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They were pulling hose, one at the rear of the truck, one at the fence, as any firefighter should know, yanking a hose across a barbwire fence isn't going to do anything but tear a hole in it, which is what would be accomplished if someone pulled line on my side of the fence. "The female" was pulling her weight the same as anyone else and was driving the truck in the initial attack. The footage shows one small angle of the fire, but in reality, we had 4 brush trucks and 2 tankers there, attacking fire on three fronts at once, all coordinated by one fire chief initially, and then split into two commands as the incident progressed. Clearly, great coordination took place, I'm sure the USFS would be proud. And, as this was one of 45 grass fires we fought in the span of 2 months, I'd say we got a lot of training in that time period. =)

Thanks! Yeah they have some cool rigs, been on a couple fires with them.

@@Mr.Brushy thanks, and yes it was delivered in early '23. There's about to be another bunch put in service very soon.

@@soonerstatefirephotography Yuh I heard, I wonder why bc they are all new

@@jpope537 thanks!

Thanks man, and yeah barb wire causes us trouble fo sho. Especially having to cut through it trying to catch a running field fire in the truck🤣 Stay safe brother.

Thanks! I don't know about the horn unfortunately.

Probably a Grover. But the newer pumpers have the Buells.

Thanks!

@@BobMueller yes that was when they added foam in.

Thanks! What's a shore line? Also, not sure what shift it is but I like them. The E7 crew on that shift always hits the siren or horn, even if it's a non-emerg run.

@@soonerstatefirephotography It's that cord that was hanging off the side behind the driver's door lol. Keeps the batter charged and is supposed to auto-eject when they turn the rig on. Definitely some good guys at 7s

@@cm8779 fed sig smart siren with unitrol tones and powercall. ua-cam.com/video/nw_f_qYE3LY/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared

Thanks! I think Tulsa is supposed to get a tanker at 33 eventually, along with some new grass rigs. We're looking for a new tanker at my dept

Silver City VFD

Between Sand Springs and Mannford. Creek/Tulsa Co. line.

@@Jakoblenehan719 It is a tactic called "backburning". Wildland firefighters use it to ensure a wildfire cannot rekindle and start up again, and sometimes we even use it to stop the progression of a fire that cannot be reached or stopped with water. We set a controlled fire ahead of or around the wildfire, which burns up the vegetation, stopping the original fire because it cannot burn what has already been burnt.

@@user-fp7mw5lf9d oh yeah it's no walk in the park on the "war days" and "hell days" where the wind is makes for extreme fire conditions. Still not as bad as California and Arizona and all them out west get though.

@@themaddoxcrandell Thanks! Yeah that was lucky lol, the emergency bay at the hospital was right down the street I was on.

unless old 16 or 17 went somewhere else, I think 19 might actually be the only engine in the city that isn't a Pierce (until the new E-Ones arrive)

@@Emerald24Zulu that's sweet that their going to have E-one engines again like I'n the 90s

Yeah, they're pretty new still, only like 4 units, I think.

Ambulance is Emergency Medical Services Authority. EMSA is much less of a mouthful to say lol.

Just started seeing them a couple of months ago, very new.

Small ish, 50k people. I'm sure it was on the news back when it happened. Definitely not a daily occurrence in Stillwater.

1. Fire chief told us to start at his truck 2. We usually try to get a look at the whole fire to see what part needs to be hit with most priority 3. The slope of the hill would have made it very difficult to stand in the catwalk on the driver side and fight. 4. It was a slow moving fire with no structures or property in danger so the extra 15 seconds made no difference whatsoever.

It is a tactic called "backburning". Wildland firefighters use it to ensure a wildfire cannot rekindle and start up again, and sometimes we even use it to stop the progression of a fire that cannot be reached or stopped with water. We set a controlled fire ahead of or around the wildfire, which burns up the vegetation, stopping the original fire because it cannot burn what has already been burnt.

@@soonerstatefirephotography ok

We didn't cut the fence because there was no need to destroy property for no reason. The fire was contained but not completely extinguished. This was already a rekindle of a previous controlled burn that got away from the homeowner, and the following day was forecasted to be extreme fire danger. Any smoldering fire in those conditions has the ability to throw embers out of the black and start another fire. So, the overly safe solution was to expand the black all the way to the highway. Also, driving through shrubs and sumac trees would damage a Type 6 rig, unless it was like one of those New Jersy Forestry brush breakers. Furthermore, we used hand tools in the video. But rakes and blowers aren't going to chop down a forest and we didn't have 80 chain saws to cut those trees down in a timely manner.

@@soonerstatefirephotographyYou explained this very well and very professional. I guess it’s easy for me to backseat command a fire when tactics are done differently from area to area. Where I’m from, we have a heavy wildland task in my area and are pretty aggressive. I have to remember that every agency does what works for them. Stay safe brother.

@@bencameron4153 all good man. Our tactics differ every fire as well. Mostly just depending on the terrain and vegetation types. And honestly if there was a house or live in danger we probably would have tried to force the truck through there. Glad I could provide a new perspective, have a good one.

Thanks, got lots more to come

Yeah the guys I've talked to seem to really like them

Yeah we use them on grass fires to push the fire into itself killing it, and in leaves to blow them away in front of the fire, stopping the fire progression. The terrain and vegetation in this video hampered their ability a bit, but I'll have some videos coming out soon showing them working very well.

here in Liguria (Italiy) we also use blowers, they are very useful, also manual tools are useful to put out fire of this type, but we use it directly on the fire, then another operator has to go through it with manual tools such as hoes and rakes, and I think you must use the air much closer to the fire.

We usually have a person on a blower followed by a person with a rake or hoe depending on terrain follow. Sometimes direct attack, sometimes ahead of the fire. Thats cool that you guys use the same tactics as my dept, half the world away. Stay safe

I've even seen ones with a small sprayer hose going into it with a separate trigger to blast a mist of water into the air stream. The air stream itself doesn't cool the surrounding area enough to stop relight so the added slight bit of water helps with that. The ones with a sprayer have a 3-5 gallon backpack with them so they can go for quite a while

@@deekamikaze yes we have it also, in italian we call it "atomizzatori"

We use blowers to put the fire out were hoses can't reach. Typically we blow the leaves away in front of the fire, and push the fire into itself killing it. The blowers didn't work extremely well in the vegetation shown in this video, so we had to back burn the area as a precation anyway. I've got some upcoming videos that will show off the blowers better.

@@soonerstatefirephotography thats interesting, I didn't know the blowers could be used like that, and for fighting a brush fire

@@SgtGoodGaming here in Liguria (Italiy) we also use blowers, they are very useful, also manual tools are useful to put out fire of this type, but we use it directly on the fire, then another operator has to go through it with manual tools such as hoes and rakes

@@CMNIK1051 That's pretty cool! I have to see my local Fire Rescue station uses blowers as well

@@SgtGoodGaming They are popular with rural departments that fight lots of brush/forest fires.

I'll remember that thanks for the tip.

Thanks!

yeah, feel free to use it, and I have more coming that showcase the blower better, and there are several others on YT

We're one of only 4 (out of 14) departments in the county with any female firefighters. We love our gals, great firefighters.

@@soonerstatefirephotography I'm surprised, but also not. depending on where you live in the country - especially if rural - female firefighters can be little to non existent.

Might ave been something good for us to have. There was so mutch smoldering heavy brush we couldn't get it all with blowers and rakes, and had to back burn

Thanks man

She's a work horse for sure! We have a bunch of old light bars, radios, and a siren or two my chief said we could give away, I don't know much about them but your welcome to come check em out.

Thanks!