Firefighters who answered the call in Waterbury Tuesday didn’t battle a raging fire, but instead were overrun by fleas. The members of Engine 2 left the scene of an abandoned house they were investigating on Taylor Street when they began to itch terribly. While on the ride back to the station, they noticed fleas all over them.
“It was thousands of them,” Fire Chief David Martin said. The firefighters were taken to the hospital, where they had to strip before going in for fear they might bring the fleas in with them. Covered in flea bites, they were scrubbed down at the hospital before being released. All four firefighters were bitten so many times that they returned to the hospital Wednesday to be tested for a number of flea-borne illnesses, including the bubonic plague, according to Martin.
The fire truck was taken out of service until it can be fumigated, and the gear the firefighters were wearing at the time was bagged and was being washed in special “high-heat” machines to kill any remaining fleas. “I’ve been doing this for 23 years, and I’ve never heard of anything like it,” Martin told the Waterbury Republican-American. “It’s not your typical work hazard, that’s for sure.”
Gack!
Nat Geo had a show called “BedBug Apocalypse” regarding the new improved bedbugs that are going to overrun us now that they have adapted to the current crop of poisons. I assuming the next defense will be genetic.
Its a Brave New World.
My Dog Has Fleas.
And so does me.
I clean carpets for a living and have a product that kills every virus on the planet, including HIV. I wonder how those critters would fare. Yes, I spray it and run.
Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth.
They should go back and eradicate every living mothaeffer flea in there and torture them. I want to hear those fleas scream in pain. God I hate fleas so much.
Creepy!
Sounds like good house to burn down for firefighter practice.
“On the eighth day, God created fleas, and saw that it was good.”
The firefighters were taken to the hospital, where they had to strip before going in for fear they might bring the fleas in with them. Covered in flea bites, they were scrubbed down at the hospital before being released
That was pretty hot
Not much more here, but a picture of the nice looking house:
http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2011/08/18/firefighters-checked-for-plague-truck-fumigated-after-unusual-house-call-over-fleas/
Another Flea infested building.
#13 what is it with you and the male anus ? Stop pretending to wanna buy something at Abercrombie & Fitch and come out already.
What I use here at home when my cat’s fleas get out of control:
http://en.tiendanimal.es/ectokill-antiparasitaric-p-1718.html
Really works, but you’d better stay out of those divisions for a day or so… Took me ages to find this!
🙂
A fly and a flea in a flue,
Were stuck so what could they do?
Said the flea “Let us fly”
Said the fly “Let us flee”
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
#16 I like!