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/FaithlessnessFew7029 Jan 22 '25

We have a water treatment plant that burns off methane from a stack. Used to get a couple calls per week (after midnight of course) for a "fire that they could see from the freeway". We just started calling the plant after a while and asking if all was good lol. Eventually the trees got tall enough to hide it.

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u/fredbighead Jan 22 '25

After how many visits did you start calling?

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u/FaithlessnessFew7029 Jan 22 '25

Not entirely sure.... likely over 50 lol.