I know that you fireguys, paramedics and police are the only ones with meaningful jobs from saving lives to saving kittens. But this is still Halifax and not New York City! Who is on the road after 11pm that would make it necessary to have the sirens going non-stop from Dartmouth across the bridge and up North Street?? I know you are the Kings and Queens of the highway, but sometimes you can perform those miracles with less noise! —Tired of Siren Sounds Every Regular Night
This article appears in Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2011.
Foxtrot Oscar, you Sierra Echo Tango. Cheque is in the mail, TommyJ.>: )
Thats the dumbest bitch Ive ever read…and Ive read some doozies on here! WOW…..
They are emergency vehicles. When responding to an emergency they will either display their flashing lights, turn on their audible siren or both. I don’t know about you but if I was behind the wheel of a 20 – 30 ton hook and ladder, barrelling through the relatively tight Halifax city streets, I’d be making every effort to let people know I was coming, regardless of the hour, because it would just be that one time that some numpty fucker would pull out in front of me while yakking on his cell phone or drinking his XL double-double or just being totally oblivious to what’s going on around him and that would be that. *I* would be at fault for not giving sufficient warning, i.e. no audible sirens, and *I* would be the one that would be either investigated, suspended, released from the fire service, sued or sent to jail or any combination thereof. Not to mention, lambasted on community bitch boards by people just like you who would say something like, “I don’t understand why he didn’t have his sirens on. It was only 11pm. He was an idiot. He should’ve known better, etc etc blah blah blah.” Not to mention, when they are responding to a call, they have a little bit more important things to be considering, than trying not to wake your ass up. Get over yourself.
It’s a city, cities are nosiy. Move to Hubbards, you’ll hear about two sirens a month.
Yup. Just like home. Not much happens, but when it does woo-whee! We get all 4 patrol cars with their sirens and lights a-flashin’,,,just love those code 3s, you betcha!
Oh FFS.
Yup, the vast Right-Wing conspiracy is already busy at work pre-empting Occupy Halifax with jackbooted intimidation tactics and harshing the activists’ buzz by ensuring ensuring that they don’t get a full 18 hours sleep.
Anyone for a chorus of “We Shall Overcome”?
I live right beside the fire station in Highfield… and I suck it up. It’s annoying, a lot of big trucks and of course busses drive past my window at all hours.. but I recognize that I’m not the only person on earth so I don’t complain.
Actually come to think of it they don’t put the sirens on RIGHT away, they usually wait till they get out of Highfield. There was an alarm pulled in my building the other night and I don’t remember if they used the sirens or not, they’re only next door.
Anyways thank god for firefighters and fire trucks. They get all my respect. It ain’t easy becoming a fire fighter.
THIS is what you’re complaining about … … 1st world problems.
OB, you prefer the sound of gunshots in North End?
This is a stupid bitch. They have to let the sirens go so people on the road can hear them.
Where I live I hear them all the time. Get use to it or get ear plugs.
Did not mean to imply that I do not take public safety seriously (although I can see how someone might get that opinion, she admits grudgingly…)
I just meant that at night, flashing lights are usually enough. If there is a vehicle that does not get out of the way, a little ‘whoop’ is enough to get their attention. From Dartmouth all the way over to North street seems a tad bit excessive; ‘specially over the bridge…just sayin’…
Sirens are cool.
There was a story on CBC earlier this week where residents of a “Northern Community” (code for Reserve) were involved in stoning, fighting, rock throwing, and naturally, burning police and ambulance vehicles which had been called out to treat some dumb fuck who went in the ditch on his ATV.
There are things called corners. Said corners are part of the roadway. On many of these corners, there are buildings(which obstruct view). Lights will not be enough to alert a driver at 11PM, who thinks there is noone else on the road at that time. This person will not be alerted by the lights, which will go un-seen(once again because of this corner thing). This person (who thinks there is noone else on the road at 11PM) will turn a “corner” and there will be no time for the driver of the firetruck to give a little “whoop” and slam into the oblivious driver, causing another emergency. When in fact, you could be inconvienced for a couple of minutes by a siren, while these people rush to a scene where most likely people like you are running away from. Pro siren.
I sure got the point last night on Jubilee…
ambulance blazing past me…firetruck, 3 popo’s…
nothing BUT lights n sirens.
still haven’t even heard what happened tho.
They put the lights on because most people here are too retarded to look behind them and don’t realize they are there.
My wife actually saw an intersection where the 2 people at the red light wouldn’t get out of the way; the ambulance had to wait for the light to turn.
ORLY? What about the whole length of the bridge? No buildings on there, right?
After 11 p.m. on a weeknight, I should think the sirens would only be necessary if the EV did not have the right of way. That seems unlikely for the entire distance the OP was referring to. Assuming this emergency was not one of cataclysmic proportions (that I am aware of, at any rate), I’m sticking to my story.
you folks gotta give your collective heads a shake…ever think maybe whomever it is thats rushing to an emergency might want to get home in one piece at the end of the night? Too fucking bad if your annoyed….maybe you should waive your right to emergency responses and let whomever it is coming to save your sorry whinin’ asses drive nice and slow so no-one is disturbed whilst you bleed out.
You nailed it WOODFROG
There were always sirens on the MacDo bridge… but c’est la vie. North Street area can be noisy, but it’s not all bad.
You think YOU hate the sounds of a siren? Let me tell you after the first few times driving an emergency vehicle with the siren on, you never want to hear it again. You think it’s loud from the outside, try it from the inside. It’s on to tell people to get the hell out of the way so emergencies can be dealt with quickly. And then you have the idiots who have their stereoes or i-pods or whatever on full blast who can’t hear the sirens and too dumb to realize the red, red and white, or red and blues that are flashing are responding to an emergency.
I’ve seen plenty of ambulances on the way to the hospital who only turn on the sirens when they are approaching intersections, even on major roadways. This is generally during the daytime. Having said that, maybe this time it was someone who needed medical care extra-fast and the driver didn’t want to frig around with turning on/turning off the siren. I like to give emergency workers the benefit of the doubt because they could be saving my life one day. And yes, you better bet they are the “Kings and Queens of the highway” when they are rushing your ass to emergency or to go put out your house fire. Jesus. Actually, this bitch didn’t bother me much until I noticed the sneering tone to it.
OK, OK, I give!
Sheesh! It’s not like I don’t pull over or anything! ✌
A couple a years ago, the Mr. started noticing that an ambulance would go ripping up our road, sirens and all, early every Sunday morning at roughly the same time. It went on and on, so one AM he got in the car and went up the road to find them at a park having their Tims! It was apparently the Sunday morning shift change joy ride! Not kidding! He had a little chat with them and it stopped.
I’ll be sure only to have heart attack or get raped at an acceptable hour.
Hugo… I will have you know… I’ve heard four since August 1…. (all fire) what you hear out here at all hours of the day and night: Harleys… but… not for long!
I’d like to know if a speeding vehicle is coming before I’m crossing the street. Keep up the good work and don’t let OP get any sleep!
By law they need their sirens & lights going when speeding to emergences so everyone who is/might be on the road has plenty of warning they are coming. Only problem is the sirens used here are ones that do not make it easy to determine where they are coming from until they’re practically on top of you.
Rosie – that’s just Hugo, keepin’ tabs on ya. >; )
do you have a mac xeno? that’s the cutest little peace symbol^^
Lights and sirens indicate a life-threatening condition on board. Dead with a chance or soon-to-be dead. It’s not for broken legs, the flu or anxiety attacks. In going from Dartmouth to Halifax via the bridge, it indicates either that there was major trauma, something urgently surgical or a heart attack in progress on the way to the Cath Lab. Seconds literally count. If it means saving unneccessary braking for cars in the way on a two lane street, wail on. Saving lives is noisy.
Yes, PG, I finally broke down and got a new macbook pr (gave the old one to my niece –4 years old but has some good software)…thinking about writing a bitch, though…it’s not all beer and skittles.
the special characters are hard to see these one’s are good ✔✖♥♬™℅
uh…… yeah… until ninjas are delivering people to the hospitals, i’m pretty sure other motorists and cyclists need to know ambulances are coming….
I’m not sure if you’re sort of stupid or just really, really selfish. But you have ZERO importance when those guys are taking a sick person to the hospital or putting out a fire. ZERO. The only importance you have is that they don’t run you over while they’re saving lives.
Which… explains… the siren.
Please don’t cross the street alone OP. I worry for your safety with a brain like that.
Please do Xeno.. Flame the fucking shit out of CrApple.
🙂
what’s that?
their stocks are dropping because they didn’t come out with the newest iSlicedBread????
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
suck on that reject fanbois
I saw an app last week–the Igrill you could roast a chicken with it…(why you’d want to is another story)
Oh… okay Ivan… good to know…
You never know – it might be Oceanchick. >: )
lol @ Rosie & Ivan 🙂 4 sirens since Aug, yep, that’s 2 a month.
I used to live right on the #3, about 200m from the Fire Station. It seemed that when the sun set, the traffic stopped. You’re getting traffic all hours Rosie?
When I’m out that way, I most often have Blue with me, so it’s not me on the HD, checkin on the Rose 😉
On a differnt note; Steve Jobs is dead @ 56.
well that was an ill timed apple flame.
My Bad.
S’OK, Zedman, I did write a bitch yesterday, but I’m glad the HBIC is smothering it…
Hugo, you and Blue are always welcome to pop ’round!
more photos please. the hound is still looking for his golden girlfriend^^
Just might do that Rosie, we’re out there this weekend 🙂
Hugo, I’ll be around Sat… planning on taking baby girl to the beach. You bring the beer, I’ll supply the steak! PG, get yer Boss to give you Sat off and you can come too!
sorry, not gonna happen sweetie. take lots of photos and have fun http://www.furryfriendsrescue.org/img/reco…
Rosie – I’ll be in the neighbourhood sometime around 3-5PM.
BBQ , party, beach walk w/dogs, at my cousins place. So far there’s Blue, Char-Lee, and Snert. The more the merrier 🙂
Hugo lemme know where the dog walk is… PG has my email addy!
yes me darlin, i have yours but i don’t have hugo’s. i will forward zee information to the admiral and he will pass it along
Sorry Painey, I don’t have direct comms with Hugo, but I believe PK does.
otay, i will try the other agents^^hope you get a few days off this weekend
Good Morning Everybody 🙂
Rosie, not sure exactly when we’ll be walking the dogs, possibly around sunset @ Cleveland Beach. I have your address, I’ll stick my head in later today with details, if that’s OK?
2 days – Rawk! Cooking a roast of Babe, driving up my glucose with Frappuchinos, sniffing glue and reading “The Boy’s Book of Airfix”.
Lovely!
excellent, i drove the parental units to canning, to pick up some flesh of pig^^lovely road trip. two days off for us aussi…screee
*helium voice* Pork is a nice sweet meat.
haha, love that movie and it’s all down to mr. cromwell. i less than three *mouse ears* him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pExCByqi0NU
Oh Yeah, I loved that scene. SOBova’s been showing her sadistic side latley by downloading trailers for “War Horse” and watching me tear up. Evil or what?
Party’s started, no longer driving ;(
Drop by Rosie, just past the fire Station, same side, cedar shingle house a bit off the road.
give over…not my bff. i will wait for someone to tell me it ends well^^like with the movie snat_h, eww, i’m gonna see dog fights but i just laughed and laughed