Vincent, there are many answers to your response. First there's a 'duty to respond' for potential life exposure and second to protect exposures. In the final analysis, determination of the cause comes next. This indeed is a tragic loss in many ways!
A warehouse would give me nightmares. You never know what is really inside. Some fires can only be controlled; the other properties must be protected. Safety first. The rest can wait.
Very few FD have resources to do much but try to contain as best they can.water is a real issue for a small city like this. Experience organizing against something this big as well. Anything without firewalls was going to go. Protect what might be saleable. That said, some curious locations for hoses.
I don't think I have ever seen a response to a fire, that shouted out "let it burn" Now, it may well be it was never going to be controllable. Why even turn up?
There wasn't even an attempt to control this. Many things could have been done without putting personnel and equipment in harms way that may have kept this from being so massive. The guy with the drone had a birds eye view and was definitely an unused resource. Trench cuts? I got through the entire video now, this was painful to watch.
Vincent, there are many answers to your response. First there's a 'duty to respond' for potential life exposure and second to protect exposures. In the final analysis, determination of the cause comes next. This indeed is a tragic loss in many ways!
A warehouse would give me nightmares. You never know what is really inside. Some fires can only be controlled; the other properties must be protected. Safety first. The rest can wait.
Might as well get comfortable 'cause you're gonna be there a while.
Very few FD have resources to do much but try to contain as best they can.water is a real issue for a small city like this. Experience organizing against something this big as well. Anything without firewalls was going to go. Protect what might be saleable. That said, some curious locations for hoses.
Well lucky for us, we live on a river that commonly floods higher than regular.
@@epicgamer18723 lol, you think water supply for fighting is a function of river height?
@@xzy89c No, it is just a free excuse to use the river on the fire.
I bet that was good for the environment
Born and raised in Evansville and this does not surprise me at all
It looked like they were using a water hose !!
I don't think I have ever seen a response to a fire, that shouted out "let it burn"
Now, it may well be it was never going to be controllable. Why even turn up?
Because that's what men do.
They had to prevent it from spreading to all the nearby homes. Literally every fd was in town was there fighting that bitch of a fire.
There wasn't even an attempt to control this. Many things could have been done without putting personnel and equipment in harms way that may have kept this from being so massive. The guy with the drone had a birds eye view and was definitely an unused resource. Trench cuts? I got through the entire video now, this was painful to watch.
Yes but we were exasperated from another fire a few months before this.