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How far away is the nearest fire station to you, like on a normal day how many minutes would it take you to drive from your house to there?
It's around 4 miles - maybe 15 minutes or so in normal traffic? We're quite close to Tallaght fire station as well.
Really teaches you the value of having fire extinguishers in your home, having them in easy reach and umm knowing how to use them. On of 'em was the normal pull a tab and it works the other had to be examined before any of us could figure out how to use it.
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RacoonQueen wrote: »So the house went on fire this morning. Got it put out ourselves with 2 domestic fire extinguishers and the fire brigade turn up about 15 - 20 minutes later. If we hadn't got those extinguishers we'd probably have lost everything.
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Jesus RQ, are you alright?? That's really scary! Thank god for the fire extinguishers.
The OH's dad has gotten the all clear from the doctor to go to his award ceremony on friday
So glad, he really deserves some recognition for all the work he's done. Me and the OH are going to cheer and woot!
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RacoonQueen wrote: »It's around 4 miles - maybe 15 minutes or so in normal traffic? We're quite close to Tallaght fire station as well.
Really teaches you the value of having fire extinguishers in your home, having them in easy reach and umm knowing how to use them. On of 'em was the normal pull a tab and it works the other had to be examined before any of us could figure out how to use it.
That must have been so scary for you, especially after when you think about alternate endings, well done on keeping calm and putting it out.
I think its awful how most fire stations arent manned outside office hours, i mean I live in galway, if there is a fire at 6.30, you have to wait for the fire men to get to the station , in rush hour traffic, and then yhey hve to get to you, in rush hour traffic! Crazy, thankfully only had to call them once, and that was before 6. AFAIK its still 6 thats their finish time there. Its such a valuable service and they do great work, its again down to a funding thing, which isnt much comfort to anyone if they lost belongings or worse someone in a fire.0 -
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RacoonQueen wrote: »It's around 4 miles - maybe 15 minutes or so in normal traffic? We're quite close to Tallaght fire station as well.
Really teaches you the value of having fire extinguishers in your home, having them in easy reach and umm knowing how to use them. On of 'em was the normal pull a tab and it works the other had to be examined before any of us could figure out how to use it.
Yeah you probably hit an unlucky time of day so, if it normally takes 15 minutes and then at 8am you have lines of traffic with the charming people who don't understand the concept of getting the f out of the way :rolleyes:That must have been so scary for you, especially after when you think about alternate endings, well done on keeping calm and putting it out.
I think its awful how most fire stations arent manned outside office hours, i mean I live in galway, if there is a fire at 6.30, you have to wait for the fire men to get to the station , in rush hour traffic, and then yhey hve to get to you, in rush hour traffic! Crazy, thankfully only had to call them once, and that was before 6. AFAIK its still 6 thats their finish time there. Its such a valuable service and they do great work, its again down to a funding thing, which isnt much comfort to anyone if they lost belongings or worse someone in a fire.
It's not "office hours", either stations have full time staff (like Galway city station where there is enough demand and therefore wages to keep them employed full time and they are there all day and all night) or they are manned by retained firefighters in areas where there isn't enough full time employment and therefore not enough money to keep the station manned full time or to pay the firefighters wages. These firefighters would not make any sort of actual decent wage from the fire calls alone, so they HAVE to have other employment to supplement their wage. These people are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. They leave their other jobs, family occasions, Christmas Day, 4am on a freezing icy night, to rush to the station (which they can live no more than 1.5 miles from) to do the job they love, it comes before everything with the exception of illness, deaths and pre requested time off, which is tough to get in itself. They can't go outside a 5 minute radius of the station without asking for time off, that's very limiting in rural Galway towns.
These people would do ANYTHING for their job and for others, many getting injured and some killed to save people's homes, businesses, and often trying to just put out a fire set vindictively, often to lure firefighters with the intent of hurting them.
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Pixie-Fairy wrote: »can someone help me with this situation...as in do i have right to be annoyed??
so bascially one of the girls needed some help for an exam tomorrow..last night i had to call up to the house with all my stuff and try explain everything even though to be honest i havent a fúcking clue either..did my best and the girl she lived with ended up putting most of her stuff in my bag i didnt realise until later on....
so we said we would meet up today and i went into college and she text me saying she just woke up and i had to meet her somewhere i said meet me somewhere else and she didnt reply...so anyway i leave my stuff in college nearly at the place get a call saying oh could you get the key of my housemate so i had to go back in get the key packed up all my stuff and met her gave her the stuff and walked out i was so annoyed!
on top of this i had 5 different people begging me for help....i am just as clueless as them i havent a clue what to study! i didnt get 5 mins of peace in there at all!
so have i a right to be annoyed or am i just blowing it out of proportion?
Of course you have a right to be annoyed. Surely the girl could have been more organised and had the decency to meet you where she had originally said. As for everyone questioning you about the exams and what not, don't think of it as just a bad thing, think of it as clearly you must be the smartest from the bunch of them if they're all asking you.
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Again it was at this training I was told the city station was on a retained service, i must find out for sure, not that it makes any difference but its good to know
Galway city has both full time firefighters who do shift work and retained ones, as it's a busy station with a large catchment area, rural ones are all retained staff.RacoonQueen wrote: »I imagine the fake callouts like that are the reason the rest of us have to pay for a call out Acoshla? Assuming they can't identify who makes the false call so that they can be charged for it? If you lose your house and all your belongings the last thing you want to be worried about it paying for the feckin fire brigade.
Yep, fake calls, calls from mobiles that are then turned off, etc. Halloween is horrible because that's when kids are most likely to set a fire and then throw things, bottles, whatever, at the firefighters who turn up
Or watching a fire on tv/facebook and knowing the person you love is in it or near it, that's horrible. My aunt was a firefighter in London, I used to be so scared when she'd head into work for a Saturday night and we'd be visiting and minding her 8 month old baby. 0 -
I can see how that would be so frustrating and super annoying, so I don't really think you are blowing it out of proportion. You seem a bit stressed with everyone askin you for help and then running around like that so I think you're right to be annoyed!
if im being honest im stressed to my imaginary balls!! all of these exams are seriously getting to me and after 2 atrocious ones im ready to give up and have a major melt down! im in the middle of a little one right now! and i actually cant handle it!!Of course you have a right to be annoyed. Surely the girl could have been more organised and had the decency to meet you where she had originally said. As for everyone questioning you about the exams and what not, don't think of it as just a bad thing, think of it as clearly you must be the smartest from the bunch of them if they're all asking you.
i have way better things to be doing than running around after her!!!
and she should be fúckin grateful im the one who has been pulling her through these exams i have a right to be annoyed she doesnt have the fúckin right to ask me what my problem is!! :mad:
Avox..you are right i clearly seem smart i should be flattered!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! :mad::(0 -
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Pixie-Fairy wrote: »i have way better things to be doing than running around after her!!!
and she should be fúckin grateful im the one who has been pulling her through these exams i have a right to be annoyed she doesnt have the fúckin right to ask me what my problem is!! :mad:
Avox..you are right i clearly seem smart i should be flattered!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! :mad::(
Just take a break from studying, you're not going to be able to do much if you're extremely stressed out. Take a walk, watch a tv show, just do something that will relax you and calm your mind down. Then when you feel up to it, head back to study, but don't push yourself too deeply into it. Make a list of whatever you need to do, and how much time you have to do it all, and divide it into sections of time with set details to study, putting breaks in between it all where you can relax. 0
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