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yes this is way OT and has no reason to be here but......

Daveroo

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i was a volunteer/paid fire fighter in the 80s and early 90s...i also went into the HAZMAT propane type major incident responce team stuff rather than running the "squad"....which is why i left..the fire department became a group of babysitters...when we ran more calls in a month for asprin than for fires..i was done...

one call though,,,myself and my partner were called to a HAZMAT for an unknown white substance on the roadway...ill tell ya right now it was sugar...it was left on the roof of a car or something and fell off..splatted on the road..broke open and spilled its entirety on the road...the bag had blown in the wind up onto an embankment.......

well pete and i dont know this at first..nor did anyone as the first police unit had closed the road in both directions and evacuated a block down wind....and did not look at the substance...just had a panic attack and thought he was gonna croak ( the cop i mean) and called in the troops as he put it....

so i walk up to the spill,,,in full bunker gear..the white mylar one piece pull over suit airtank mask helmet..everything...i glance over..see the sugar bag and see its not been there long just by its appearance.....i get on my knees and take a close look....and sure enough i KNOW its sugar....pete looks at me and grins and i give him a wink...he knows me well enough to just turn his back...( he is a good boy kinda fella)....so he turns his back on me..and i pull off my helmet..mask.hoddy ..gloves...lick my finger...stick my finger in the sugar...then into my mouth....i look up at pete......then i fall over backwards as if im dead.......


the fire chief..police chief..sheriff..and several news people wanted to kill me.......

i was offically suspened for 6 months...reliaity had me back in 2 days
 
There's always room here for a funny story. :) I'll have to pass this one on to the guys at the station in our neighborhood.
 
That is awsome!! I've been tempted to do something like that myself and probably will when the moment is right. Some of our cops are freaked out by the whole terrorist thing. I know it's serious stuff, can happen anywhere, but if just the right things are in place...
 
My department got a Hazmat call one day to respond to a tanker truck overturned on the interstate with a leak, and a foul smell coming from it.

Well, Fowl smell would have been more like it, it was a gut truck from the Tyson chicken plant, and it had ruptured when it overturned. You couldn't get NEAR that truck without full SCBA, the smell would drop you in a heartbeat.

They had us hose off the pavement, and then that particular section of the interstate was closed for a couple days and they rerouted traffic down through town around it, while the DNR brought in heavy equipment to remove the contaminated dirt.

Even after it was pronounced clean I still swear I could smell that stuff every time I drove through that section....UGH!
 
Chicken can really stink...

Got a call for a heavy smoke condition in an apartment unit one afternoon. Arrived and smoke was visible through the windows. I packed up and with my partner, grabbed a 1 3/4" line and forced the door.

The smoke was heavy and banked down to within 3 feet of the floor but there wasn't any heat. We crawled around the corner to find the source of the smoke.

A saucepan on the stove pouring smoke with the electric burner on high. I snapped the stove off and my partner began opening windows and the sliding glass door so we could ventilate.

As the smoke lifted I took off my mask.

Big Mistake.

Burned chicken bones really smell. I have never put an air pack mask back on so quick in my life.

Took two washings to get the smell out of my turnout gear.

Then there was the night, a small sports car disemboweled a moose on the interstate. Had to throw out six sets of turnouts because the moose's stomach acid was eating up the PBI...
 
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