As if being a firefighter isn't hard enough...

[buckylarue]

Now they have to worry about this!

 

[stinkerbelle's mom]

OMG, that's horrible! OUCH!

 

[Tiggeroo]

Oh my. My dh does hvac work, mostly commercial equiptment. He has to keep industrial strength bee spray with him as there are frequently large hives on the equiptment. Once or twice he's had to call in professionals before he could touch a job.

 

[Am_I_There_Yet]

Not something I think my DH has ever gone to work worrying about! It's a crazy job, being a first responder. You never know what you're getting yourself into!

We are going hiking in Colorado in two weeks though...

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

That's terrible. I've seen pictures on tv illustrating the swarm all over the head and upper body.

 

[fireman17]

Just when you think you've seen it all!
fireman17
"The funny thing about firemen is, night and day there's always firemen




Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Groton,CT
Posts: 300 Firefighters are such silly people

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As you know most of the United States is having a heat wave well, here in CT we too have seen triple digits since Sunday. I was working a swap for a brother firefighter on Monday so he could take his vacation. At 07:30 we have roll call and I'm assigned to drive the second due engine. Sweet I think because the second due never goes unless it a confirmed working fire and also it has no AC in it.
So after morning clean up and break the station Captain informs the companies that all will be going out at 9:00 a.m. for hydrant flushing well, the guys including me are jerked.
We start out and I'm already sweating as we leave quarters luckily the Captain I'm with is very decent and says " We got the street with only six hydants". Score I say!
So we are coming to the last hydrant and we are all soaked. I take the front cap off the hydrant and a bee buzzes by me and I think nothing of it. I then stand behind the hydrant and begin to turn it on when all of a sudden about a hundred bees come out of the nest I'm standing on . Well, me the Capt. and our rider hightail to the rig but, I forget two things one the hydrant wrench and two to shut off the hydrant.
Well we looked like the three stooges going back to the hydrant to try to shut it down. After at least twelve or thirteen runs to the hydrant I was able to get it shutdown but, not after being stung about five times in my arm.
As we are leaving we look over in the front yard of the house and there is about six kids with their mothers and one kid points at us and says "You firemen are funny". We all looked at each other and said " Yes we are".
The Capt. says "We're done for the day" and I couldn't have agreed more.
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[Am_I_There_Yet]

ROFL... cute story. I can so picture my DH in the role.

 

[Jrsy Boy]

We are going hiking in Colorado in two weeks though...

No killer bees here.

 

[Am_I_There_Yet]

No killer bees here.

I think I'm more worried about bears. And mountain lions. And falling off of a cliff.

 

[Jrsy Boy]

I think I'm more worried about bears. And mountain lions. And falling off of a cliff.

In the ten years I've lived here, I've never seen a mountain lion or a bear or fallen off a cliff. You're more likely to see chipmunks, ground squirrels and maybe a hummingbird.

Sorry for the hijack; we now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.