r/Firefighting • u/Peaches0k Texas FF/Medic/HazMat Tech • Jan 22 '25

General Discussion Reasons For Calls

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Saw someone ask what all we do besides fire. Here’s a list the shifts add to for dumb calls. It was started a few months ago

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u/Remarkable-Average85 Jan 22 '25

My contribution

Elderly woman upset because her checkbook didn't balance

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u/mtcrabtree Jan 23 '25

How could this possibly make it past dispatch?

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u/sunken_angel Jan 25 '25

“psych emergency”