Myself and few fellow firefighters met Captain Schmidt at Nozzle Forward in Chula Vista. Such a great instructor much like the others. Aaron Fields chooses wisely who he has teach with him. Thanks for helping us be journeymen in the fire service.
@@tacticaldude35 what did you guys do to jesus when he came to help yall hmm? you tried to kill him and obviously you cant bc hes a prophet and now you guys are fckn scared so you think jesus is the son of god who has no wife nor son and is not to be related to humanity so stop spreading misinformation
A lot of people are commenting on how these guys are talking like their audience are in Elementary level ... that's the whole point. Especially right now when people are staying home for obvious reasons (social distancing, etc.) If you guys want to go watch a complex UA-cam video about being a firefighter such as the decon. process they go through after being exposed to carcinogens, feel free to look that stuff up. From my understanding this video's primarily for basic-education for the general public, some may have a learning disability and others might not.
I am a European firefighter myself and just wanted an entertaining and informative video on SMFR hose diameters (since I believe you even got the 2 1/2's straight from Europe), crosslays, horizontal standpipes, etc. I love most of their videos, many even require basic knowledge of firefighting to understand them completely, especially if they leave the live radio traffic in. This one I am afraid is just painful to watch as a "normal" person. Of course I unterstand that this videos are meant as public education for everybody, but what is the purpose if the other 95% can't/dont want to watch it anymore?
He is not the normal person that talks... and most people that watch are people that know and understand the fire department this is more made for preschool or or young elementary school... please redo with the normal people talking normal like the other videos!!!
@@Mike25654 I know Littleton fire rescue was the first department in the US to bring the 5 inch supply line over from Europe and in 2019 Littleton merged with south metro fire rescue
I never heard of 2.5" hoses coming from Europe either. I never see anyone use them over there for anything other than supply lines. And what really makes me wonder and confused is why those Russian guys that always post helmet camera videos don't use 2.5" or 3" hoses on their fires. It's like they'd rather struggle with the 1.5" garden hose for some reason. It is here in the US too.
My toddler is crazy about firetrucks! It is hard to find content online about fire engines and fire fighters for kids. You guys do a great job. He loves your video Please make more!😊
I love the fact that we have Storz couplings on all our lines, no matter if suction side or nozzle side... this is why we have mostly double doughnut roll hoses on our trucks in Austria (and only some preconnects in hose carrying baskets) makes individual lays and lengths more easily and you don't need to watch which end of the hose you got right now... the only thing thats different... the couplings are wider than your screw connections and especially on the smaller lines this can cause issues but still enjoy watching you do your hose lays in the videos
It's interesting to see how things are done differently across the world. Here in Denmark I haven't seen any preconnect hoses, we usually use hosereels for carfires and trashfires and also roomfires. If we need more water, we lay out hoses and use distributers(don't know a better word for it) where one B hose 75mm diameter/600 l/m goes in and you can connect three C hose 42 or 52mm diameter/200 l/m to it. Here we also only use storz couplings on hoses and only thread on some hydrants.The most common amount of outlets on an engine is about four with a B coupling on.
@@Fejfel same here in Germany. Depending on the size of the engine its 2 B outlets on smaller ones and 4 on the bigger ones and some of them have a premix for foam. Usual fire hydrants have 2 B couplings. very few with A storz, thats nearly 5". but we dont have A hoses anyway. only drain hoses.
That was fantastic! If I became a firefighter i'd really enjoy learning about hose and nozzle types and the geometric problem solving of connecting various lines together to create a functional system. Hydrant > Engine > Hose > Nozzle
Firefighter Katie is SheBeck from week 9 family night! Just realized that. Also noticed the Becker nameplate at station 12 in the bunker room, during A Day In The Life Of A Firefighter. Awesome to see her in this!
I was on our Pulp mills emergency response crew for 15 years and before that I was a forest fire fighter for the Province of B.C. for 12 years I’d take forest fire hose over rubber hose any day way easier to roll up, cleanup and carry than rubber hose
I’m so jealous of the stache. South Metro is my dream department. The culture, the innovation, history. It’s amazing. I think it would be cool to do a video of what a south metro ff keeps in their turnout coat. Or what a hydrant member keeps in their hydrant bag.
Top video! The connection to the hydrants is a lot easier in centern Europe because of the normals of the metric system. The hose can be directly connected to the hydrant
I know you probably disabled the comments on the other video (about the gear) so it can be used in schools without heavy moderation, but I just wanted to commend firefighter Josh. He did a stellar job in explaining the various types in a child-appropriate, yet not patronizing way. It looks like he would be the center of attention when the kids usually come around to the station :)
Did anyone notice that she was standing in front of the hydrant connection when she opened it? I just ran a car fire last week where they hydrant connections blew off with the pressure and hit someones mailbox. Please dont stand in front of a hydrant connection when you open it. Peace and stay safe!
@Ken Turner you might be at a car fire longer than you think and use more water. Also when you get done at thatyou might get another call so always good to know you have water
I hear the engine idle change when you start flowing water how much of the pressure that shoots the water that so far comes from the engine verses the pressure from the hydrant?
Just curious - is there any particular reason for keeping the Blitz line rolled up in a compartment instead of loaded flat and preconnected with the other attack lines?
Hec Tic inside when your putting water on the fire. Dragging that charged hose isn’t light, so having someone dragging that hose and giving you that push at the same time helps. It also helps if the water pressure coming out of the nozzle becomes to much for you to handle it, dragging that hose and controlling it is somewhat physically demanding depending on your size and sometimes the engineer will give you to many GPM for you to handle (it does happen sometime), so leaning on your fellow firefighter can help you with the back pressure.
Push means Katie wants to move and flow in the two-person ‘crooked lean’ position that they use. The best time to use the ‘push’ is when you are inside a home hallway and you are trying to cool the hallway while advancing to the fire room. It is dangerous to not flow if there are hot gases overhead because they could ignite. Smoke is highly flammable. The push beats back the fire and hot gases while getting you in a good position to put water directly onto the fire. Hope this helps HecTic
Obviously Captain Schmidt is a nozzle forward guy and a big proponent of smooth bore but I’ve noticed most engines in SMFR are fog. SMFR doesn’t have a department wide policy regarding that? And if it doesn’t that’s awesome.
1500 gallons? That's almost 5700 litre in non-retarded units. I can't imagine a single scenario where I'd need that much water on one apparatus. °_° But then again, we're a relatively urban department and have the (for european cities) standard quint system. Most of the time we'd rather run a 2 km (1.24 miles) supplyline or have two tenders shuttling than parking a big apparatus with that much water right at the front. I guess it just depends on your system, your environment and your training.
@@maxsteini4922 In the USA those large water capacity trucks are referred to as "Water Tinders" or "Tinders". There are stations here in the USA that have tinders up to 10,000 gallons (37854 liters).
South Metro Fire Rescue PIO I thought there was only one inflatable raft and one jet ski at station 16 and the one boat at Station 31. When did they get a second inflatable raft?
That mustache is on point I must say!
Yes
That stache though! That was lit. Josh did great explaining everything. Job well done overall!
Thanks for the demo. Makes even us "old" guys feel like kids again...never gets old watching firefighters and their equipment. Stay safe. :)
Myself and few fellow firefighters met Captain Schmidt at Nozzle Forward in Chula Vista. Such a great instructor much like the others. Aaron Fields chooses wisely who he has teach with him. Thanks for helping us be journeymen in the fire service.
That’s a C Shift moustache
love Jesus Christ and God PLEASE!!!!!!! Amen
dont say omg or oml
@@tacticaldude35 what did you guys do to jesus when he came to help yall hmm? you tried to kill him and obviously you cant bc hes a prophet and now you guys are fckn scared so you think jesus is the son of god who has no wife nor son and is not to be related to humanity so stop spreading misinformation
A lot of people are commenting on how these guys are talking like their audience are in Elementary level ... that's the whole point. Especially right now when people are staying home for obvious reasons (social distancing, etc.)
If you guys want to go watch a complex UA-cam video about being a firefighter such as the decon. process they go through after being exposed to carcinogens, feel free to look that stuff up.
From my understanding this video's primarily for basic-education for the general public, some may have a learning disability and others might not.
I am a European firefighter myself and just wanted an entertaining and informative video on SMFR hose diameters (since I believe you even got the 2 1/2's straight from Europe), crosslays, horizontal standpipes, etc.
I love most of their videos, many even require basic knowledge of firefighting to understand them completely, especially if they leave the live radio traffic in.
This one I am afraid is just painful to watch as a "normal" person.
Of course I unterstand that this videos are meant as public education for everybody, but what is the purpose if the other 95% can't/dont want to watch it anymore?
He is not the normal person that talks... and most people that watch are people that know and understand the fire department this is more made for preschool or or young elementary school... please redo with the normal people talking normal like the other videos!!!
@@Mike25654 I know Littleton fire rescue was the first department in the US to bring the 5 inch supply line over from Europe and in 2019 Littleton merged with south metro fire rescue
@@Mike25654 I’ve never once heard of 2 1/2 hose coming from Europe.
I never heard of 2.5" hoses coming from Europe either. I never see anyone use them over there for anything other than supply lines. And what really makes me wonder and confused is why those Russian guys that always post helmet camera videos don't use 2.5" or 3" hoses on their fires. It's like they'd rather struggle with the 1.5" garden hose for some reason. It is here in the US too.
My toddler is crazy about firetrucks! It is hard to find content online about fire engines and fire fighters for kids. You guys do a great job. He loves your video Please make more!😊
Thank you so much, we're happy he's enjoying the videos!!
I love the fact that we have Storz couplings on all our lines, no matter if suction side or nozzle side... this is why we have mostly double doughnut roll hoses on our trucks in Austria (and only some preconnects in hose carrying baskets)
makes individual lays and lengths more easily and you don't need to watch which end of the hose you got right now... the only thing thats different... the couplings are wider than your screw connections and especially on the smaller lines this can cause issues
but still enjoy watching you do your hose lays in the videos
With great moustache comes great responsibility, and great inform-ability. Awesome video.
My kids were unaware how much hard work gose in to being fire fighters . they were so impressed they even had their friends watching
This is really cool 😎 to see just how an Engine works at any fire 😲😎 Thanks Josh, Katie and John 👏👏👏 Josh is an excellent orator 👍
I like seeing the cadets from the fire academy series in working stations.
It's interesting to see how things are done differently across the world. Here in Denmark I haven't seen any preconnect hoses, we usually use hosereels for carfires and trashfires and also roomfires. If we need more water, we lay out hoses and use distributers(don't know a better word for it) where one B hose 75mm diameter/600 l/m goes in and you can connect three C hose 42 or 52mm diameter/200 l/m to it. Here we also only use storz couplings on hoses and only thread on some hydrants.The most common amount of outlets on an engine is about four with a B coupling on.
Just got updated, on my newer engines there's only two outlets with B coupling
@@Fejfel same here in Germany. Depending on the size of the engine its 2 B outlets on smaller ones and 4 on the bigger ones and some of them have a premix for foam. Usual fire hydrants have 2 B couplings. very few with A storz, thats nearly 5". but we dont have A hoses anyway. only drain hoses.
LAFD lost a diamond when they treated Katie the way they did. So happy to see her in South Metro!
What happened?
I’m glad to see Katie Becker made it safely through the academy and probationary period
Firefighter Katie nailed the hook up
Great video, used it to show my 3 year old daughter what the fire hydrant does and all the hose on the truck is for.
Good job Josh and fellow firefighters
Hey, it's 1 of 2 Beckers from the Academy vlogs! She appears again lol
The returner
That was fantastic! If I became a firefighter i'd really enjoy learning about hose and nozzle types and the geometric problem solving of connecting various lines together to create a functional system. Hydrant > Engine > Hose > Nozzle
Awesome video. The 2ed ff pushing the first ff forward is something I have never seen before.
I still have no desire to be a firefighter but your content is so informative! Thanx for your content and all the hard work! Keep safe.
That is a magnificent moustache. I feel truly blessed to have seen it.
I just did a nozzle forward class with josh. He’s awesome. Amazing trainer.
Fire engines are incredible so badass what they do.
I love these videos!! GREAT teaching for any and all kids/people!! Keep up the great work!
Firefighter Katie is SheBeck from week 9 family night! Just realized that. Also noticed the Becker nameplate at station 12 in the bunker room, during A Day In The Life Of A Firefighter. Awesome to see her in this!
Laying out hose is the easy part the cleanup afterwards sucks the big one especially if lots of hose is laid out
Tell me about it... °_°
I'm a volunteer firefighter who, for medical reasons, can't be SCBA certified. Guess, what I'm doing on most scenes? ;)
Yes it is a lot of work
That was never the fun part haha
I was on our Pulp mills emergency response crew for 15 years and before that I was a forest fire fighter for the Province of B.C. for 12 years I’d take forest fire hose over rubber hose any day way easier to roll up, cleanup and carry than rubber hose
Roll it up quick
I am retired now but this brought back memories. And, it was all fun until it was time to pick up. Good job by the Probie
I’m so jealous of the stache. South Metro is my dream department. The culture, the innovation, history. It’s amazing. I think it would be cool to do a video of what a south metro ff keeps in their turnout coat. Or what a hydrant member keeps in their hydrant bag.
The firefighter mustache always gets me 😂
Thanks Eric & Connor!!!
The amount of people talking about his moustache is crazy
when you got a fire to put out at 7
but a silent movie to film at 8
Firefighter from Jamaica great jobs guys 🇯🇲👍🍻
I enjoyed that and learned something new as well so thank you for that.
This guy is awesome I bet he's great at schools PS my mustache is so jealous lol
Top video! The connection to the hydrants is a lot easier in centern Europe because of the normals of the metric system. The hose can be directly connected to the hydrant
Looks like E33 got their engine back. NICE!!!
Official mustache of 2020. 10/10
I know you probably disabled the comments on the other video (about the gear) so it can be used in schools without heavy moderation, but I just wanted to commend firefighter Josh. He did a stellar job in explaining the various types in a child-appropriate, yet not patronizing way. It looks like he would be the center of attention when the kids usually come around to the station :)
Cool video! And yes i gotta say awesome stash!! Hahaha👍
Learned a lot for this
Did anyone notice that she was standing in front of the hydrant connection when she opened it? I just ran a car fire last week where they hydrant connections blew off with the pressure and hit someones mailbox. Please dont stand in front of a hydrant connection when you open it. Peace and stay safe!
@Ken Turner you might be at a car fire longer than you think and use more water. Also when you get done at thatyou might get another call so always good to know you have water
We used the water in our tank. We have to refill the truck when your done.
Very good demonstration
Holy cow talk about a Yosemite Sam mustache. Great Video Keep up the Great work be Safe!
Press f to respect that fantastic moustache!
Thank again for doing the videos!
Cool Video! Engine 33 all smooth bore nozzles!
Great video!
Didn’t anybody ever teach firefighter katy what a water hammer is? She is really working that nozzle hard
With great mustache comes great responsibility.
Could we see a day in the life with captain Josh?
Cool this video was super informative, Im tryna be a firefighter
there was a fire engine responding when they were talking about the blitz fire hose
That man has the most epic mustache
he is at the fire house that goes to the scholl and shows them the uniforms and the tools on the fire truck
If your 2.5” discharge delivers a max of 250 gpm. Then how do we get 500 gpm out of the blitz?
Willie Martin nozzle size and pressure
Pump ops, lots of math that makes no sense,
2.5 discharges are rated at 250 but can flow way more than that
Great video
That is an awesome moustache
may you please do a viedo on how htey preplan
I love the evil mustash
Thats an epic tash. Here in uk you wouldnt be allowed that but thats awesome lol
I hear the engine idle change when you start flowing water how much of the pressure that shoots the water that so far comes from the engine verses the pressure from the hydrant?
What kind of hose loads do you guys use? Minutman?
3:35... The Blitz nozzle was full of water! Someone skipped draining it... or they filled it trying to get him wet!
FF Katie needs to teach all volunteers how to match her energy.
What was the attachment she put on the side of the hydrant?
I couldn’t see it clearly but probably a 2 1/2” gate valve.
how the hell does he get a proper seal with that god damn thing on his face lmfao
Im guessing you're a volunteer
@@djohn3008 That would be a very correct statement. However that doesn't answer my question bc thr mustache is massive
They dont say charge the line like on ladder 49 ? Awesome video Eric and connor and smfr wish my city had vlogs
Psycho Angry Drivers And People we use all sorts of call outs personally I like to say Gime the sauce 🤣
We just put my departments new engine in service!!
I love the mustache
Did station 33 get a Medic unit or did they just move the engine to the far side for the video
@South Metro Fire Rescue PIO Captain Schmidt Looks like one of my friends who was that big busy Mustache. i saw that and i was like whaaaaaaaaat????
I love it!!!
Just curious - is there any particular reason for keeping the Blitz line rolled up in a compartment instead of loaded flat and preconnected with the other attack lines?
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO That makes good sense. Thanks for the reply!
His voice and the way he talked like he thought we were 5
Is the 1 3/4 and 2 1/2 called the crosslays?
How come you guys make the engine wait till the hydrant is flushed?
When she says “I need a push” Whats that technique for exactly? Or when do you need that technique in a situation?
Hec Tic inside when your putting water on the fire. Dragging that charged hose isn’t light, so having someone dragging that hose and giving you that push at the same time helps. It also helps if the water pressure coming out of the nozzle becomes to much for you to handle it, dragging that hose and controlling it is somewhat physically demanding depending on your size and sometimes the engineer will give you to many GPM for you to handle (it does happen sometime), so leaning on your fellow firefighter can help you with the back pressure.
Push means Katie wants to move and flow in the two-person ‘crooked lean’ position that they use. The best time to use the ‘push’ is when you are inside a home hallway and you are trying to cool the hallway while advancing to the fire room. It is dangerous to not flow if there are hot gases overhead because they could ignite. Smoke is highly flammable. The push beats back the fire and hot gases while getting you in a good position to put water directly onto the fire. Hope this helps HecTic
I wish we had firetrucks Like that in Germany
Loved it!
What was the green hose in the cross lays
Obviously Captain Schmidt is a nozzle forward guy and a big proponent of smooth bore but I’ve noticed most engines in SMFR are fog. SMFR doesn’t have a department wide policy regarding that? And if it doesn’t that’s awesome.
Can we have more of this like more technical stuff
I bet some ladies would like to take a tour of that duster my dude... yeeeehawwwww
I almost died when he said the engine only carries 750 gallons.. Our engine carries 1500
1500 gallons? That's almost 5700 litre in non-retarded units. I can't imagine a single scenario where I'd need that much water on one apparatus. °_°
But then again, we're a relatively urban department and have the (for european cities) standard quint system. Most of the time we'd rather run a 2 km (1.24 miles) supplyline or have two tenders shuttling than parking a big apparatus with that much water right at the front. I guess it just depends on your system, your environment and your training.
I know a fire department with a 10000 liter (2650 gallon) water tank, they need it when there is a fire on the Autobahn in Austria.
@@maxsteini4922 In the USA those large water capacity trucks are referred to as "Water Tinders" or "Tinders". There are stations here in the USA that have tinders up to 10,000 gallons (37854 liters).
My favorit station is station 33
Woah, who knew that an engines job was to put out the fire
Turkey Hunter CEO of missed the joke
Love that 'stache.
Is he also captain of the dive team?
Love the videoooo
Are you going to do a fleet Friday on a tender? And does South Metro have any fireboats?
South Metro Fire Rescue PIO I thought there was only one inflatable raft and one jet ski at station 16 and the one boat at Station 31. When did they get a second inflatable raft?
South Metro Fire Rescue PIO another question will you do a fleet friday on smfr Forrest Fire plane?
Fish_Bowl_17 what plane?
That is one bad ass mustache
were they filing in for you guys
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO oh ok, i though they were your guys stunt doubles lol
Do you use Akron Brass nozzles?
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO okay.
Does captain Josh work with Dave the engineer?
Yes, he does.
People be saying he sounds like he is talking to kids, well maybe he stuck in with English and got the readers voice.
Can we get a mustache care video?
I have a Boston FD patch that I want to send to you guys do you guys want it