fire/rescue GUN CARRIERS

[ramsey6199]

How many of you carry while running a call? I know personally being in a very rural parish I carry to almost every call I go to. Sometimes open sometimes concealed depends on the situation.

 

[jguilletjr]

I was a vol Fire Fighter in a rural area. I carried my pistol sometimes. For my personal safety only. When you get called out to a remote area at 3:00 in the mornng things are not always as they seem. A fire call can turn out to b e a domestic dispute. (or a meth lab, or God only knows what) Once you see the situation and try to back up and wait for the SO to arrive you may be there by yourself for a while. One of my friends drove up to a scene and his last radio transmission was "there is a man on the porch with a gun, wait for SO"
Then nothing until much later. He jumped out of the vehicle and ran into the woods until the scene was secure. Meanwhile we were all worried to death about the radio silence.

 

[Abh3vol.firemen]

i sometimes leave my gun in the car but i dont think any fire department in this area would let a member carry unles they were leo.

 

[Mac204]

Yeah. Scene safety is stressed so much, but even a safe and secured scene can descend into pure bedlam in seconds. Then what? You can have a plan for escape with 2 alternate routes back to the truck or just away, but you're still gonna be within reach of a bullet!

Like a buddy of mine once said, "man, I was a corpsman! When I think 'BSI, scene safe' I think 'okay, are they shooting, if so, shoot back until scene is safe'". But so many companies forbid being armed with more than a knife..

 

[occunknown]

That is the advantage of a rural department. Some places we respond to for ems/fire, I don't like going to in the daylight, nerveless at night. I carry my 9mm at all times when responding my self and I would say 50% carry all the time and another 30% have them in their vehicles.

 

[aherring1983]

I have a CCW and carry all the time, I volunteer with the FD I'm on and yes my gun is pretty much always on me, but point of CCW nobody's sees or knows that isn't sopose to.

 

[rebelray84]

I still volunteer for my local fire/rescue and when I run a call I do carry,usually concealed.

 

[Warhorse]

been professional a long time and never leave the station without mine on me. been in too many sticky situations and too many close calls that had nothing to do with flames to just be complacent. Departments all have a no firearm rule but if i highly doubt if i had to defend myself or my crew anything would happen to me. And id rather be looking for another job than shot by some nutcase crackhead anyway. just my .02$

 

[larm]

in my experinces, ff and medics are welcomed with open arms, and i worked the ghetto side most of my career. no need for guns, they know you there to help.

 

[US Infidel]

in my experinces, ff and medics are welcomed with open arms, and i worked the ghetto side most of my career. no need for guns, they know you there to help.

??? Thats not the response I get on scences. They dont care if your trying to help in the ghetto. Just my observation.

 

[gmshooter]

I have responded to scenes and have to practically fight people to get the the victims. I usually responded direct and had a gun in the car but usually did not carry it on me.

 

[speedster]

My step-dad is chief of the volunteer fire dept back home and as far as I know he doesn't carry on his person during calls, but if he's in his personal vehicle I'm pretty sure he's got one close.

 

[brfd557]

in my experinces, ff and medics are welcomed with open arms, and i worked the ghetto side most of my career. no need for guns, they know you there to help.

You need to come work the ghettos of BR!

 

[Masonmedic]

in my experinces, ff and medics are welcomed with open arms, and i worked the ghetto side most of my career. no need for guns, they know you there to help.

I think I would have to disagree on my past experiences.....MAYBE a few areas with older established people 60 plus years of age.Prominant areas of people from teens to say 40ish in age.Never seen it.

 

[11Bravo]

in my experinces, ff and medics are welcomed with open arms, and i worked the ghetto side most of my career. no need for guns, they know you there to help.

LOL. That's pretty funny. I wanna work where you've been hanging out. People love to hit/spit/kick/stomp/shove/yell/scream/cuss/throw things. You'd be surprised at what happens. I've been tomahawked with a crucifix.

 

[chad]

You need to come work the ghettos of BR!

You probably need a 10mm just to make it through the day..

 

[dwr461]

Where I work we are not allowed to carry firearms by policy. I don't generally have problems with the people in Baton Rouge. I used to when I was young at this job. But then I learned how to get stuff done without making much fuss. If you're getting in fights all the time (sometimes it's just unavoidable) than you need to rethink the way you're approaching people in the job. I know b/c I had to change my approach to the people of Baton Rouge and it's paid off immeasurably.

Dave

 

[brfd557]

You probably need a 10mm just to make it through the day..

Some days you would feel MUCH better having one on your side rather than just an orange button on my radio when stuff starts going down hill

 

[762NATO]

Whyis it that a department would not allow a fireman to carry?

 

[glock4me]

Unless i'm going into flames i'm carrying.