Lost stop?

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Hey everyone,

Was listening to Mississauga fire this evening and heard Aerial 106 say that they had lost stop anyone know what that means?
 

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Hey everyone,

Was listening to Mississauga fire this evening and heard Aerial 106 say that they had lost stop anyone know what that means?

I hear it as "loss stopped" (not that they had "lost a stop" somewhere) which makes more sense.

Dave
 

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A "lost stop" is actually in reference to the junior firefighter, also known as a probie. The probie earns this nickname as they're often used to perform important, but menial roles on the fireground. Sometimes this involves holding the doors open in place of a door chock or "door stop". So when the captain comes on the portable radio to announce "lost stop" - it means that the probie assigned to door duty has become disoriented and is missing somewhere inside the fire unit. This is a signal to the other firefighters so that they can initiate a search.
 

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Where in the world did you hear that? Are you in the fire service?? Please tell me what fire service uses that one.....

A "lost stop" is actually in reference to the junior firefighter, also known as a probie. The probie earns this nickname as they're often used to perform important, but menial roles on the fireground. Sometimes this involves holding the doors open in place of a door chock or "door stop". So when the captain comes on the portable radio to announce "lost stop" - it means that the probie assigned to door duty has become disoriented and is missing somewhere inside the fire unit. This is a signal to the other firefighters so that they can initiate a search.
 

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No fire service would use that... Lost/downed firefighter protocols are taken extremely seriously and certainly aren't handled like that. Pretty sure he was just giving a sarcastic answer and poking fun at the probies (which is always fun, btw) :)
 
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