oops, i did it again....

[shaun191]

Now that im not falling on my ass while on the fire ground in front of chiefs and captians, ive started a new thing. Now im leaving things on the back of the engine while going on box's and stuff. When we got the "huge" snow storm, we got a box one station over at 700 in the morning. The night before i spent the whole day moving snow...2 feet worth. to keep from getting all wet i had my gear on, so i got my gear wet. when i went to sleep i hung my gear up on the back of the engine to dry; coat, pants and helment with gloves hanging from the helment. so we got the box and i got all my stuff on, got in the truck and started putting on my bottle. as we statred pulling out i noticed that i didnt have my gloves...and then my helment. it ended up that i had my helment on the tailbord of the engine the whole way of the call....i prayed the whole way that it wasnt anything....you can inmagine how glad i was to hear that we were cancled.

[WestvilleJr73]

its a good thing u didnt lose your helmet. Be careful next time

[Kvfcjr]

I left a minitor 2 on the bumper of our rescue, and then found it across the street, after it was hit by a car!

[e3med53]

I know of a pair of dentures that sat on the rear step of an ambulance for 17 miles.:D <----(they kind of looked like that)

[shaun191]

There was also an icident of a cell phone being left on the bumper of the engine and being run over and over again. The funny thing though, all the phone needed was a new cover. (of course this happened as a result of being called for a box)

[ThNozzleman]

I've unloaded a few radios down the street at the corner. Most embarrassing.

[BrooklynFire]

We've dumped an SCBA in it's carrying case out of the side compartment as the truck went around a turn. Slid right across the road and into the parking lot of a gas station.

[truckman38]

We have a guy that has left his helmet on the side board of the truck- lucky for him it stayed on every time.
We had a district chief that left a cup of coffee on the tailboard of our old ladder. The truck went accross town, came back and he picked it up again without even thinking about it. In his full time department I belive he loses an average of 2 coffee mugs a shift.:D
We have a parade piece that has dropped some 2 1/2 a few times when going around corners.

Sometimes I think we have too much fun with our job...Neh!

[engine23]

Try dumping the PPU for a multi-tool....got two weeks for failure to do a walk around.... You guys in the NE stay dry and warm and get those boats ready I think you are in for a long weekend.

[raven911]

I dropped my radio climbing out of the ARFF rig once. The truck behind us ran over it. I reached down to get it from my pocket, and it was gone. I saw it ground into the mud on the taxi-way with multiple tire tracks running over it. Luckily, it still worked, even though the remote microphone was history. Not a very fun thing to happen when you are trying to deploy a hoseline!

[loxfire6016]

We had a guy drop a whole load (about 1200') of 5" off an engine
-Not once but twice, one time in the middle of the Interstate.

Numerous radios and pagers lost.

I left my gloves on the side board.
-They blew off going down the highway, and the Chief stopped and picked one up. I found the other not too far up the road:o

[Kvfcjr]

our neighboring town dumped there whole load of 5 inch down mainstreet once. ANd when bringing one of our trucks to get a stripe painted on it, all of its 3" fell off when getting on the highway.

[E229Lt]

True story:

In one of my old companies, a member of New York's finest came in to use the barhroom. We obliged him. After entering the rather cramped faclity he needed a place to hang his gun-belt and found none. The nearest place he found was just outside the bathroom door. It was Red and shiny with horns and sirens and he promptly hung his gun on the back of our rig.

You know we got a run as he squatted and you know we didn't see his gun hanging there.

As we returned to quarters we found our man in blue looking a bit gray.

[raven911]

We had a firefighter leave his bunker pants in the back of the chief's truck one day. The chief drove all over town that day with his pants in the pick-up bed. Boy was he sweating icicles! We only got one call while the chief was out, but it turned out to be nothing. We gave him a rash of crud for it!

Rookies aren't any fun unless they are dumb too!

[Lewiston2Capt]

We lost an entire bed of 5" off our Rescue/Engine. The unfortunate part was that the hose came off in a low spot in the road and it was late at night on a dark road. 2 cars hit it and took off their oil pans.

OOPPSSSSS! :o

[AFD368]

Just recently, we were called mutual aid for a structure fire and tied the hydrant for the supply line. Being winter, we rolled the hose and set it on the tailboard for the ride back to the station. It would have been fine if we had returned straight to the station, but the driver decided we needed fuel, so we headed for the fuel farm. We dropped all 5 lengths off the tailboard, on Main Street at rush hour. We drive 12 miles with no problems, then drop everything in the extra mile to the fuel farm.

[Truck106]

I Had my structure gear in a bag roll off a brushfire rig and luckily a citizen returned it to the firehouse.

[wayneman3]

I was on a Company drill in the summer time. my shoes and socks got all wet. I left them infront of the Engine (3-2) we where just down the street from the firehouse. And needless to say 1/2 way back I remembered my socks where on the front bumper getting dryed. When I got back, good thing I had an extra pair in my car! And my shoes where still wet! thats one for the books.

[12TruckIrons]

While en route to a reported brush fire one day I was driving the brush truck behind my brother in the engine. He took the right turn out of the driveway and and the dry chem. extinguisher popped out of its bracket and landed right in the middle of the highway. I jammed on the breaks and hopped out to get it and just in the nick of time too as a fully loaded 18 wheeler was about 50 yards away when I grabed it out of the road. Boy that could have been ugly.

[raven911]

Back when I was a Firefighter in the great state of Alaska, we had a call at midnight during the summer when the sun was still up. The crew of my engine company mounted up on the engine, sleey, but ready to respond to the reported fire alarm. We sat there for 30 seconds or so and realized the driver hasn't shown up. He was usually the first out and ready to roll, so this was very unusual. While we were all strapped in and ready to go, we started to look around. We noticed him sitting across the bay in the ARFF truck, which he wasn't even assigned to that day. We motioned "hey you! get over here!" He motioned it in return. After about a minute of "hey you! get over here!" he finally decided he was on the wrong rig and we went on our merry way. He never quite lived that down. We ended up giving him a shock collar (like dog's wear), in case he got lost again. It was quite entertaining at the time.

But it wasn't quite as entertaining as the time I woke up and found myself on the pumper enroute to a call with no idea of what it even was (I must have really been sleeping hard that night). But that is another story...;)

[Jmatteau]

I was driving our old service truck back from a chimney fire one night about 1 1/2 yrs ago and dicovered the "high speed Hurst Lay." We kept out Hurst tool in the Rear drivers side compartment pre-connected to the hydrolic line. Of course it was my dumb luck the whoever shut the door last didn't close it all the way and out came the tool around a corner. Thank god there was no damage, I was going about 15 mph and all it did was scratch the handle up a little bit. You bet after that, I check the doors pretty regulary....Stay Safe...Jay

[gregblewett]

We had a structure fire in my area last spring. It was closer to my house than the station so I went dirrect to the scene. sat down on the tailgate and got dressed into turnouts, Left my red wings sitting on the ground under the truck. Long story short on of the guys needed to get back to work so he took my truck. A short time later it comes over the radio that the sherrif has a pair of boots found sitting on the shoulder of the road with no one around. Morral of the story never leave anything over, under, around, or on a vehicle even if you have the keys in your pocket

[Station32]

A local town had bought a used firetruck and sent it out to be painted, when they got it back they loaded all the equipment on it and rushed to get it to a parade the next day wellit turns out that in the haste of packing hose the 5 inch was sloppy and well going down the road the next day the lost all 1000 foot of it, but lucky for them the last 50 foot section caught the had rail on the side of the truck and before realizng what had happend they had peeled the passenger side hose bed and the last top compartment on the back down the side of the truck. they ended up giving up on the parade and slowly babied the truck home only to find that because of the damage it wouldn't fit inside there tight station and it sat out side for 3 days for all the public to see before they could have it fixed.

[XCAPT1]

My Department has had many things left on or dropped from trucks. On different occasions we have had engines lay either their 5-inch or 3-inch beds of hose in the street. A civilian rolled all the 3-inch and piled it outside the firehouse before we got back.
On another occasion someone left a cabinet door unlocked on our rescue truck. We got a run and as it was making a left turn the doors swung open and 12 spare 1 hour Scott bottles came flying out into the street. We got lucky nobody was hurt and most of the bottles passed retesting.
On a personal note I left my leather New Yoker on the bumper of an engine. When we got back to quarters it was gone. A woman returned it 2 days later. I also dropped my pager in the woods and ran it over with a brush truck. It still worked.

[DrParasite]

since we are posting embarrassing stories.....
about 2 years ago, we had a working car fire on the NJ Turnpike. 2 engines responded, 803 and 806 (I was on 803). well, after we extiguished it, we rolled up the hose into donuts, instead of repacking them, because the hose needed to be cleaned. and i seperated the hose couplings, and put the nozzle on the pump operator's step. well, as we are appraching the exit ramp from the turnpike, I hear "806 to 803, hold up a sec". the Lt of 806 walks up to our enigne, and hands our Lt the 1 1/2 nozzle for our preconnect. apparently it went flying off the step as we turned onto the ramp. thank god it didn't hit anything or hurt anyone. definetly one mistake i won't be making again.
word to the wise, leave all loose items INSIDE the cab :D