Firefighters Are Sharing Who Was The Dumbest Person They've Had To Save In A Stupid Situation (30 Stories)

I remember asking a firefighter about this once, and he said a guy who was [doing the dirty with] a woman. Her husband came home, so he jumped out the second story window buck naked and impaled himself through the upper leg on a fence paling. It was one of those fleur de lis ones, so it fucked up his leg pretty badly. They had to cut the paling out of the fence and load him into an ambulance.

Had a fellow who was running from the police. He decided to climb on board a chunk of ice that was flowing down the river. I am sure he thought he was a genius at the time, but the issue is that there isn't really a whole lot north of our town for a few hundred miles, so his long term planning wasn't great. Eventually we found him hiding in a small icy overhang on the side of the river suffering from hypothermia.

After a brief stay in hospital he ended up being arrested.

Former Fire and Rescue Firefighter here -

Have helped release several dogs and children stuck in the mechanism part of a recliner chair. Also a bird stuck in a tree, go figure.

Just asked this question of a firefighter friend. He saved a guy who was siphoning gas out of someone's car by sucking gas towards his mouth to start the siphon. The would-be-thief was also smoking while doing it. Burns happened.

Not me but dad was a firefighter in nyc and once responded to a call at a chinese food restaurant where the owners walkway was iced over. He apparently didnt speak very good english and maybe misunderstood the job of a fireman? Genuinely don't know. They salted down his front walkway for him and explained that this was 100% not their job. They all had a good laugh and the guy gave them all free eggrolls. Ppl always used to ask him questions about crazy calls and he never enjoyed talking about that so he would always tell that story. Happened in '99 still makes me laugh to this day 20 years later.

Me and my dad are both firefighters and he said one time they went to a house because an elderly man could not get out of the leather recliner because he had been sitting in it for a week straight and his wife would just serve him drinks/ food and the guy never got up. He would just get drunk and urinate/defecate himself until he was physically stuck to the chair and they had to cut him out.

Not me, but brother in law used to be a fireman in NYC. His worst story was a bunch of Central Americans who didn't speak a word of English had decided to have a pig roast ... in an apartment building ... in the bath tub. Naturally, the bath tub heated up the walls sufficiently that they started a roaring blaze. He said when he got there they were more interested in them saving the pig than putting out the fire.

guy during some bad storms stored his generator gas in open 5gal paint buckets in his garage. Lit his gas grill in the garage. He and his cat both lived.

Cut handcuffs off a guy. He was super baked and bet his gf that he could Houdini his way out of them. She clamped them on tight and his hands were discoloured. He was yelling at us while the the bolt cutters pinched, but being stupid will cause pain. He was thankful. The best part was his gf gassing him in front of us and a couple of cops.

Also helped out a young woman that climbed 60+ feet up a tree to get her cat at 4am on Sunday morning.

Dumbass tried to cross a raging river in zero degree weather about a 300 foot span on a snowmobile. He lived but didn't make the crossing and the machine was recovered days later.