Alpo Posted January 31 Posted January 31 I was just watching an episode of Emergency. They pull into the driveway and they were facing the camera. The headlights were on. They get out of the truck, they get their stuff they go in the house - the headlines are still on. My question --- would they leave the engine running normally on an emergency call? Engine turned off and the headlights turned on and batteries go down. Now this was what, 30 40 years ago? So times were different. I noticed the police around here leave the engine running. But they also locked the doors. Back in the good old days if they left the engine running somebody was liable to steal their car. But now with the key fob door locks they can leave the engine running and lock the door and not worry about the car being gone when they got back to it. He told me they had to leave it running to keep the air conditioner going because of all the electronic gear in the cars now. Quote
Chief Rick Posted January 31 Posted January 31 We almost always left our vehicles running while responding to a call. 3 3 Quote
DeaconKC Posted February 1 Posted February 1 Lots of emergency vehicles have a switch installed which lets the engine keep running while the key is removed. If you don't put the key in and try to shift it out of Park, it shuts off. 1 3 Quote
Calamity Kris Posted February 1 Posted February 1 Since you were asking the question of fireMEN, I won't answer................ 😝 2 1 5 Quote
Alpo Posted February 1 Author Posted February 1 But Kris, macushla. I thought you knew that I was a male show with this pig. Y'all see what otto did with that? He accepted the Irish, but he didn't accept the '70s libber term. Male chauvinist pig. Boy that otto is stupid. 5 Quote
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted February 1 Posted February 1 3 hours ago, Calamity Kris said: Since you were asking the question of fireMEN, I won't answer................ 😝 1 hour ago, Alpo said: But Kris, macushla. I thought you knew that I was a male show with this pig. Y'all see what otto did with that? He accepted the Irish, but he didn't accept the '70s libber term. Male chauvinist pig. Boy that otto is stupid. Kris, I think that at heart, most of us here are male chauvinist pigs. You need to accept that, and get back up on the pedestal where we place you and all the ladies in our lives. 3 3 Quote
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted February 1 Posted February 1 I’ll admit it, I was MCP, until I had two daughters. 3 Quote
Alpo Posted February 1 Author Posted February 1 I have a daughter and two granddaughters, and I'm still a male chauvinist pig. 1 2 Quote
Calamity Kris Posted February 1 Posted February 1 All of the electronics, med gear, transponders, radios, etc draw a lot of juice and need the engine running to keep them going. Also, you will have much faster response times if you leave the engine running, shift it into gear and go. 2 3 Quote
Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L Posted February 2 Posted February 2 back in the day (80's) we kept the fire engines running for the entire call the ambulances we shut off while we were out of them. after my time, they started locking the ambulances--sad statement about how the population had changed 1 Quote
Buck Garrett Posted February 3 Posted February 3 As Ranger said. Fire engines kept running with red lights operating, squads shut down. Back in my day (64-99 LACOFD ) I turned in a Fireman badge for a Firefighter badge. I guess we were woke then. I was there for the inception of Emergency, and a lot of memorabilia including Engine, and Squad 51 are on display at LACOFD museum in Belflower Calif. A must see if you're a fan. 1 1 Quote
Dr. Zook Posted February 3 Posted February 3 When i started, we just put the feedbags on when we got onscene and took them off before transporting. 😝 1 Quote
Alpo Posted Monday at 06:33 PM Author Posted Monday at 06:33 PM If it was rich folks, and they had a nice lawn, did you leave the feed bags off and let the horses graze while you were inside? Quote
Calamity Kris Posted Monday at 10:51 PM Posted Monday at 10:51 PM 6 hours ago, Buck Garrett said: As Ranger said. Fire engines kept running with red lights operating, squads shut down. Back in my day (64-99 LACOFD ) I turned in a Fireman badge for a Firefighter badge. I guess we were woke then. I was there for the inception of Emergency, and a lot of memorabilia including Engine, and Squad 51 are on display at LACOFD museum in Belflower Calif. A must see if you're a fan. Now now now. I wouldn't call the term firefighter "Woke" I started in '78 as one of the first women in the midwest. The tests, both physical and scholastic didn't change because I was there. I had to make it or leave. So I fought hard and made it. I received an awful lot of hazing and downright sexist CRAP for wanting to be there but I fought on anyway. I made it all the way to Lt. before some sexist A-Hole injured me and I was forced to retire with a seriously messed up back. I appreciated being called a "Firefighter". We fought the fires together and I sure as heck don't look like a "Man". 3 1 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted Monday at 10:59 PM Posted Monday at 10:59 PM Thank you for your service Kris 👨🚒 Quote
Buck Garrett Posted Tuesday at 01:05 AM Posted Tuesday at 01:05 AM Didn't intend to come across as masogynistic, just to define a period in the history of the fire service when barriers were torn down. I've worked with several competent, professional female firefighters. Thanks for your dedication, and service. 2 1 Quote
Dr. Zook Posted Tuesday at 08:45 PM Posted Tuesday at 08:45 PM On 2/3/2025 at 11:33 AM, Alpo said: If it was rich folks, and they had a nice lawn, did you leave the feed bags off and let the horses graze while you were inside? graze and fertilize in one process....LOL 3 Quote
Dr. Zook Posted Tuesday at 08:52 PM Posted Tuesday at 08:52 PM 21 hours ago, Calamity Kris said: Now now now. I wouldn't call the term firefighter "Woke" I started in '78 as one of the first women in the midwest. The tests, both physical and scholastic didn't change because I was there. I had to make it or leave. So I fought hard and made it. I received an awful lot of hazing and downright sexist CRAP for wanting to be there but I fought on anyway. I made it all the way to Lt. before some sexist A-Hole injured me and I was forced to retire with a seriously messed up back. I appreciated being called a "Firefighter". We fought the fires together and I sure as heck don't look like a "Man". The first female FF from a department that i worked with, suffered the same treatment including having to deal with the "we only read them for the articles" types of magazines in the restroom/shower area of one station. She had a creative way of fixing that - collected quite a few of the magazines and took them home. Went out and bought a bunch of female oriented magazines (again the type you "only read for the articles") - took the covers off of the Men's magazines and glued them to the Female magazines and replaced them in the bathroom reading racks. You can just imagine the surprise when someone flipped to the article you wanted to "read" & SURPRISE...ROFL 😂 3 Quote
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted Wednesday at 12:25 AM Posted Wednesday at 12:25 AM On 2/3/2025 at 3:51 PM, Calamity Kris said: Now now now. I wouldn't call the term firefighter "Woke" I started in '78 as one of the first women in the midwest. The tests, both physical and scholastic didn't change because I was there. I had to make it or leave. So I fought hard and made it. Kris, I'm pleased that you made it the way that you did. Back about the same era, I really wanted to be on the Columbus Ohio Fire Dept. However, starting in about 1972, the forerunners of the DEI crowd decided that there weren't enough "other" people in Civil Service, and I'm going to sat it, "other" meant Not White Men. They sued, and of course got their way. The decision came down that until the "proper quotas" were met, for every hundred Police and Firefighters hired, they had to take the top 50 white guys, top 40 black guys, and top 10 'other". Now even the few black cops and firefighters that were already on their respective departments thought that this was so much Bravo Sierra. They thought, (correctly in my opinion) that they had made it without any special consideration, that anybody that wanted to do so should be qualified the same way they were. As part of all that, they had to start hiring woman for Patrol Officers and Firefighters. Of course, the women would NOT have to meet the same physical standards as men. They gave the first tests, and not enough women passed, so they reduced the standards again until enough women passed. When they finally got the women on Patrol duty, of the six, two of them wrecked their Cruisers in the first week. I said The He!! with it and enlisted in The Marine Corps. 1 Quote
WOLFY Posted Thursday at 02:51 AM Posted Thursday at 02:51 AM (edited) Our dept resolved the “fireman - firewoman” job titles by issuing firefighter badges. We only shut off the rigs when we were back at the firehouse - i started the job in the 90s and retired right before covid This was my assigned station for 18 years (Engine Co 7 & Ladder Truck 7) our beebop went off 25x30 times per day. Edited Friday at 01:41 AM by WOLFY 4 1 Quote
Doc McCoy, SASS #8381 Posted Thursday at 04:07 PM Posted Thursday at 04:07 PM We always leave the engine running on scene, always have. We recently got a theft deterrent lock switch that must be pressed to get the transmission out of Park. When I started volunteer EMS in ‘82 it was female dominant, probably due to the relative number of people available for weekday duty. 2 Quote
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