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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / April 2008Cars Blocking Fire Station - Revisited
A few years ago I started a thread with the title "Cars Blocking Fire Station Will Be Demolished". Today I was at the same situation, in heavily congested traffic on Sepulveda Blvd in Sherman Oaks, CA (northern suburb of Los Angeles). I was 5th car in line to cross the KEEP CLEAR zone in front of the fire station when the flashing lights came on, a siren could be heard, and out came a firetruck. Luckily, traffic moved ahead so that the firetruck was not blocked. By the time I got to the KEEP CLEAR zone, cars in the other lanes had once again blocked the fire station. I couldn't believe it. Most of the time it's a remote possibility that a firetruck would be coming out of the fire station; but in this case less than 1 minute had elapsed since we all saw it happen. And this fire station holds 6 or 8 vehicles; it's not a small fire station which is empty as soon as one firetruck leaves. What's wrong with these drivers? > A few years ago I started a thread with the title "Cars Blocking Fire > Station Will Be Demolished". Today I was at the same situation, in [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > What's wrong with these drivers? Good question, but maybe some of them could see that the fire house was empty? However, if only the truck (and its coupled engine) left, there's usually a second engine as such stations. However, if you're talking about Station 88, that's a full battalion plus a heliport, so unless other calls had the other assets previously deployed, the station would not be empty. Station 88 is the one next to the LA River and the castle arcade/mini-golf place, and just up the street from the SO Galleria. > A few years ago I started a thread with the title "Cars Blocking Fire > Station Will Be Demolished". Today I was at the same situation, in [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > What's wrong with these drivers? MFFYness. Graham |
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