r/Firefighting • u/MarcuzFireREDDIT • Jun 02 '25

Videos What happens in a situation like this?

Entitled prick blocks a bus because she supposedly wasn't let on. A fire truck is behind - full lights blaring but refuses to move. No space for the truck to pass due to the congestion.

Would anything at all be able to be done? It's times like this that really piss and stress out firefighters, and I'm sorry people like this exist. Hopefully a big charge came her way, but nothing new as of yet as this happened yesterday I believe.

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u/FirebunnyLP FFLP Jun 02 '25

Open the door and let the passengers handle. Easy as.

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u/AlternateTab00 Jun 03 '25

Let me tell you a story where i may or may have not participated.

2012, Lisbon on a narrow street. Tram got blocked. After a few moments an ambulance arrives. No one was appearing.

Tram passengers and some bystanders try to move the car by lifting the rear. It proved hard due lack of grip area and the one of the wheels was inside of a hole of the sidewalk.

We see one of the ambulance dispatchers run dow the street, he decided to run to the destination instead of waiting. It has to be serious.

Someone has an idea, flip the car. More people joined. Car flipped. As people cheered a police motorcycle appears. People stopped cheering... As the tram and all vehicles behind move, the police talked to 2 or 3 bystanders. Told everyone something that translated roughly would be "nothing to see here, move along"