WTF, ladder 132 fireman?
So my CO detector goes off at 8am this morning, the building hallway smells like burning oil so I call 911 and bang on everyone's door to wake them up. The fire department comes out and turns off the oil burner, turns out the jerk who worked on it a few days ago fucked something up. So the super fixes it, we have to air out our apartments, firemen check the CO levels in my apartment and all is good.
Well, I go to walk the dogs this afternoon and I hear a CO detector going off somewhere in the building. Hallway smells again, can't find the super (his wife didn't know where he is) so I call 911 again. They show up, super is in the freaking basement! Boiler is fine, the CO detector that was going off was probably the one in the daycare on the 1st floor that went off this morning and hasn't been shut off. 1 fireman is giving me attitude, like he's pissed he had to come back out here again, he really was acting like kind of an asshole. I tell him what happened, including the fact that only MY CO detector went off this morning so no one in the building would have known if I didn't hear it.
The fireman rolls his eyes at me and tells me to go upstairs so he can check my apartment. All the while acting like I'm some crazy paranoid lunatic for calling them again. Tells me he had a "long day" and doesn't like having to walk up all my stairs AGAIN. I tell him I haven't had such a great day myself, what with everyone in the building possibly dying of carbon monoxide poisoning. Seriously, I just happened to be awake and near the kitchen when it went off. If I had been asleep, in the bedroom (on the other end of the apartment) with the fan on for white noise? I don't know if I would have heard it. I'm on the top floor, no one else's CO detector had gone off so the people below me would have been screwed too.
This is the 2nd bad experience I've had with the FDNY. The 1st was when there was a fire in my old building that gutted the apartment below me. My ex and I had to grab the dogs and cats at 3am and run to the roof with wet towels covering our noses and mouths. Interestingly enough, the firemen didn't give a rat's ass about us or the couple with a kid on the roof with us. They didn't let us know when it was safe to go back downstairs or ask any of us if we were okay. They were more concerned about the pretty young woman who had to run out without any shoes, poor baby!
I've always loved firemen, I sincerely appreciate the extremely hard and dangerous job that they do. I felt bad that they had to come out again when there wasn't anything wrong and apologized for it. But considering what happened this morning I was understandably nervous and no one heard the daycare's CO detector going off this morning. I'm also not someone who calls 911 for every little thing, it has to be life threatening for me to even consider it. Am I overreacting to this fireman's attitude?
Well, I go to walk the dogs this afternoon and I hear a CO detector going off somewhere in the building. Hallway smells again, can't find the super (his wife didn't know where he is) so I call 911 again. They show up, super is in the freaking basement! Boiler is fine, the CO detector that was going off was probably the one in the daycare on the 1st floor that went off this morning and hasn't been shut off. 1 fireman is giving me attitude, like he's pissed he had to come back out here again, he really was acting like kind of an asshole. I tell him what happened, including the fact that only MY CO detector went off this morning so no one in the building would have known if I didn't hear it.
The fireman rolls his eyes at me and tells me to go upstairs so he can check my apartment. All the while acting like I'm some crazy paranoid lunatic for calling them again. Tells me he had a "long day" and doesn't like having to walk up all my stairs AGAIN. I tell him I haven't had such a great day myself, what with everyone in the building possibly dying of carbon monoxide poisoning. Seriously, I just happened to be awake and near the kitchen when it went off. If I had been asleep, in the bedroom (on the other end of the apartment) with the fan on for white noise? I don't know if I would have heard it. I'm on the top floor, no one else's CO detector had gone off so the people below me would have been screwed too.
This is the 2nd bad experience I've had with the FDNY. The 1st was when there was a fire in my old building that gutted the apartment below me. My ex and I had to grab the dogs and cats at 3am and run to the roof with wet towels covering our noses and mouths. Interestingly enough, the firemen didn't give a rat's ass about us or the couple with a kid on the roof with us. They didn't let us know when it was safe to go back downstairs or ask any of us if we were okay. They were more concerned about the pretty young woman who had to run out without any shoes, poor baby!
I've always loved firemen, I sincerely appreciate the extremely hard and dangerous job that they do. I felt bad that they had to come out again when there wasn't anything wrong and apologized for it. But considering what happened this morning I was understandably nervous and no one heard the daycare's CO detector going off this morning. I'm also not someone who calls 911 for every little thing, it has to be life threatening for me to even consider it. Am I overreacting to this fireman's attitude?
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That's bullshit. You did the right thing (both times) and tough shit if he doesn't want to walk up to your apartment to check your detector. That's his fucking job. How would he feel if somebody died because of his laziness?
I love the FDNY too - I have a lot of great guys near me. I see them in market all the time and they've invited me for dinner many times. I have a lot of respect for what they do, too, but this guy was just an asshole. -
According to the city's advice you did exactly the right thing, so don't second-guess yourself at all.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/ei/eicarbon.shtml#5 (There's also advice here about what to do if your landlord hasn't provided a detector, as was the case with my studio.)
What should I do if the carbon monoxide detector alarm sounds?
Open nearby windows and go outside to get fresh air right away.
Call 911, and then call the Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222).
Alert your neighbors during a carbon monoxide emergency, since the problem may affect the entire building. -
I guess I was pissed because they had to come out that morning because everyone in the building almost died in their sleep and he was giving me attitude for being worried again. It wasn't like nothing had happened and I just overreacted by calling them. There was a shit ton of CO in our building while we were sleeping and the only reason we're all okay is because 1 CO detector out of 6 worked!
I know modsquad made a comment elsewhere about people complaining that firemen are rude but it wasn't his rudeness that bugged me. It was him treating me like a fucking idiot who called the FDNY on a whim for no valid reason. Fuck him, this year has sucked huge hairy balls for me and I don't have time for some prick who thinks I'm in hysterics or some shit.
PSA: Check the battery in your CO detector and if you don't have one then go get one ASAP. If it goes off, call 911 and open your windows. Risking a hissy fit from a fireman is a hell of a lot better than dying.
P.S. Please excuse the profanity in this post, I'm too disgusted with the world to censor myself properly. ](*,) -
this guy seams like a real dick. Did you happen to catch his name
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Unfortunately not, I was too pissed off by his attitude.
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you should to their fire house and complain.
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I thought about it but decided not to. The guy was pretty inconsiderate considering what happened that morning. We were all really lucky that 1 CO detector went off and someone was able to hear it. If he, as a fireman of all things, was unable to understand how freaked out I was then I don't think complaining will help. It sucks but I would call again if I was in the same situation. I'm not going to let him make me 2nd guess myself when lives could be at stake.
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