One of the things you learn when driving fire trucks is called “protecting the scene.” As the driver of a large piece of fire apparatus, you park it at an angle across the lane of the road where your crew is working and the one adjacent to it. You angle the front tires in such a way that, should the rig get struck, it won’t be pushed into your crew. A Fort Worth fire crew recently demonstrated why this idea is so important. The driver of this fire truck likely saved multiple lives when he did this.
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Tom235 · June 18, 2026 at 6:59 am
It’s amazing how blind drivers are around accident scenes. I suppose their eyes get attracted to all the activity and lights and they steer their vehicle to follow. Dark wet mountain roads are not safe places to be working an emergency scene. I’ll guess city environments have a similar problem.
TRX · June 18, 2026 at 7:45 am
> I suppose their eyes get attracted to all the activity and lights and they steer their vehicle to follow
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That’s a recognized thing, at least with motorcycle racers. A bike will go down, and then the next half-dozen behind him will veer offline to create a multiple-bike-mess, because that’s where they’re looking.
There was a Canadian reality TV show called “Canada’s Worst Drivers.” Unlike most of that sort of show, they actually tried to teach people how to drive rather than just making fun of them. The host’s continual refrain, many times per episode, was “look where you want to go!” which is the flip side of that.
SmileFtW · June 18, 2026 at 7:56 am
Where in Ft Worth was this? When did it happen?
Divemedic · June 18, 2026 at 8:44 am
Don’t know. It was put out by the Ft. Worth fire department on their social media feeds. I saw it because I am still connected to that world.
It's just Boris · June 18, 2026 at 8:21 am
So this is not where I thought this post was going when I saw the title.
As always, thank you for a glimpse of “how thing work” in a profession very different than mine.
Tennessee Budd · June 18, 2026 at 5:33 pm
Pickup driver should immediately lose his license. If you can’t see a big fucking fire truck, you have no business driving.