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  • čas přidán 8. 02. 2012
  • From 2012 - We visited the Swanton, Vermont Fire Department to do a story on the shortage of volunteer firefighters in Vermont. The interview with Tim Girard, President of the Volunteer Firefighters of Vermont, ended up being really short - but we'll use it for sure. Originally produced as part of a Vermont PBS story.
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  • @tiddiesprinkles
    @tiddiesprinkles Před 3 lety +4822

    If this interview didn't get interrupted, no one would have seen it.

  • @DeltaFoxtrotWhiskey3
    @DeltaFoxtrotWhiskey3 Před 7 lety +7174

    "WHERE?!" was expected. "I gotta go to Canada" was not. Had to laugh at that. Especially in light of, "WHERE?!" suddenly taking on a new meaning haha

    • @stevemartin9915
      @stevemartin9915 Před 4 lety +159

      Probably in southern parts of Quebec nearby of Saint-Jean-sur-le-Richelieu

    • @Erik_Heuck1979
      @Erik_Heuck1979 Před 4 lety +343

      I gotta go to Canada was probably the best line in the video

    • @scottgrumpybastard311
      @scottgrumpybastard311 Před 4 lety +123

      wonder how TSA treats them at the border control point coming back ??

    • @somethinburnin
      @somethinburnin Před 4 lety +141

      All along Southern Quebec there is contracts with US Departments. Here in Franklin County NY, Fort Covington, Constable, Burke, Chateaugay help allot or have contracts in Quebec. Same in Vermont.

    • @tomcuriale594
      @tomcuriale594 Před 4 lety +26

      @@somethinburnin Not to mention HAVFD having jurisdiction on both sides to beging with

  • @billbu9525
    @billbu9525 Před 7 lety +2050

    The guy running from his truck into the station resembles me racing home to take a shit

  • @djraptorx
    @djraptorx Před 9 lety +6224

    How many times have we all heard chief yell "WHERE?!?!"

    • @AQLandscaping
      @AQLandscaping Před 9 lety +118

      djraptorx One too many scary times bud.. Haha

    • @dragondancer1814
      @dragondancer1814 Před 6 lety +282

      I was at the firehouse once and answered the phone-it turned out to be one of our deputy chiefs, who was on paid duty at the station in the next county (we're part of their box area) alerting us to the house fire call they had and letting us know we were about to be called. I hung up, screamed "MOUNT UP!" to the guys, and right when they were asking me for more details the klaxon went off for us.

    • @thefonz2854
      @thefonz2854 Před 5 lety +4

      dragondancer1814 what happend after that?

    • @pooletrainboy
      @pooletrainboy Před 4 lety +80

      @@thefonz2854 They went and did their thing.

    • @radciff2281
      @radciff2281 Před 4 lety +197

      @@thefonz2854 They lit up their flashy lights and woo woos to put the wet stuff on the red stuff.... Or stage at the end of the street ....

  • @wasgehtsiedasan4230
    @wasgehtsiedasan4230 Před 6 lety +11843

    i got interrupted by a firecall while watching this video. how ironic

    • @kameronshank8749
      @kameronshank8749 Před 6 lety +374

      WasGehtSieDasAn a bunch of people are saying this and now I'm glancing at my pager waiting for it to go off lol

    • @isaiahsanchez6457
      @isaiahsanchez6457 Před 4 lety +7

      😬

    • @erikschwiesow1301
      @erikschwiesow1301 Před 4 lety +32

      FF oder BF? 😛

    • @luke8236
      @luke8236 Před 4 lety +4

      Same

    • @csnider_1281
      @csnider_1281 Před 4 lety +21

      Now the question is it the tri-monthly structure fire or another crackhead OD?

  • @FrostyJ95
    @FrostyJ95 Před 10 lety +2306

    Every person on that department that responds is pre screened at both customs their passport/nexus is recorded as a "emergency traveller" and they do not have to stop at customs responding but when they come back the chief fills out some paper work and all of the responders sign it .

    • @amoss.zachywacky9041
      @amoss.zachywacky9041 Před 3 lety +32

      Why did they have to cross the boarder

    • @FrostyJ95
      @FrostyJ95 Před 3 lety +483

      @@amoss.zachywacky9041 Fire departments have a thing called ''mutual aid" where if something is getting out of hand for the equipment they have, they will call on a neighbouring department for assistance. So what happened here was something had gotten out of hand for the Canadian department and they called for assistance from their friends across the border.

    • @ShiningDarknes
      @ShiningDarknes Před 3 lety +387

      @@FrostyJ95 Because fire is everyone's problem.

    • @BoredLikeHelI
      @BoredLikeHelI Před 3 lety +118

      @@ShiningDarknes And because as much as we have sucked at maintaining that relationship over the last couple decades, we are brothers.

    • @FlorenceSlugcat
      @FlorenceSlugcat Před 3 lety +69

      Sketchers Dat light up there’s reasons you might want to have such an agreement too. On both sides, if it gets out of hands, extra help is important, and can benefit greatly. This could save you a lot of damage during large fires. Plus, imagine a forest fire near border. If you don’t contain it, it might as well even cross the border
      Theses agreements are based on the concept that, is something is happening that is getting out of our control, there is additional help that can be called nearby. Near the border, thoses extra hands and equipment may be easier and faster to get from across the border. The same thing applies for the us. If something is getting out of hand, they may call Canada for help

  • @empresskirav585
    @empresskirav585 Před 3 lety +851

    We had a kid in our senior class in high school that was a volunteer. When he was on call and got one, he just left everything and got out of there with everyone saying to be careful. He usually had his fire uniform all bundled in the passenger seat of his truck. Our class just helped clean up his stuff and put to the side like it was nothing. If school ended and it was important then a close buddy of his would take his stuff with him.

    • @jakeross7995
      @jakeross7995 Před 3 lety +39

      Thats so heart warming ngl

    • @20the20
      @20the20 Před 3 lety +176

      "Good morning class we'll be having a pop quiz on last night's reading"
      "Wow crazy I just got a call, gotta jet gl tho"

    • @JMRabil675
      @JMRabil675 Před 3 lety +7

      seems a little young to be a fire fighter but thats pretty cool

    • @stan.rarick8556
      @stan.rarick8556 Před 3 lety +4

      That's the way it should be for everybody.

    • @Chainsawwed
      @Chainsawwed Před 3 lety +21

      @@JMRabil675 here in BFE Ohio it was very common for middle-schoolers and high schoolers to be associated with the local fire departments in some form or another. I have two friends who were with the department since before they even hit puberty who now both work for the DC fire dept.

  • @PriorityLethal
    @PriorityLethal Před 6 lety +3100

    It's always the worst when your in the bathroom and the tones drop.

    • @dragondancer1814
      @dragondancer1814 Před 6 lety +137

      I hate it when I'm home and nothing happens, but when I go run errands in the county seat and my phone starts blowing up because we got a call! THAT drives me nuts like nothing else in the world!

    • @mitchbanner4094
      @mitchbanner4094 Před 5 lety +47

      You ain't kidding. I've had to "cut one off "myself a time or two.

    • @davidpayne4315
      @davidpayne4315 Před 4 lety +4

      Been there Lol

    • @znovosad555
      @znovosad555 Před 4 lety +38

      Last time I decided to spend some time at the station just as available and on standby, literally didn’t get a call. I was going to stay for 4 hours. I was getting ready to leave, boom ambulance call. So I get my call in. We got back to the station and we’re sitting around filling out the run forms and what not. Boom another ambulance call. For us on average each medical is about an hour or so ish. From transport to turnover, to back in quarters. So by that time it’s already been 2 1/2 hours or so. I had a non firehouse related meeting at the firehouse that night so I ended up at the firehouse for 9 hours lol.

    • @ChomopaStompa
      @ChomopaStompa Před 4 lety +38

      "Sorry capt, can't pinch liquid..."

  • @G_Gued
    @G_Gued Před 4 lety +924

    I want to personally thank the guy with the light bar on his S-10 for his service.

    • @double534
      @double534 Před 4 lety +22

      The only person on here with respect lol. #TYFYS

    • @johnsherrier
      @johnsherrier Před 3 lety +56

      Not to mention the pulling in to the apron Mach-10

    • @cambamwardamn1468
      @cambamwardamn1468 Před 3 lety +31

      Vollys here to protect us all with their beer guts, shitty trucks, and power pole family trees

    • @j.adamwegs2882
      @j.adamwegs2882 Před 3 lety +50

      I know I won't convince you that most volunteer departments are fairly high quality, so I'm just gonna drop a quick fact. You have 2 choices in 90% of the country: call the volunteers, or call nobody 🤔

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape Před 3 lety +2

      @@j.adamwegs2882 Actually you can call a private FD as well, but you need to subscribe to the service and most of then suck ass, like really bad.

  • @finkresponsevideos2494
    @finkresponsevideos2494 Před 9 lety +1250

    0:22 with the hand on the pager leaning over.. We've all done that

    • @raceboy84u2
      @raceboy84u2 Před 9 lety +32

      haha, yes yes we have.

    • @Cmanjp427
      @Cmanjp427 Před 7 lety +5

      Fink Response Videos yes

    • @LancasterResponding
      @LancasterResponding Před 7 lety +90

      Fink Response Videos It's the universal volunteer firefighter sign for I might be done with this conversation

    • @ww2fan18
      @ww2fan18 Před 7 lety +33

      Lancaster lmao, that "I'm ignoring you because you keep talking over the description numb nuts" look too.

    • @Bluedog5581
      @Bluedog5581 Před 6 lety +27

      *clips pager on pocket just to make sure everyone knows we've got a ff/emt....:: we've all been there making sure our tones are set high in public not vibrate lol

  • @croc106
    @croc106 Před 7 lety +52

    Nothing worst than in the middle of having sex, your pager goes off, even if it's a dumb call like a cat in a tree, it ruins the mood.

    • @marcoh.3467
      @marcoh.3467 Před 6 lety +1

      Harambe still lives in this case you have to make a priority decision!
      You have the time to finish (a bit faster and rougher) so you can respond relaxed. The girl have the time to finish it on her own way while you on duty 😂😂😂

    • @Victor_Victory
      @Victor_Victory Před 6 lety +1

      Harambe still lives hey man cat lives matter

    • @ttss5726
      @ttss5726 Před 6 lety +1

      LMFAO finish the nut then go

    • @dragondancer1814
      @dragondancer1814 Před 6 lety

      Yeah, it gives a whole new meaning to coitus interruptus!

  • @MrNoLen5
    @MrNoLen5 Před 3 lety +244

    Chief: "I hope you got enough!"
    Interviewer: "Oh this is more than enough!"

  • @Dargonhuman
    @Dargonhuman Před 3 lety +72

    I just love the maximum chill everyone in this clip had, from the completely casual "I gotta go to Canada" from the chief to the sympathetic "We'll make do with what we have" from the interviewer.

  • @Basca112
    @Basca112 Před 3 lety +343

    Alarm goes off.
    Fireman: Lunch time.
    Chief: WHERE!?
    Fireman: Canada.
    Chief: I got to go to Canada.

    • @jays5926
      @jays5926 Před 3 lety +6

      Enters Canada:
      *you now owe $100,000 in taxes good sir*

    • @roddydykes7053
      @roddydykes7053 Před 2 lety +7

      @@jays5926 I’ve been to the States multiple times and our shit isn’t much more expensive than yours

    • @efethecaptain6
      @efethecaptain6 Před 2 lety

      @@roddydykes7053 English and the way people express themselves is so... peculiar. "Our shit" lmao

    • @metal-gods
      @metal-gods Před 2 lety +1

      @@efethecaptain6 too right old boy. The colonies have become terribly strange.

    • @efethecaptain6
      @efethecaptain6 Před 2 lety

      @@metal-gods old boy ?

  • @cowboycarl121
    @cowboycarl121 Před 6 lety +465

    Man i didnt think their pagers would sound like my departments and it made me jump a little when i herd it go off.

    • @Irish_Airsofter
      @Irish_Airsofter Před 4 lety +23

      Same here brother I heard the tones drop and I looked at my pager and realized it wasnt mine😂😂😂

    • @Firebuff101
      @Firebuff101 Před 4 lety +10

      I think they all do that sound at the beginning but any tones that follow are customizable.

    • @extraslayar4585
      @extraslayar4585 Před 4 lety +1

      @@awj03130 my fulltime job is in EMS and I'm on my volley FD I had to shut off my pager cause I've been doing so much work on the testing side of things and kept getting woken up by calls that all turned out to be false alarms. (I talked with my chief and we have enough guys that I can take a leave of absence and not disturb the flow)

  • @engineco.1494
    @engineco.1494 Před 5 lety +259

    That's great to see these departments along the border have mutual aid agreements! Different flags on our shoulders but brothers and sisters nonetheless!

    • @Brucev7
      @Brucev7 Před 3 lety +6

      Love God and Love Thy Neighbor

  • @kendrickminchew1855
    @kendrickminchew1855 Před 6 lety +28

    Interviewer: do we have an emergancy? Fire chief: shut the fuck up Dave

  • @chrisfowler623
    @chrisfowler623 Před 4 lety +1325

    2020 :
    CZcams : eh, throw it in there, they'll watch it.

  • @jakemeyer3015
    @jakemeyer3015 Před 7 lety +867

    Everyone has done the pull into the parking lot, leave the truck running with lights flashing and sprint to the fire house. You can always tell if it was a bad call when you go by the firehouse and all the doors are open and lights are still going on personal cars.

    • @15Med3
      @15Med3 Před 7 lety +88

      yup did that for a medical....spent the whole ride home from the ER looking for my keys...hell i didn't even pull them out of the ignition of my car (shut it off though) lol

    • @0zzyninja
      @0zzyninja Před 7 lety +165

      Shit man, if I did that in my town I wouldn't have a car to get home.

    • @powerboat5396
      @powerboat5396 Před 7 lety +89

      agree totally, theres been a lot of that and more over the years. we've even had guys come in so fast that when they slammed on the brakes they skidded into the through the wall of the station!most of us leave our car keys in the ignition.
      the local people in our town know the cars of those of us in the fire brigade and will pull over on the road to let us pass when the siren go and we're on the way to the station

    • @penguin4587
      @penguin4587 Před 7 lety +27

      That happen when my department went mutual aid for station coverage and we couldn't get in so they went to car to car to hopefully find someone left their keys in the car and someone did

    • @dragondancer1814
      @dragondancer1814 Před 6 lety +29

      HAHA I know what you mean-lots of times I'm one of the last ones flying into the parking lot and scrambling to get on the engine, and every so often the seat belt doesn't retract enough to let the car door slam, leaving the door open a crack. Thank the gods we live in a rural town and not in the DC-Metro area where I grew up!

  • @mcaddicts
    @mcaddicts Před 8 lety +262

    That's cool that they have cross border calls. My department works with NY state departments on the water for calls.

    • @rhinebckfirefighter
      @rhinebckfirefighter Před 7 lety +2

      Yeah did you hear that to yeah where I live in ny state I here Sharon ladder out of Sharon ct

    • @spacewolfjr
      @spacewolfjr Před 4 lety +2

      I thought you were the Mayor of Big Daddy's Pizza?

    • @mcaddicts
      @mcaddicts Před 4 lety +1

      @@spacewolfjr Sheriff of Big Daddy's.

  • @THEDnARACER
    @THEDnARACER Před 3 lety +88

    I like that it’s a bunch of firefighters showing up in these comments. Thank you all for your bravery and service to your community and beyond

  • @craigzale4345
    @craigzale4345 Před 10 lety +360

    It's that way for Lunch, Dinner, date night, school events, parties and any time you have something to go do and tones drop for the volunteer. Days you have nothing to do and no calls seem to go with it. I would not trade any of it.

    • @Matt-vf5jd
      @Matt-vf5jd Před 9 lety +13

      Amen brother.

    • @dragondancer1814
      @dragondancer1814 Před 6 lety +17

      Join the club! I've been a volunteer for 18 years, and I've had so many meals, holidays, parties, etc. interrupted by the tones going off, and yet I wouldn't trade any of it for the world. And I tell people "It's never boring." Some days nothing happens, and other days we get slammed right from the jump. You have to WANT to do this, but it does get a hold of you like nothing else in the world. It just goes with the territory.

    • @ericjenkinsjr2756
      @ericjenkinsjr2756 Před 6 lety +2

      I agree with you all!! I’m going on 8 years and counting!!!!

    • @TannerMcCoyOfficial
      @TannerMcCoyOfficial Před 5 lety +4

      craig zale I don’t know if I would leave a date to go to a VOLUNTEER fire call.

    • @dragondancer1814
      @dragondancer1814 Před 5 lety +1

      Blytheboy1997reviews Got that beat-my husband and I squirreled one on our HONEYMOON!

  • @weebsdf1662
    @weebsdf1662 Před 4 lety +163

    I'd say 90% of the comments are firefighters, most who have experienced something similar.

    • @patricktho6546
      @patricktho6546 Před 4 lety +3

      We all are getting interviewed :)
      This is the system of volunteery fire departments in Germany.. (have only volunteer firefighters)

    • @17shelinec
      @17shelinec Před 3 lety +1

      When I was younger every time parent teacher meetings happened tones would drop

    • @chrism6904
      @chrism6904 Před 3 lety +2

      Happens all day, every day LOL. Literally, every time we have to do some shit with the public (or anything for that matter...), we end up getting a call. We stopped cooking at our station. We're so damn busy... there's just no point. We eat out 3+ times a shift. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Plus a few snacks.

    • @christianr.3838
      @christianr.3838 Před 3 lety +1

      Sorry im from the red cross austria,,, 👍😂

    • @christinanull5098
      @christinanull5098 Před 3 lety

      nice gate pfp

  • @davidduffy877
    @davidduffy877 Před 8 lety +620

    What a nice gesture! Dropping what you are doing to fight a fire in Canada. Because of people like you I wear something every July 4th to show our neighbourly (sorry we spell it with a "u") support. God Bless America!

    • @EyebrowsMahoney
      @EyebrowsMahoney Před 4 lety +69

      I love my Canadian neighbors. Ya'll are welcome to my grill outs anytime.

    • @nathanbasset
      @nathanbasset Před 4 lety +1

      ❤️

    • @EyebrowsMahoney
      @EyebrowsMahoney Před 4 lety +31

      @@kim98677 Their Job is to fight fires in their district. They voluntarily are responding to a request for assistance. I think what's admirable is they take it just as seriously as any other call.

    • @expert_fretwork
      @expert_fretwork Před 3 lety +25

      apologizing for spelling differences has to be the most Canadian thing I've ever seen.

    • @smileychess
      @smileychess Před 3 lety +12

      Weer not soo different you and us, eh! It's aboot time we put aside er differences and creck open some Mooshead lagers. I'll meet'cha at yer local Tim Hortons and we'll have a real hoot of a day.

  • @GriffyBoi
    @GriffyBoi Před 2 lety +14

    I've always thought it's the most badass thing to just drop anything and everything you're doing and run off to go fight fires.

  • @fourscarlet7581
    @fourscarlet7581 Před 3 lety +21

    One thing I wouldn't expect to hear in a fire station is "I gotta go to Canada."

    • @hagamapama
      @hagamapama Před 2 lety +1

      The border fire departments, especially on the US-Canadian borders, never have any issues helping each other out

  • @lukebourke8656
    @lukebourke8656 Před 6 lety +144

    How dedicated are VFF's? While recovering from a Motorcycle accident I participated as much as I could in my Department. On July 4th one year we had our parade through the area. I rode with the Chief in the brush truck. Right after we got back to the station we heard EMS get toned out for a Heart Attach in our area. One of our Captains was running around, "WE GOT A MI CALL". The Chief said for him to take a crew on the Engine. At which time I informed the Chief that I was his only Medic. Chief looked around and said get a crew on the Engine, someone take Luke on the Quick Attack truck. I hobbled around the scene not really thinking about the fact that my leg was in a cast. The Woman was still conscious and alert. Started her on O2 took vitals. Even used my cast to calm her down when she kept apologizing for having us come out there. That wasn't the only call I made during my recovery. Not even a broken leg could keep me from responding to calls.

    • @dragondancer1814
      @dragondancer1814 Před 6 lety +14

      Shortly after I started EMT training, my husband and I found out we were pregnant with our older daughter. By the time we were able to do ride-alongs with the rescue squad as part of our training, I was six months pregnant with her. It made for some crazy moments in class and on one call where getting to the patient involved climbing up and down a loading dock at a warehouse. Getting up was relatively easy, but getting off that loading dock was not so fun because the word "jump" was definitely not part of my vocabulary at the time. Picture the scene in "Auntie Mame" when Agnes Gooch was trying to sit down on that super-low sofa and you get the idea. Throw in the guys on the ambulance laughing like hyenas at me trying to scootch my pregnant butt off that dock, and you get an even better idea!
      Needless to say, we joke that she's been a firehouse brat right from the start because she was running calls in utero!

    • @Content_Deleted
      @Content_Deleted Před 3 lety +5

      Thank you for your service! :)

  • @Daywalker_27
    @Daywalker_27 Před 3 lety +109

    Firefighter listening intently trying to hear message
    Interviewer - It’s okay, I’ll just talk over the short but vary important message

    • @aaronrichards2842
      @aaronrichards2842 Před 3 lety +4

      ya i was waiting for the guy to say shutup would ya?! and raise his finger.

    • @CraigLumpyLemke
      @CraigLumpyLemke Před 3 lety +5

      While I'm listening, watching the chief try to hear the call out, I'll ask the obvious "Do you have an emergency?"

    • @ccllvn
      @ccllvn Před 3 lety

      yep lmao

  • @alexandermakrianis
    @alexandermakrianis Před 7 lety +35

    That was pretty cool. I like how you went on to film the firefighters arriving, gearing up, and then responding. I think it really captured the day to day life of this fire station.

  • @expert_fretwork
    @expert_fretwork Před 3 lety +314

    Absolutely no one:
    CZcams Algorithm in 2020: "wanna see a 1 minute clip of an interview with a fire chief get cut short by a call from 8 years ago?"
    Me: "might as well."

  • @newguy3588
    @newguy3588 Před 3 lety +16

    This legit feels like something out of The Office.

  • @301whitehall
    @301whitehall Před 10 lety +40

    From the look on his face, to the hand reach on the side, every volunteer can relate haha

  • @bryanreid967
    @bryanreid967 Před 3 lety +6

    Fascinating!
    That only happened to me, seems like, about 80% of the time if I sat on the crapper, went to bed or tried having dinner.

  • @znovosad555
    @znovosad555 Před 6 lety +19

    Never gets old watching this. Exactly like every volunteer firehouse lol.

  • @hahnkf8111
    @hahnkf8111 Před 3 lety +73

    I thought the “interruption” was gonna be that pile of bags in the thumbnail, which I thought was some kind of dog-like puppet

    • @PastorGooch
      @PastorGooch Před 3 lety +4

      Lmao i thought the same thing!

    • @eyescreamcake
      @eyescreamcake Před 3 lety +3

      me too

    • @Candesce
      @Candesce Před 2 lety +2

      That is honestly the main reason I clicked on the video. The actual video was better than expected :D

    • @johnprice434
      @johnprice434 Před 2 lety

      Same

  • @oldgoalie7401
    @oldgoalie7401 Před 3 lety +4

    "I gotta go to Canada". I'm a retired firefighter from St Stephen New Brunswick. We have a long standing mutual aid agreement between our department and Calais Maine. We roll automatically to structures and industrial fires. The only time things got complicated crossing borders was for a brief period after 911. Two countries, One mission was our slogan.

    • @hagamapama
      @hagamapama Před 2 lety +1

      I live in Calais and I know I've seen the trucks go over the bridges both ways. Respect for St Stephen from this old Blue Devil
      Funny note from town history -- during the war of 1812, Calais didn't have any gunpowder to spare for 4th of July celebrations. Despite being literally at war St. Stephen gave Calais some gunpowder for their holiday.

  • @thisissparta789789
    @thisissparta789789 Před 7 lety +80

    At my FD, you wouldn't be able to hear a thing after the pagers ring, since we also have a house siren that's very loud.

    • @dragondancer1814
      @dragondancer1814 Před 6 lety +12

      LOL Our firehouse was hosting a First Responder class years ago (now they call it Emergency Medical Responder here in Maryland), and right in the middle of roll call, the klaxon went off. Half the room left (our guys), and the instructor was about to resume the roll call when I said, "You might want to wait a minute!" She asked why, and right then the house siren blew. When it wound down, I said "THAT'S why!" and the rest of the room cracked up. You do NOT want to be in the parking lot when that thing blasts, let me tell you-my husband and I live 1 1/2 blocks away, and if we have the windows open it practically sounds like it's in our back yard.

    • @conner5611
      @conner5611 Před 4 lety +1

      @@dragondancer1814 what type of siren is it?

    • @dragondancer1814
      @dragondancer1814 Před 4 lety +2

      snattle rake I have no idea! All I can tell you is that it’s been on top of the station longer than I’ve been a volunteer there (over 20 years and still counting) and it’s LOUD.

    • @jaysmith1408
      @jaysmith1408 Před 4 lety +3

      We have CAD alert (ours through Active 911) which usually gives us a good head start on the pagers, depending where we are in the pecking order. On the other side, we’ve been at lunch in a restaurant, all of us, pager goes off, I look down, LT looks over to see if I’m screwing with them. I take off, he’s right behind me, we’re already peeling out of the lot when the CAD goes off. As well, since our pager and siren tones are the same, we get maybe a split second notice on the pager before the siren winds out. Our house siren is an STH-10. Very common. I can hear it, on a clear night, from my house, three miles away, over the railroad grade behind the hall (about the same height as the building), a river, a hill, a hospital, a valley, and another hill.

    • @dragondancer1814
      @dragondancer1814 Před 4 lety +2

      jfsa380 We got CAD alert installed several years ago, and our captain rigged the alert on it so that the volume will startle you but good when we get a call. Then we have the klaxon system, which starts with the old bell and leads into this electronic alert that has both a voice stating the vehicle response needed and also this electronic noise like a game show buzzer. THEN we get the dispatch from headquarters, followed by the house siren going off if it’s a fire call (the house siren doesn’t go off for medic assist calls for some reason). We also can subscribe to Active 911 through the firehouse, and those of us in the loop can also get automatic text messages when we get a call. So we’re a mix of the old and the new, and it’s pretty wild.

  • @HolyHeinz
    @HolyHeinz Před 3 lety +5

    2020 the special year, and we are still watching this and love firefighters all over the world! We thank you for everything you do for us!
    Greetings from Germany 🧡🧡🧡

  • @moos5221
    @moos5221 Před 2 lety +5

    The most impressive thing I remember from living 2 years in the USA is the volume of their firetrucks horns and sirens.

  • @TheJamesstark
    @TheJamesstark Před 3 lety +14

    My dad is a fireman, always inspiring. Thank you to all the heroes!

  • @Dacommenta
    @Dacommenta Před 3 lety +3

    I got interrupted by a fire call while reading the comment about being interrupted by a fire call while watching this video. How ironic.

  • @ziobonfa96
    @ziobonfa96 Před 3 lety +10

    once, in my city, in italy, i've seen a fireman almost overturned a chair to go to the station from the table where he was with friends

  • @sonicboss91
    @sonicboss91 Před 3 lety +12

    I enjoyed this can't wait to see what CZcams recommends to me another 8 years.

    • @lintlickers
      @lintlickers Před 3 lety

      So I hear you’re a dumb little teenage kid

  • @epiknis3035
    @epiknis3035 Před 3 lety +3

    My friend’s relative is a fire fighter guy in New York City, we went up there one time and he let us look around the fire station and in the middle they got a call and went out sirens blaring it was kinda cool

  • @mrengine9
    @mrengine9 Před 11 lety +3

    I love how you continually reply sir.

  • @worldofbrandan
    @worldofbrandan Před 9 lety +151

    When you gotta go you gotta go.

  • @r.casagrande8689
    @r.casagrande8689 Před 3 lety

    One of the most satisfying thing I enjoy is to see the look of high skilled and professional people doing their job.

  • @RedHeadForester
    @RedHeadForester Před 3 lety +1

    This made for a way better video than just a boring old interview would. The way that guy screeches his truck tyres as he parks and then legs it into the fire engine is awesome. Dedication.

  • @Firebuff101
    @Firebuff101 Před 4 lety +31

    "Well, I gotta go to Canada"

  • @zackkelly3726
    @zackkelly3726 Před 4 lety +18

    Ahhh the signature “WHERE”?!

  • @ghostinthemachine8243
    @ghostinthemachine8243 Před 2 lety

    I will use this opportunity to pay tribute to my Dad. When our house burned down, the fire was fought by three volunteer fire departments. When we moved, my Dad, an old WW II vet, joined the volunteer fire department that served our community at the age of FIFTY because he thought he owed something back. Talk about the greatest generation.

  • @minigolfkid
    @minigolfkid Před 3 lety

    Thank you so much to the volunteer firefighters, but also the camera crew for this video, giving their job priority over content.

  • @steelbluesleepR
    @steelbluesleepR Před 2 lety +3

    That's EXACTLY how it goes with firefighters. I worked on Live Rescue for 9 months and they'll drop anything and everything as soon as the alarm come through.
    In fact, when I was with them, they had an app on their phones that told them about local emergencies. You'd often see them moving and halfway ready before the call even came through their alarm.

    • @juancena930
      @juancena930 Před 5 měsíci

      I Might be a little late, But We have an app called 'Active911' and its a godsend when we dont have our radios/pagers on us

  • @nc818
    @nc818 Před 3 lety +9

    0:55 when you’re driving home and have to shit lmaoo 😂

  • @gutz1981
    @gutz1981 Před 3 lety +2

    The Superman theme started to play in my head while watching this. Bless you boys.

  • @MinistryOfMagic_DoM
    @MinistryOfMagic_DoM Před 3 lety +2

    I think this got the point across of the interview far better than asking questions ever could.

  • @troytuckwell3610
    @troytuckwell3610 Před 3 lety +4

    I love how the chiefs trying to listen to a fire message and he talks over it.

  • @Nubbe999
    @Nubbe999 Před 3 lety +18

    We will all one day get that feeling, that you just need to go to Canada. Just drop everything and go

  • @joegaito702
    @joegaito702 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Taking care of business doing there jobs the paramedics and firemen deserve a lot of credit your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks don't work to hard great job great catches as usual way to go you guys rock thanks ! Joe

  • @yoshtg
    @yoshtg Před 3 lety +1

    when i was 17 out with friends we played with fire and one of my friends accidently put a hut on fire but the fire fighters saved a lot of the property. thanks to their quick work the damage was only around 10,000€ and eventhough i didn't cause the fire, me and my brother still helped my friend to pay for the 10,000€.
    I paid 4,000€, my brother paid 2,000€ and my friend who caused the fire only had to pay the other 4,000€. this was a lesson for a lifetime not to let friends play with fire like that. Without the fire fighters it would've probably caused five times the damage, that would've been quite a lot of work to pay it off. So we are thankful to the firefighters who did a great job!

  • @lente9495
    @lente9495 Před 3 lety +4

    This is more badass than a interview

  • @jordanox2051
    @jordanox2051 Před 4 lety +5

    I am harder then a diamond in an ice storm watching these heroes race to blazes... Go get em brothers!

  • @joegaito702
    @joegaito702 Před 2 lety +1

    Your service is deeply appreciated thanks take care best wishes to everyone who responds keep up the good work sorry you had to go on a call. Joe

  • @marvinl8519
    @marvinl8519 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks for your service to the firefighters all aorund the world from Germany!

  • @ImJorgeMPerez
    @ImJorgeMPerez Před 3 lety +51

    “Do we have an emergency?!?!?!” No dude... the cookies are ready!

  • @OneSkiWonder
    @OneSkiWonder Před 7 lety +13

    I love that type of siren!

    • @PinchTheBarb
      @PinchTheBarb Před 7 lety +4

      OneSkiWonder Same here. "Q" sirens are classic.

    • @DorianTMChannel
      @DorianTMChannel Před 6 lety +3

      It goes good with the powercall.

    • @000Responses
      @000Responses Před 6 lety

      Haha me too wish we had those on Aussie appliances...

  • @KD7ETH
    @KD7ETH Před 3 lety

    I like the interviewers comments at the end. A true professional.

  • @madcapmagician3130
    @madcapmagician3130 Před 4 lety +2

    Thank you CZcams for teaching me this day that fire departments don't stop for national borders....you really do learn something new every day!

  • @snowwhite7677
    @snowwhite7677 Před 4 lety +8

    🔥 Fires are so inconsiderate of other people's time 🔥

  • @Nedshnibley
    @Nedshnibley Před 3 lety +6

    i thought his pager tone was mine going off lmao

  • @arlismills3133
    @arlismills3133 Před 3 lety

    I come from extreme northern New York. Across the lake from Vermont. Almost all, if not all, of our fire departments have contracts with Quebec to send firefighters to each other's scenes when required. When you live in the sticks, sometimes the quickest help comes from another country.

  • @tarickw
    @tarickw Před 3 lety +1

    Great seeing his eyes shift back and forth when listening

  • @JonathanChan212
    @JonathanChan212 Před 3 lety +3

    Interviewer: Where should we start?
    Fire: 'Scuse me for interruption.

  • @Backwoods_Jake
    @Backwoods_Jake Před 6 lety +3

    Idk if any other Firefighter does this but everytime I hear a freaking Monitor V go off my adrenaline starts pumping even if its on a CZcams Video. Ive been woke up many, Many, Many times from a dead sleep by my pager.

  • @709mash
    @709mash Před 3 lety

    Glad to know our friends south of the boarder help us out here too. I just the kindness has been reciprocated.

    • @hagamapama
      @hagamapama Před 2 lety

      It has been. I live in a border town and have seen firefighters with the maple leaf on their shoulders respond to our fires.

  • @joegaito702
    @joegaito702 Před 11 měsíci +1

    They have a job to do and there time and efforts and service are deeply appreciated thanks to everyone who responds keep them safe out there have all the respect and appreciate you guys thanks job well done you should be proud keep them safe out there ! Joe

  • @crispycritterz
    @crispycritterz Před 9 lety +5

    Always seems to happen when there's a tour going through.

  • @bobboberson7684
    @bobboberson7684 Před 4 lety +4

    This is my dad every time his pager goes off lol. CVFD

  • @thudthud5423
    @thudthud5423 Před 3 lety

    That, right there, is a perfect interview.

  • @nightlock826
    @nightlock826 Před 2 lety

    Cant overstate how mature this news crew was

  • @Zraupp10
    @Zraupp10 Před 8 lety +19

    na, he just didn't want to be Interviewed

  • @The_CIA
    @The_CIA Před 4 lety +3

    *_0:29_**_ - my favorite line_*

  • @gamedl3ron473
    @gamedl3ron473 Před 3 lety

    Yes, recommend this now so the people can be brought together again

  • @nikolasfields7478
    @nikolasfields7478 Před 6 lety +1

    This video sends chills down my spine

  • @000Responses
    @000Responses Před 6 lety +4

    That is one hell of an interruption!

  • @SuperODST1
    @SuperODST1 Před 3 lety +3

    "I gotta go to Canada." Ah, Vermont

  • @KaiTakApproach
    @KaiTakApproach Před 2 lety

    Man this brings back memories....

  • @heydavedawson
    @heydavedawson Před 4 lety

    I’m watching this on my phone while I have Star Wars playing on the tv. The part where they’re finding Han Solo and Luke in the snow. Music made this even more badass.

  • @Channel51_LA
    @Channel51_LA Před 11 lety +3

    That's a big ass rig! Do they roll on mutual aid into Canada very often?

  • @connordowning216
    @connordowning216 Před 3 lety +3

    "Interview interupts firehouse" lol

  • @amyhayhurst4762
    @amyhayhurst4762 Před 8 měsíci

    Love the videos keep up the great work

  • @z0uLess
    @z0uLess Před 2 lety

    Thank God for someone doing something. I think I will watch a show about someone building a farm now. Its good that things get done.

  • @dillonperrine1988
    @dillonperrine1988 Před 8 lety +7

    I love responding to calls

  • @jackrobinson1073
    @jackrobinson1073 Před 3 lety +3

    He looks like the guy who gets stung by Barry’s friend in Bee Movie lmao

  • @ThePlowGuys
    @ThePlowGuys Před 2 lety

    It is great thing that towns that border Canada and the United States both help out each other. I have seen both the Swanton FD and those fire departments from the small communities on the canadian side cross the border to help each other out.

  • @thejoker3151
    @thejoker3151 Před 2 lety

    Respect and love to all the first responders out there!

  • @ashleyerickson1757
    @ashleyerickson1757 Před 9 lety +69

    They had their one call for the month while you were there.........

    • @stevebrule6046
      @stevebrule6046 Před 7 lety +2

      +Cameron Covington So good looking people get off easy. alright...

    • @cwcovington16
      @cwcovington16 Před 7 lety

      Steve Brule hahaha

    • @ArmEConDoesMinecraft
      @ArmEConDoesMinecraft Před 7 lety +1

      Many volunteer departments get more calls than that. A county next to mine has 1 vfd to protect the county with 6 stations. They typically get around .75-1 call per day and have some busy days with multiple calls.

    • @teds4983
      @teds4983 Před 6 lety

      Ashley Erickson Heeeyyy

    • @briansavage4157
      @briansavage4157 Před 5 lety

      I was looking through the comments on this video of my department and for the record in 2017 we had approximately 330 calls and so far in 2018 are around 175, not real busy but far from 1 a month!

  • @glinting_infantry6823
    @glinting_infantry6823 Před 3 lety +4

    Ths dudes like: *THIS IS WHAT IVE TRAINED FOR ALL MY LIFE* 0:55

  • @rifflerunderhill7006
    @rifflerunderhill7006 Před 3 lety

    Thank you Algorithm, the comments from firefighters and volunteers in the comments were exactly what I needed.

  • @kaliss7192
    @kaliss7192 Před 3 lety

    Volunteer firefighters are so cool. Used to work with one. He was a chill dude.