Firefighters bring cat back to life

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I didn't know cats were so endangered that they warrant this kind of expense. :?
 
Its a city Erik, the realities of life (and death) don't exist there!:roll:
 
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I think its just humorous that they have all that for a pet, and if you have a fire here you need to give the FD a days notice. This is coming from someone who lost a house 7 miles from the Fire House!

Don't get me wrong, our FD has never lost a cement basement!
 
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Hey Brent, do you guys have some sort of organized volunteer group, if something happens? I have a friend in NM that is part of one, cuz their area of the county has no station.
 
We have A Fire hall with 2 pumpers and a rescue unit, but they are manned by volunteers. They do some training, but lack the real agressive techniques you see paid firefighters using!

Such is life!
 
Fires burn fast. I'm a call fire fighter. Things take time. fire fighters have to get the call drive to the fire house then drive to the house fire or what ever the emergence is. My town doesn't pay much in taxed and the tax payers get what they pay for. I hope my house never catches fire. And we do not have a mask for pets. Do they makem for birds and fish or just dogs and cats?
 
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Boy, you sure are right about how fast a fire can spread. It's amazing. 30 years ago I put out a neighbor's kitchen fire. I heard screaming, looked out the window, and saw the neighbor lady standing on the porch, maybe 100 ft away. I started running over and she screamed, "my stove's on fire. I had an extinguisher in the car, so I grabbed that, but by the time I got to the kitchen all the cabinets were burning on two walls and smoke so thick I could hardly see. If we had to wait for a fire truck, the house would have been long gone. Weird thing was, I had just stopped by home for a minute to change pants.

I don't know about fish, but those articles say the pet masks are used on all kinds of pets.
 
Our firefighters get paid to go to the YMCA and do some light excercising and then walk around the block for a bit to try and get them in some kind of shape. Unbelievable.
 
We have volunteer firefighters here and they seem pretty on the ball to me. I sure as hell ain't volunteering, so you don't hear me complaining.


Now the cat resuscitation thing, that's just weird imo.
 
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Damn I was hoping this was going to be about firefighters performing some sort of pagan ritual to bring the cat back. Resuscitation? Boring.

Firefighters spray water at houses to put the fire out and cut holes in the roof to allow the smoke and super heated gas to escape. They are there to keep the fire from spreading and to save lives. Either by water or by flame, the house is screwed the majority of the time. Complaining that they don't save structures is silly as that's not a reasonable expectation.
 
They were able to keep our house fire from taking out a garage and a bunkhouse. We have combines start field fires occasionally, time is of the essence to keep the whole friggin' country from going up in smoke!

One thing good that happen after our fire was the FD put the maps (comissioned 20 yrs ago) that shows all the cisterns and wells in each yard of the municipality, in each of their trucks. As most of the potable water here has to be hauled pretty well everyone has a water hauling truck. They dumped around 60,000 gallons of water on our fire, which made counting our smoke-laden stuff a really joy to count and dispose of when it turned -40!
 
Dec 26th, we had left for the City at about 10 AM on the 25th. We lost a dog in the attached garage. I know how it feels to know all you have left is an over-night bag!
 
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Wow. You must have told me about that, but I forgot. Has anything like that ever happened to you or close neighbors before?
 
Seems we lose a house on this location about every 40 yrs. I sould be set!;) The year we lost ours, there were 3 others that burned. Odd thing, this was the first yr they had the primaries to the meter underground, and all the fires were the first feeds off the primaries.

Prairie (field) fires are crazy scary. I have seen 160 acres burn off in less than 10 minutes. Every yr there are about 5-10 combine fires in the field. Mostly caused by lentil and chickpea dust!
 
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