What in the world does "Let's Roll 'Em" mean?
Dallas Fire Rescue's automated dispatch system will always say "Let's Roll 'Em Structure Fire" when dispatching a structure fire.
Any idea what it means? Any idea of why they put it here?
Anything?
And, depending on the dispatcher on the shift, they'd sometimes add "let's go downtown", or some other geographical reference to where the fire was.Before technoligy took over man-kind,the dispatcher at the DFD ALARM office (660 on the radio) would announce to the fire stations involved in the call (BOX ,location etc.) if the alarm office was getting numerous calls to that location, that indicated a working fire, they would also say "pull up your boots"
... "Let's Roll 'Em Structure Fire" when dispatching a structure fire.
Any idea what it means? ...
Oh c'mon now, use a little imagination. Of course, if it was Las Vegas it could mean roll the dice.
It's actually not a tradition at all and has nothing to do with live radio dispatchers. DFD started doing it to pay homage to the passengers aboard flight 93, who fought the hijackers on 9/11. As the story goes, passenger Todd Beamer placed a call on one of the satellite phones on the plane and reported that the plane had been hijacked. While he was on the phone, a plan was created to take the plane back from the hijackers. The last audible words from that phone call were "Are you guys ready? Let's roll em."
What in the world does "Let's Roll 'Em" mean?
Dallas Fire Rescue's automated dispatch system will always say "Let's Roll 'Em Structure Fire" when dispatching a structure fire.
Any idea what it means? Any idea of why they put it here?
Anything?
It's actually not a tradition at all and has nothing to do with live radio dispatchers. DFD started doing it to pay homage to the passengers aboard flight 93, who fought the hijackers on 9/11. As the story goes, passenger Todd Beamer placed a call on one of the satellite phones on the plane and reported that the plane had been hijacked. While he was on the phone, a plan was created to take the plane back from the hijackers. The last audible words from that phone call were "Are you guys ready? Let's roll em."
"Let's Go Now" replaced "Lets Go Now Men" once the department began having females join the ranks. another one is "lets roll'em, lets roll'em"
"Pull up your boots" was another oldie back when the boots were pull ups before turnout pants were required.