December 15, 2025 • 27 mins
9-1-1, what's an emergency?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If somebody calls for what's the word that I'm looking for,
like a like a like a first responder or like
the first responders come out and it turns out it's
a worthless you don't need them call.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is there a charge for that?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
That's a really good question.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
I don't know if they charge when they send ms out,
but definitely gonna get a charge to you take a ride?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, right, Like I know, like if they if they
take you in and stuff, then like some stuff picks out.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
But like if it's not every jurisdiction, some counties don't
have ambulance fees stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh that's good, that's good.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
But like if you call them out and it's a
total bust, there is there a penalty for that?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Are you doing it on purpose? Like are you calling
them to try to mess with them?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
No? Not mess with them?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I feel like mess with them, but it's weird like
they show up and it like for example, if you need.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
A water rescue, who do you call? WHOA that seems
pretty serious? Nine one one the nine one one?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You called?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
You're not drowning yet? Yeah? The no where the water
is rising? So does this woman get in trouble?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
There what you're talking about, you know, and you know
exactly who I'm talking about, right, you saw the video.
So this video is going around over the over the weekend. Right,
There's a woman and she's driving through there is there
is some water, yeah, it's it's flooded, but not not
a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So anyway, she is stuck in the middle, stuck. She's
not even stuck.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
She's driving through what she believes is high water, right,
and when she the cars stopped in the in the
in the water. By the way, the end of the
flood is probably three four feet in front of her car.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's not much. So she stopped and she's got.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Her window down and the you could see the water
is up well I'll even give it half of her
half of her tire regular cars.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Like six inches or so, maybe a little more eight.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So anyway, it's not up that high.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And so she's got the window down and you see
like a like a paramedic or somebody throw the like
a I don't even know what that.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Is, almost like it's like a floating booie type thing.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, and then a.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Rope to hold on to, like it like she's gonna
get gushed away.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Well, if they're throwing that to her, it sounds like
you're downplaying.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The Oh I'm not, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And so anyway, she she holds onto the rope and
then they're like okay, and she opens her car door
and gets out and it comes up to here.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Mid mid to upper shine. Yeah, shin, shin. And then
she walks out.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I mean weeds out or walks out. No walks walks.
But you know what she should have done, gotten back
in the car and driven it out. Thro No, your
total turnaround. Don't drown. Yeah, you're already in, You're always in.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
But you don't want to keep going for fear. Well,
you said she's not the end of the flood.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Like you can see, like if there's water collecting in
the roadway here, you go, oh good, here it is.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You found it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
By the way, there's it.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Okay, can you hit go back, go back a little bit,
go back a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah we only played five seconds. Okay, stop, Yeah, that's
the end. There's a fire truck right in.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Front of her.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Okay, yeah, no, I see that.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
You're right.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
It's like it's a dip in the road, which is
why that part flooded.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, and then they got to throw the like like
a life raft, like she's gone over.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
They just they have to, you know, barring any sort
of stumble or something.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Could she have stumble hurt herself that way.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
So she tries to catch it through the open window.
She drops it. It lands in the water.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, she grabs it. She misses the buoy part, but
grabs the rope. Got the rope. Yeah, and she's oh,
she's panicking for no reason. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Watch, and so now they tell her, hey, open the door,
and so she opens the door.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Watch, I'm watching, I'm watching. She's going to open the door.
Here she is careful, honey, by the way, it's.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Not Now there's a pole coming with another sort of
booy like device.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes, for people who are drowning. But now there's two things.
You've got the rope booy, but then then you have
the stick the pole boot. I don't know what the
pole booy does.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
That kind of looks like something a dolphin would jump
up in touch with its nose.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I don't know what the pole thing is for. Wait,
watch here she goes. Watch the door is now open, right,
No water's in the car.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Mind you, while the water is not You're right, it's
not coming into the car. There she goes, Oh look
here I am.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
She's laughing, is she? Yes, she's embarrassed? Well, she is
hanging onto the rope. I mean, you never know she
could trip there, you go, my shoes are ruined.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well she's wearing tennis shoes. They're fine. Yeah, and here
I am one, two, three, four five firefighters had to
go out there for that. I bet there's more that
we just can't see. So she just thought it was
much deeper than it was.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
She can't look outside her car window and see that
it's not that deep.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
You know in that moment that you're not really judging
things as you would maybe on.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Okay, how about the time it takes for the firefighters
to get there.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Perhaps it receded you in that time. Do you know
how embarrassed I would be if you were her? Yes?
Do you know how embarrassed I would be that I called?
I called? Is that?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
But so answer my question. Did she have to call
nine one one to get that there?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yes? I would think so.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Or did someone call for her that was in a
nearby residence?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You see some home?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So like somebody was like, it's not that deep, and
she was like, oh, I can't get out, and they
were like, no, no, it's barely covering the bottom part
of your tire. Maybe she was like you better call
nine one one.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Maybe, And perhaps you've seen an interview with her after
the fact.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I have not.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
But do you see how there's the one rescue worker
who is rowing his eyes, pumped the brake, not actually
hit the brakes, but saying like calm down or slow
down or something with his hands like motioning forward.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Do you think she.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Is embarrassed or slightly laughing. You're right, you sort of
see that smile as she's getting out of the car
because it was a passerby or or someone else who
called for her.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And again, in the time that it would take I
would have driven out of there.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I could see where the car is stuck.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
No, I could see her driving. It's a sedan. It's
it's not a big lower you can still drive out
of that. It's it's on the tire.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's where maybe you think, oh, I've driven on the
beltway where the water pools.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, deeper than this.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
You haven't, Yes, I know about it's not deeper than that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
But again, turn around, don't drown.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You've been told yes, in a flood, this is this
is not that is shallow water, but it is a flood.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, the animals, it's flooding. That's not water.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That is that that I mean, it is water, that
is not a flood. You get in trouble for that.
I would be mortified.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Has there been a follow up with the victim?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Mortified?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
No, I want to follow up with the police department,
the fire department.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You know they're not going to say anything that's humiliating her.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
If I talk to firefighters, would they go happens all
the time we get called.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Out to, specifically for water rescue.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Everything.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
We get called out to safe situations that are not.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
I'm sure that there are instances like that. There's probably
would people be honest about it? Yeah, there's probably people
were called.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Nine one one for an instance that you didn't need
them for. No, No, never, because you.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Think you always call you before you call nine one one,
it's like you, this is maybe this is better non emergency.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
You know, yes, you always stopped.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Guarantee you could line up the people who don't stop
know of responders who don't I wish they would have.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, no, no, that's true. That's true. I would have
bought these guys lunch or something.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Jesse Wrights. There are so many booies. Where was Baba?
It's true, it looks like you're at the honestly the
harbor or somebody went off a cruise ship like it is,
like we're we're doing full on water rescues.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But do they have to follow protocol? Yes, of course
they do.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Well I'm assuming yeah, you know what my protocol would
have been, Hey, drive for.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I don't know why I'm yelling. I'm right next door.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
You're going to roll up and go Come on, lady,
Hey just drive for?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Or can I just get behind you and push you out?
Like we're wasting so many resources in time?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
And the weather where was it bad in this part?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Or was it flooding due to some.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Sort of It looks the ground looks wet nearby engineering.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, the ground looks wet and it looks like it
had been raining out.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
But there may have been other emergencies to attend to.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I know one that didn't need to be attended to.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I don't know if any were put on hold for
this miraculous, miraculous saving in the street.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Yeah, I mean the headline writer did put rescue in quotes?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
What will be easier to get a responder who's had
to go for the quote rescue or the person who
called who needed rescuing and was like, uh.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
I bet the first responders will have dozens of stories.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's probably true.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
It's right, Like the person who was the quote unquote
victim has one story.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, it's gonna be.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I only have to like your veterans, they're like, oh yeah,
back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
But now now I'm trying, like water rescue is ridiculous,
this one maybe yeh. Yes. You started this off by saying,
should you even call nine one one for a water rescue?
Of course you should.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
See if you're drowning, Yeah, if you're going under or
getting washed away, But if there's just water in the underpass,
wait it out the no no, no, But like, what
would be what is the most common scenario of oops,
didn't really need you?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
That that a firefighter?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
No, somebody who's calling nine one one.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Aren't they gonna say it's a fender bender.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Oh that's a great one. That's a great supposed to call.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
No.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Can you see those signs where it's like just pull
out of traffic and get an exchange of information on
the shoulder, Yeah, and then go about your business.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Take a picture of each other's card roll.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
No, that's probably true. That's probably true.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
But if it's a little damp out tyler and it's
a fender bender.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Oh well, now I can't move skidd it? Where am
I going? Line to hi? Elliot in the morning?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Hey, morning is made?
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Hi, Hu's this? Hey?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Ali?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
My is Joe?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yes, sir? What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
So?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I'm a I'm a firefighter. We do in my department.
We do rotations where sometimes you're looking enough to be
on the engine and sometimes you're you're on the ambulance.
Last night, I was on the ambulance and I ran
worthless calls all night.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Wait, we didn't say it had to be in the
last twenty four hours.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
I know.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
What, like like slipping falls on the ice.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I did run one of those, but sorry. So here's
what the issue is. So it really spikes up in
the winter time because it's freezing. So it's really underlying
it's actually pretty sad because it's a bunch of homeless
people that are freezing the death essentially outside, and you
know they'll call nine to one one and they'll lie
about some sort of whatever. They slept on the ice,
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they broke their wrists, which this guy I literally ran
last night and he was just holding his hand down.
But you know when you when you interect, you know
the injury. There is no injury at all. It's just
the guys completely lie. I'm like, sorry, dude, Like we'll
take you to the hospital. But that's that's part of
the issue is that in my county there's no charge
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for show ups. There's no charge for ambulance rods. I
can't speak for what happens at the hospital. I mean,
I know these people don't have insurance. Nine ninf percent
of them don't give ninety nine percent of them don't
give a Social Security number or a name, so they
can't get build anything. They don't have an address, I
don't have a phone number, So.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Could we get to the funnier ones though, like I
get that, I do understand that.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Like the other thing is lifts. This this is what's
stupid is people people can't get off or like we'll
run I run like majorly obese people all the time too,
And it's just super large people who have inconvenient things
happen in their in their home right. Like the worst
one I had was a lady who dropped her remote
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control off the team are off her bed and she
wasn't able to get her remote control, so she called
nine to one one to show up pick up her
remote control for her, and then give it to her.
And that was the only issue she had. She signs
of refusal for him to go to the hospital and
and we leave. And that's type of stuff that happens
at like two o'clock in the morning and sends you
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into like a mental state.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
The so, the the so, And like you said, she
never went to the hospital, does she does?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
She apologize Like when you guys get how did you
get in the house?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
No, no shame, they have no shame.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
We can go.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I mean, there's it depends on I mean a lot
of houses now have like the key pat like the
uh you know, like the fingerprint.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Now oh right right right right in.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
The code, or they have a garage you can type
in the garage code, or they have a key hidden
somewhere like that's all kind of. That's all taken from dispatch.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
So somebody calls nine one one and says, hey, I
need I need assist in the house.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
This is an emergency.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
The code on my door is tell the firefighters come
on in.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's sixty nine sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And you show up and there's big fat Freda laying
in the bed and she dropped her remote control and
can't reach it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, yes, it's unbelief. Like I'm I'm fairly new ish
in the fire department, and I was absolutely mind blown
at the amount of stupid assholes.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Drop remote is good. Drop remote is good. All right,
very good, Thank you sir. That beats the fake water rest.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
The difference with that Tyler, it is a remote control.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Is like and I think he put it best when
he called it stupid ass. I don't put that in
the same category as this woman in her car in
these floodwaters, and both are pretty stupid because in the moment,
if she's the one who called herself, she may have
thought her life was in danger. No, I know that
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you've really wanted to change the channel before.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Hold on, I'm looking out the window. It's really just
at my tires. Help like you could.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Ever think you were gonna survive not being able to
locate the television remote.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I've panicked at times where I can't find the remote,
but no, I've never I've never thought to call nine
one one over that.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's stupid.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Okay, but this is not that the water rescue is
not far behind.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
But I bet this tyler he was listening, she'd feel
a little bit better after that.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Also, I'm just trying to think ahead.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I don't I think I would non emergency the remote.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I don't think I would nine one one the remote
if it'll call it. If it's that bad, call a friend.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Are you to want somebody who knows you to see
you in the I can't get the remote state the.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, I don't know who you would call. But don't
don't call nine one one. That's non emergency. That is
non emergency. Oh but but like you said, so, by
the way, if you're a if you're if if you're
a first responder, that alarm goes off at two o'clock
in the morning, I would be like like, now I'm
shooting up, Like now I'm ready to go, Like whoa,
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here I go, And you gotta pilon and do all
of that to.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Hand somebody remote them go, I don't need a ride.
I'm good. I'm good, just needed to get to NCIO.
That's cover. Is it? My god?
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Frustrating That does not even describe the emotion.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Hi Elliott in the morning. Yeah, what you got, sir?
Speaker 8 (17:33):
Hey, so I'm a firefighter, Diane, I'm gonna apologize to
you advance. I'm a cat person. But it's always the
people with the cats that go crazy when we get
we had like a fire alarm, and there's people like
with eighty cat carriers coming out of their apartments, like, hey,
don't worry, you can mister Jingles is gonna be okay,
that's not gonna burn down. But I mean, like the
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cat people, they're the craziest. That's whe the guy like
cat carriers are coming out of nine times of false alarm.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Anyway, So wait is it? Do people?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Do you guys get that a lot where like the
second like and I get the I get the freak
out right, But do people call the second they hear
the fire alarm without trying to first decide if there's
even a fire.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
At the house.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Yes, Oh my god, that is such a thing. People don't.
It's like is there any smoke or fire? No, but
I got a freak out and run, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
But the alarms going off?
Speaker 8 (18:31):
No, but you know what likefunction?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, no, no, and I would believe that. I would
believe that. But and you obviously have history on your
side in training. But that fire alarm goes off, you
know what, call it great training. That fire alarm goes
off and not the chirp of the battery.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
That's scary. That is scary when you're in a house.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Yeah, but it's it's pretty interesting. But yeah, but yeah,
the cat carriers are coming out.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Gotta go very good, thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Like I would feel, I would feel badly if I
called nine to one one for just a malfunctioning alarm,
and I would apologize profusely. I can wrap my head
around that more than I could wrap my head around
the remote fel see.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
And that's why I said they were different categories, because
whether it was the water rescue in this clip that
is not a water or a false alarm with a
smoke detector, you've realized the mistake you've made.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Oh, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
This woman is kind of laughing in this clip. The
remote control person is not that's why they're different. There's
some acknowledgment of I probably crew didn't need to ring
you guys.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, no, no, I'll give you that. I'll give you that.
Like the rest. He said, no shame for the TV girl.
Was there any freedom use big fat Furida, Big fat Freida.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, no, you're probably right. I would feel embarrassed. I
would feel embarrassed if I called for the fire alarm.
Of all of all the ones we've heard, that, to
me is the most realistic one. Not this swift water
rescue that's taking place.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It's scarce of especially if it's wired through the entire house.
It's so loud. Oh yeah, no, it's very scary.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
You don't maybe if you're in the basement, you think
it could be a fire on the second.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That one I get, that one I get, and I
bet they get a ton. Oh absolutely well, you said.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Nine times out of ten, I would be the tenth one.
I'd be like, just a malfunction. I'm on fire line three,
hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Make yes, sir, I.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Got a good water rescue call for you. I'm a
farman in the DC metro area.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
So we got hit with heavy rain.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
They got for a car stuck in flood water. And
we pulled up and the person was in the fast
lane next to a median, and we walked along the
median and we said to the person, are you are
you able to just step out of your car and
up onto the median And he was like, well, I'm
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afraid to get my shoes wet, and we're like the
waters barely up to your door. You'll be all right,
just open up your door and step out, okay, Like
all right, So I feel for that story you're telling earlier,
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because I was just been like we probably would have
walked out there, but like, all right, open up her door,
helped her out, walked her out to the to the
grass of like her car got disabled or something.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Will you please tell me?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Will you please tell me that the guy who was
afraid to get his shoes wet did he did?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
He seem like embarrassed.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
That's shocking. So he's more of the watching the bed
and TV. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. He dropped his remote like
he drove through the.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
Water and it splashed up onto his hood and like
you know, stalled out of his motor so he was
stuck there and so he didn't want to get out
into the water the room shoes.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Hey, what at what point be honest question, like when
do you call for a water rescue?
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Like if it's like if the water's like up, like
coming up your door, or it's like starting to come
in your vehicle, or it's fast moving water, you definitely should.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Call because like I thank you, sir, like I remember,
thank you. Like living back in Houston, like Houston's very
low sea level, right, and so when it would pour,
it would flood. I don't mean like when a hurricane
would hit, but like on a bad storm, and like
all of the underpasses of the freeway. You know, like
a lot of freeways, you exit, you go up, and
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then you cross over and you go down. Yeah, Houston
has everything's under the freeway, right, so everything goes under
and there's a U turn lane and two left turn
like it's crazy, but underneath some of the of the
of the.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Overpasses, it'll it'll it'll flood.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
And there definitely been times like when I when I
had my mom's old Toyota Silica, there would be water
that came in to the floorboard oh really, never called
for a water rescue.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You just drove.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Well because you what you could see like a couple
of feet in front of you, you were gonna be okay, yeah, I'll.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Just get through it. It's gonna be wet, lucky every time.
You're not getting washed away. But your car also had
never stalled, right, no, no, no, And you didn't have
nice shoes. I definitely did not have night take them
off and roll up your pants. Shoe safe A guy
like this, the guy that was not an option from Instagram.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
So if you don't want to call it a water rescue,
how about a puddle predicament.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
That's better, that's better served. Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Hey, good morning Elliott.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Hey, waiting minute.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I've been a yes, go ahead, no, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I've been a firefighter in Virginia for twenty three years.
About two and a half years ago, we get a
call for a guy who had a back injury. So
we go to his house and he is trying to
move a desk and we're, you know, figuring out what's
going on, checking him out, and he said, yeah, I
just didn't have any help and I really messed my
back up. Please so we get two guys to take
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them out and they're evaluating them. But before we go,
he goes out there. He said, hey, why are you
guys here? Help me take that desk downstairs. So you
know he gets treating. You know, they look him over.
He signed the Hey I'm not going to go to
the hospital and said, you know what, guys, I ain't
just take like a hot bath and put a back
brace on it and then if it hurts me tomorrow,
I'll go back. I'll go to the hospital. But some
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mask water was his best man.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But there's no and there's no charge for that, right,
there's no punishment for that.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Well, they don't have to do no, no, not in
the county.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
So when you call, when you call an emergency, it's
we have to take you at your work, sure, no
matter how ridiculous it is. So, hey, I have an injury.
All right, let's let's take a look at you. You
can sign the waiver. But no, the county that I
was at there there wasn't a charge for us going
out there and then also us moving against furniture.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I was wondering if you could say you could refuse we.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Well we did because we knew what was going to happen,
and we were going to be called back again and
then what we did, what we didn't want is for
it to like actually happen. But you know, if your
if your commander is there, he's gonna say, all right,
you can move it, but either mess the desk up
or don't touch it. And if you mess the desk up,
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something like that might suit you.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I got loss of you well, and you scratch the
wall with your big tanks that you came in here
with figuring you were being all firefightery.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Now I just needed the desk move downstairs, thank you.
And with that guy, no, no shame, no nothing, no.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I mean there are people who were willing to do that.
They don't have any shame anyway. I mean if you have,
if you have a conscience, then you're not gonna call
for something like that. It's the people like that that
are just like they think they live on the planet
by themselves that you'll get a call and say, oh,
I had an accident on the side of the roat
and this did happen accident on the side of the road.
We respond wasn't an accident. A guy had a it
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was actually a woman, but her tire flew out and
she didn't know how to change her tires. You called
nine one one.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Roadside assistance. Now I'm just gonna call that nine one,
and that's what that's what I call when I dropped
the remote. This seems more serious than fire department. All right, dude, Hey,
I appreciate it. Thank you, my friend,
If somebody calls for what's the word that I'm looking for,
like a like a like a first responder or like
the first responders come out and it turns out it's
a worthless you don't need them call.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is there a charge for that?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
That's a really good question.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
I don't know if they charge when they send ms out,
but definitely gonna get a charge to you take a ride?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, right, Like I know, like if they if they
take you in and stuff, then like some stuff picks out.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
But like if it's not every jurisdiction, some counties don't
have ambulance fees stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh that's good, that's good.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
But like if you call them out and it's a
total bust, there is there a penalty for that?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Are you doing it on purpose? Like are you calling
them to try to mess with them?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
No? Not mess with them?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I feel like mess with them, but it's weird like
they show up and it like for example, if you need.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
A water rescue, who do you call? WHOA that seems
pretty serious? Nine one one the nine one one?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You called?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
You're not drowning yet? Yeah? The no where the water
is rising? So does this woman get in trouble?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
There what you're talking about, you know, and you know
exactly who I'm talking about, right, you saw the video.
So this video is going around over the over the weekend. Right,
There's a woman and she's driving through there is there
is some water, yeah, it's it's flooded, but not not
a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So anyway, she is stuck in the middle, stuck. She's
not even stuck.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
She's driving through what she believes is high water, right,
and when she the cars stopped in the in the
in the water. By the way, the end of the
flood is probably three four feet in front of her car.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's not much. So she stopped and she's got.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Her window down and the you could see the water
is up well I'll even give it half of her
half of her tire regular cars.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Like six inches or so, maybe a little more eight.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So anyway, it's not up that high.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And so she's got the window down and you see
like a like a paramedic or somebody throw the like
a I don't even know what that.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Is, almost like it's like a floating booie type thing.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, and then a.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Rope to hold on to, like it like she's gonna
get gushed away.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Well, if they're throwing that to her, it sounds like
you're downplaying.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The Oh I'm not, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And so anyway, she she holds onto the rope and
then they're like okay, and she opens her car door
and gets out and it comes up to here.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Mid mid to upper shine. Yeah, shin, shin. And then
she walks out.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I mean weeds out or walks out. No walks walks.
But you know what she should have done, gotten back
in the car and driven it out. Thro No, your
total turnaround. Don't drown. Yeah, you're already in, You're always in.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
But you don't want to keep going for fear. Well,
you said she's not the end of the flood.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Like you can see, like if there's water collecting in
the roadway here, you go, oh good, here it is.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You found it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
By the way, there's it.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Okay, can you hit go back, go back a little bit,
go back a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah we only played five seconds. Okay, stop, Yeah, that's
the end. There's a fire truck right in.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Front of her.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Okay, yeah, no, I see that.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
You're right.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
It's like it's a dip in the road, which is
why that part flooded.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, and then they got to throw the like like
a life raft, like she's gone over.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
They just they have to, you know, barring any sort
of stumble or something.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Could she have stumble hurt herself that way.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
So she tries to catch it through the open window.
She drops it. It lands in the water.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, she grabs it. She misses the buoy part, but
grabs the rope. Got the rope. Yeah, and she's oh,
she's panicking for no reason. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Watch, and so now they tell her, hey, open the door,
and so she opens the door.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Watch, I'm watching, I'm watching. She's going to open the door.
Here she is careful, honey, by the way, it's.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Not Now there's a pole coming with another sort of
booy like device.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes, for people who are drowning. But now there's two things.
You've got the rope booy, but then then you have
the stick the pole boot. I don't know what the
pole booy does.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
That kind of looks like something a dolphin would jump
up in touch with its nose.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I don't know what the pole thing is for. Wait,
watch here she goes. Watch the door is now open, right,
No water's in the car.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Mind you, while the water is not You're right, it's
not coming into the car. There she goes, Oh look
here I am.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
She's laughing, is she? Yes, she's embarrassed? Well, she is
hanging onto the rope. I mean, you never know she
could trip there, you go, my shoes are ruined.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well she's wearing tennis shoes. They're fine. Yeah, and here
I am one, two, three, four five firefighters had to
go out there for that. I bet there's more that
we just can't see. So she just thought it was
much deeper than it was.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
She can't look outside her car window and see that
it's not that deep.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
You know in that moment that you're not really judging
things as you would maybe on.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Okay, how about the time it takes for the firefighters
to get there.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Perhaps it receded you in that time. Do you know
how embarrassed I would be if you were her? Yes?
Do you know how embarrassed I would be that I called?
I called? Is that?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
But so answer my question. Did she have to call
nine one one to get that there?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yes? I would think so.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Or did someone call for her that was in a
nearby residence?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You see some home?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So like somebody was like, it's not that deep, and
she was like, oh, I can't get out, and they
were like, no, no, it's barely covering the bottom part
of your tire. Maybe she was like you better call
nine one one.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Maybe, And perhaps you've seen an interview with her after
the fact.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I have not.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
But do you see how there's the one rescue worker
who is rowing his eyes, pumped the brake, not actually
hit the brakes, but saying like calm down or slow
down or something with his hands like motioning forward.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Do you think she.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Is embarrassed or slightly laughing. You're right, you sort of
see that smile as she's getting out of the car
because it was a passerby or or someone else who
called for her.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And again, in the time that it would take I
would have driven out of there.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I could see where the car is stuck.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
No, I could see her driving. It's a sedan. It's
it's not a big lower you can still drive out
of that. It's it's on the tire.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's where maybe you think, oh, I've driven on the
beltway where the water pools.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, deeper than this.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
You haven't, Yes, I know about it's not deeper than that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
But again, turn around, don't drown.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You've been told yes, in a flood, this is this
is not that is shallow water, but it is a flood.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, the animals, it's flooding. That's not water.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That is that that I mean, it is water, that
is not a flood. You get in trouble for that.
I would be mortified.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Has there been a follow up with the victim?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Mortified?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
No, I want to follow up with the police department,
the fire department.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You know they're not going to say anything that's humiliating her.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
If I talk to firefighters, would they go happens all
the time we get called.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Out to, specifically for water rescue.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Everything.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
We get called out to safe situations that are not.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
I'm sure that there are instances like that. There's probably
would people be honest about it? Yeah, there's probably people
were called.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Nine one one for an instance that you didn't need
them for. No, No, never, because you.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Think you always call you before you call nine one one,
it's like you, this is maybe this is better non emergency.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
You know, yes, you always stopped.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Guarantee you could line up the people who don't stop
know of responders who don't I wish they would have.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, no, no, that's true. That's true. I would have
bought these guys lunch or something.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Jesse Wrights. There are so many booies. Where was Baba?
It's true, it looks like you're at the honestly the
harbor or somebody went off a cruise ship like it is,
like we're we're doing full on water rescues.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But do they have to follow protocol? Yes, of course
they do.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Well I'm assuming yeah, you know what my protocol would
have been, Hey, drive for.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I don't know why I'm yelling. I'm right next door.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
You're going to roll up and go Come on, lady,
Hey just drive for?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Or can I just get behind you and push you out?
Like we're wasting so many resources in time?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
And the weather where was it bad in this part?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Or was it flooding due to some.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Sort of It looks the ground looks wet nearby engineering.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, the ground looks wet and it looks like it
had been raining out.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
But there may have been other emergencies to attend to.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I know one that didn't need to be attended to.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I don't know if any were put on hold for
this miraculous, miraculous saving in the street.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Yeah, I mean the headline writer did put rescue in quotes?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
What will be easier to get a responder who's had
to go for the quote rescue or the person who
called who needed rescuing and was like, uh.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
I bet the first responders will have dozens of stories.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's probably true.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
It's right, Like the person who was the quote unquote
victim has one story.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, it's gonna be.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I only have to like your veterans, they're like, oh yeah,
back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
But now now I'm trying, like water rescue is ridiculous,
this one maybe yeh. Yes. You started this off by saying,
should you even call nine one one for a water rescue?
Of course you should.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
See if you're drowning, Yeah, if you're going under or
getting washed away, But if there's just water in the underpass,
wait it out the no no, no, But like, what
would be what is the most common scenario of oops,
didn't really need you?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
That that a firefighter?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
No, somebody who's calling nine one one.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Aren't they gonna say it's a fender bender.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Oh that's a great one. That's a great supposed to call.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
No.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Can you see those signs where it's like just pull
out of traffic and get an exchange of information on
the shoulder, Yeah, and then go about your business.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Take a picture of each other's card roll.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
No, that's probably true. That's probably true.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
But if it's a little damp out tyler and it's
a fender bender.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Oh well, now I can't move skidd it? Where am
I going? Line to hi? Elliot in the morning?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Hey, morning is made?
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Hi, Hu's this? Hey?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Ali?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
My is Joe?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yes, sir? What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
So?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I'm a I'm a firefighter. We do in my department.
We do rotations where sometimes you're looking enough to be
on the engine and sometimes you're you're on the ambulance.
Last night, I was on the ambulance and I ran
worthless calls all night.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Wait, we didn't say it had to be in the
last twenty four hours.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
I know.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
What, like like slipping falls on the ice.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I did run one of those, but sorry. So here's
what the issue is. So it really spikes up in
the winter time because it's freezing. So it's really underlying
it's actually pretty sad because it's a bunch of homeless
people that are freezing the death essentially outside, and you
know they'll call nine to one one and they'll lie
about some sort of whatever. They slept on the ice,
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they broke their wrists, which this guy I literally ran
last night and he was just holding his hand down.
But you know when you when you interect, you know
the injury. There is no injury at all. It's just
the guys completely lie. I'm like, sorry, dude, Like we'll
take you to the hospital. But that's that's part of
the issue is that in my county there's no charge
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for show ups. There's no charge for ambulance rods. I
can't speak for what happens at the hospital. I mean,
I know these people don't have insurance. Nine ninf percent
of them don't give ninety nine percent of them don't
give a Social Security number or a name, so they
can't get build anything. They don't have an address, I
don't have a phone number, So.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Could we get to the funnier ones though, like I
get that, I do understand that.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Like the other thing is lifts. This this is what's
stupid is people people can't get off or like we'll
run I run like majorly obese people all the time too,
And it's just super large people who have inconvenient things
happen in their in their home right. Like the worst
one I had was a lady who dropped her remote
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control off the team are off her bed and she
wasn't able to get her remote control, so she called
nine to one one to show up pick up her
remote control for her, and then give it to her.
And that was the only issue she had. She signs
of refusal for him to go to the hospital and
and we leave. And that's type of stuff that happens
at like two o'clock in the morning and sends you
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into like a mental state.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
The so, the the so, And like you said, she
never went to the hospital, does she does?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
She apologize Like when you guys get how did you
get in the house?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
No, no shame, they have no shame.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
We can go.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I mean, there's it depends on I mean a lot
of houses now have like the key pat like the
uh you know, like the fingerprint.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Now oh right right right right in.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
The code, or they have a garage you can type
in the garage code, or they have a key hidden
somewhere like that's all kind of. That's all taken from dispatch.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
So somebody calls nine one one and says, hey, I
need I need assist in the house.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
This is an emergency.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
The code on my door is tell the firefighters come
on in.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's sixty nine sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And you show up and there's big fat Freda laying
in the bed and she dropped her remote control and
can't reach it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, yes, it's unbelief. Like I'm I'm fairly new ish
in the fire department, and I was absolutely mind blown
at the amount of stupid assholes.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Drop remote is good. Drop remote is good. All right,
very good, Thank you sir. That beats the fake water rest.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
The difference with that Tyler, it is a remote control.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Is like and I think he put it best when
he called it stupid ass. I don't put that in
the same category as this woman in her car in
these floodwaters, and both are pretty stupid because in the moment,
if she's the one who called herself, she may have
thought her life was in danger. No, I know that
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you've really wanted to change the channel before.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Hold on, I'm looking out the window. It's really just
at my tires. Help like you could.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Ever think you were gonna survive not being able to
locate the television remote.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I've panicked at times where I can't find the remote,
but no, I've never I've never thought to call nine
one one over that.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's stupid.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Okay, but this is not that the water rescue is
not far behind.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
But I bet this tyler he was listening, she'd feel
a little bit better after that.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Also, I'm just trying to think ahead.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I don't I think I would non emergency the remote.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I don't think I would nine one one the remote
if it'll call it. If it's that bad, call a friend.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Are you to want somebody who knows you to see
you in the I can't get the remote state the.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, I don't know who you would call. But don't
don't call nine one one. That's non emergency. That is
non emergency. Oh but but like you said, so, by
the way, if you're a if you're if if you're
a first responder, that alarm goes off at two o'clock
in the morning, I would be like like, now I'm
shooting up, Like now I'm ready to go, Like whoa,
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here I go, And you gotta pilon and do all
of that to.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Hand somebody remote them go, I don't need a ride.
I'm good. I'm good, just needed to get to NCIO.
That's cover. Is it? My god?
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Frustrating That does not even describe the emotion.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Hi Elliott in the morning. Yeah, what you got, sir?
Speaker 8 (17:33):
Hey, so I'm a firefighter, Diane, I'm gonna apologize to
you advance. I'm a cat person. But it's always the
people with the cats that go crazy when we get
we had like a fire alarm, and there's people like
with eighty cat carriers coming out of their apartments, like, hey,
don't worry, you can mister Jingles is gonna be okay,
that's not gonna burn down. But I mean, like the
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cat people, they're the craziest. That's whe the guy like
cat carriers are coming out of nine times of false alarm.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Anyway, So wait is it? Do people?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Do you guys get that a lot where like the
second like and I get the I get the freak
out right, But do people call the second they hear
the fire alarm without trying to first decide if there's
even a fire.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
At the house.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Yes, Oh my god, that is such a thing. People don't.
It's like is there any smoke or fire? No, but
I got a freak out and run, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
But the alarms going off?
Speaker 8 (18:31):
No, but you know what likefunction?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, no, no, and I would believe that. I would
believe that. But and you obviously have history on your
side in training. But that fire alarm goes off, you
know what, call it great training. That fire alarm goes
off and not the chirp of the battery.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
That's scary. That is scary when you're in a house.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Yeah, but it's it's pretty interesting. But yeah, but yeah,
the cat carriers are coming out.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Gotta go very good, thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Like I would feel, I would feel badly if I
called nine to one one for just a malfunctioning alarm,
and I would apologize profusely. I can wrap my head
around that more than I could wrap my head around
the remote fel see.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
And that's why I said they were different categories, because
whether it was the water rescue in this clip that
is not a water or a false alarm with a
smoke detector, you've realized the mistake you've made.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Oh, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
This woman is kind of laughing in this clip. The
remote control person is not that's why they're different. There's
some acknowledgment of I probably crew didn't need to ring
you guys.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, no, no, I'll give you that. I'll give you that.
Like the rest. He said, no shame for the TV girl.
Was there any freedom use big fat Furida, Big fat Freida.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, no, you're probably right. I would feel embarrassed. I
would feel embarrassed if I called for the fire alarm.
Of all of all the ones we've heard, that, to
me is the most realistic one. Not this swift water
rescue that's taking place.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It's scarce of especially if it's wired through the entire house.
It's so loud. Oh yeah, no, it's very scary.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
You don't maybe if you're in the basement, you think
it could be a fire on the second.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That one I get, that one I get, and I
bet they get a ton. Oh absolutely well, you said.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Nine times out of ten, I would be the tenth one.
I'd be like, just a malfunction. I'm on fire line three,
hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Make yes, sir, I.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Got a good water rescue call for you. I'm a
farman in the DC metro area.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
So we got hit with heavy rain.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
They got for a car stuck in flood water. And
we pulled up and the person was in the fast
lane next to a median, and we walked along the
median and we said to the person, are you are
you able to just step out of your car and
up onto the median And he was like, well, I'm
(21:19):
afraid to get my shoes wet, and we're like the
waters barely up to your door. You'll be all right,
just open up your door and step out, okay, Like
all right, So I feel for that story you're telling earlier,
(21:40):
because I was just been like we probably would have
walked out there, but like, all right, open up her door,
helped her out, walked her out to the to the
grass of like her car got disabled or something.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Will you please tell me?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Will you please tell me that the guy who was
afraid to get his shoes wet did he did?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
He seem like embarrassed.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
That's shocking. So he's more of the watching the bed
and TV. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. He dropped his remote like
he drove through the.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
Water and it splashed up onto his hood and like
you know, stalled out of his motor so he was
stuck there and so he didn't want to get out
into the water the room shoes.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Hey, what at what point be honest question, like when
do you call for a water rescue?
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Like if it's like if the water's like up, like
coming up your door, or it's like starting to come
in your vehicle, or it's fast moving water, you definitely should.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Call because like I thank you, sir, like I remember,
thank you. Like living back in Houston, like Houston's very
low sea level, right, and so when it would pour,
it would flood. I don't mean like when a hurricane
would hit, but like on a bad storm, and like
all of the underpasses of the freeway. You know, like
a lot of freeways, you exit, you go up, and
(23:05):
then you cross over and you go down. Yeah, Houston
has everything's under the freeway, right, so everything goes under
and there's a U turn lane and two left turn
like it's crazy, but underneath some of the of the
of the.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Overpasses, it'll it'll it'll flood.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
And there definitely been times like when I when I
had my mom's old Toyota Silica, there would be water
that came in to the floorboard oh really, never called
for a water rescue.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You just drove.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Well because you what you could see like a couple
of feet in front of you, you were gonna be okay, yeah, I'll.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Just get through it. It's gonna be wet, lucky every time.
You're not getting washed away. But your car also had
never stalled, right, no, no, no, And you didn't have
nice shoes. I definitely did not have night take them
off and roll up your pants. Shoe safe A guy
like this, the guy that was not an option from Instagram.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
So if you don't want to call it a water rescue,
how about a puddle predicament.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
That's better, that's better served. Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Hey, good morning Elliott.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Hey, waiting minute.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I've been a yes, go ahead, no, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I've been a firefighter in Virginia for twenty three years.
About two and a half years ago, we get a
call for a guy who had a back injury. So
we go to his house and he is trying to
move a desk and we're, you know, figuring out what's
going on, checking him out, and he said, yeah, I
just didn't have any help and I really messed my
back up. Please so we get two guys to take
(24:42):
them out and they're evaluating them. But before we go,
he goes out there. He said, hey, why are you
guys here? Help me take that desk downstairs. So you
know he gets treating. You know, they look him over.
He signed the Hey I'm not going to go to
the hospital and said, you know what, guys, I ain't
just take like a hot bath and put a back
brace on it and then if it hurts me tomorrow,
I'll go back. I'll go to the hospital. But some
(25:04):
mask water was his best man.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But there's no and there's no charge for that, right,
there's no punishment for that.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Well, they don't have to do no, no, not in
the county.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
So when you call, when you call an emergency, it's
we have to take you at your work, sure, no
matter how ridiculous it is. So, hey, I have an injury.
All right, let's let's take a look at you. You
can sign the waiver. But no, the county that I
was at there there wasn't a charge for us going
out there and then also us moving against furniture.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I was wondering if you could say you could refuse we.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Well we did because we knew what was going to happen,
and we were going to be called back again and
then what we did, what we didn't want is for
it to like actually happen. But you know, if your
if your commander is there, he's gonna say, all right,
you can move it, but either mess the desk up
or don't touch it. And if you mess the desk up,
(26:03):
something like that might suit you.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I got loss of you well, and you scratch the
wall with your big tanks that you came in here
with figuring you were being all firefightery.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Now I just needed the desk move downstairs, thank you.
And with that guy, no, no shame, no nothing, no.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I mean there are people who were willing to do that.
They don't have any shame anyway. I mean if you have,
if you have a conscience, then you're not gonna call
for something like that. It's the people like that that
are just like they think they live on the planet
by themselves that you'll get a call and say, oh,
I had an accident on the side of the roat
and this did happen accident on the side of the road.
We respond wasn't an accident. A guy had a it
(26:43):
was actually a woman, but her tire flew out and
she didn't know how to change her tires. You called
nine one one.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Roadside assistance. Now I'm just gonna call that nine one,
and that's what that's what I call when I dropped
the remote. This seems more serious than fire department. All right, dude, Hey,
I appreciate it. Thank you, my friend,
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