Posts Categorized: Wtf
Open Letter to Yvonne B. Singletary
I wish the officer would have been there in court that day. You have no right to disobey traffic laws when you are not in an emergency vehicle. You have not taken Emergency driving courses. You do not drive a vehicle equipped with emergency lights and sirens. You do not have the RIGHT to put others at risk.
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Thoughts and Prayers are Hollow Without Conviction
As we watch yet more firefighter funerals this weekend, put some oomph into your typical "thoughts and prayers" mantra and make it personal.
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360 Degree Burn Size Up of the Fire Webs- 7/12/2010
DeKalb County GA fire captain reinstated after Dunwoody fire, NY firefighter gets steam burns from pumper valve, and another reason why to avoid meditation- all on this week's 360 Burn!
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Wingnut of the Week: Homeowner Says Firefighter’s Gear Set Off Explosion That Severely Burned Them
Howabout we leave the flap settings, ILS intercepts, and all that other cockpitting crap to you, and let us do the firefighting and the associated investigation into an incident that nearly killed four of us.
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Medic 999: Let That Be a Lesson To Us
It doesn't take millions of people or millions of dollars to make significant changes in the lives of our fellow human beings. Mark showed us that all it takes is heart and resolve. We salute you Mark for showing us both, my friend.
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If We Do What We’ve Always Done, We’ll Get What We’ve Always Gotten…
I want to take the opportunity offered by the First Due Blog Carnival to express my disgust with those in the service who make no changes to the way their agency operates based on the findings of the NIOSH reports.
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WWJD? Renew the passport….
This is a rant. Maybe I can counterbalance today’s post that includes dead babies with a more light-hearted post tomorrow- perhaps about cute puppies?
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The sky didn’t fall…. again.
This wasn’t the first time I had been duped by these Chicken Littles. Yet another cataclysmic apocalypse fizzled out. What's going to happen when we're faced with a true pandemic crisis and no one heeds the warnings?
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TMI: Are we creating distracted drivers in our apparatus?
Like a litter of eleven puppies fighting for six nipples, we've been inundated with computers, map routing and GPS devices, cell phones, and multiple radio stacks- all competing for our attention while responding. How much is too much?
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“I do not proposition women. I don’t have to. Women usually proposition me. God has blessed me like that.”- Chicago Fire Commissioner John Brooks.
"He would say, 'I am a breast man. I want a wild woman,' " Green claimed. "I said, 'I don't like this picture.' He felt I was subordinate to him."
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Assault with a deadly…. eww…
A woman in jail for public intoxication was accused of assaulting a jailer by squirting breast milk at her. WYMT-TV reported that a 31-year-old woman was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication.
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DeKalb County- four sides to every story
The DeKalb County incident was the focal point of a lively discussion featured on Firefighter NetCast this month. A similar refrain was heard during those discussions: “This is too bizarre, there has to be more to the story that we haven’t heard.” Boy, is there...
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“Haunted” Suburban Chicago Fire Station to be Featured on A&E This Week
"I've heard they are friendly spirits. I just wish they would do some work around here," said the station's Lieutenant.
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360 Burn Size-up of The Fire Web 2/8/10
Not a great night in Indy; iPod charges, Suburban crisps; another financial agreement for Sarasota FL Fire's Kenneth Ellerbee- all in this week's 360 Burn Size-up of the Fire Web
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How Many Tasers Are Needed to Squelch an Assistant Chief?
Firefighters just wanted him to calm down or leave, but eventually were forced to summon police so they could continue their suppression activities without the irate interference of this highly-trained professional.
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Bahhhh Groundhog!
His shadow's not the only thing we can see...
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Sleight of Hand in Franklin Park, IL?
We have progressed into a society that no longer calls the truth the truth, or a lie a lie. We are a people who have grown accustomed to “grey areas” in which one plus one can actually equal a submarine- if it can be expertly explained away before the next episode of Jersey Shore is on.
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See How Fire Daily Made the Cut…
How the heck did this happen? FireDaily makes the cut into the top ten bloggers of the year 2009? Proof that sometimes it takes more than shear talent to be within reach of the top....
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Fire YesterDaily- “The Head Rule”
From the "Best of 2009"- back in October, a short post about the DC firefighters burned during a pub ed demo narrated by their Chief. A later interview with Chief Rubin illustrated yet one more time the "Head Rule" should have been utilized.
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Joyriders Put Tender Out to Pasture
"We're unsure how long it was out, how many miles it traveled or where it went," Falcon Fire Chief Trent Harwig said. "We just know it was in the middle of a pasture. Which was strange. It had to have been a pretty exciting ride.”
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360 Burn Size-up of The Fire Web 12/22/09
It took a Freedom of Information Act to obtain yet another official report outlining a delay in aerial support of the Station Fire - Chicago's Gold Badge Society - what tool should you use to force this door - all on today's 360 Burn.
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We Are So Eager to be Offended. Well, Get Offended About This.
It will take firefighters that have the cojones to stand up to the tiny minority of bad apples who think it’s OK to spew the hatred that we all should have grown out of so long ago.
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FireYesterDaily- 30 Minutes of Training Per Week is Unfair and “Unreal”
With a job and family now its hard to respond to calls sometimes let alone run here and there for classes. Really what has changed? We still gear up get on the truck and put the wet stuff on the red stuff...”
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Lawyers in Lockport NY singing “Happy New Year!”
Attorneys can safely put aside some coin for next year's trip to New Zealand, thanks to the seemingly never-ending legal battles over in the Lockport (NY) Fire Department. I wonder if the taxpayers know the whole story....
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Be scared lil’ light bulb on my Butter-Face Christmas Tree… Be VERY scared.
While FireGeezer has his coffee brewing this morning, I’m poppin’ another bottle of Bailey’s and offering up the first in the series "Two Thousand and Nine Favorite FireDaily Blog Posts of 2009". This won't last long....
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