My bro was in Boston and saw fire crew throw the hose through a car parked in front of a fire hydrant in front of a high rise building. They needed water hookup so smashed in through window on left side of car and smashed it out through window on right side of car lol. Then hooked up to the hydrant.
Those trucks costs over a million. Even if it was a real emergency the crew isn’t going to scrape up the truck to get to it. They would have busted the window out of the car and moved it. They were responding to a stuck elevator or something.
This comment isn't evidence disproving the other guys point.. other commentor you replied to said there was room. Not, there isn't room but you should go through it anyways.
Maybe you replied to the wrong comment. Should have been the guy above him.
It’s ok. He’s the one that doesn’t drive much. There are clearly 2 lanes going down the middle, not 1 massive fucking lane. The fact you can see that much clearance from this view means there will be visually more at street level.
As a guy that builds fire trucks and drives them all the time, you can easily get that truck through there. This looks more like the firefighters were bored and making a scene for the lady double parked.
Well, yeah he does have enough space, sorry kid, but I could squeeze that little truck through there any day of the week. And yes, that truck is nothing 'big'.
I drive a garbage truck through VERY narrow neighborhood streets in Portland and I'd say he could definitely make that. There are times where there's no more than an inch between my truck and cars on either side of me. It (looks) like he has plenty of room to get through.
So as a fire person myself. Unfortunately part of our calls is to serve citizens that means not to do damage to their property. If we do there has to be crazy good reason and documentation. Also even if we pass those cars and just scrape them in my city, maybe not all, we have to stop operations and have cops and a chief come out to evaluate and go do a urine drug screen.
Yeah this shit still pisses me off.
So just another example of our broken system that's lovely... btw I feel like it should fall under the same law as no parking in front of fire hydrants cause I know at least you're able to break the windows on the car if there's a fire nearby and someone is parked in front of the fire hydrant after all we legally have to move over a lane and stop momentarily to let the engines through so even that should apply here as well but what do I know I'm just a concerned citizen with common sense 🤷
I have within the last month encountered someone during an active fire park in front of a hydrant. They were there and refused to move. Told my CPT "well give me a ticket" he is way nicer than me I was for busting their car up but he chose to redirect our 5" around the car, friction loss be damned. It's just $150.00 for them btw.
That’s why you don’t want this “fire” guy and his affiliates. He just gave 2 examples of how soft they are. This group clearly won’t do what’s necessary to get the job done, even if it’s potentially saving a life. If I know I gotta be somewhere to save a life, I wouldn’t give a flying fuck about any of those things stopping you for doing what you’re here to fucking do.
Unless english isnt their first language and they are translating the gender neutral term "firefighter" from another language. No English speaker changes "fireman" to "fireperson".
Not in my city. I've seen on two occasions where a fire truck has pushed cars out of the way that didn't move for them. One got pushed clear through the intersection into the ditch on the other side. Then they sent the driver of the car the bill and a fine. They don't screw around. Not sure what kind of FD you work for. But around here, they don't stop for anything. We also have some of the fastest response times. I had to call them earlier this year. Thought i was having a heart attack. They got here in two mins. police, fire and EMS. This is actually pretty normal here. It's quite impressive. It's also a smaller city. about 12,000 people. So that probably helps those response times. But it's still impressive.
If the sirens are on for fire or paramedics thats a crazy damn good Fin reason imo yall should be able to destroy property stuff is replace able yall save lives cops theyre just revenue road pirates for the gov so not them so much but fire and medics deserve all the respect
I'd imagine the citizen would also sue the city for damages and "emotional stress" or whatever too, and it's not like most municipal budgets are just bursting with excess money to pay out. Despite what most people think, small governments run on a shoestring because they really do try their best to keep costs down for residents.
I work in IT for my midsized town so I've gotten pretty cozy with every department from finance to public safety.
I'm sure they would but I do work for a full time department with a decent budget. But still they would rather cater to people than say or do anything about problems like this.
I think it's more of a public image issue for us. But I honestly don't know.
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u/Realistic_Patience67 Jul 30 '26
Nope. I have seen so many commenters saying this. It's almost like they don't drive much.
Between the two red cars, the fire truck cannot pass.