Btw.. Great job by the policeman and the guy with the garden hose… They saved the garage!!

I love how they dismiss the guy with the hose like what are going to do with that little thing and then sit there for several minutes with their big limp hoses doing nothing. The garden hose guy saved the day along with the several extinguishers

Absolute boneheaded decision on behalf of the first due engine officer. Your truck has 750 gallons of tank water for a reason, USE IT.With a working fire assignment dispatched your water supply can be designated to the second due or even hand jacked to the hydrant by others already on scene. Poor execution, if this is part of their SOGs then there chief needs to reevaluate how out of the box this response was.

WOW!!! This is absolutely unacceptable. That’s was a bad call sending your engine to the hydrant. Then the embarrassment of the one fireman using the guys hose to put the fire out and seeing the civilian laugh at it is priceless. This department needs to revaluate there SOP’s on this.

Wow! Over 3 minutes until they had water flowing! 1 minute is a pretty long time where I come from.

The firefighter with the garden hose is gold!

Home owner did a Great job, You guys need to sign him up !! That garden hose put out alot of fire !!!! I knew something was wrong when the line was stretched, delayed, and the garden hose was still in use ????

Dump your tank water on it. if necessary, have the 2nd due to lay a supply line. It's not only quicker, but you don't have to rebed a ton of hose = back in service quicker.

Pretty slick paint job on those Ocean rigs.

Nice job! How many people just stand and watch everything go up in flames is insane. This guy had the wherewithal to pick up a water hose. If he waited for the fire department, EVERYTHING would have been lost. Nothing against firefighters. I absolutely have the utmost respect for them. But they can only get there so fast. Nice job! Very proactive!

Good job keeping the fire from extending using a garden hose. Its amazing what a little bit of water in the right place can do. Again this video proves the ineffectiveness of B/C extinguishers. They don't remove the heat source. I have 2 Class A's at my disposal and one in my truck. Good thing the owner took the garden hose to it. Otherwise that garage would have been a total loss .

For some reason the fireman using the garden hose is so funny!

Thank goodness for the homeowner and cops. The garden hose may not be much but every ounce you can put on the fire up front, quickly, will reduce the extent of fire later. You have a pumper truck with water on it, use it. They were so worried they might run out of water they didn't put any water on the fire. At least they didn't run out, they can haul it back to the station for the next run.

Hose wagons became obsolete perhaps 100 years ago and are found in museums and parades. Now you have shiny trucks with lots of lights, that carry perhaps 500-700 gallons of water, and a big pump to make to make the hose hard. Lots more water than a green line. Like many of the other comments, the attack of this one was bizarre and slow. I never armchair these videos as we only see one perspective, but damn, this was hard to watch. Definitely a training film for the future.

on my department the first engine in we pull a pre-connect side lay and have water on the fire within a minute of arrival. And we are all volunteer. I have several times myself drove the engine engaged the pump and started putting water on the fire before anyone else showed up.

How f**cking long does it take to these guys to charge a line?

3 minutes 21 seconds from arrival to water at the nozzle is simply appalling by any standards.

A Chief/Officer made the scene prior to the Engine’s arrival and still allowed the pumper to go down the street? Why not pull a pre-connect from the cross lay? I timed them & it took 3 min & 24 sec to get water on the fire that wasn’t from the residential pre-connect. If they used more than 150 gal to knock the fire down I’d be surprised. It’s probably a good thing it took as long as it did to get water after they pulled what looked like 400’ of bedded hose & left it in a spaghetti pile. These guys need better training & management.

The paramedics and firemen deserve a lot of credit your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks don't work to hard love and appreciate you guys let's stop and hope everyone is doing ok right ? Joe

This is why you should have 3/4 run to your water hose with 60 psi. I have 3/4 four corners of my house and they will all reach each other’s location, so I can have two lines going at once.

Well that was painful to watch, here in the UK we would have a high pressure line out and the whole thing would have been done in two minutes back to the station for a brew..

its a friggin vehicle fire, whatever happened to using tank water???????? The guy riding officer had fire up his ass. Hate to Monday morning quarterback but this job showed lack of experience.

So, just wondering. Does that engine not have a 500-750 gallon booster tank on it?

First in Engine should have done a fast attack with pre-connects off his truck. If the Second In Engine was too far out and he needed additional water, he could have told all those folks standing around talking on their radios to hand-jack a 2 1/2” to the hydrant for a water supply. The civilians and police would have jumped in and gladly helped drag the line. We use that tactic on structure fires all the time and save almost every structure (99%+) of the viable saves. If they are already fully involved we are able to stop it from getting much worse. And we are a volunteer department with unmanned stations. I’ve seen better organization watching Sh!t-Fights in the Monkey Cage at the zoo.

Unacceptable that they are using the garden hose and not charging the cross lay. unacceptable. SMH wow

Pull just past the fire and hit it with the trash line. Tank water would more than sufficient.

I thought it was pretty funny when the guy asked "what do you need?" Its a car fire! Just put the fire out, problem goes away! Act like you have done this before! Thank God the garage didn't catch. You would have probably managed to burn the whole block down

Imagine if the home/vehicle owner posted the thoughts that were running through his head once the firefighters arrived on scene. He looked a little perturbed at one point. I’m sure there would be something along the lines of what the f@#k?

Wow! They need to be retrained. Very poor fire attack. Now if they needed an additional attack line the rig is down the street.

Wow, just wow. That was as embarrassing in the extreme, a fire department using the homeowners garden hose to initially suppress the fire? That’s what I saw right? And what is all that crap on the guys helmet 6:23? These guys should worry less about having flags on the bumpers and all sorts of crap strapped to their helmets and focus more on the basics. This is what happens when firefighters start believing their own hype.

Here in Victoria Australia, we pay a yearly Fire Service Levy, If these homeowners pay something similar, I'd want my money back. I'm a retired career firefighter, if it took us this long to charge a line and use it there would have been a please explain from a commander or above.

In the UK they would have had the fire out in the time it took them to lay the line and asking for water which when they said they were ready was still slow in arriving. The home owner and police officer saved the garage.

Good to see even the firefighters used the best of the garden hose until the line was charged. Even smaller amounts of water is much better than NO water.

A shame that engine doesn’t carry tank water…

lol that one firefighter says "im tired of waiting for water, i'm gonna use this garden hose a little longer!" haha

Yes in the UK high pressure hose reel would have been off and water on the fire within 30 seconds of arrival. I wonder why American appliances don't have these?

The owner was probably saying….what the hell, my hose was doing the same shit.

What a shame, you would never see something like that in Europe where they start spraying water literally seconds after the truck arrives.

Agreed !! a very unacceptable response. First engine on the scene should of assessed the situation where only the vehicle was on fire. The thing to do is attack with the inch and half lines using water on truck. Sad that they spent several more minutes driving the truck to the hydrant and then supplying water from there. Very poor call. Had I been the homeowner, and the garage caught on fire because of this poor call, definitely would bring lawsuit.

Got to admit, when they started to drag line off the back I thought the guy without the air pack was going to hand jack it back to a hydrant on the corner while the rest of the crew pulled a cross lay or two... Even still, once the engine got to the hydrant, why not flow water from the tank while you hook to the hydrant?

3 minutes from the time the truck arrived to get water on the fire? Go back to school boys, YOU NEED IT !!

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Am I the only one questioning the length of the pre-connect? This most be common practice for them. Lay your attack line down the street as you reverse lay. Your attack engine is down the street. Pump operator has no clue to what's going on at the scene. You never use your attack piece to fetch it's own water.

Pretty darn embarrassing when a guy with a garden hose and a cop with an extinguisher are more co-ordinated and effective than an entire pumper crew!

Wow Pull a cross lay and if you happen to run out of 750 gallons on that fire you can always hand jack the short distance to the hydrant

The only credible things I can come up with was that their pump was out of service and they had to use hydrant pressure, tank was empty due to a leak, or valve issues?????

Pre-connect, pre-connect, use it till you have water supply established. Or at the very least pressurized water extinguisher till then.

Let's stop and hope everyone is doing ok let's stop and honor and appreciate the paramedics and firemen who proudly serve us your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks they deserve alot of credit tons of it great job great team work and good catches as usual still going strong stay safe and warm out there way to go !!❤😂😂😅 Joe.

About 3 1/2 minutes from the time of arrival of the first engine to the time of water on the fire. And first due went for water?? This is inexcusable and this fire department should be investigated by the NJ Div of Fire Safety amongst other agencies. Glad I don’t live in Brielle.

Can never understand why the US firefighters take so long to get any water on a fire , especially as I read that the truck carries water on it . Embarrassing for many fire fighters I'm sure .

@3:30 the homeowner sprayed the firefighter with his garden hose 😆

It never ceases to amaze me if the neighbors got together with their garden hoses it may have been knocked down if not slow down even the firefighter was using the garden hose till the water was started after they evacuated the owner the firefighter picked up where he left off main reason the garage was saved all those fire extinguishers and one garden hose

SMART DUDE. Hose can't exstinguish, but it can protect an exposure. +Great job to the Pro-FF Petrulla for not disdaining the Garden Hose.

I don't understand about using the garden hose only for a while. The fire rages on, but firemen stand around. Does it take time for the hydrant to start working? It was watching the Keystone Kops.

Fire chief : " you take over the garden hose. You pull down some hose. You drive the truck 2 miles to the hydrant. Yes I know you have 750 gallons on board but dammit get to the hydrant. The rest of you stand around and watch the garden hose techniques of fire fighter Sid. There will be a test on it later "

They do need to speed it up a little on getting water on that hose

It's amazing how quickly they got their fire hose turned on.

@3:15 - "Matt, What do you need" - He Needs More TRAINING !!

As a non firefighter the slowness of getting water onto the fire was poor, if it is on the engine use it. The UK has a lot of retained firemen to provide a service. Remember these guys are volunteering to put there lives at risk to try and save property. An occasional appreciation of there work would go a long way with them.

Scrolled down...surprised no one has commented on the address yet. Real BLAZE going there.

Big fan of the 800’ 1.75”

It always cracks me up when people say "Working" vehicle fire. It's either on fire or it's not... SMH. And like others have said, piss poor job. Never in over 35 years have I ever been on a vehicle fire (other than a commercial vehicle) that we EVER hooked to a hydrant, even with a 500 gallon tank. We never have a medic, Chief, or Fire Marshall show up either. And tell the friggin' probie to put on SCBA or go sit on the hydrant.

Sitting here watching. Like what are you waiting for to charge the line. They pulled enough spaghetti off to wrap around the block. Then like others commented about not using the booster tank. Wow.

Dude. Watching them nozzle with a garden hose was epic. I’m surprised they didn’t use tank water at first.

I have a question I'm hoping a firefighter can answer. If it took almost 3 1/2 mins to get the line charged and water flowing, is it possible their tank was dry? I remember seeing an engine roll up on a garage fire on their way back from a car fire on the freeway and they didn't have water onboard after using it all. Does that happen often? I remember hearing them say they were out and had to hook up to a hydrant. Wasn't their second due engine about 9 minutes out? I can kind of see why they hooked up the supply but after reading a lot of comments pretty much everyone disagrees. Either way, great video. I'm sorry they lost their truck and damage to the garage. Everyone is okay which is really what counts most.

WTF, why not use tank water and put out the truck fire? The guy with the garden hose deserves a medal for saving the garage. If that is a class A pumper you have at least 500 gallons of water, use it to put out the engine fire in a pickup. If you cant get it out, your doing something very wrong. Notice it only took about 100 gallons of water and the fire was knocked down. Crazy time! Volunteer or not, matters not, learn what your engine can do and save peoples property!

Seriously! a fire fighter playing the garden hose hero!!!

What's the problem with charging that handline? Supermen with no packs.

Terrible job of fire fighting. It took way to long to get water on this fire

so strange. when i was a firefighter for 14 years, been in MANY MANY interior attacks where the line is charged way the fu** before being hooked up to a hydrant. Who are these clowns!?

they did a great job with those extinguishers and the garden hose ontil crews arrived!!

the fire will have burnt out before they get water on it

It takes them too long to get hoses live and water on active fires! especially if they have a truck loaded with water

❤😂❤😂😂😅😅❤😂😂great job great team work and great and sweet catches as usual still going strong they deserve alot of credit tons of it let's stop and honor and appreciate the paramedics and firemen and police and sheriff who proudly serve us your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks stay safe and warm out there let's stop and hope everyone is doing ok wonder what the couse is that started the fire ?!!! Joe

The fireman who finally just goes for the garden hose. A for effort! ;)

Apparently that's why their pre connect hand line is a few hundred feet long, so the engine can go catch a hydrant. 🤦‍♂️

Probably the most manpower overkill I have ever seen for a small fire, in the UK you are lucky if you get 1 fire engine attending for this type of incident. Here in the UK most engines have water tanks and their training is very good so they do need 10 or more chiefs there telling them where to point the hoses.

Can we put some water on the fire sometime today????

That is a riot!! After his probation the fireman will advance from garden hose to a real fire hose.

Finally, personnel using available hose to slow the fire. Good job!

"Hit it hard with the five eights', we'll get it knocked down"

If they had pulled a second garden hose they probably could have gotten the fire out in half the time it took the FD to put water on the fire. Sad.

at least that command officer has an organized truck. What was he doing in there the whole time?! command dammit!

My friends and I got off work to see a custom van smouldering under the dash. In the 5 min it took the fire dept.to arrive, we watched the fire pop up then run though the whole van. They burn up quick once they get going....

Legend has it the line still isn’t charged

why would the firemen grab extinguishers when they have a fully loaded truck to dump water on??? This makes no sense......that fire should have been out much quicker.

Fire Fighter Fenton is going to have a field day with this one!

Wow. I will ask my standard question. Are they paid or volunteer? If even one person (engine officer, chief) on scene is a paid firefighter that town better rethink how they do things. If it wasn’t for the garden hose that garage would have been toast.

I don't think there's much left to say that hasn't been said in the comments already. I hope their second fire goes better.

I like how it's literally a truck on fire which resembles a fire truck. It's even red too.

A booster line while establishing a supply would have been more effective than that garden hose.

Good video on what not to do

Best use of a dodge pickup I've seen ever.

Rumor has it that they are still waiting for water to this day

In the old days our engines all had lengthy red booster hoses which could be immediately used while the larger hose was laid out. That engine was full of water, but drove off to hook a hydrant; really bone headed fire fighting. At lease on fighter utilized the owners garden hose.

On a good note, that Seagrave was sharp.

I now know where not to live because this fire department is just….wow

why dont have every Engine water in the truck? here in the netherlands they use there truck water and the other team go to the hydrant

Slow fire response for sure. My dad was a firefighter 27 years

WOW JUST WOW !! Never saw anything like this at all !! Terrible everything!! But it worked out in the end ! What a chit show !!