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/DiezDedos Jan 22 '25

Nicked himself shaving 3 days ago. Bleeds every time he washes his face (0330)

Had a bad dream. Still scared when he woke up

Had a bad dream where he passed out, worried it was a premonition 

Swollen feet in the hospital parking lot immediately after discharge

Pulled an all nighter last night, sleepy now

Dog got skunked

Bugs in skin (fake)

Bugs in skin (real, unfortunately)

10/10 lower abdominal pain, resolved after a fart on scene

Found out his girlfriend watched porn, worried he caught a STI

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u/squarehead93 paramedic lurker Jan 22 '25

I imagine that fart that resolved the 10/10 abdominal pain must’ve caused a few casualties on scene though?

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u/wolfgang107 Jan 22 '25

10/10 lower abdominal pain, resolved after a fart on scene

Everyone has experienced that one trapped fart that made you feel like you were about to die. You just let that baby rip, but some people are just very, very special…

And as a 911 calltaker that unfortunately has to send some of these dumb as fuck calls, the bed bugs under the skin or bed bugs crawling under my eyes/in my brain/in my ears will forever make me gag. I’ve only experienced that once as an EMT, and fortunately, police had to yank the lady out of her house because she was an EP. They heavily burritoed her before letting her waddle out of the house and onto our stretcher.

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u/Astralnugget Jan 23 '25

Bro I’ve had that and actually was convinced I was dying 😂 I believe the person when they say it was 10/10 I don’t blame them

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u/Chemical_Apricot_933 Jan 23 '25

in all seriousness I went to the ER when i was 19 because i thought i was having a miscarriage or something had ruptured but it was actually gas. i mean the morphine drip didn’t even relieve the pain the way that fart did.

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u/ApprehensiveGur6842 Jan 23 '25

Had a bad dream call in 24. Capt refused to go into the house. The 15 year old daughter said we have to see her mom, he told her he doesn’t take orders from children

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u/bedhead215 Jan 26 '25

Don’t you think there was more to the story than just a bad dream? No one even bothered checking it out?

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u/ApprehensiveGur6842 Jan 26 '25

No she yelled down to us, it was a bad dream that someone killed her daughter who was standing at the front door. That’s it.

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u/Chicago_Avocado Jan 26 '25

What was bugs in skin? Norwegian scabies?

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u/DiezDedos Jan 27 '25

I’m not an entomologist man I just wrapped him up in a highway blanket and kept my distance