Fire: Jumping from a building question

iMax

Hi fire guys,

Quick question for you, I don't think these are used here in Ireland, but does anyone know the name of the thing in the picture that Denis Leary is falling onto (& I don't mean the ground!!) ?

Thanks

Leo Demidov

The irish version is called a bodhran.

iMax

Badum. Tish !

Leo Demidov

Wrong percussion instrument i'm afraid.

JuliusCaesar

I think it's a trampoline. He'll end up where he came from.

Trojan911

iMax wrote: »

Hi fire guys,

Quick question for you, I don't think these are used here in Ireland, but does anyone know the name of the thing in the picture that Denis Leary is falling onto (& I don't mean the ground!!) ?

Thanks

My firefighting source tells me they are not used here in Ireland, but he tells me they may be called rescue sheets or jump sheets.

Apparently they are more "Hollywood" used devices for the movies rather than actual life saving tools.

ivabiggon

correction... they were used here for a while, on trial in No.5 (finglas fire station) back in the mid to late 90's.
we used to use them specifically for the flats in ballymun were our ladders couldn't reach but we couldn't wait for the turntable ladder.

Only problem was the clients (particularly the cluchies) that were living there, wouldn't trust us (a bunch of Dubliner firemen)when we were holding the sheet and told them to jump.... for some reason they always thought we would move out of the way and let them hit the ground, so they used to ask us to put it on the ground and move back out of the way...
tobe sure tobe sure:D;):p

WIZE

Fireman's Life Saving Trampoline/Safety Net

deadwood

ivabiggon wrote: »

Only problem was the clients (particularly the cluchies) that were living there, wouldn't trust us (a bunch of Dubliner firemen)
tobe sure tobe sure:D;):p

Be gorra, sure it's not a jackeen oy'd be trustin' when it's culchies he can't be spellin. So it isn't.

ivabiggon

deadwood wrote: »

Be gorra, sure it's not a jackeen oy'd be trustin' when it's culchies he can't be spellin. So it isn't.

"i'm tellina boy, your grammer is queer bad," do you not know it was the dubs who came up with that name, "so don't be tryin to mould it into some a bit more spectacular than it is..."

it's you who can't spell!!!:P

wreckless

iMax

And apparently they haven't been in use in the US for about ten years either...

(they're called jumpsheets BTW)

Delancey

iMax wrote: »

And apparently they haven't been in use in the US for about ten years either...

(they're called jumpsheets BTW)

Are they considered unsafe now ? I suppose there is a risk that people jumping could actually hit a firefighter ?

iMax

No idea. I emailed the FDNY & was told their use had been suspended back around 1998, due to unsafe practice.

DeVore

iMax wrote: »

No idea. I emailed the FDNY & was told their use had been suspended back around 1998, due to unsafe practice.

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*splat*


DeV.