our shit" lmao
@@efethecaptain6 too right old boy. The colonies have become terribly strange.
@@metal-gods old boy ?
It's that way for Lunch, Dinner, date night, school events, parties and any time you have something to go do and tones drop for the volunteer. Days you have nothing to do and no calls seem to go with it. I would not trade any of it.
Amen brother.
Join the club! I've been a volunteer for 18 years, and I've had so many meals, holidays, parties, etc. interrupted by the tones going off, and yet I wouldn't trade any of it for the world. And I tell people "It's never boring." Some days nothing happens, and other days we get slammed right from the jump. You have to WANT to do this, but it does get a hold of you like nothing else in the world. It just goes with the territory.
I agree with you all!! I’m going on 8 years and counting!!!!
craig zale I don’t know if I would leave a date to go to a VOLUNTEER fire call.
Blytheboy1997reviews Got that beat-my husband and I squirreled one on our HONEYMOON!
That's great to see these departments along the border have mutual aid agreements! Different flags on our shoulders but brothers and sisters nonetheless!
Love God and Love Thy Neighbor
That's cool that they have cross border calls. My department works with NY state departments on the water for calls.
Yeah did you hear that to yeah where I live in ny state I here Sharon ladder out of Sharon ct
I thought you were the Mayor of Big Daddy's Pizza?
@@spacewolfjr Sheriff of Big Daddy's.
What a nice gesture! Dropping what you are doing to fight a fire in Canada. Because of people like you I wear something every July 4th to show our neighbourly (sorry we spell it with a "u") support. God Bless America!
I love my Canadian neighbors. Ya'll are welcome to my grill outs anytime.
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@@kim98677 Their Job is to fight fires in their district. They voluntarily are responding to a request for assistance. I think what's admirable is they take it just as seriously as any other call.
apologizing for spelling differences has to be the most Canadian thing I've ever seen.
Weer not soo different you and us, eh! It's aboot time we put aside er differences and creck open some Mooshead lagers. I'll meet'cha at yer local Tim Hortons and we'll have a real hoot of a day.
Man i didnt think their pagers would sound like my departments and it made me jump a little when i herd it go off.
Same here brother I heard the tones drop and I looked at my pager and realized it wasnt mine😂😂😂
I think they all do that sound at the beginning but any tones that follow are customizable.
@@awj03130 my fulltime job is in EMS and I'm on my volley FD I had to shut off my pager cause I've been doing so much work on the testing side of things and kept getting woken up by calls that all turned out to be false alarms. (I talked with my chief and we have enough guys that I can take a leave of absence and not disturb the flow)
Interviewer: do we have an emergancy? Fire chief: shut the fuck up Dave
I'd say 90% of the comments are firefighters, most who have experienced something similar.
We all are getting interviewed :)
This is the system of volunteery fire departments in Germany.. (have only volunteer firefighters)
When I was younger every time parent teacher meetings happened tones would drop
Happens all day, every day LOL. Literally, every time we have to do some shit with the public (or anything for that matter...), we end up getting a call. We stopped cooking at our station. We're so damn busy... there's just no point. We eat out 3+ times a shift. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Plus a few snacks.
Sorry im from the red cross austria,,, 👍😂
nice gate pfp
I've always thought it's the most badass thing to just drop anything and everything you're doing and run off to go fight fires.
2020 :
RUclips : eh, throw it in there, they'll watch it.
Best comment hands down, in my opinion.
The Asian Angeleño facts
They right
I laughed way too hard at this... thank you😂
Not like I have much else to do
That was pretty cool. I like how you went on to film the firefighters arriving, gearing up, and then responding. I think it really captured the day to day life of this fire station.
Absolutely no one:
RUclips Algorithm in 2020: "wanna see a 1 minute clip of an interview with a fire chief get cut short by a call from 8 years ago?"
Me: "might as well."
🤣🤣 same
Can I join this exclusive club?
@@henryhunter9643 more the merrier
My dad is a fireman, always inspiring. Thank you to all the heroes!
Nothing worst than in the middle of having sex, your pager goes off, even if it's a dumb call like a cat in a tree, it ruins the mood.
Harambe still lives in this case you have to make a priority decision!
You have the time to finish (a bit faster and rougher) so you can respond relaxed. The girl have the time to finish it on her own way while you on duty 😂😂😂
Harambe still lives hey man cat lives matter
LMFAO finish the nut then go
Yeah, it gives a whole new meaning to coitus interruptus!
How dedicated are VFF's? While recovering from a Motorcycle accident I participated as much as I could in my Department. On July 4th one year we had our parade through the area. I rode with the Chief in the brush truck. Right after we got back to the station we heard EMS get toned out for a Heart Attach in our area. One of our Captains was running around, "WE GOT A MI CALL". The Chief said for him to take a crew on the Engine. At which time I informed the Chief that I was his only Medic. Chief looked around and said get a crew on the Engine, someone take Luke on the Quick Attack truck. I hobbled around the scene not really thinking about the fact that my leg was in a cast. The Woman was still conscious and alert. Started her on O2 took vitals. Even used my cast to calm her down when she kept apologizing for having us come out there. That wasn't the only call I made during my recovery. Not even a broken leg could keep me from responding to calls.
Shortly after I started EMT training, my husband and I found out we were pregnant with our older daughter. By the time we were able to do ride-alongs with the rescue squad as part of our training, I was six months pregnant with her. It made for some crazy moments in class and on one call where getting to the patient involved climbing up and down a loading dock at a warehouse. Getting up was relatively easy, but getting off that loading dock was not so fun because the word "jump" was definitely not part of my vocabulary at the time. Picture the scene in "Auntie Mame" when Agnes Gooch was trying to sit down on that super-low sofa and you get the idea. Throw in the guys on the ambulance laughing like hyenas at me trying to scootch my pregnant butt off that dock, and you get an even better idea!
Needless to say, we joke that she's been a firehouse brat right from the start because she was running calls in utero!
Thank you for your service! :)
Firefighter listening intently trying to hear message
Interviewer - It’s okay, I’ll just talk over the short but vary important message
ya i was waiting for the guy to say shutup would ya?! and raise his finger.
While I'm listening, watching the chief try to hear the call out, I'll ask the obvious "Do you have an emergency?"
yep lmao
At my FD, you wouldn't be able to hear a thing after the pagers ring, since we also have a house siren that's very loud.
LOL Our firehouse was hosting a First Responder class years ago (now they call it Emergency Medical Responder here in Maryland), and right in the middle of roll call, the klaxon went off. Half the room left (our guys), and the instructor was about to resume the roll call when I said, "You might want to wait a minute!" She asked why, and right then the house siren blew. When it wound down, I said "THAT'S why!" and the rest of the room cracked up. You do NOT want to be in the parking lot when that thing blasts, let me tell you-my husband and I live 1 1/2 blocks away, and if we have the windows open it practically sounds like it's in our back yard.
@@dragondancer1814 what type of siren is it?
snattle rake I have no idea! All I can tell you is that it’s been on top of the station longer than I’ve been a volunteer there (over 20 years and still counting) and it’s LOUD.
We have CAD alert (ours through Active 911) which usually gives us a good head start on the pagers, depending where we are in the pecking order. On the other side, we’ve been at lunch in a restaurant, all of us, pager goes off, I look down, LT looks over to see if I’m screwing with them. I take off, he’s right behind me, we’re already peeling out of the lot when the CAD goes off. As well, since our pager and siren tones are the same, we get maybe a split second notice on the pager before the siren winds out. Our house siren is an STH-10. Very common. I can hear it, on a clear night, from my house, three miles away, over the railroad grade behind the hall (about the same height as the building), a river, a hill, a hospital, a valley, and another hill.
jfsa380 We got CAD alert installed several years ago, and our captain rigged the alert on it so that the volume will startle you but good when we get a call. Then we have the klaxon system, which starts with the old bell and leads into this electronic alert that has both a voice stating the vehicle response needed and also this electronic noise like a game show buzzer. THEN we get the dispatch from headquarters, followed by the house siren going off if it’s a fire call (the house siren doesn’t go off for medic assist calls for some reason). We also can subscribe to Active 911 through the firehouse, and those of us in the loop can also get automatic text messages when we get a call. So we’re a mix of the old and the new, and it’s pretty wild.
One thing I wouldn't expect to hear in a fire station is "I gotta go to Canada."
The border fire departments, especially on the US-Canadian borders, never have any issues helping each other out
From the look on his face, to the hand reach on the side, every volunteer can relate haha
Fascinating!
That only happened to me, seems like, about 80% of the time if I sat on the crapper, went to bed or tried having dinner.
2020 the special year, and we are still watching this and love firefighters all over the world! We thank you for everything you do for us!
Greetings from Germany 🧡🧡🧡
I will use this opportunity to pay tribute to my Dad. When our house burned down, the fire was fought by three volunteer fire departments. When we moved, my Dad, an old WW II vet, joined the volunteer fire department that served our community at the age of FIFTY because he thought he owed something back. Talk about the greatest generation.
Never gets old watching this. Exactly like every volunteer firehouse lol.
This made for a way better video than just a boring old interview would. The way that guy screeches his truck tyres as he parks and then legs it into the fire engine is awesome. Dedication.
I enjoyed this can't wait to see what RUclips recommends to me another 8 years.
So I hear you’re a dumb little teenage kid
One of the most satisfying thing I enjoy is to see the look of high skilled and professional people doing their job.
This legit feels like something out of The Office.
Taking care of business doing there jobs the paramedics and firemen deserve a lot of credit your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks don't work to hard great job great catches as usual way to go you guys rock thanks ! Joe
"I gotta go to Canada". I'm a retired firefighter from St Stephen New Brunswick. We have a long standing mutual aid agreement between our department and Calais Maine. We roll automatically to structures and industrial fires. The only time things got complicated crossing borders was for a brief period after 911. Two countries, One mission was our slogan.
I live in Calais and I know I've seen the trucks go over the bridges both ways. Respect for St Stephen from this old Blue Devil
Funny note from town history -- during the war of 1812, Calais didn't have any gunpowder to spare for 4th of July celebrations. Despite being literally at war St. Stephen gave Calais some gunpowder for their holiday.
Is mutual aid in general something firehouses informally come to an agreement on or are there hard coded rules in place that there must be some kind of mutual aid? Of course I'm not sure how that differs from multiple alarms
@@alex-internetlubber Typically it is the at the discretion of each municipality. There are things such as expenditures that have to be agreed upon to cover the cost of responding. In our case, the agreement is over 100 years old and was initially founded on mutual respect and cooperation in time of need. Over the years as liability became more of a factor, crew insurance policies had to be negotiated to cover departments working in two different countries.
when i was 17 out with friends we played with fire and one of my friends accidently put a hut on fire but the fire fighters saved a lot of the property. thanks to their quick work the damage was only around 10,000€ and eventhough i didn't cause the fire, me and my brother still helped my friend to pay for the 10,000€.
I paid 4,000€, my brother paid 2,000€ and my friend who caused the fire only had to pay the other 4,000€. this was a lesson for a lifetime not to let friends play with fire like that. Without the fire fighters it would've probably caused five times the damage, that would've been quite a lot of work to pay it off. So we are thankful to the firefighters who did a great job!
The most impressive thing I remember from living 2 years in the USA is the volume of their firetrucks horns and sirens.
Your service is deeply appreciated thanks take care best wishes to everyone who responds keep up the good work sorry you had to go on a call. Joe
When you gotta go you gotta go.
My friend’s relative is a fire fighter guy in New York City, we went up there one time and he let us look around the fire station and in the middle they got a call and went out sirens blaring it was kinda cool
That's EXACTLY how it goes with firefighters. I worked on Live Rescue for 9 months and they'll drop anything and everything as soon as the alarm come through.
In fact, when I was with them, they had an app on their phones that told them about local emergencies. You'd often see them moving and halfway ready before the call even came through their alarm.
I Might be a little late, But We have an app called 'Active911' and its a godsend when we dont have our radios/pagers on us
Thank you RUclips for teaching me this day that fire departments don't stop for national borders....you really do learn something new every day!
once, in my city, in italy, i've seen a fireman almost overturned a chair to go to the station from the table where he was with friends
I think this got the point across of the interview far better than asking questions ever could.
I thought the “interruption” was gonna be that pile of bags in the thumbnail, which I thought was some kind of dog-like puppet
Lmao i thought the same thing!
me too
That is honestly the main reason I clicked on the video. The actual video was better than expected :D
Same
Thank you so much to the volunteer firefighters, but also the camera crew for this video, giving their job priority over content.
We will all one day get that feeling, that you just need to go to Canada. Just drop everything and go
The Superman theme started to play in my head while watching this. Bless you boys.
Ahhh the signature “WHERE”?!
I come from extreme northern New York. Across the lake from Vermont. Almost all, if not all, of our fire departments have contracts with Quebec to send firefighters to each other's scenes when required. When you live in the sticks, sometimes the quickest help comes from another country.
I love how you continually reply sir.
Thank you Algorithm, the comments from firefighters and volunteers in the comments were exactly what I needed.
“Do we have an emergency?!?!?!” No dude... the cookies are ready!
Here’s your sign!
Thanks for your service to the firefighters all aorund the world from Germany!
I got interrupted by a fire call while reading the comment about being interrupted by a fire call while watching this video. How ironic.
The Fire department is without a doubt the best run "government" service in the Seattle area. They invented Medic-1 back in the 70's here. They show up almost instantly (within 4 minutes) unlike the cops (30 to 90 minutes). They save lives & property and almost never give you a bill (only for repeated false alarms). Every regulation they have makes sense and is because at least two people have died because the regulation did not exist before. By far the best tax dollars I have ever spent.
Fire Departments are the very few things that makes tax dollars seem justified
0:55 when you’re driving home and have to shit lmaoo 😂
💀💀😅😂
Diarrhea time
Glad to know our friends south of the boarder help us out here too. I just the kindness has been reciprocated.
It has been. I live in a border town and have seen firefighters with the maple leaf on their shoulders respond to our fires.
I am harder then a diamond in an ice storm watching these heroes race to blazes... Go get em brothers!
They have a job to do and there time and efforts and service are deeply appreciated thanks to everyone who responds keep them safe out there have all the respect and appreciate you guys thanks job well done you should be proud keep them safe out there ! Joe
This is more badass than a interview
I like the interviewers comments at the end. A true professional.
"Well, I gotta go to Canada"
Cant overstate how mature this news crew was
I love how the chiefs trying to listen to a fire message and he talks over it.
Great seeing his eyes shift back and forth when listening
🔥 Fires are so inconsiderate of other people's time 🔥
Thank God for someone doing something. I think I will watch a show about someone building a farm now. Its good that things get done.
Interviewer: Where should we start?
Fire: 'Scuse me for interruption.
Respect to all the firemen and women in the world, they do such an important and necessary job for bad pay
I love that type of siren!
OneSkiWonder Same here. "Q" sirens are classic.
It goes good with the powercall.
Haha me too wish we had those on Aussie appliances...
Yes, recommend this now so the people can be brought together again
na, he just didn't want to be Interviewed
It is great thing that towns that border Canada and the United States both help out each other. I have seen both the Swanton FD and those fire departments from the small communities on the canadian side cross the border to help each other out.
This is my dad every time his pager goes off lol. CVFD
those people deserve a raise. they're awesome
Always seems to happen when there's a tour going through.
imagine instead of a documentary it was like a live action follow along with b-roll and no script
Idk if any other Firefighter does this but everytime I hear a freaking Monitor V go off my adrenaline starts pumping even if its on a RUclips Video. Ive been woke up many, Many, Many times from a dead sleep by my pager.
Volunteer firefighters are so cool. Used to work with one. He was a chill dude.
i thought his pager tone was mine going off lmao
You still use a pager? Whoa I didn't even know those were still around.
I think some are missing that this is a US fire dept Swanton VT, (possibly vol) that called to respond to an incident in Canada a few miles away.
How do they deal with crossing the border do they need their passport at all times?
usually just their ID will do. they usually clear the border with in 30 seconds.
Oh ok cool
About crossing borders that's a question I have to it must be weird there's a departments I hear on my radio it does into Connecticut
The red lights and siren are meant to tell the border patrol "Get out of my way, I don't have time for you".
Brendan Gargan English isn't your first language is it?
Respect and love to all the first responders out there!
That's a big ass rig! Do they roll on mutual aid into Canada very often?
My Boy Scout troop meets in the local firehouse. We've learned to identify the tones and listen to the radio during our time there. If there's a call, all the boys who can drive run outside with everyone's keys and move our cars in the parking lot out of the way, so the firefighters have room to come screaming in. We figured it's the least we could do for them since they let us use their space for our meetings.
Isn’t this in Vermont why are they going to Canada
They are right on the boarder, and often time respond mutual aid into canada because they are one of the closer departments
google
Oh ya that’s what I thaught
To Every Single Fire Fighter on earth much love and respect all the way from Antarctica 🤘💯❤️🇮🇪🇷🇺
*_0:29_**_ - my favorite line_*
If I remember correctly it was for a fire alarm in a residence for the elderly. There is mutual aid between some towns in Franklin County USA and some towns on the Canadian side along the US border. On the Canadian side the cities are; Saint-Armand, Bedford, Stanbridge east, Fréligsburg and Sutton. Maybe Dunham too, not sure about this one. On the American side the towns of Swanton, Highgate, St-Albans, Franklin and Richford are part of it. Not sure for Enosburgh and Berkshire
"Interview interupts firehouse" lol
0:22 that's how I lean over getting a call🤣🤣