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/johnsy7 Jan 22 '25

We recently got called to a fire at about 3am. As soon as we turned out and saw the thick fog we knew exactly what the 'smoke' they were seeing was 🤦

Also often called to smoke issuing at night/early morning at this time of year, which invariably turns out to be steam from boiler flues.