For anyone who doesn't know, the FRUs (with 'Rescue' written on the side) carry Extended Duration Breathing Apparatus (EDBA) sets which are important for high rise firefighting. The standard fire engines (Pumps) only carry Standard Duration Breathing Apparatus (SDBA) which is plenty for most fires. FRUs are automatically dispatched based on the size of the 'make up' of the fire.
Plenty of Fire Rescue Units! Especially the convoy. You can see why - with Grenfell style cladding, multiple rescues & several floors; that's a huge rescue challenge. Well captured video.
What a response! The amount of CU’s and FRU’s is amazing! Great vehicles and so, great catches! Makes me want to go back to London so bad! Great work mate!
Glad it did not turn into another Grenfell Tower, and that is probably why there was such a large turnout to try and make sure it did not. Nice catch and great vid :)
The 53 Plate Mercedes Atego support truck must be one of the oldest LFB vehicles still available on the run. The Mercedes people carrier looked like it had a few people in it too
The veh at 5:25 isn't a BASU. It's a resilience lorry - carries whatever needs to be carried both on blue lights and not(different from OSUs as they serve a primarily response purpose). This lorry should have been carrying high-rise support equipment straight from LFB distribution centre.
Command Units are specially designed vehicles which contain a large working area, computers and communications equipment. Each Command Unit is staffed by a minimum of two Sub Officers who will provide command support at an incident. They wear red and white chequered tabards that read 'Command Support'. and I beleive Special ops are the hazmat guys and girls as they're based out of lambeth which is a hazmat station, as it has the Chemical biological radioactive and neuclear teams based there, such as Detection identification and monitoring, and the rapid response team
forgot to add he CBRN Rapid Response Team (RRT) expands its current remit to provide a specialist 24/7 terror, hazmat and major incident response team capable of immediate deployment to some of the most challenging incidents London Fire Brigade could attend. This means the RRT not only providing a DIM and MCR capability but also overseeing and deploying the SERT capability - including the application of specialist equipment such as COBRA Cold Cut and Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV).
The use of a cutting extinguisher like cobra is a fire extinguishing technique that combines abrasive waterjet cutting with water spray extinguishing, through a single handpiece or nozzle. The fire-fighter approaches the fire from outside the main fire area, then uses the cutting action to drill a small hole through a door or wall. Switching to a water spray then allows the fire to be fought, as with a conventional fogging nozzle The main advantages of this system are in increased safety for the fire-fighter, as they may remain outside the most hazardous area. In particular, the need for highly-dangerous smoke diving is reduced. The small size of the access hole also reduces any risk of flashover or backdraft. Flashover is reduced by avoiding the need to open up a large access hole, backdraft by the flow of water through this small hole keeping any flow cooled and directed inwards, towards the fire. Secondary advantages are in gaining rapid access to the seat of the fire, directly through most construction materials and without needing to cause structural damage that may further weaken a structure. Water is supplied to the Cobra at about 300 bar and a flow rate of up to 60 litres / minute through a lightweight hose that with extensions can be up to 300 meters long. With 350 litres of water carried on-board this allows several minutes active use, even without connection to a fire hydrant. It can cut through 15 cm of concrete in 75 seconds and 10mm steel in 60 seconds. With the coldcut Cobra cutting extinguisher a fire fighter can attack a fire from the safety of being outside the fire room. The water jet combined with an abrasive cutting sand makes it possible to 'shoot' right through a wall or other structure. When the water jet has penetrated the fine water droplets in the water jet hits the hot fire gases in the fire room and are turned to steam. This sucks the energy out of the fire and quickly reduces the temperature in the fire room to the point where the risk of a back-draft is very much reduced or eliminated. It is then safer to make entry into the fire room and apply conventional fire fighting tactics if required. As very little water is used in the process there is also much less water damage to take care of compared with conventional fire fighting methods. i
Hampshire have these fitted to appliances as do Cumbria I beleive . heres a shot of it in action (not the lfb one but one in action, showing what the system does ua-cam.com/video/-ZNdsnwUJlM/v-deo.html
I would imagine it is similar to a rehab unit here across the pond. They bring things like shade tents, chairs, water, coffee/tea, snacks etc. It allows crews a place to rest for 15-30 minutes before re-engaging in the firefight.
1 would be Fire survival guidance , other would be for command meetings, third would be for staging and logistics. every time a call increases in pumps, more units are assigned to handle the workload
1 would be Fire survival guidance , other would be for command meetings, third would be for staging and logistics. every time a call increases in pumps, more units are assigned to handle the workload
most the cars are senior fire / ambulance officers so they're attendance was vital in making an incident of its gravity safer and bringing such incident to a safe conclusion
For anyone who doesn't know, the FRUs (with 'Rescue' written on the side) carry Extended Duration Breathing Apparatus (EDBA) sets which are important for high rise firefighting. The standard fire engines (Pumps) only carry Standard Duration Breathing Apparatus (SDBA) which is plenty for most fires. FRUs are automatically dispatched based on the size of the 'make up' of the fire.
Plenty of Fire Rescue Units! Especially the convoy. You can see why - with Grenfell style cladding, multiple rescues & several floors; that's a huge rescue challenge.
Well captured video.
Indeed, always better to over-deploy and not need them!
The Met doing a bang-up job keeping the scene access clear of traffic I see.
What a response! The amount of CU’s and FRU’s is amazing! Great vehicles and so, great catches! Makes me want to go back to London so bad! Great work mate!
Big turnout of specials indeed, 8 FRUs and I think 6 CUs!
@@northoltflightwatch Epic! When I had a 20 pump fire, it was 3 FRU’s and 3 CU’s ‘only’...
@@LondonEmergency999 Yes, makes sense.
Love the thumbs out coming out the window to the driver of the Black Rolls(forgive me if im wrong) coupe
Was a nice gesture, shame the driver of the Peugeot wasn't as switched-on!
Usually rich cars ignore the siren and lights in more cases.
Glad it did not turn into another Grenfell Tower, and that is probably why there was such a large turnout to try and make sure it did not. Nice catch and great vid :)
My thoughts exactly, thanks!
I know right
The 53 Plate Mercedes Atego support truck must be one of the oldest LFB vehicles still available on the run. The Mercedes people carrier looked like it had a few people in it too
Posibily the dim units are old as well
Nice to see the arial ladder donated by Brethren!
Well done London brigade what a good video 👍
taking no chances and rightly so...with grenfell in mind, the emergency services acted swiftly...great video
Thank you NHS
The Paddington ALP was a great catch. Excellent video 👌
Great compilation mate! Glad it didn’t turn out as bad as some others in recent times...!
Another great video mate! 😀
This is a proper banging video mate well done 👍
Brilliant video mate
Nice Catches mate
Cheers mate!
Awsome video 🚨🚨🚒🚒🔥🔥🚑🚑🚑🚔🚔👮♀️👮♀️👮♀️
Tons of FRU’s
Amazing video! Really wish i could have gone
I happened to choose Whitechapel to kill some time while spotting so when the FRUs and ALP came through in the morning, I knew something was up ;)
@@northoltflightwatch The definition of Right Place Right Time :)
Absolutely brilliant content well put together fab vid top Mark's
0:44 That ALP looks nice
An excellent video. I have never heard of The Coldcut Cobra Support Unit.
It's quite a new feature, but can be very useful for specific type of fires
Nice video👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you 👍
Lesson learned.
The veh at 5:25 isn't a BASU. It's a resilience lorry - carries whatever needs to be carried both on blue lights and not(different from OSUs as they serve a primarily response purpose). This lorry should have been carrying high-rise support equipment straight from LFB distribution centre.
Thx for the info, a couple of inaccuracies in the description have now been edited
That's what we used to call 'turning out the circus'.
Awesome
Congrats on getting a Rolls rocye whatever it is also at 5:50
I think it is a Rolls rocye
the city of London seriously needs space & by that we mean a lot & lot of space and soon!!! not just some bifurcated tunnel under the city!!!
Need to make 'response to a siren/blue light' as part of a driving test. So many clueless drivers.
I still say that London fire engines are poorly lit up at the front blue lights when its sunny still hard to see behind where they are
The old strobe beacons where particularly bad given off a double or triple flash once every blue moon
Donated by London Freemasons cool
Excellent footage mate .What’s the Resilience unit used for ?
Carrying specific bits of equipment
What’s the role of the sog and csu?
Command Units are specially designed vehicles which contain a large working area, computers and communications equipment. Each Command Unit is staffed by a minimum of two Sub Officers who will provide command support at an incident. They wear red and white chequered tabards that read 'Command Support'. and I beleive Special ops are the hazmat guys and girls as they're based out of lambeth which is a hazmat station, as it has the Chemical biological radioactive and neuclear teams based there, such as Detection identification and monitoring, and the rapid response team
forgot to add he CBRN Rapid Response Team (RRT) expands its current remit to
provide a specialist 24/7 terror, hazmat and major incident response team capable of
immediate deployment to some of the most challenging incidents London Fire Brigade could
attend. This means the RRT not only providing a DIM and MCR capability but also overseeing
and deploying the SERT capability - including the application of specialist equipment such as
COBRA Cold Cut and Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV).
I love the HI-LO on the FRUs! What's the Coldcut Cobra Support Unit?
The use of a cutting extinguisher like cobra is a fire extinguishing technique that combines abrasive waterjet cutting with water spray extinguishing, through a single handpiece or nozzle. The fire-fighter approaches the fire from outside the main fire area, then uses the cutting action to drill a small hole through a door or wall. Switching to a water spray then allows the fire to be fought, as with a conventional fogging nozzle
The main advantages of this system are in increased safety for the fire-fighter, as they may remain outside the most hazardous area. In particular, the need for highly-dangerous smoke diving is reduced. The small size of the access hole also reduces any risk of flashover or backdraft. Flashover is reduced by avoiding the need to open up a large access hole, backdraft by the flow of water through this small hole keeping any flow cooled and directed inwards, towards the fire.
Secondary advantages are in gaining rapid access to the seat of the fire, directly through most construction materials and without needing to cause structural damage that may further weaken a structure. Water is supplied to the Cobra at about 300 bar and a flow rate of up to 60 litres / minute through a lightweight hose that with extensions can be up to 300 meters long. With 350 litres of water carried on-board this allows several minutes active use, even without connection to a fire hydrant. It can cut through 15 cm of concrete in 75 seconds and 10mm steel in 60 seconds.
With the coldcut Cobra cutting extinguisher a fire fighter can attack a fire from the safety of being outside the fire room. The water jet combined with an abrasive cutting sand makes it possible to 'shoot' right through a wall or other structure. When the water jet has penetrated the fine water droplets in the water jet hits the hot fire gases in the fire room and are turned to steam. This sucks the energy out of the fire and quickly reduces the temperature in the fire room to the point where the risk of a back-draft is very much reduced or eliminated. It is then safer to make entry into the fire room and apply conventional fire fighting tactics if required. As very little water is used in the process there is also much less water damage to take care of compared with conventional fire fighting methods.
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hope this helps
@@rickycunningham6368 thanks! How do you know this?
@@thescottishpanda5 ehh just know the science side of stuff, researched a lil bit for ya
Hampshire have these fitted to appliances as do Cumbria I beleive . heres a shot of it in action (not the lfb one but one in action, showing what the system does ua-cam.com/video/-ZNdsnwUJlM/v-deo.html
Ah ha some 1 would think they have new rescue units
Nice! What's the resilience unit for?
I would imagine it is similar to a rehab unit here across the pond. They bring things like shade tents, chairs, water, coffee/tea, snacks etc. It allows crews a place to rest for 15-30 minutes before re-engaging in the firefight.
@@Nervegas Thank You.
Why is that Resilience Unit's lighting so bad?
Strobe lights don't show up well on camera, in reality they flash alot more
Why 3 command units for 1 incident
1 would be Fire survival guidance , other would be for command meetings, third would be for staging and logistics. every time a call increases in pumps, more units are assigned to handle the workload
5:28 and 7:04 What kind of unets are they? What do they do. Asking because I haven't seen these before
If you pause the video it literally tells you ....also look at the description area.....
@@SimplyCali619 I read that mate. But that means nothing to me.
@@SimplyCali619 What I mean by that is what is a Resilience unit and What is a cold cobra unit. Never heard of them before
@@Alpha24200 Cold cobra unit is a new feature at the time of the video posted
Is that new TL in service??
@@ukemergencyvideos3335 so not then
@@okay3256 I don't think it was used in the end. Officially, it is not in service.
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Does anyone know when they will start replacing the oldest FRU's? I don't know what the age policy is at LFB
So, where is the fire. There is no smoke????
The fire brigade put it out
@@northoltflightwatch Did they stay to damp it down and have special and normal units to keep and eye on it
Why so many command units?
Each one has a specific role for managing the incident
1 would be Fire survival guidance , other would be for command meetings, third would be for staging and logistics. every time a call increases in pumps, more units are assigned to handle the workload
Did it really need so many little cars blocking up the streets with blue lights and sirens that dont have hoses and pumps ?
most the cars are senior fire / ambulance officers so they're attendance was vital in making an incident of its gravity safer and bringing such incident to a safe conclusion