MedicPrincess
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While posting somewhere else, I was wondering....in a tight situation, how do you ensure you clear your rear?
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A while back we were at a 12 hour stucture fire. When we were leaving, and all obviously exhausted, my driver had to negotiate this crazy tight turn, trying to not take out a fence on the bridge we had to go over. It required going forward a couple inches, backing up...going forward a few more, backing up (Isn't is funny how those turns are not that bad when you are responding to the scene and all 4 sides of the house are on fire)
So anyway, we are doing this and I am keeping close eye on the fence. Well as he is backing up I heard the gut wrenching "thunk, clunk, crash"
As I turned and looked, he had backed into a car that was not there when we started this process. Turns out the Editor In Cheif/Owner of our local fish wrapper had parked behind us to get some pics of the ?foundation, ?pile of debris, ?us trying to get out of there??? either way, she parked a WEEEE bit to close.
So we call the Chief, who calls the Dep Chief, who calls the *** Chief, who all came and took care of the paperwork. And the whole way back to the station we were both like awww man...I had decided I would turn my stuff in.....So we get back there and everybody that had been on scene with us was standing around and as we pull in, they all clap and give high fives....Of all people to hit, we had to hit her. Oh well...lesson learned...she won't be parking behind any more firetrucks, and I will continously clear my rear before letting my driver procede!!
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A while back we were at a 12 hour stucture fire. When we were leaving, and all obviously exhausted, my driver had to negotiate this crazy tight turn, trying to not take out a fence on the bridge we had to go over. It required going forward a couple inches, backing up...going forward a few more, backing up (Isn't is funny how those turns are not that bad when you are responding to the scene and all 4 sides of the house are on fire)
So anyway, we are doing this and I am keeping close eye on the fence. Well as he is backing up I heard the gut wrenching "thunk, clunk, crash"
As I turned and looked, he had backed into a car that was not there when we started this process. Turns out the Editor In Cheif/Owner of our local fish wrapper had parked behind us to get some pics of the ?foundation, ?pile of debris, ?us trying to get out of there??? either way, she parked a WEEEE bit to close.
So we call the Chief, who calls the Dep Chief, who calls the *** Chief, who all came and took care of the paperwork. And the whole way back to the station we were both like awww man...I had decided I would turn my stuff in.....So we get back there and everybody that had been on scene with us was standing around and as we pull in, they all clap and give high fives....Of all people to hit, we had to hit her. Oh well...lesson learned...she won't be parking behind any more firetrucks, and I will continously clear my rear before letting my driver procede!!
However, the rear of the bus has a camera, and there is a monitor in the front, we have a "near object alarm", and the rear has large one-way windows. I've never hit anything, except an embankment, a light pole, a few parking meters... Unit 2... a large cascade tank... a fire extinguisher (top broke off, powder everywhere).. and a couple deer.
