Dumbest thing heard on the radio

[flhtci01]

We have a nursing and rehab facility. The unofficial name is DNR, short for D**** Nursing and Rehab.

Dispatch: Respond to DNR, man down.

Needless to say the supervisor was not happy about using DNR on the radio.

[Two-Speed]

First one is my own screw-up on the radio.

"52XX Priority 8 (which I later learned meant standby) at XX/XYZ turnoff" (a place we had stood by many times before)

Me: "Dispatch, 52XX is 10-8 Priority 8 to <mumbles> What the hell?"

"10-4, 52XX, you're 10-8 to XX/XYZ"

There was just one too many numbers in the transmission for me to work with at that time of the day apparently.

Second was between Dispatch, the Supervisor, and two ambulances.

Supervisor: "53XX is 10-8 to **** to staff 54XX"
Dispatch: (later on in the day) "54XX Priority 4 to ******"
54XX (upon packing the pt) "54XX is 10-8 to *** Hospital, I am (supervisor) attending"
52XX: "54XX, do you even remember how to do that?"

[Manic_Wombat]

Woke up one morning with my scanner going off for one of the many other local volunteer fire departments...

*Tones*

Fire Control: Department xx, respond for a... uhhhh...... car fire.... at the uhhhh... in the uhhhhhh... fire station parking lot

XX FD Officer (the on duty driver): Yeah copy that fire control, unit xxx is responding to the parking lot...

Fire Control: Received unit xxx

XX FD Officer (2 seconds later): (laughing) Fire control, Unit xx will be on scene

Now that particular fire department has an automatic mutual aid agreement with another local FD to respond with a tanker to all fires in their district. So 5 seconds later:

*Tones*

Fire Control: Department xy, respond mutual aid for a car fire in department xx's parking lot, unit xxx will be on scene

XY FD Driver: (Also laughing) Received Fire Control, responding to the xx fd's parking lot mutual aid

The exchange went on like this for awhile, I just loved how the responding units at the fire department that actually had the car fire kept calling in and laughing because they only pulled the trucks outside the bay while everybody else walked out the front door to the parking lot. Never found out how bad it actually was or what started it though.

[DrParasite]

first a little background: the ALS units in my system are 2x0y numbered, with x corresponding to the shift, and y the unit unit. This particular call involved the night shift unit 2403. and occurred at approx 1103pm

unit: 2403 is available, cancelled by BLS

me: 2403 available, cancelled by BLS, 2303 hours.

unit: uhhh, dispatch you have us as the wrong unit, we are 2403, not 2303.

me: look at your wrist watch......

unit: (laughing in the background) ok, point for you this time.

also received a phone call from the crew on this one, and I am curious which other field crews were laughing when they heard this.

[trevor1189]

Not the dumbest thing I've heard on the radio, but today at least.

County Control be advised we have snow accumulation, can you notify PENNDOT that the roads are getting slick. (This was today in the middle of a snow storm, we got about 2" of snow. By the way dispatchers have a live weather radar screen in the Communication Center, they know it's snowing!)

Ok, now mine... It's a toss up, you decide.

"County Ambulance XX...correction Ambulance 1-XX responding" (First call I ran as an EMT I was a little excited. Our trucks rotate first due, I guess I didn't know what truck I was in.)

"County Ambulance XX..."(Was going to say we are available but my partner asked why I was calling county as he had already placed us available). "Go ahead Ambulance XX." "Disregard County...." lol