Funny/Odd things heard on the scanner

[jmp883]

Jay,

Ya got me with that one....

But here's one for you......

The only issue I've ever had with dispatching the FD was when we dispatched the FD to a residential fire alarm in one of our more upscale neighborhoods. The PD zone car was first on-scene and was met by the homeowner who was very upset the officer arrived in a police car. Imagine that....a police officer arriving to call in a police car!!!! The officer was then told by the homeowner to remove his shoes before entering her house! So instead of going inside and checking the residence for anything obvious that he could report to the responding fire units, he stayed outside and waited for the FD to arrive. When the first-due fire companies arrived the homeowner was further upset by the fact the fire department arrived on fire trucks. Imagine that....firemen arriving to a call on fire trucks!!!! She then told the FD that they would have to remove not only their boots, but all their turn-out gear as well. They didn't. By this time she was quite irate but the FD notched her up once more when the chief called for an 1 3/4 line (uncharged) to be pulled to the front door!

She did call HQ after the PD and FD units secured to complain that the officer and the FD wouldn't take their shoes and bunker gear off before entering her house. She wanted disciplinary action taken against all who responded. She also complained about the fact that the officer responded in a marked PD vehicle and that the FD were misusing their fire apparatus by using them to respond to a non-fire call.

It truly takes all kinds..... :wink:

 

[Jay911]

the homeowner was further upset by the fact the fire department arrived on fire trucks.

We get that all the time too. "I don't want a big fire truck to come out here!" I've so desperately wanted to tell people our bicycles don't cover their districts. What we do tell them is we don't have any little fire trucks (a white lie, of course), but also that it would be irresponsible of the crews to not bring their trucks, in case they have to go to another call after they leave the caller's place.

Never had the 'remove your footwear/protective clothing/etc' issue before. However, many a caller has become rabid at the concept of me asking for their phone number/etc. "I don't want so and so to know it was me!" (99% of the time, this is for a burning complaint, i.e. my neighbor is having a party and didn't invite me.) Seriously, do people think we compile a chart of all the info gathered and hand it over to the people at the scene?

 

[K5MAR]

Locally we get people calling for an ambulance for transport to the ER for a medical problem, then they request "no siren", or sometimes "no lights or siren". Now, if it was an assistance call, that would be one thing, but chest pains, or falling off the roof? The most common reason given is they don't want the neighbors to know. Yea, that big white box with the paramedic/EMT caduceus symbol on the side is so low key! :lol:
The current fire chief, when he took over the dept. several years ago, established a basic rule: if it's an emergency, it's Code 3. If it's not an emergency, call a taxi!

Mark S.

 

[SCPD]

I'm not in the Fire PD business at all and i'm just 1 year in listening to scanners...
it has been my best entertaining so far.
yes i'm heard broken for every incident there is out there.
but the time something comes across where people just not using there common sense ....................................
somebody should try to gather all and make a sitcom out of it.
i think it would beat Friends, seinfield and cheers

 

[jmp883]

These last few posts, as well as this entire thread, is what makes the job of dispatching so much fun.

Yeah....we have to deal with people who are not at their best, officers who don't have a clue, and fellow dispatchers who are more qualifed to ask 'You want fries with that' than '9-1-1, where is your emergency?'

But you know what? All that, plus those great calls that we've posted here, make it fun to come to work every night for the last 15 years! I hope the next 15 are at least as much fun as the first 15 have been!

 

[K5MAR]

Thursday night, things were really busy around here. Drunk with a gun, street parties with people throwing bottles at cars (this is a university town) had the police busy with calls backing up. About 1:30 AM I heard this on the PD main freq. All officer's numbers have been changed. (FYI: the 200-500 blocks of south Washington Street is commonly called "The Strip", 3 blocks of predominately college bars.) 209 was out on a disturbance call when the following occurred.

"209 to Central, could you send a unit to the 4-500 block south Washington. I've been contacted by a citizen about an assault with a hot dog."

Central replied they would when a unit was available. About 10 minutes later Central dispatched 207 to a "reported assault with a hot dog in the 500 block of south Washington". 207 advised he was inroute, then asked Central if they had any description of the "hot dog assaultee".

"209 to 207, no suspect description. The RP is a white female in her mid-thirties, blonde hair, blue jeans, black top with spaghetti straps." (With a laugh-) "she had a hot dog with her, too!" :lol:

Multiple mic clicks followed.

Mark S.

 

[hcsd35-32]

These last few posts, as well as this entire thread, is what makes the job of dispatching so much fun.

Yeah....we have to deal with people who are not at their best, officers who don't have a clue, and fellow dispatchers who are more qualifed to ask 'You want fries with that' than '9-1-1, where is your emergency?'

But you know what? All that, plus those great calls that we've posted here, make it fun to come to work

I second that! It wouldn't be near as fun without the crazies and funnies. :lol:

 

[pills]

Two officers dispatched to a suspicious person @ local Love's store. Unit ##s changed

Unit 1: Is that Mr. Smith walking around the corner.
Unit 2: Sure is. I would recognize that mullett anytime.

At 0200 just about anything is funny but that really hit the spot.

 

[hastingsmedic]

Smart-Ass Medics

How about this from the other night when a Paramedic crew was in a combattive patient's house for 25 minutes:

Dispatch: "42XX Call dispatch"
EMS: "Go Ahead"
Dispatch: "Just checking your status"
EMS: "Well, I'm married, and my partner lives with his girlfriend, but other than that were fine."


Sheesh.

 

[kb2vxa]

Hi again,

"...somebody should try to gather all and make a sitcom out of it."

Reno 911.

From personal work experience I can tell you some of the most rediculous stuff on and off the radio happens at an international airport. Sorry, if I write about it Lindsay will run out of HD space. I'll give you a clue, if you send a package by same day air the last thing you want to mark on it is "fragile".

If you want it to get there in one piece mark it "explosives A". (;->)

 

[TXFirefighter112]

Farmers Branch has a smoke investigation at the Jack In The Box @ 3206 Beltline. Neither of FBFD's two stations is anywhere near the location and approximately one minute after the dispatch Medic 131 checks on scene with nothing showing. So Im sitting here trying to figure out how they got there so fast when the first engine checks on scene about 3 minutes later. All other units check out and the battalion contacts M-131 for a report on conditions inside. The reply:

"Stand by chief (siren in BG), we're still enroute. We went to the wrong Jack In The Box."

 

[drew6553]

dumb st. James FF

St.james is this like mecca for old retiring northerners that want to live in brunswick county

They even have their own fd

they were on a MVA minor damage and they cleared here's the convo that ensued on the radio

3771 to CCom: CCom we're clear enroute to quarters
CCom to 3771: So your advising your 10-8 ( clear available for traffic)
3771 to CCOM: can you repeat that ccom
CCom: you advise your 10-8
3771 to CCom: ahh ccm we have no idea what that means but we're back in route to the base

it was funny to me do to the fact that they are the only department to allow drinking on duty and can't fight fire up to the NFPA standards

 

[Jay911]

With all due respect, the thing that I find 'funny' is that the dispatcher refuses to acknowledge a clear, concise, plain-language message, in favor of forcing a cryptic, obsolete, and easy-to-misunderstand code to be used.

 

[drew6553]

dispatchers

well for as little as they get paid and they long hours they work, i understand their plight and i know they're brain is frazzled towards the end of the shift besides St. james FD it's not like st. james FD actually wants to try to work with us. if it were up to them we wouldn't be able to go help them in their fires. and their median age on the FD is 55 yo so i'm waiting to see what happens a real fire in their district we'll be doing cpr on more of them than fighting the fire

 

[VegasCorbin]

Requesting Sticky Status

Just puting my vote in to make this a "Sticky" thread.

 

[K5MAR]

With all due respect, the thing that I find 'funny' is that the dispatcher refuses to acknowledge a clear, concise, plain-language message, in favor of forcing a cryptic, obsolete, and easy-to-misunderstand code to be used.

If it's the standard for the department that pays the dispatchers, then it isn't obsolete, it's current S.O.P. If the neighboring FD wants to communicate with that dispatch center, they should conform to that dispatch center's operating practices. As for cryptic or easy-to-misunderstand, that's simply not true.

Mark S.

 

[jhooten]

Heard this morning:
"Caller reports her husband has been dead for three days and needs an ambulance."

 

[radiomonitor33]

Reading,PA

FD=Fire Dispatcher
C6=Car 6

FDispatcher to Car 6
C6: Car 6

FD:We just recieved a 9-1-1 call from a lady stating her husband flushed a cigarette down the toilet & now all the pipes in the house are hot. Do you want the box alarm or just an engine?
C6: Send an engine & ladder

Dispatcher sends 1 engine & 1 ladder,C6 responds

C6 to radio: (While trying not to laugh) We investigated the pipes & told the lady that they are hot water pipes & they are supposed to be that way. We explained to her that her husband didn't cause the pipes to become hot. She feels better now!

 

[jwheatley]

Heard this on the Howard County, Indiana TRS just a few minutes ago:

Dispatch: Medic X are you 10-8 (in service)?
Medic X: That would be affirmative.
Dispatch: Okay.
Medic X: Do you have something for me?
Dispatch: Unfortunately.

After the call was dispatched to the Medic unit...

Medic X: Medic X is cleeaar.

I know just by reading it, it might not be that funny but it was just the tone of voice that Dispatch and the Medic unit use back and forth to one another.

 

[mikea7531]

Heard this on the North PD channel for Somerset County, NJ.
AbleXX: "County, i was just out with 6 yuts, i advised them to keep their talking down, i'll be driving around to find the other yuts"
County (giggles): Recieved.

Would have been even funnier if county would of responded with "What is a yut?"