r/Firefighting • u/Peaches0k Texas FF/EMT/HazMat Tech • Jan 22 '25

General Discussion Reasons For Calls

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Saw someone ask what all we do besides fire. Here’s a list the shifts add to for dumb calls. It was started a few months ago

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u/SpicyRockConnoisseur Jan 22 '25

I’ve got bedbugs all over and inside me. I’m pooping them out and they are exiting my eyes and ears

Uhhh fuck the fire dept bro needs an exorcist

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u/Tactile_Sponge Jan 22 '25

Last bed bug guy I took in, I coaxed him into agreeing to ride in a body bag. He was pretty chill, and it was 100% BLS, so he just had his face and the pulse ox + autocuff line hanging out.

Blanket burrito doesn't cut it anymore. Caught a couple of those fuckers escaping and trying to come home with me with a different bedbug pt. Unless it's a critical situation, I'm not going inside unless I've taped up my boots/pant legs (half measure) or donned a tyvek suit.

Seems overkill, but by god, I had them in my last apartment 3 years ago, and it was almost 6 months of absolute psychological torture living with them. Never again.

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u/FederalAmmunition Jan 22 '25

Communications, medic 15, upgrade this to a hazmat response…

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u/Florian630 Jan 22 '25

Communications, medic 15, disregard hazmat response. The home just spontaneously combusted.