By FireRescue1 Staff
As a firefighter, you know what kind of calls you’re heading into based on dispatch information. Sometimes, however, a call can turn in a different, unexpected direction.
We asked our Facebook fans to describe a call that has baffled them the most; here are some of their responses.
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- “The first call I went on as a volunteer was an attempted suicide. My last call was also an attempted suicide. If that’s not creepy enough, it was the same address, same people, but roles reversed.” – Joe Shahan
- “Being paged to a fire station for a car fire when the owner drove the smoking car to the station for us.” – James Cooper
- “Second alarm fire in the underground parkade of a high-rise apartment. Lady’s car caught fire, so she pulls into the parkade, goes up to her suite to tell her husband. By the time he calls it in, more than half a dozen cars are destroyed when the car becomes fully involved and the fire starts spreading through the parkade.” – Ian Campbell
- “We had a mobile home burn on the worst night of the winter years ago. It was a total loss, but a jar of pickled plums came out unscathed.” – Judith Reed
- “Right now, a bunch of us are wondering how a lady got her head rolled up into her car window.” – Tamara Marie Thye
- “We had a basement fire with extension to the kitchen. The kitchen was completely involved during overhaul. In the kitchen, everything is charred or melted except one small pack of matches sitting on a shelf in pristine condition. Perfectly white; all the matches intact. Still can’t figure it out how they didn’t burn with everything else.” – Mike Nickerson Jr.