Incident: Smoke From Unknown Location
The tones dropped. We got a call to respond to numerous reports of 'smoke' in a residential neighbourhood. One of the RP (reporting party) stated that he could see smoke in the distance but had no fixed address for us to report to. Little did we know that as we were responding so was almost half of city's police force. We ended up with 3 or 4 vehicles running around with us looking for this fire.
At one point one of the squad vehicles got in our way. As we approached him from behind, our Captain laid on the horn for shit and giggles. The officer realized that the lower part of our bumper was about equal to the roof of his squad car. Needless to say, he quickly got out of our way. While doing so, we could almost hear him shriek, "AAAHHH! I'm going to get steam rolled by a red and white truckzilla!!!"
A couple of kids were spotted running through the neighbourhood, quickly apprehended by some officers for questioning, they admitted to starting a small bush-fire in a local park and directed the officers to the location. We followed. After all was said and done and the fire was completely extinguished, they were chewed out by about 4-5 cops and and our Captain.
* I am happy to report that no one was shot, tasered or killed by police officers during this event.However, there was a lot of man power for a couple of kids. As the last squad car was leaving I asked him why the large showing of police force. He said that they were having a slow day and the call sounded like it might be good.
Further proof that some cops wish they could be firefighters!
╔════════════════╗
LadderJockey
╚════════════════╝
