Police Officer, Civilian Help Battle Well-Involved House Fire | Irvine, CA
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2021
- 03.30.2020 | 12:19 PM | IRVINE - A police officer and a civilian neighbor used garden hoses to help battle a fire that quickly engulfed a condominium, Monday afternoon.
Authorities responded to reports of a structure fire at a condominium complex in the 10 block of Butterfield around 12:19 PM.
Units arriving on scene located a two-story condominium with heavy fire showing from the first-floor.
A police officer and civilian neighbor were dousing the fire with garden houses to keep the fire in check before firefighters could take over.
Firefighters initiated an aggressive fire attack and worked to extinguish the bulk of the blaze within 15 minutes before it could spread to an adjacent residence.
The family that resides at the affected condominium was home at the time of the fire but was able to escape without serious injury.
Fire investigators are on scene working to determine the cause of the fire.
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always good to arrive prepared to go to work instead of having to stop fire suppression in order to put on your face mask, etc.
Not really impressed with the lack of aggressiveness...
I think the firefighters let it get worse... Holy a hit they were slow
Yo0u didn't see the civilian and police officer Waiting for the proper cloth. They applied water to slow the fire down. These guys have to get fully dressed while they let the fire get bigger.
Don’t blame the first responders. A lot could have been done by the homeowner? Closing doors on the fire room? Calling the fire department without delay. Using fire suppression if available (fire extinguisher) etc.
Not blaming but this is what I do for a living so totally judging lol
I think the civilian and PO did a better job not letting the fire get out of hand. As soon as they put the hoses away... Boom💥 it got out of control
i hope it wasn't to get out of making any more mortgage payments.
It does look like a total loss unfortunately ☹️
Fucking buffoonery.
Edit: I feel the need to qualify my comment.
There is an acronym in the fire service called RECEO that helps prioritize your actions on the fire ground.
-Rescue
-Exposures
-Containment
-Extinguish
-Overhaul
If there was a confirmed rescue, I would expect the first firefighter to be moving with much more urgency to mask up and make entry with another firefighter. It appears from the video that there was no rescue necessary. Regardless, the survivability profile of a victim would be near zero.
That being said, preventing the fire from spreading to the neighboring units (Exposures) is priority. That means that first firefighter should have not wasted time fumbling with his breathing apparatus, he should have been doing what we call "hitting it hard from the yard". Knocking down the the bulk of the fire from the exterior, so that another engine company can effect an interior attack with much less heat. It took way too long for the engineer on the pumping engine to get water to the nozzle man to accomplish that. Consequently, it is reasonable to expect that the structure incurred much more fire and smoke damage than necessary.
The guy laddering the building with an extension ladder by himself was unacceptable and sloppy. Climbing angle was too shallow.
Lots of standing around by individuals who should have been putting in work, setting up a tool cache for RIC, softening the structure, etc.
RECEO is one of the first things learned by working firefighters. It's the fundamentals. Based on what I saw, RECEO was not employed.
For a department that regards itself as one of the best in the world, this was a poor showing.