No. Two little fire extinguishers are not going to touch a fully-engulfed interior and engine compartment. Besides, I was on the old highway and there's a tight-like-a-tiger barbed wire fence separating it from the interstate; I ain't as good -or skinny- as I once was.

That call went out about 2 minutes after I left the house for town and this was about 7 miles away.

 

Thanks for the explanation.

Otherwise, people might think you were getting tired of all the sheep rumbling around in your prairie and simply said "One less Ram, don't give a dam."

It is very easy to get hurt, or even lose one's life, in an effort to help others on the side of the road.

I still have a minor scar from helping someone over 40 years ago. But this was before cellphones. But not before CB radios and scanners.

It sounds like you carry (and listen to) a scanner, for you to know when the call for help went out.

A fire broke out literally across the street from me... even from inside my house I could smell that it wasn't a barbeque or woodstove burning in the neighborhood... it was a serious fire. Yet and still, as I rushed outside to see who or what needed to be saved... it didn't occur to me to grab my cellphone, which was right there on the desk where I was sitting when I smelled the fire. How dumb is that? Didn't even occur to me. And there was no way any individual could have put out that big of a fire. I didn't even try.

I ran across the road, by this time the flames are licking 15' in the air and embers are flying 50 feet high and wide, and start screaming names and banging on doors. My yelling brought out the neighbors, and one of them asked, "Did someone call 911?". I'm like Oh yeah, somebody call 911!

I guess that means, to my impending peril and to the detriment of others surrounding, I'd sooner reach for a fire extinguisher with Neandertholic grunts "Must. Do. Something." rather than more wisely use the communication systems and taxpayer funded services already in place that are better equipped to handle fire emergencies.

Yet and still, your 2 extinguishers per vehicle makes me want to copy you, by having one extinguisher accessible on the passenger side, along with the already carried extinguisher on the driver's side. Should we name this doubled up emergency preparedness measure after you? Sort of like we name the Cody Test? Call it the Cody Double Barrel or something?

 

20 years of carrying a Pager with the Fire Department, as an IT 911 Service Tech.

glad that is not part of my life anymore, and they "asked" that I carry a 10 lb walkie talkie on my hip? and to listen to a Scanner? uh, no,

I said "NO", I have a pager, that is all I am willing to do.

my truck was full of service parts, ladders, gadgets, tools, test equipment, etc.
and spare computers,

I have a Bearcat 210 that is close to 30 years old now, the last time it was turned on, was 25 years ago, I told them, "I am not going to listen to Dispatch 24/7"

 

I spent 9 years as a volunteer on the local fire department. I have a radio but don't listen to it much unless something cool is going on. However, a number of years ago, the county implemented a cellphone-based paging system that sends a text describing the call and the emergency. I still have that feature even though I have been "off the force" for 7 years now.

I know my limits - and for physical and personal reasons I had to leave. It's not something I was told by others to do but unfortunately my right knee and my unwillingness to be an EMT and structure firefighter forced my hand (the department didn't want JUST wildland firefighters).

 

I worked at Phoenix, AZ Fire Department
all FF's were required to certify as an EMT, sounds like that was your case also?

we lost some good people when that rule was implemented

even as a IT tech, I was required to take the ABC course