Moving kinda slow this morning. Spent a good portion of last night chasing purposely set fires. First call came in around 9 pm, dumpsters on fire out in the middle of no-where. Grabbed an engine and headed that way. By the time I got there, another fellow, with the brush truck had made it and they had the fire all but put out. Brush truck throws fan belt and is down for the night. Turn around, drive back to station, put the engine up, and go home. Get a msg from fire chief that the neighboring fire district had a dumpster fire.
Ok, maybe whoever it is will quit for the night. Nope, didn't happen.
Hadn't been in bed 5 minutes, another dumpster fire in our district. Here we go again, only this time, no brush truck. I get to the fire with an engine and we put it out. On the way back to the station, we get another call, so I head straight for it and we put it out.
Get back to the station, put the engine up, and go home. About 30 minutes later, yeah you guessed it, another dumpster fire in our district. Grab an engine and go put it out.
There are only 4 more dumpster sites in our district, so I stayed in the northern part of the district with one engine and a couple of the other members went by the station and got another engine and drove to the south part of the district. I dont know whether the culprit saw the engines and was scared off or they just got tired of setting dumpsters on fire, but we didn't have any more. Stuck around for about an hour with no calls, so decided to call it a night. Had to top off the water in the engine and put it up. Got home in bed about 3 am.
Nothing good about all of this, but it has been raining, so the woods were wet and the metal dumpsters help to keep the fire contained. No real damage to property, but there's 6 or 7 fellows this morning, myself included, that would probably shoot the culprit, if we knew who it was.
Sorry to hear that. just glad all is well. And be glad you are in a department that let those guys use the brush truck. We'd have had to wait for full gear and an engine and SCBA per our protocols. Cant even dump water on it from a distance. I'm SO glad I"m gone from those idiots. Chief made us shut down once on a structure fire that we had under control and were stopping, to force me to move the engine literally 1 foot to make dump tank a bit easier. We lost the structure and a motor home for that. And I could have easily used dump tank where we were parked with no issues. I digress.... too bitter and too much hatred for dumbasses.
Our last set of fires like yours popped up about every 3 months for right at 15 months.
