I live on a narrow 1 way road, which unfortunately means cars tend to park all the way up on the sidewalk, generally an inch from my fence. (Which gets smashed once a ywar on average, but thats another story) One day someone decided to park over the yellow line, completely blocking off one of my houses 2 exits, and the one I needed to take my mom out to get her to a post surgery follow up. I tried to get the landscapers to move the truck and they refused, so I called the local FD, explaining someone was blocking my house entrance off.
They had a truck full of firemen over there in like 10 mins, with those steel breaker bars. Smashed the windows and passed a rope through the cab, Then climbed over the truck, rolled it over with the bars, then attached the rope to their hitch so they could drag it out and clear for the waiting flat bed wrecker to pick it up.
The vehicle owner had come back out after they smashed the windows and tried to move it himself but the fireman in charge wouldnt let him. Told him it was too late, and his guys ‘needed the practice’
Similar to how they like to smash both windows and run hoses through cars parked in front of hydrants.
Anybody who thinks this is a joke: It is not. Most firefighters are retired military given weird fucking tools and a penchant to use them on anything. If they are legally allowed to smash your fucking windows, they will. They will use the Jaws of Life to tear your fucking car apart if they have to. Just imagine them like the police but the inability to kill people who don’t (or, ya know, do) listen to them, with the same overzealousness, hero complex, and everything, but more respectable because they actually do serve and protect.
I think it’s important to note that they don’t just like breaking the windows (they do), they also have to break the windows. They aren’t using a garden hose. A firehose is stiff as shit and basically rigid when pressurized. It cannot go over or around your car because it lacks the turning radius. Don’t park in front of fire hydrants!
UK fire engines aren’t built that way. They aim to get the maximum amount of resources into a fixed volume. Limited by nature of UK roads, particularly in older cities.
A push bar would make the engine longer, and so have more issues with nasty bends. Alternatively, the engine is shorter, but then you have to reduce something else.
If only they had several big burley blokes to hand, with laws that allow property damage to save lives…
Based on the look of it, there is no “out of the way” you could smash that car, except stacking the car on top of another one belonging to an innocent.
One could consider breaking in and drive the car out of the way, but that’s a technically complicated operation. Their best hope is the noise will get the driver’s attention, and record the plate to send that driver a large fine.
But this engine doesn’t seem to have much protection in the front so they’d likely risk breaking the front (radiator, fans, belts, other important components).
Update:
I asked an actual fireman and they said if their crew got in this situation they’d likely winch the car backwards. Alternatively they’d get out and drive/push the car forward by hand if possible.
Video ended too soon! They smashed that dumb fucker, right? Right?
I live on a narrow 1 way road, which unfortunately means cars tend to park all the way up on the sidewalk, generally an inch from my fence. (Which gets smashed once a ywar on average, but thats another story) One day someone decided to park over the yellow line, completely blocking off one of my houses 2 exits, and the one I needed to take my mom out to get her to a post surgery follow up. I tried to get the landscapers to move the truck and they refused, so I called the local FD, explaining someone was blocking my house entrance off.
They had a truck full of firemen over there in like 10 mins, with those steel breaker bars. Smashed the windows and passed a rope through the cab, Then climbed over the truck, rolled it over with the bars, then attached the rope to their hitch so they could drag it out and clear for the waiting flat bed wrecker to pick it up.
The vehicle owner had come back out after they smashed the windows and tried to move it himself but the fireman in charge wouldnt let him. Told him it was too late, and his guys ‘needed the practice’
That’s absolutely wild. I bet that was really something to see. And you know the firemen loved it.
The bumpers on American fire engines are huge, and built to push cars right out of the way.
Similar to how they like to smash both windows and run hoses through cars parked in front of hydrants.
Anybody who thinks this is a joke: It is not. Most firefighters are retired military given weird fucking tools and a penchant to use them on anything. If they are legally allowed to smash your fucking windows, they will. They will use the Jaws of Life to tear your fucking car apart if they have to. Just imagine them like the police but the inability to kill people who don’t (or, ya know, do) listen to them, with the same overzealousness, hero complex, and everything, but more respectable because they actually do serve and protect.
The rest of them are pyros. But fun to hang out with.
Firefighters= bears. With furniture.
I think it’s important to note that they don’t just like breaking the windows (they do), they also have to break the windows. They aren’t using a garden hose. A firehose is stiff as shit and basically rigid when pressurized. It cannot go over or around your car because it lacks the turning radius. Don’t park in front of fire hydrants!
True.
The ones I’ve seen also have had a fair amount of water damage. Which might be accidental, but seems a bit passive aggressive at best.
UK fire engines aren’t built that way. They aim to get the maximum amount of resources into a fixed volume. Limited by nature of UK roads, particularly in older cities.
A push bar would make the engine longer, and so have more issues with nasty bends. Alternatively, the engine is shorter, but then you have to reduce something else.
If only they had several big burley blokes to hand, with laws that allow property damage to save lives…
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Based on the look of it, there is no “out of the way” you could smash that car, except stacking the car on top of another one belonging to an innocent.
One could consider breaking in and drive the car out of the way, but that’s a technically complicated operation. Their best hope is the noise will get the driver’s attention, and record the plate to send that driver a large fine.
They could push it forward and weave through.
But this engine doesn’t seem to have much protection in the front so they’d likely risk breaking the front (radiator, fans, belts, other important components).
Update:
I asked an actual fireman and they said if their crew got in this situation they’d likely winch the car backwards. Alternatively they’d get out and drive/push the car forward by hand if possible.
Pushing the with the engine is a last resort.
If neither works they reroute.