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/FederalAmmunition Jan 22 '25

Structure fire that turned out to be a fish tank light reflection on the wall

I love the fire service

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u/KGBspy Career FF/Lt and adult babysitter. Jan 22 '25

I know of a fire that got called in due to red curtains being blown out a window on a nice day.

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u/ShooterMcGrabbin88 Hose Humper Jan 23 '25

Had some lady that was visiting my neighbor who was from Arizona beat on my door at about 2:00 am screaming that my house was on fire.

It was the dryer vent.

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u/KGBspy Career FF/Lt and adult babysitter. Jan 23 '25

I say every friggin day....people are idiots. Homeowners that don't know where their main panel or water main is, people that know their cellar floods all the time yet they're too cheap to get a pump and hose from Home D so they call us instead to do it, people that don't seem to realize that....a little beep once a minute from a CO detector isn't CO and if you read the back you fucking morons you'd see that it means "low battery" or "replace detector", the list goes on and on. 18-24 months and I'm done.