For all the firefighters

[citizensoldierny]

AKA Bumps to the pump

 

[lightsandsirens5]

If men are so much better at firefighting then woman are, then why is it that when a fireman gets lost in a fire, it takes a female to get him out?

In addition to an egress aid, you can use this to make sure that you are laying dry lengths of hose correctly. Guys fight fire, girls run from it. Politically incorrect, I know, but it comes from the days when there were no females in the fire service.

Nevertheless, it still helps you remember, unless of course, you are a female firefighter.....:sad: Then I don't know what you do.

 

[halliganbar]

Then we remember to just stick with the best to point the way out.

Or we follow citizensoldierny's advice and go bumps to the pump.

 

[46Young]

"Smooth bump bump to the pump" is what we were taught in the academy. When you get to the couplings, you should feel for the smooth and then two raised bumps, and go in that direction. It's hard to mess that up.

 

[EMTinNEPA]

It is a joke, based on an actual tactic used to find the exit inside a burning structure.

Here:

Now wait a minute...

I'm no firefighter, but if the female end is supposed to be in the direction of the exit, isn't that picture labeled backwards?

 

[Sparky79]

Now wait a minute...

I'm no firefighter, but if the female end is supposed to be in the direction of the exit, isn't that picture labeled backwards?

No, the male threads point towards the fire. The female threads (even though they are internal) point towards the truck (aka, exit)