Spelling Bloopers From The Dispatchers...........

[hwoods]

Can't help wondering if all dispatchers need spellcheck software in their computers? Here's why, Most departments nowdays have a sophisticated computer system that, among other things, sends a text message to a printer and/or pagers. Quite often, a misspelled word will appear. A Few Samples:

1. Ambulance 6, your patient is a 36 year old female, bleeding heavily from the Virginia.
2. History of trouble breeding
3. Engine 183, responding for wires down and barking

And the list goes on................. But, you get the idea. Anyone else got any??

[WTFD10]

Ours can't interpert what the CAD type codes really mean. We get dispatched for "ANASHOCK"(anaphylactic shock)and "BREATH" (difficulty breathing) all the time. :rolleyes:

I guess it comes with the territory when you have Sheriff dispatchers with very little fire or EMS training.

[Engine58]

Luckily where I dispatch we enter the calls into the CAD system after the call is over, because we are still in the stoneage plus none of the fire or EMS have CAD computers at the stations or in the rigs...YET...it would be nice though

[jaybird210]

Harve, I've got trouble breeding. What good is an ambulance trip going to do?

I note that all of the bloopers you posted were spelled correctly.

Don't know where I got this; it's too clever for me to have written:
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“Ode to the Spell Checker!”

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
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[EastKyFF]

We're 100% voice dispatched, but we did have a motorcycle MVC where the dispatcher advised us "the patient's leg is decapitated at the knee".

[LeuitEFDems]

I had a "trouble bleeding" one time...turns out it was trouble breathing...but with the dispatcher he had that day, and his past of mis-dispatches, we kinda thought it was the difficulty breathing anyway....

[TillerMan25]

Harve, were you driving 20's wagon the other day at the Marlton Shopping Center Box? If so, how does the back of 255 look!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA! If you weren't driving, I feel sorry for the guy who was, because 20A was quite disappointed that his boys got spanked in by the Slowest Wagon in the County....:D


I am a dispatcher, I don't make mistakes...:D :rolleyes:

[PFire23]

Hey Tiller, you are a male ....... ergo you make mistakes !!! :p :p :D :D

[TillerMan25]

Oh my GOD! A sexist remark?...LOL:D

I am a supervisor, so when in doubt, Blame the newest Dispatcher and claim lack of training on Administration's part....

[Weruj1]

well well well..............you wanna rip on dispatchers huh? I have never missed dispatch a run but there have been a couple of streets that have boogered me up and also I have had numerous open mic boo-boos.............the streets are (in no particular order)
Regina Choeli (pronounced Chay-lee)
Shinnecock Ave
Koch (Koch or Cook?)
by far the open mic blunders are the funniest ...........I am sure '77 can fill you in once he sees this ......

I have had to call our FD center a couple of times for such fascinating call natures as a "person gagging" and a person in "blood sugar shock". That caused me to write a memo to only dispatch us on calls using the 34 "typecodes" found on the NAEMD cards.

[firenresq77]

Well, well, well.......... Funny this topic came up, as we had one this morning........

Our FD was dispatched to 015 Wanker Point today......... It's actually 8015 Rinker Pt.

As for the Roads...... Weruj had a small spelling error..... It's Regina Coeli..........

How about ........

Nevada (pronounced Nevayda)
Blum (Bloom)
Hoag (Hoyg)
Buzcko (Booshko)
Kosciusko (Kochoosko)

Or one of our co-workers sent crews to
"Wyandot" when the street is Yondota
"Mongolia" when the street was Magnolia
Dispatched crews to an MVA at Monroe and Huron when it was actually about 10 miles west of there at Monroe and Harroun........

Weruj thought he was playing on the intercom, talking to one of the fire dispatchers acting like he was the officer on a "Three Alarm Trash Can Fire" when he was actually talking on the Fire Departments EMS Channel........

[firenresq77]

Originally posted by WTFD10
I guess it comes with the territory when you have Sheriff dispatchers with very little fire or EMS training.

I told you how we can get that taken care of for you, Moe..........:eek:

[hwoods]

Originally posted by TillerMan25
Harve, were you driving 20's wagon the other day at the Marlton Shopping Center Box? If so, how does the back of 255 look!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
I am a dispatcher, I don't make mistakes...:D :rolleyes:

No Dummy, I was on my way home from work. I drive the dark green Dodge that was on the beach across from the hydrant. I was NB on 301 at Ransom Motors when the box was put out, and I stopped at Rosaryville rd. to let you guys out. Dodge gets right along! Stay Safe....

Almost Forgot. Have you seen the Tractor drawn Ladder Truck at Brandywine Truck Parts??

[Rayr49]

We are voice dispatched.

The other night our dispatcher put out a severe thunderstorm warning. She was supposed to say "The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning For Rapid City and Rapid Valley effective until 6:30 PM". What she said was "The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm to Rapid City and Rapid Valley effective until 6:30 PM".

I didn't know the weather service could issue severe storms.

Memo to self; Do not upset the weather service people, they can now get even.:D

Stay Safe
IACOJ

[hwoods]

From P.G.County Communications: ....."an overturned vehicle that appears to be seriously injuried"

[TillerMan25]

Yeah, I have seen it. It's an Old Alexandria Virginia Reserve. I am sure Danny B. would let someone put that right in service...LOL>

We can always wish! It is still too new to privately own and run through parades or put historic tags on it.

[Anyway]

Ok, it wasn't a spelling error, but a funny dispatch when I was a dispatcher. I was answering the phone one night shift and answered the phone to the following call:

The call came in for a cat that had been in a chimney. The homeowner lit a fire in the fireplace and the cat caught on fire, came out of the chimney and ran into the bathroom. The homeowner had the cat in the bathroom. The call went out as "A smoking pussy cornered in the bathroom".

LMAO!! Every once in a while all that night, someone would key up and meow.. It was classic and is still in the tape archives.

Anyway

[Weruj1]

now thats funny......and almost sounds like something '77 would say !

[WTFD10]

Originally posted by firenresq77
Weruj thought he was playing on the intercom, talking to one of the fire dispatchers acting like he was the officer on a "Three Alarm Trash Can Fire" when he was actually talking on the Fire Departments EMS Channel........

ROFLMAO! I'm sorry I didn't hear that one!

[firenresq77]

Originally posted by Weruj1
now thats funny......and almost sounds like something '77 would say !

Not as far as you know!!!!!!!!


And yes, Moe, it was HILARIOUS!!! Almost as good as some of the calls I have taken. Like the girl who thought she needed to go to jail for domestic violence because she hit her boyfriend over the head with the phone in their hotel room because he called her a Wh0re and a Sl*t and said her Pus*y was nasty!!!

[firefighter26]

A few weeks ago a neighbouring department was called to a "smoking mail box".... shortly after being dispatched we hear "Shawnigan Ladder 10 enroute to smoking mail box"

A few days later we ran an an MVA and the DC from Shawnigan was riding on the ambulance that showed up. After they checked out the PT (who refused treatment), we calmly asked the DC if he needed Ladder 10 for ventilation?? he just shook his head and laughed.

[Anyway]

LMAO!! Three alarm trash can fire... LOL!

One night all we in dispatch heard was (screaming) GET YOUR HANDS UP! ZIP UP YOUR PANTS AND GET ON THE GROUND!! DON'T MOVE OR I WILL SHOOT!Of course those of us in dispatch scrambled to find out who it was and if they needed help

Apparently we had some officers late that night who were screwing around in their brand-spanking-new-don't-even-have-the-attenna-on-the-building-yet-so-dispatch-won't-hear-us police department. But we did. One was using the bathroom and the other was trying to "bust" him by using his radio.

It's always fun until someone gets caught!!

[ff7134]

Well my story of a open mike:

We were practicing LDH hoselays and relay pumping at one of the local shopping center parking lots. We were on our "fireground" channel with the radio in scan mode so we could still pick up the primary dispatch. Our newest Captain was assisting a rookie on the truck and how to flow the deck gun and I am on the hydrant. All of the sudden I am getting soaked with a deck gun. I look up an their is the Captain laughing as he swung the deck gun back the other way. I then get on my portable and remind him that is horse-play, as I release the key I hear the repeater "kick" off. Our fireground doesn't have a repeater:eek:

[firefighter26]

Oh yes.... leaving the radio keyed up.... gotta love those bloopers.

I remember when I first joined the department. I had a good ol' Minitor I (I think I still walk with a limp from having all that weight on my hip :)), anyway, I was in town and we got a call and I was listening to the trucks sign on. A few minutes later I head "*$@ *!$& peice of $hit, someone left the &*%king door open. ^&*) ^&&**( %^&$!!!"

Our rescue is a walk in style with a large roll-up cargo door at the back. I guess someone left it open, along with one of the cabinets, so when they pulled out and started down the street the contents of the cabinet fell out onto the floor and when they looked back to see what was happening they seen the rear door was open. The mic in the rescue was broken and stayed keyed up the entire time.

Lukily we didn't have the radio set up we have now, or half the island would have heard it.

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Anyone else keep a box of medical gloves on the dash of their rigs??? Ever wondered what would happen if the window was open and you went around a corner?? needless to say, it is embaressing to radio one of the following units to stop and pick them up :rolleyes:

[Anyway]

Originally posted by firefighter26
Anyone else keep a box of medical gloves on the dash of their rigs??? Ever wondered what would happen if the window was open and you went around a corner?? needless to say, it is embaressing to radio one of the following units to stop and pick them up :rolleyes:

Ja?? Honey?? Wasn't that you and wasn't that when I was there????

[firefighter26]

It was while you were here, but lukily it wasn't me who lost them (though, it was me who had to stop to get them).

I have, however, caught the same box of gloves at least twice before they went out the window :p :rolleyes:

[Moose2028]

a couple of years ago we got a call for a pia at m-59 and highland road.

every one that lives around here knows that they are the same road.

we searched the whole 6 miles to find the accident

[greapr]

please respond for a elderly female having abdamninal pains

[Jay911]

Seeing as how I'm on both sides of the radio, I can offer two or three.

EMS Dispatch tends to type on the call "PT IS SOB" when they mean 'patient is short of breath'. Couple that with a rookie fire dispatcher (or one who doesn't understand EMS shorthand)...

One time I was taking a burning complaint from a caller and I typed "Neighbor having bonfire / smoke obnoxious to caller / wants to remain anonymous". The dispatcher read over the air to the pump, "This is for a burning complaint. The caller is complaining of obnoxious smoke. Caller wants to remain obnoxious."

One of my VFD members once updated EMS upon our arrival by telling them we had "one patient with a female injury".

:D

[firenresq77]

Jay, you just reminded me of another one of Weruj's snafus.........

It is common in our county for the calltakers to put "anon" in for the caller's name if they want to remain anonymous. One day Weruj was working and a call came in and he saw "anon" in for the name. Crews responded and found it to be a false call. Not long afterwards, another call came in, and again it had an anonymous caller. He starts trying to tell the people he's working with "hey, that's going to be another false call because it's that anon guy calling again." They just looked at at him like he was nuts and they had no clue what he was talking about. After he explained his logic, they all started laughing their a$$es off. After that, when our boss trains new people, she has to make sure they know what "anon" means.......

[FiftyOnePride]

There are a few things that I can think of. In our county we have two towns that are similiar; mine, which is Millerton, and a town just down to the south west a bit called Millbrook. Well the way it works is the whole touch screen concept, and every once and a while we will get dispathced for a call in Millbrook, which is bad. When we went out there, they told us that they keep our town and theirs in different corners to stop that, but it still happens.

And then another town, Milan, got dispatched for one of our calls. Never the less, those mishaps stopped after that saga. I guess there was a big sit down about it, glad they all were afa's.

Also, a couple of our FF's were returning from a live burn for Advanced out to the training center, and the town just below us got dispatched for a MVA, and jokingly he said, F*** (That town), and the guy sitting shotgun had accidently hit the radio, and it was transmitted all over the county. Oops.

[Weruj1]

'77 I totally forgot about that classic ! ROFLMAO !

[EFD840]

Friday night...

Eclectic fire department, respond to xxxxx Georgia Rd. Mobile home fire. Caller said fire is distinguished at this time but the house is full of smoke

Much to my disappointment, we found nothing to distinguish this fire from any other trailer fire. Even more disappointing was the fact that it hadn't been extinguished either.

[ffexpCP]

"...responding on a report of an unresponsive person. Caller states patient is awake and alert."

And then we have the classic
"8-month old in labor pains"

[firenresq77]

One of my buddies told me this one today........ Dispatched for a "Verbally Unconscious person".......

Pt. wouldn't talk to the police officers........

[cozmosis]

We once had a dispatcher who would dispatch structure fires as "construction fires." I often corrected her after returning to quarters and would ask her why she couldn't say "structure"? She said that it was easier to say construction. :rolleyes: God help her, I'm not sure she knew the difference.

[SquadCapt]

Squad 4: "Four to dispatch. In the area looking for the 10-46 (MVC with injury). Nothing found. Can you advise any further info?"

Dispatch: "Four, caller advised he didn't see the accident, just heard it and said it sounds like a bad 10-46."

Squad 4: "Dispatch, what does a BAD 46 sound like??????"

[Weruj1]

hey '77.........I see that this person is workin tonight "Squat 1" ! ............who is squatting ??

[mtwaites]

Dispatchers have many different qualities such as the ability to do multi-tasking, thinking quickly on their feet, and allowing for other smooth runnings of the fire departments, or other areas.

[FlyingKiwi]

And ulso thay hav gooder gramma

[hwoods]

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[backdraft663]

This morning we were hit up for mutual aid to our usual for a structure fire. There were no spelling bloopers but quite humorous.


Here is what our ahpha pagers said

*Mutual Aid* for house unoccupied with entrapment*

[FULLYINVOLVED6]

We have herd some good ones. We get dispatched to 10-70
SKRUCTURES all the time. What is a skructure? Once the
trucks captain went to put us enroute and insted of saying
CENTRAL ENGINE, it came out as SINGINE ENGLE. Other than
that everything is usualy not funny enough to rember...

[hwoods]

On my pager at 09:50 today "check for male in a gray car at XXXX and XXXX, male laying over on seat. caller wants cow........"


cow should have been C.O.W. shorthand for "Check on Welfare"