Naked … again!
A fire department pulled up to a burning house. An elderly woman had just evacuated and ran down the path toward the street completely naked. When she came eye to eye with the firefighters, she screamed and ran back in the house. Much to their surprise (and probably dismay), she came back out naked again. They covered her with a blanket but couldn’t resist asking her why she ran back in the house. She replied, “I didn’t want anyone to see me without my false teeth!”
Radio days
Members of the Greenville (NY) Fire District were conducting their weekly drill. The night’s topic was radio communications. The captain was going over examples of “good” and “bad” radio communications. As an example of “bad,” he related the following.
One member of the department was nicknamed “Screamer” because his voice level would go up when he talked on the radio during a fire. One day, Screamer was conducting a routine radio check and said, “This is XYZ at XYZ Fire Department. Any members not hearing this test should call Headquarters.”
“Chief for a year”
We reported on our Web site this week that FDNY Chief of Department Dan Nigro was retiring this year because he was not granted tenure. I understood what tenure means in an academic setting but not in a fire service setting. So I did some investigating and found out the following: Apparently, FDNY has a “chief for a year” policy, and Nigro was asking to be named chief of department until mandatory retirement. He was denied. I hear getting tenure is pretty rare, but Chief of Department Peter Ganci, who was killed at the World Trade Center and who was Nigro’s predecessor, had it.
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“Captain-safe” tuna
The rookies would always go to the supermarket for the rest of the firefighters. One day a rookie went to buy tuna fish for his captain. He came back with 61/2-ounce cans.
“Why didn’t you get me the 3-ounce cans? They’re cheaper. Next time, you better buy the 3-ounce cans!” the captain admonished the rookie.
So the next time the rookie went to the store, the 61/2-ounce cans were on sale. He bought them for the rest of the crew, but he bought the 3-ounce cans for the captain, just as he was instructed!
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