Texas | jd4930 - 1/18/2026 09:43
That seems a little backwards for sure, brush trucks are probably the most used here? I mean in all reality if its a serious structure fire youre just trying to keep it contained to 1 building. Prairie fires or car accidents are our most common, brush/squad trucks are a good fit for that
Im going to agree with that 100% .
We would never use a ladder truck if we had one .
The one ton 4x4 brush trucks are our main line we use .
I actually drive a 1 ton single tire pickup. carry i think 250 water in the bed , itd called the rapid response truck.
supossed to be way faster to get there , lighter.
What absolutly sucks for me is it seems im always the farthest away , live farthest from station ( 7 miles ) ..
Seems all the things that happen are around station 2 , im at 1 .
If its bad and everyone cant wait on me , they will tell me they got to go , ill go in my pickup .Cheif will say if he wants me to grab a truck . If ours are gone , i have to go 11 miles to get started with a truck .
The absoulte miles i have to cover make it a problem .
Some guys can walk to station 2 , they are always FIRST.
My ast.cheif , my Cap , are fulltimers and medics , their brothet is on with us too . Hes got 4 years . very solid crew over there .
The problem is most of the time one or both are on shift .
The other fellow from 2 works for cheif , if they are out of town , that leaves just me and a guy with 2 months on .
If everything hits just right , we can come with a big crew and probally 3-5 trucks . If it hits wrong all you get is me until i get help .
Our sheriffs department is pretty good about sending help , we work alot with a real town -Dawson , Tx .
They are VFD but almost have a professional type , nice ( for rural tx ) station .
The good part is there are so many of them , you are going to get help .
Its about the best we can do with what we got .
10 miles the other way , my wifes cousin is the cheif .
They dont hardly come out our way , but would if called .
There are actually alot of us in the county , most people would not really know how many of us there are . The BAD problem is we are all so far apart and spread out .
I probally would really be shocked if I saw what the poor fellows in ND had to face . I have never been there , but ill bet its way worse for distance than what we do ?
What kicks my ass is these winding FM roads , lots of gravel. 10 over the speed limit , Yeah thats a joke . Do good to run 40 on some of them :(
There has to be somthing to help this deal , but dang i dont know what it is .
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