Yes, the little boy miraculously survived! Jeremy and his family were my next door neighbors at the time of the fire...definitely a hard video to watch. Sac Metro...my heroes!!!

Every Company Officer and Battalion Chief or District Chief should watch this. PHENOMENAL JOB by all. This department has their act together! Super smooth IC giving assignments. All companies arriving and aggressively performing their assignments. Giving assignments along with an objective... Nice. And transmitting "all in" or "all out" is clever to help whoever has Accountability (especially in terms of truck work and ventilating).

Great job by Command and the onscene crews! I must say that the IC used stellar "air time" management on the radio, his orders were clear, concise, efficient, and to the point, I can not see how that could have been done any more efficiently. Due to his performance, within five minutes an offensive strategy was in place, two lines to the fire, water supply established, ventilation and PPV orders addressed, EMS properly staged, and the rescue executed. Nice job, really nice job!!

Well done. We had a fire in our apartment about 2 years ago and I have read the dispatch logs from the incident, but I really would have loved to have heard the radio chatter. I had the distinct honor (if called that) of knowing every one of the fire-fighters that responded. I have thanked every one of them personally for their professionalism and the fact that they saved the house that my apartment was attached to.

Now THAT'S how it's done, brother and sisters! Awesome save! Stay united- there are still LOTS of people out there who stand behind us and actually appreciate what we do.

So nice to see folks moving with a purpose. That's the way I would hope we do it everytime.

Had the pleasure of taking a couple classes from Chief Kastros at the Alaska Fire Conference, he teaches a class called Calming the Chaos. He commands the room no mater what he is doing.

Excellent command presence...Calm, calculated and obviously in control. Nice job.

OUTSTANDING BROTHERS! Loved seeing that hustle of those brothers.

Awesome job! Is there anymore videos with this BC on KZfaq? I would love to see them.

Outstanding....

Very impressed with the BC, very calm through the whole thing. CHAOS does not apply here.

As a veteran of over 10 years as a battalion chief, i see this incident as a classic example of the first 5 minutes determining the outcome. GREAT JOB!!. With regards to the question about the IC and the air time: Really? You have demonstrated your lack of experience and command presence. From City of Miami

On the communications part most depts use a command frequency and a tactical frequency that is two frequencies going at the same time. Great job by everyone nice to have a calm BC delegating assignments makes the incident run smoother

Excellent job brothers!

It was like watching maldersbfd........ nice job job guys.

Thanks!

Good work all. Great command presence.

Amazing video and audio. Anyone who thinks ICS is a useless fad should listen to Chief Kastros run this incident.

Nice rescue boys...

Look at the palm trees

Nicely done fellas. I've got a terminology question for you, what's the meaning of "all in" "all out"? We don't use that here in King County, WA.

@FerntheFDexplorer I love seeing armchair quarterbacks with "explorer" in their name. Different parts of the country do things different ways.

@NTRT11...He didn't overdub it...It's the same voice. Why would he dub it over? When the engine asked for the cross street, they replied back..."Engine 101 water supply and fire attack group" Reply..."Engine 101 copy, fire attack group" and on and on and on... Not dubbed...Nice theory though. :)

My question as a non firefighter, but one who is greatly interested in being one, is how someone sounding so young is in charge. College?

I could be completely wrong, or it could be the point, the the guy acting as command I think is dubbed over the video. I notices that when he was giving orders, nobody would acknowledge the orders, and when the Captain asked him what he had at the end, it was a diferent voice coming from the command vehicle?