You can’t blame a department for not knowing how to put out a grass fire when they don’t fight them often. Good work. Wet stuff on the red stuff. Good job protecting the homes
yes you can! they should be prepared for all situations! my old rural dept ran maybe 1 or 2 fires a yr still trained how to deal with them! wearing structure turnout gear to a grass fire is in itself crazy!
@@jays106 okay true, but they did what they knew first and protected the structures, which could’ve been avoided so to strategy. They may not have those strategies as developed as some of us rural departments might. Also- I’m from a rural department, where we don’t have a ton of money, and we fight wild land fires in structural gear. Our funds are too low to provide wild land turnout gear sadly. Maybe a grant will help us someday.
@@potaitoh69 I really don't think any structure was threaten in this fire. The fire would stop at the actual lawn, which is very green. Now if this was fall, leaves on the trees, drought conditions, the houses would most certainly be in danger if there was some wind. That's too bad your department has no money, maybe there is some grant out there for your department.
@@austinlawler3739 I don’t know, I guess I didn’t know the situation so I just assumed their operation was to protect the structures. Also, we do have Money Just not some to allocate for wild land gear. We normally allocate our funds for extrication equipment (due to 13 miles of I94 highway coverage), wage (obviously) and other operations that trump wild land gear sadly.
when city slickers try to put out a grass fire like it's a structure fire. No way it should have gotten to 60 acres. where is your brush truck? All I see are golf carts.
yea no wildland gear at all! heavy structure gear is gonna wear you out and cause you to overheat on a grass fire in a field. and is that one guy beating the flames with a whisk/straw broom? where are the guys with foresty packs or something that can carry more than 10 gal of water? i remember the indian packs when my old dept got called mutual aid for a forest fire in the woods 6gal of water on your back wore you down plus the grub hoe and having to hike out 1/4 mile to refill the dang thing
You can’t blame a department for not knowing how to put out a grass fire when they don’t fight them often. Good work. Wet stuff on the red stuff. Good job protecting the homes
Thank you for watching!
yes you can! they should be prepared for all situations! my old rural dept ran maybe 1 or 2 fires a yr still trained how to deal with them! wearing structure turnout gear to a grass fire is in itself crazy!
@@jays106 okay true, but they did what they knew first and protected the structures, which could’ve been avoided so to strategy. They may not have those strategies as developed as some of us rural departments might. Also- I’m from a rural department, where we don’t have a ton of money, and we fight wild land fires in structural gear. Our funds are too low to provide wild land turnout gear sadly. Maybe a grant will help us someday.
@@potaitoh69 I really don't think any structure was threaten in this fire. The fire would stop at the actual lawn, which is very green. Now if this was fall, leaves on the trees, drought conditions, the houses would most certainly be in danger if there was some wind. That's too bad your department has no money, maybe there is some grant out there for your department.
@@austinlawler3739 I don’t know, I guess I didn’t know the situation so I just assumed their operation was to protect the structures. Also, we do have Money Just not some to allocate for wild land gear. We normally allocate our funds for extrication equipment (due to 13 miles of I94 highway coverage), wage (obviously) and other operations that trump wild land gear sadly.
when city slickers try to put out a grass fire like it's a structure fire. No way it should have gotten to 60 acres. where is your brush truck? All I see are golf carts.
Yeah that was awful
Thank you both for watching!
They don’t exactly fight them that often around here
@@metraking192 no excuse
yea no wildland gear at all! heavy structure gear is gonna wear you out and cause you to overheat on a grass fire in a field. and is that one guy beating the flames with a whisk/straw broom? where are the guys with foresty packs or something that can carry more than 10 gal of water? i remember the indian packs when my old dept got called mutual aid for a forest fire in the woods 6gal of water on your back wore you down plus the grub hoe and having to hike out 1/4 mile to refill the dang thing