I like the horn blast to tell everyone to get out of the house now.

What a shame. Gorgeous home.

Maaaan!! Look at all those tankers! Wish we had half that many available here!

Thanks for showing the tankers

That was a close call 😱 That was a bad fire. Beautiful house! 😞 Huge fire truck! 😀

Well, we’re looking at the fire coming out of the roof real hard, but it just won’t go out, no matter how hard we all stand around and stare at it!!

That appeared to be an excellent water shuttle exercise. Hard to keep those tanks full!

It is SOP to vent the roof to get the heat and smoke out. The big issue here is the lack of water,i.e. no hydrants so the water had to be brought in by tankers, thus the aerial unit couldn't be used right away. Pumpers don't carry a lot of water and 2 - 1" 3/4 lines can drain a pumper within 2 minutes. Do the math. Once the tankers arrived and they put up the pools and dump their loads of water, only then the fire fighter can really go to work on the fire. Also living in the county fire depts are not just around the corners and oh did I mention no hydrants. That is the risk you take when living in the county.

Mr. Drucker, Joe Carson, Mr. Haney,Newt Kiley, Eb, and Mr. Douglas did everything they could. Alf and Ralph even tried to help.🤦🏾‍♂️

Fire coming out of the roof, so they fully retract the ladder and use a ground line to fight it? WTF???

Good video, got a little warm on the ladder there for a bit huh?

WOW! Aerial ladder truck sitting right on-top of the fire shooting through the roof and no master stream! These firemen should go back to fire training 101.

Once out enforcing our turf we came upon a apartment on fire and I had come out of there but one kid remained and even though the firemen told me not to I made the decision and ran back up the stairs and brought the child back down safely.

Waited way to long to use the masterstream...and when they were on the top floor pull some ceiling and put a nozzle in it...you turned the attic into an oxygen fed torch.

I hope no one takes JB91710's comments any more than what they are, and that is a criticizing and classless rant, he was not there, didn't have any communication of the operation and only saw a very small part of it from a camera set back away from the fire. He didn't have any info pertaining to the operation such as fire conditions inside and around all four sides of the structure, water availability ( I noticed the portable tanks), level of training (and/or specialized training) of each of these brave men who were putting their lives on the line for someone they didn't even know while JB91710 watched it on a 5 inch phone or laptop. It would embarrass me for anyone in my crew to rant and rave about another departments operations without having any information or specifics. Thank you sparkywfd for the upload.

SOB,that much water poured on the roof,very strong and stubborn fire.

Well that was a nice house and what took so long to bust out those windows?

I won't be moving to Uxbridge!

Some type of gas inferno. There was something in their supplying a gas as it burned different that consuming wood. There was no saving that house...just trying to keep the neighborhood from burning down.

Question more than a criticism - Get the guys off the roof, out of the house sooner, and then deliver water sooner right on the burning roof hole and hit the flames? Ladder? Snorkel? As it always seems with any emergency, at the end, the water shuttle gets caught up, there is a parade of tankers standing by to unload, but it is tough to get enough there on the initial response.

Those are probably volunteers

Why do people grill right up next to the house? Really stupid.

I guess the driver of the first ladder truck doesn't know how to take his ladder out of rescue

This is another example of why EVERY ladder should be equipped with a portable tip nozzle.

Reading smoke is important.

The ladder going up at 6:30 is hilarious. TF is that gonna do

OK. aside from the comments abought FD tactics, what was making the roof flame like that?? Looks like either the FD hit a gas line or the fire found one..... Kind of of the why the fire was reacting.

the velocity of the smoke was a sign...just saying

Why did you wait 5 years to post it?

Wow what a terrible fire. Wonder about the building materials in the cockloft that it exploded like a bomb, and so hard to put out...

Fight a roof fire from hand lines on the ground is an interesting approach

I understand it takes time to establish water supply via tanker operations and decision to go defensive until water supply established was good, but once water supply established firefighter tactics deteriorated with majority of valuable water was wasted doing little to no good at all to suppress a well vented interior fire (attic).

Wow. With that much pressurized smoke emanating from the start of the vent was it really a smart move to continue to vent? Christ.

How many gallons do those tanker trucks hold, 5000 gallons?

If i were to build a big ole house like this i'd be putting in fire suppresion systems period. sprinklers in the living space and something like the oxygen depletion stuff in the attic space so avoid things like this, granted i know it was grill that started outside but again sprinkler over that area, with shut off indoors somewhere for winter.

Love the stupidly of these comments! All of you realize that Uxbridge, MA, is in a Rural part of the State and you have limited water supply right? It is a learning experience as well they don't get as many calls as cities do!

TURN THE WATER ON.....

a 90's build lots of chip board might as well be cardboard If you have one,, install mist sprinkler system.

would cost more insurance to rebuild house than to bring out fire serviss , insurance companies take the hit, as usuall, so why high insurance

Big fire, little water.

Also, I would imagine that probably many of these guys just might be volunteers. But I don't live there.

So the extremely aggressive smoke venting from the roof wasn’t an obvious enough sign that there was something going on in the attic space? All that unburnt fuel in the form of smoke just waiting for a big ol blast of fresh oxygen for it to ignite. These chiefs need their asses kicked for putting their guys in that kind of harms way. This is the second video if Uxbridge I’ve watched that was a gong show from a leadership perspective.

Never buy a house that doesn't have hydrants near by.

I’m certainly not an expert or even a firefighter but it seems like there is a lot of confusion and standing around….

why would you send a crew up, just to poke a hole, without a branch? You can see it was going to flash.

yea couldnt see that coming from two miles away. Come on all you did was help it burn. Open the roof with no water ready. Same shit day after day with these fire departments

Firefighther in Asia dont vent the roof cause we have metal roof, we vents windows and extinguish the fire in and outside with 10 lines if the manpower and water supply is enough.. What i see in yr country the style is different you all spend all the time venting the roof and after that just see without trying to put it out the instance.. So many fire truck and manpower just to put a house and yet cant do it.. We can put it out with 10 men and 2 fire truck with constan supply of water.. Poor2 fire figthing teknik..

Why would anyone in their right mind build a monster home like that in an area where there are no fire hydrants? No wonder insurance rates are so high.

OH Boy

Holy shit

All these new homes with large open areas are quick to go down....I'll reframe from commenting on how to fire fight, I've never fought one.

Good job venting the roof guys. Kindof leary watching the stick flex on that angle and two guys on the tip.

I'm not a fire fighter, but jesus christ. 20+ men. And a ladder truck. What the fuck were they doing besides wasting time

i thought fire dept had water they spray, where is that

Why is there not a water cannon on the end of the ladder spraying water in cooling the roof before breaching it to vent it 🤔🧐

What are they doing???? Roof on fire…lets put water on from the ground???….everbody in…..everybody out…then again inside…what a waste of precious time…..

i bet the hot dogs are over cooked.

What a shame. Does this about total a house?

I hate hearing the trucks lay on the horn at a working fire. You know something bad just happened or is about to happen.

Get some water on it for God sakes

i didnt want to wach any more somuch dopes doing nothing, im sick,, just one hose between 25 fire fighters, so sad loss of a nice house, they didnt do nothing, waat dopes.they couldnt put out a match

Yuck, lightweight construction ...

Very bad on the part of the 'Stick' operator he should have trained the head of the ladder away as soon as the 'flash over' occurred

Im pretty most of these guys are volunteers.

total loss, very sad.

Just discover these, how the fuck did they put a man on the moon? Put wet thing on burny hot thing, dont poke holes in high thing, burny hot thing likes air

Ok, I hate armchair chiefs, but this needs to be said. The fact that they vented that roof was unnecessary and extremely dangerous. The structure was already horizontally vented by the open windows, the fire had already vented itself as was visible on the c side roof. The smoke violently pushing from the whole they cut was a clear sign it was going to flash, at one point you see a white hat look up at it. After it happened it was clear that the entire attic was involved. With a visibly tremendous fire load above the heads of the firefighters on the second floor, they were clearly able to be seen pulling the ceiling without a line up there. Command could have clearly seen that from the yard. At one point you can see the orange glow through the hole they pulled in the ceiling. In my opinion, and its just that, an opinion, the evac call was WAY too late. That entire roof could have come down on those guys.

you are far better than udizzy.

Again why are they just letting it burn, get your asses in there and put it out

harrisville hopeless.

Why not move the ladder to the right out of danger?

mam nauczkę, nie pupować domu niby murowanego ale z wacianym dachem

Wooden houses are bad. Built it of stone.

Snorkel perhaps? Ehh?? How about mutual aid?? With a snorkel?

If you dont want coments quit asking for public coments

Lot of details on american houses but very cheap consruction.......cardboard houses....fake stone...fake volets....cavity walls....

when will you Yanks stop venting into the roof.yes you are letting the smoke out.but also letting oxygen in to the fire and making it bigger and harder to control.oh im a 10 year Vet from Australia

Yoo my neighbor house caught on fire Check it out!!!

Gas fed

most of these firefighters let the houses burn I mean come on they need the money they need to get paid to remember if there is no fire there's no money

It boggles my mind how Braindead humans are. I'm talking about these fire players And the commenters. From the very beginning, you get to the second floor, open the ceiling just enough to see in the attic and PUT WATER ON WHAT'S BURNING! Not stand back and watch the place burn down and Definitely NOT cut holes in the roof to Help it burn better and then NOT put water in the attic. What the fire didn't destroy in the attic, the water destroyed. Especially on the lower floors where there was no fire at all. STUPID USA fire playing. Perform useless tactics just because they exist but do Nothing to save this house! The home owners and insurance company need to sue this town into bankruptcy.