Waynes Stuff 9
WAYNE’S STUFF 9
DO YOU REMEMBER
COMING BACK AT 5:00AM ( O5OO HRS ) AND BEING BEAT. SOMEONE SAYS "LETS IRONMAN IT" FIRST ONE TO GO UPSTAIRS EATS DONKEY DOO (S—T) NO ONE WANTED TO GO UPSTAIRS AS YOU WANTED TO BE ONE OF THE GUYS AND IF YOU DID YOU KNEW THE GUYS WOULD TALK ABOUT YOU.
SO FIRE STORIES, COFFEE, LEFTOVERS, YAWNS AND NODDING OFF BUT EVERYONE IRONMANS IT.
YEP NOBODY ATE DONKEY DOO ( S—T) THAT NIGHT
DO YOU REMEMBER
SERGEANT ALIGN YOUR COMPANY
AT CLOSE INTERVALS, DRESS RIGHT, DRESS
READY, FRONT
CAPTAIN, THE COMPANY IS FORMED
SERGEANT, TAKE YOUR POSITION
CHIEF, THE MEN ARE READY FOR INSPECTION
CAPTAIN, TAKE YOUR POSITION
AT EASE
NOTE.......IT'S A GOOD THING WE HAD ROLL CALL EVERY SINGLE DAY SO WE KNEW HOW TO "ALIGN OUR COMPANY"..............................YEAH.........RIGHT
DO YOU REMEMBER
WHAT YOU CALLED THE RUBBER WEBBING ON YOUR FACE PIECE
A SPIDER AND IT HAD 5 STRAPS
DO YOU REMEMBER
YOUR XL WAS ALSO CALLED YOUR KELLY
YOUR XXL WAS ALSO CALLED YOUR DOUBLE XL OR SUPER KELLY
YOUR XXXL WAS CALLED YOUR TRIPLE XL OR SUPERDOOPER
I THINK THE UNION NAMED THE XXL A BERRY DAY AFTER OUR PAST UNION PRESIDENT EARL BERRY
DO YOU REMEMBER
HOW BIG THOSE OLD STEERING WHEELS WERE AND HARD IT WAS TURNING CORNERS.
DO YOU REMEMBER
OPENING UP THE WALLS BY PULLING PLASTER OVER LATH AND WONDERING NOW ABOUT THE YOUNG"WHIPPER SNAPPERS" ONLY KNOWING ABOUT DRYWALL AND THINKING "WHAT IS THIS"???
DO YOU REMEMBER
HOW SOME OF THE GUYS BROUGHT THEIR KIDS IN TO SEE WHERE DADDY WORKED AND THEN YEARS LATER SOME OF THOSE KIDS WERE YOUR ENGINE HOUSES TRIALMAN. DID THAT EVER MAKE YOU FEEL OLD.
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INFORMATION ON THE SQUADS "BOX"
THE SQUAD "BOX" HAD A GRAY TANK AND A GREEN TANK, ONE WAS OXYGEN AND THE OTHER WAS A 3 % CARBON DIOXIDE MIXTURE.
THERE WAS A VALVE ON THE FACE PIECE THAT ALLOWED YOU TO SWITCH FROM RESUSCITATION TO INHALATION
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DID YOU KNOW
THAT THE REAL OLD FIRE ENGINES HAD DETROIT FIRE DEPARTMENT PRINTED ON THE BODY OF THE APPARATUS
THAT THE NEWER FIRE ENGINES HAD DETROIT FIRE DEPARTMENT PRINTED ON THE DOORS OF THE APPARATUS
THAT BOTH OLD AND NEW LADDER TRUCKS HAD DETROIT FIRE DEPARTMENT PRINTED ON THE DOORS OF THE APPARATUS
THAT ON THE SNORKEL WRITTEN ON THE DOORS WAS..... LADDER 1 SNORKEL
DID YOU KNOW
THAT THE SNORKEL HAD A LONG FRONT OVERHANGING BOOM AND YOU HAD TO EDGE OUT VERY CAREFULLY AT AN INTERSECTION THAT HAD BUILDINGS RIGHT UP TO THE CORNERS. THERE WAS THE DANGER OF SOME CIVILIAN TRUCK SMASHING INTO YOUR OVERHANGING BOOM.
DID YOU KNOW
THAT IN SOME DEPARTMENTS THE MONKEY TAIL IS KNOWN AS A SQUIRREL TAIL
DID YOU KNOW
THAT THE LAST FIRE ALARM BOX WAS REMOVED IN 1989
DO YOU REMEMBER HOW MANY FIRE APPARATUS DOORS WERE AT HEADQUARTERS????????????????
THE BASEMENT DOOR DOESN'T COUNT
ANSWER BELOW..................
TRY TO REMEMBER OLD TIMER BEFORE YOU LOOK
DO YOU REMEMBER
THE NAME OF THE BUILDING THAT THEY SPLICED A GROUND LADDER ON THE END OF A 100" AIRIAL LADDER TO RESCUE PEOPLE AND THE YEAR?
ANSWER BELOW
DO YOU REMEMBER
HOW MANY TURRET GUNS THE OLD BOAT TENDER HAD
ANSWER BELOW
DO YOU REMEMBER
IF YOUR CAR WAS SLUGGESH IT WAS HARD TO DRIVE UP THE BASEMENT RAMP OF HEADQUARTERS. YOU WOULD HAVE TO MAKE SURE NOBODY WAS COMING DOWN AND THEN GET A RUNNING START.
HEADQUARTERS HAD 7 APPARATUS DOORS
THE BUILDING WAS ..THE BUHL BUILDING AND THE YEAR WAS 1984
THE BOAT TENDER HAD 2 TURRET GUNS
WAYNE
DO YOU REMEMBER
WHEN SOME GUYS HAD TO SIT IN THE SAME CHAIR FOR CHOW OR IT WOULD THROW THEM OFF STRIDE.
I GUESS THEY DIDN'T KNOW THE CHAIRS BELONGED TO THE CITY OF DETROIT AND NOT TO THEM
DO YOU REMEMBER
THE EXPRESSION " BOSS BAITER"
DO YOU REMEMBER
HOW THE NEW ENGINE HOUSES WERE NICER, AND EASIER TO KEEP CLEAN BUT THEY JUST DIDN'T HAVE THE HISTORY OR CHARACTER OF THE OLD FIRE BARNS
DO YOU REMEMBER
LIFTING THE MANHOLE COVER WITH A PAIR OF PLIERS. YOU PUT ONE HANDLE IN A HOLE IN THE COVER AND LIFTED WITH THE OTHER HANDLE
DO YOU REMEMBER
HOW THE PLIERS YOU KEPT IN YOUR FIRE COAT WOULD ALWAYS RUST UP
DO YOU REMEMBER
HOW WE AS YOUNG WHIPPER SNAPPERS WOULD RUN AHEAD OF THE ENGINE FROM HYDRANT TO HYDRANT WHILE OUT PUMPING THEM, AS WE GOT OLDER WE ROAD ON THE RIG BETWEEN HYDRANTS.
DO YOU REMEMBER
HOW IT FELT HANGING ON THE BACK END OF YOUR ENGINE, WIND IN YOUR FACE, SIREN BLARING, BELL CLANGING, LIGHTS FLASHING AND KNOWING IT WAS YOUR FIRE
DO YOU REMEMBER
STANDING ON THE TRUCK ON A RUN JUST HANGING ON THAT SMALL DRIP EDGE AND LEANING WHEN YOU TURNED CORNERS. NO SITTING DOWN, NO SEAT BELTS AND NO OSHA
DO YOU REMEMBER
SOME APPARATUS DOORS WERE SO TIGHT THAT WITH A TRUCK YOU HAD TO JOCKEY A COUPLE OF TIMES TO GET IT BACK IN QUARTERS. YOU VERY SELDOM MADE IT ON THE FIRST TRY
DO YOU REMEMBER
THE CHUNKS OF WOOD MISSING FROM THOSE OLD APPARATUS DOORS DUE TO BEING HIT. REMEMBER HOW THE "OFU" WOULD TOUCH UP THOSE DOORS WITH PAINT WHEN THEY HIT THE DOORS, WHILE WE STAYED UP TYPING 8 COPIES OF HITTING THOSE DOORS................................YEAH RIGHT
DO YOU REMEMBER
HOW SOME GUYS SAT IN CHAIRS BY BALANCING THEM ON THEIR BACK TWO LEGS AND LEANING AGAINST A WALL
REMEMBER THEM FALLING EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE, REMEMBER LAUGHING
DO YOU REMEMBER
CLEANING THE KITCHEN GREASE TRAPS, A YOUNG WHIPPER SNAPPERS JOB
SENDING TO THE REPAIR SHOP FOR THAT LONG HANDLED SCOOPER TO SCOOP OUT THE MANHOLE WHEN IT WAS TOO FILLED WITH GRIME TO TRIP. THEN YOU USED THAT SCOOP TO GET ALL THE GRIME OUT
DOES ANYONE DO THIS NOW THAT YOU RETIRED
(1)...THIS ONE I HEARD FROM A COUPLE OF OUR GUYS......(OFU GUYS)
FF "JOHN DOE" WAS IN AN EXTREMELY SMOKY HOUSE FIRE. HE FELT AROUND FOR A GLASS WINDOW TO BREAK TO VENTILATE SOME SMOKE. FEELING THE PANES OF GLASS HE TOOK HIS AX AND COMPLETELY TOOK THEM ALL OUT. THEN HE WENT AROUND TO OTHER WINDOWS TO FURTHER VENTILATE THE SMOKE.
AFTER THE SMOKE STARTED TO CLEAR HE WENT BACK THROUGH THE HOUSE AS THERE WAS STILL A LOT MORE WORK TO DO.
THERE IN THAT FIRST ROOM STOOD A ONCE BEAUTIFUL BIG CHINA CABINET ,
"WITH EVERY PANE OF GLASS COMPLETELY CLEARED OUT FROM ITS FRAME"
(2)....FF" JOHN DOE" WAS DRIVING CHIEF FOR THE FIRST TIME AND THEY HAPPENED TO RESPOND TO AN EXTRA ALARM.
UPON ARRIVING AT THE SCENE HE UNCLASPED THE CHIEFS PORTABLE RADIO FROM ITS HOLDER AND FOLLOWED THE CHIEF AROUND.
THIS RADIO AT THE TIME WAS A LITTLE BIT BIGGER THEN A CHILD'S LUNCH BOX.
FF "JOHN DOE "TRIED TO USE THE RADIO TO RELAY MESSAGES TO CENTRAL AND OTHER CHIEFS. IT WAS COMPLETELY DEAD. HE TRIED NUMEROUS TIMES BUT IT WAS STILL DEAD. HE NOTICED THAT HIS RADIO WAS SMALLER THEN THE OTHER CHIEFS DRIVERS
RADIO........................................HE TOLD THE CHIEF THAT HE HAD TO GO BACK TO THE CAR FOR A MINUTE. AT THE CAR HE SAW THE PROBLEM
THERE WERE TWO SETS OF CLASPS...............ONE SET TO HOLD THE BATTERY PACK TO THE RADIO ITSELF ( THE BATTERY PACK IS ALMOST THE SAME SIZE AS THE RADIO ITSELF)
THE OTHER SET HOLDS THE WHOLE RADIO ASSEMBLY IN THE HOLDER.
HE HAD UNCLASPED THE RADIO FROM ITS BATTERY PACK LEAVING IT BEHIND. HE UNCLASPED THE BATTERY PACK AND ATTACHED IT BACK TO THE RADIO.
UPON RETURNING TO THE FIRE SCENE HE TOLD THE CHIEF THAT THE PROBLEM WAS THAT THE RADIO WAS WET AND HE HAD TO GET A RAG TO DRY IT.
WAYNE
SIGN YOUR BULLETINS,..... SIGN YOUR BULLETINS, ...@#$%^ SIGN YOUR $#@%&** BULLETINS
RULE # 345-524.8953 STATES: JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE RETIRED DOES NOT RELIEVE YOU OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SIGNING YOUR BULLETINS. SOME OF YOU RETIREES ARE MORE THEN 20 YEARS BEHIND. PLEASE MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO COME DOWN TO THE CHIEF OF DEPARTMENTS OFFICE TO EXPLAIN YOUR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE "RULES & REGULATIONS"
NOTE: ONLY A CHEAP ( THRIFTY) FIREMAN WOULD SCROUNGE AN OLD DISTRIBUTOR CAP AND MAKE A PENCIL HOLDER OUT OF IT
Grease day.....GREASE DAY......GREASE DAY
OK ALL YOU DAs, FFD & FEOs...........IT'S GREASE DAY AND YOUR RIGS WILL GET GREASED TODAY. AND DON'T THINK THAT YOU ARE GETTING AWAY WITH ANYTHING BY JUST DABBING A BIT OF GREASE ON THE FITTING TO FAKE ACTUALLY GREASING IT
I HEARD THE SHOP IS WISE TO YOU GUYS. ALSO I HEARD THAT.......
"THEY'RE COMING AROUND"
HEY GUYS, REMEMBER BEFORE GREASE CARTRIDGES. WE HAD TO UNSCREW THE FRONT OF THE GREASE GUN AND STICK IT IN THE BUCKET OF BULK GREASE.
THEN WE'D PULL BACK ON THE ROD TO SUCK IT UP AND THEN TRY TO HOOK THAT ROD INTO A NOTCH TO HOLD IN THE GREASE. BUT 50% OF THE TIME IT WOULDN'T CATCH AND THE GREASE WOULD SHOOT BACK IN TO THE BUCKET.$#@%$%$
TRY AGAIN%$#@%$# AND AGAIN$#%@#$%AND AGAIN$#%@#$% OK IT CAUGHT,
NOW PUMP, PUMP, PUMP, PUMP,PUMP, PUMP,PUMP, PUMP,PUMP, PUMP,PUMP, PUMP,PUMP, PUMP,PUMP, PUMP, DAMN THAT AIR POCKET.
PUMP, PUMP,PUMP, PUMP,PUMP, PUMP,
MAYBE I'LL JUST PUT A DAB OF GREASE ON THE FITTING.
MAYBE THEY'RE NOT
" COMING AROUND" TODAY
WAYNE