08-01-2021, 07:09 AM | #1 |
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O.K which one of us was this ?
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08-01-2021, 01:49 PM | #2 |
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What an entitled asshole she is
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08-01-2021, 10:34 PM | #5 |
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We live on a street where parking is only allowed on one side to allow emergency vehicles to always have room. One day, I asked one of the city firemen I happened to run into what they did if people parked on the illegal side of the street. His answer: "Don't worry. We'll get through." Along with how much their full size fire engine weighed and how much power and torque it had
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08-02-2021, 09:44 AM | #6 |
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I think it's municipality and even down to the department level on how a situation such as this would be handled. I know at my former station where I attained driver status for the BLS ambulance rigs, I would not have been allowed to plow through a parked car that was obstructing my path even though the station carries insurance on the rigs along with in house legal counsel. I don't know if it's any different with the squad trucks at my former station.
I've read a bunch of the Youtube comments where many of them were pounding their chests saying they could have driven the Engine through that gap easily or would have pushed the car out of the way. Yet none of them are or have been EMS drivers of said apparatus'. I can only speculate that the driver of the Engine felt the risk for personal liability was too much to attempt driving the Engine through the available gap. |
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Another thought is maybe the driver is still in trainee status. I did a number of emergency response calls as a driver trainee under the supervision of a current status'd driver. |
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I'm thinking there wasn't really any call they were responding to, but rather just wanted to make a point that the idiot "could" have obstructed them in a real emergency. We have no other context to go on other than what was shown in the clip. I think what was most disturbing about the situation was the lack of urgency on the BMW driver's part to get to the car and get out of the way.
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No vehicle can project blue and red from the front without it being an emergency. Not sure about the siren law, but certainly this was a real call or someone is in trouble. |
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08-03-2021, 09:10 AM | #13 |
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Tine for the fire department to do a little Australian customization:
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08-03-2021, 09:38 AM | #14 | |
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What can be used without getting in trouble are the air horns. The Econoline rigs I ran had them mounted on the front grill but they were not particularly large. So there have been a few times some brain dead drivers would just sit there almost ignoring the air horns. The bigger Freightliner ambulances have the larger air horns mounted to the bumper that the Engines and aerial towers use. Now those things are F'n loud. And you can't help but want to get the heck out of the way or go deaf. |
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08-03-2021, 02:30 PM | #15 |
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No jury would convict if the truck rammed the car based on the grill design alone, much less if it was an emergency. That's one jury I would be happy to serve on.
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I get wanting to dispense street justice. Heck I've wanted to do it plenty of times when I was doing EMS work. But doing so and getting away with it is just a fantasy. |
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The emergency was probably some poor guy who clawed his eyes out after seeing that grill…
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