@@Rainman14 Actually in this case, when the wires burned off and fell into the back yard. Sometime after that point, the power company may have arrived and killed the power to that damaged drop. Some fire depts. are trained to cut the drop near the pole upon arrival, and have a special tool (insulated cutter on long pole) to do so. They would cut the insulated wires only, one at a time, then finally cut the bare neutral loose.
+Carol Stevens Each tone is a tone for a company. So say fire company A had a fire call, then dispatch would send the tone for company A throughout the county so their pagers would go off and they know to respond to station. Dispatchers talk after the tones so firefighter know where to go and what is happening but I didn't record that.
+Rainman14 Awesome! So you turned up it's resolution before filming then. "Cause all too many people use their iPhones on low res and the video is SO crappy. Good job!
+Richy BearPaw well I don't know how to turn up resolution, but the iPhone camera isn't that bad when you film in landscape mode and it's not blurry, I also always try to ulnar my videos I'm 1080p
+Rainman14 Yes it is all too obvious that you are using 1080p. That is what I mean. Many people change that to something like 720p so as to use less memory and therefore be able to record longer videos at the sacrifice of clear video. And thumbs up on the landscape also. I HATE when it is narrowed to a little strip only, or a little strip with blur on both sides. Many, many people complain about that on UA-cam as I'm sure you know.
OK. Question: I know this is not a third world country but why were there that many firefighterunits involved. That would seem to give some command and control-ssues, would it not? In the Netherlands this command and control structure would be different.
+shady grove well in America, in at most counties like this one, they have a set amount of units to be dispatched for whatever type of call it is, like this is a structure fire call, so for that township, they would dispatch the type of units the fire chiefs of the area would like. So incase it gets big, or the fire is big, they dispatch so many units.
Ok. Thinking it over: its understandable; infact, we do the same in Europe, but you guys have greater distances and responsetimes for additional units are greater.
These guys did a great job by attacking the fire in the loft space which prevented the fire spreading more rapidly,rather than using a chainsaw method first.Text book firefighting imho.
These guys did a great job saving the house. Great job to you too with getting the wires coming down I really thought that was going to set the car on fire. I guess the electric company got it shut off just in time.
+Ron Roberts yeah they did do a good job saving the house, damage was contained to the attic mostly. The wire went down into the back yard, but yeah, there was some smoldering debris that fell down on the red car.
+Dave Williams I'm not sure if it was the meter, but I'm pretty sure it was something electrical cause the meter was on fire as well as the area where the wires come into the building
American firefighters never seem to be in any hurry. They just stroll around fixing their hair and whistling and will get to fight the fire whenever it suits them.
+Zach Lamanna - Also, they are trained that rushing/running too much leads to mistakes and/or injuries. Even death! I used to be a volunteer before retirement. I know! What we called in our Volunteer Dept, "Move quickly, but take your time!"
What happened to packing out in route and come off the truck ready to fight? Wasted time costing property damage and loss of life in some of the videos. I guess I'm old school, and you know all the new kids know it so much better then we ever did, just ask any one of then.
+Todd Harvey well this was a volunteer department and I'm remember that the first guy that packed up responded straight and I arrived right after the truck so he got his pack on decently fast.
If I owned that place, I'd tell the firemen to let it burn..... that driveway looks like it's a pain in the ass to go up and down anyhow, just build another house somewhere that's on flat ground..........
I don't understand why they didn't start spraying water right away. If that was my house I would have freaked out on those guys. Even a garden hose could have put it out. WTF.
+big D fan but threre was a lot more fire on the inside that an outside attack could not have put out. Yeah a squirt on the outside would have helped but all fire damage was contained to the attic. And most likely, they would have had to overhaul the wall there anyways so it wouldn't have saved much money.
Umm "BigDFan" this was clearly an electrical fire. Unless you want to die, you can't go spraying the source unless the power co. cuts power to the property.
I'm cringing watching this... I get that you want to put the fire out, but the guy on the back shouldn't be getting off with his mask on running up to the house, he didn't even bother to look at the overall layout and scene conditions. And where was he going without the officer? They should've NEVER thrown that first ladder, they were in extreme danger of being electrocuted by touching the aluminum gutter. Throwing water in the attic with a straight stream was quite risky too. Guys just have to realize that you can't rush in when electricity is involved. IMHO the best option would've been to pulse a fog stream from the outside until the electric line burned off, or the power was shut off. Then make an interior attack. I'm glad no one got hurt here, but they need to rethink their tactics.
+ffjsb thanks for your insight, I can see where your points are coming from. Yeah I know it might not have been ideal to throw that first ladder, but it was nowhere near any electric. Also, the guy running was because they needed 2 in and 2 out. And he had 2 Chiefs on scene before him to asses the situation, include a chief that was going interior and needed his help. Also, he did attack with straight stream, I see why that is bad, but he did short bursts even after the power line fell.
Rainman, "might not have been ideal to throw that first ladder"... Seriously?? You might as well light a flare next to a leaking gasoline tanker. Throwing an aluminum ladder against an aluminum gutter is ABSOLUTELY something that should've NEVER happened in this situation. 2 in, 2 out is worthless if you just throw common sense away. The guy shouldn't have been running, there waw absolutely no need for it, and he clearly took no time to observe the scene. The Chief has nothing to do with it, firefighters should be looking at the scene themselves as they go in. This dept. needs to do some serious training, especially the Chiefs.
ffjsb seriously? " You might as well light a flare next to a leaking gasoline tanker" The hazard related to a ladder against a gutter is nowhere close to your reference. Also if you watch the video, you can see the interior team is pulsing the water. In addition, you have no idea whether or not the FF running in got a scene size up or not.
Hats off to our men and women who fight fires and protect us .
+Rusty Nail cheers!
Fantastic footage, 8:19 would make an excellent still photo.
Hats off to the firefighters.
+ddylla85 yeah, they did a good job.
2:40 thatd make an amazing still image..
Hi !! At what point was the electric service cut off?
+Bruce Malo I'm not exactly sure, I forget, but it wasn't till after engine 13 arrived
@@Rainman14 Actually in this case, when the wires burned off and fell into the back yard. Sometime after that point, the power company may have arrived and killed the power to that damaged drop. Some fire depts. are trained to cut the drop near the pole upon arrival, and have a special tool (insulated cutter on long pole) to do so. They would cut the insulated wires only, one at a time, then finally cut the bare neutral loose.
What do those dispatch tones mean at the beginning of the video?
+Carol Stevens Each tone is a tone for a company. So say fire company A had a fire call, then dispatch would send the tone for company A throughout the county so their pagers would go off and they know to respond to station. Dispatchers talk after the tones so firefighter know where to go and what is happening but I didn't record that.
Nice HD video, Rainman. What camera do use?
+Richy BearPaw I use an iPhone 5c
+Rainman14 Awesome! So you turned up it's resolution before filming then. "Cause all too many people use their iPhones on low res and the video is SO crappy. Good job!
+Richy BearPaw well I don't know how to turn up resolution, but the iPhone camera isn't that bad when you film in landscape mode and it's not blurry, I also always try to ulnar my videos I'm 1080p
+Rainman14 Yes it is all too obvious that you are using 1080p. That is what I mean. Many people change that to something like 720p so as to use less memory and therefore be able to record longer videos at the sacrifice of clear video. And thumbs up on the landscape also. I HATE when it is narrowed to a little strip only, or a little strip with blur on both sides. Many, many people complain about that on UA-cam as I'm sure you know.
+Richy BearPaw yeah, every now and then for my long videos I won't have enough storage so I had to do 720p but I think I fixed that problem.
OK. Question: I know this is not a third world country but why were there that many firefighterunits involved. That would seem to give some command and control-ssues, would it not? In the Netherlands this command and control structure would be different.
+shady grove well in America, in at most counties like this one, they have a set amount of units to be dispatched for whatever type of call it is, like this is a structure fire call, so for that township, they would dispatch the type of units the fire chiefs of the area would like. So incase it gets big, or the fire is big, they dispatch so many units.
Ok. Thinking it over: its understandable; infact, we do the same in Europe, but you guys have greater distances and responsetimes for additional units are greater.
+shady grove yeah, also this is volunteer, so there's always a chance a company or two won't respond.
Good use of Venturi ( from the hose line )to draw the smoke 💨out of the building 👍🇬🇧
These guys did a great job by attacking the fire in the loft space which prevented the fire spreading more rapidly,rather than using a chainsaw method first.Text book firefighting imho.
nice how did it start
+millenniums hhh h if you start from the beginning, you can see a bulk of the fire around the electrical areas outside the house.
+millenniums hhh h for example at 00:17 you can see fire on the meter of the house
These guys did a great job saving the house. Great job to you too with getting the wires coming down I really thought that was going to set the car on fire. I guess the electric company got it shut off just in time.
+Ron Roberts yeah they did do a good job saving the house, damage was contained to the attic mostly. The wire went down into the back yard, but yeah, there was some smoldering debris that fell down on the red car.
Nice video Rainman14!
+Larry R Wendell Jr thank you
Excellent....firemen went in...fire went out!!
Very awesome footage
+World Emergency Buff109 Thank you
Thank you for all firefighters to help save people and animals thank serving our country
Was a "Smart" meter the cause of this electrical fire? I've heard they have a history of shorting out and causing fires. (Great video by the way !!!)
+Dave Williams thank you
As I was watching the video, I noticed that the meter was smoking also, that's why I asked if a "Smart" meter was the cause.
+Dave Williams I'm not sure if it was the meter, but I'm pretty sure it was something electrical cause the meter was on fire as well as the area where the wires come into the building
That's what I was wondering. It was all (fire) outside and where the wires connect to the house. Was everyone ok? I hope so.
+Dave Williams yeah no one was hurt
Blue jeans on a structure fire?
I’ll take that second fireman on scene for my crew.
Good video! There was lots of equipment and firefighters there. Do volunteers use a fire like this to expand their practice time/training as well?
+walroth1 thank you. What do you mean by volunteers using this fire as training?
the dude running out of the engine must be new. had to be his first fire.
Great job! Thank you from Sandy , Fort Payne ,Alabama.
Ugh, live wires. Very dangerous.
They did a very good job
+TheCabinfever1977 yes I agree
I always wonder why they never get their 🚗 out of the way as the most important part. So the firemen has more space
Even in the streets.
+Lady Servicedog yeah. But maybe they just left their keys inside
cute little rainbow
there was no reason to vent that roof, they had it out through the gable end, now the homeowner has to replace both gable end and the entire roof
+Skankpronger they did not vent the roof, they only cut the areas that were already burnt as overhaul. It would have needed to be replaced anyways
Very good job. Nice stop and save.
Great call...maybe not ladder the roof...energized?
FIRE DEPARTMENT IS NOW ON SEN
no wonder it caught on fire that's a shotty ass wiring job
+jbody andrew yeah, I haven't looked into the cause of this fire but I'm guessing it was electrical
Yeah, I agree. Somebody tryin to save a buck and end up damn near burning the house down!
Rainman14 pretty sure it was electrical the box was smoking at the bottom too if you look closely
+jbody andrew yeah I saw that, but I could have been burning debris too
Ah, another smart meter failure...............
good job
+White Matt thanks
Nice to be out on a sunny day for video for a change I'll, bet. Thanks.
+Pelican1984 yeah, I was happy it wasn't to cold
cooles video👍 die feuerwehr leute machen einen sehr schweren aber guten job💪
+Riepexi ! Thank you
WooW Good Job ;) You Rock Man
Thank you
Good Thing It Was Only A Small fire.
+The Lucky Channel - yeah, sounded like they called 911 as soon as they saw flames at Ye very beginning of the fire
American firefighters never seem to be in any hurry. They just stroll around fixing their hair and whistling and will get to fight the fire whenever it suits them.
+trop68 well actually, they didn't have enough resources on scene until the second engine showed up. That's why hat guy was running.
+Zach Lamanna - Also, they are trained that rushing/running too much leads to mistakes and/or injuries. Even death! I used to be a volunteer before retirement. I know! What we called in our Volunteer Dept, "Move quickly, but take your time!"
Richy BearPaw yea but they moved a bit too slow honestly, we would've been chewed out if that was us
don't forget the fireman jumping out of the yellow firetruck, he wasn't wasting time.
That fella was going for it !
that's not true my daddy is a firefighter and he don't do that
+Noah Draper what's not true?
Lot of trucks showed up !
+David Carruthers yeah, cause it was a worker
What happened to packing out in route and come off the truck ready to fight? Wasted time costing property damage and loss of life in some of the videos. I guess I'm old school, and you know all the new kids know it so much better then we ever did, just ask any one of then.
+Todd Harvey well this was a volunteer department and I'm remember that the first guy that packed up responded straight and I arrived right after the truck so he got his pack on decently fast.
rainbow @6:05
+pdm9x 1a yeah I didn't see that until I looked back at the video
foam
+Aaron Smith water
If I owned that place, I'd tell the firemen to let it burn..... that driveway looks like it's a pain in the ass to go up and down anyhow, just build another house somewhere that's on flat ground..........
ha ha
Yes why do they seem to take so long ? does not happen in the uk ,I just wonder why thats all :)
+Clive Shepherd why what takes so long?
I don't understand why they didn't start spraying water right away. If that was my house I would have freaked out on those guys. Even a garden hose could have put it out. WTF.
+big D fan but threre was a lot more fire on the inside that an outside attack could not have put out. Yeah a squirt on the outside would have helped but all fire damage was contained to the attic. And most likely, they would have had to overhaul the wall there anyways so it wouldn't have saved much money.
Umm "BigDFan" this was clearly an electrical fire. Unless you want to die, you can't go spraying the source unless the power co. cuts power to the property.
I'm cringing watching this...
I get that you want to put the fire out, but the guy on the back shouldn't be getting off with his mask on running up to the house, he didn't even bother to look at the overall layout and scene conditions. And where was he going without the officer? They should've NEVER thrown that first ladder, they were in extreme danger of being electrocuted by touching the aluminum gutter. Throwing water in the attic with a straight stream was quite risky too. Guys just have to realize that you can't rush in when electricity is involved. IMHO the best option would've been to pulse a fog stream from the outside until the electric line burned off, or the power was shut off. Then make an interior attack.
I'm glad no one got hurt here, but they need to rethink their tactics.
+ffjsb thanks for your insight, I can see where your points are coming from. Yeah I know it might not have been ideal to throw that first ladder, but it was nowhere near any electric. Also, the guy running was because they needed 2 in and 2 out. And he had 2 Chiefs on scene before him to asses the situation, include a chief that was going interior and needed his help. Also, he did attack with straight stream, I see why that is bad, but he did short bursts even after the power line fell.
Rainman, "might not have been ideal to throw that first ladder"...
Seriously?? You might as well light a flare next to a leaking gasoline tanker. Throwing an aluminum ladder against an aluminum gutter is ABSOLUTELY something that should've NEVER happened in this situation. 2 in, 2 out is worthless if you just throw common sense away. The guy shouldn't have been running, there waw absolutely no need for it, and he clearly took no time to observe the scene. The Chief has nothing to do with it, firefighters should be looking at the scene themselves as they go in. This dept. needs to do some serious training, especially the Chiefs.
+ffjsb I don't think they need serious training
ffjsb seriously? " You might as well light a flare next to a leaking gasoline tanker" The hazard related to a ladder against a gutter is nowhere close to your reference. Also if you watch the video, you can see the interior team is pulsing the water. In addition, you have no idea whether or not the FF running in got a scene size up or not.
+Greg W thank you Greg