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Haha, for sure! XD

SoCal drivers will move in every direction for an emergency vehicle, except to the right.

Yup

VCFD Engines are staffed with three firefighters, trucks are staffed with four firefighters, water tender, and patrol units with only one firefighter.

thanks!

Yup they were not fooling around

I grew up in LA and it was a common practice for first responder vehicles to go against traffic because as you can see the general public forgets what they're supposed to do when they hear sirens and see flashing lights.

Not a smart move either, it confused drivers. Stay with the lead.

@@mtnride4930 they have right of way, plus more people look forward than back

@@dripskee6443 LMAO yeah you hear sirens all around you and you would not get confused? I taught apparatus operators in the Fire Service for a number of years, Myself and other instructors NEVER taught operators to do something like that. Have a good day.

It was a very lucky catch

thanks

out of all the equipment rolling, dozer 14 was my favorite, so much so I went digging for some pics of it or other VC dozers for my desktop background

@@MikeT-TheRetiredColonel yeah I love it too 👍👍🔥🔥

@@MikeT-TheRetiredColonel Mike I have pics of dozer 14 if you like. From station 45.

LACoFD is saying LA county FD, the Co means county..

I don’t got a tripod or anything, I just hold it with my hands.

@@socalfirebuff91377 Then you really should upgrade. You will see a major difference in the Quality.

@@danielvogt9371 upgrade how so

I don't know what highway you're looking at but okay lol

Well, a "brush fire' turns in to 100 home really fast.

@@PartiallyCooked Outside of Californian, highways are not typically limited access. Many are, but most are not.

@@Caderic Yeah, but the road right there is not considered a highway. That's the point I'm trying to make.

@@PartiallyCooked USPS Really WOW. Does your boss know your commenting on youtube videos at work?

it’s required for all emergency vehicles to have a steady burning red light, not 100% sure why, im sure if you google it you can find the technicalities

@@socalfirebuff91377 My dad was a cop in So Cal. He started back about 1948. The requirement for the minimum solid red light forward, from what I recall him saying, is two fold. In California the only forward facing red lights allowed are emergency vehicles. The solid - as in non-flashing - is to eliminate the potential of a quick glance in a mirror, or to the sides, etc., happening at the same time as a the being in the "off" part of a cycle.

couldn’t tell you

Was a cat looked like a D7 but didn't get good enough of a look

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They carry a bit of water themselves, but would need a hydrant to flow for a while.

@@socalfirebuff91377 how much the tank contains?

@@Thug-12Na Usually 750-1500 gallons

Always good to have too many resources than too little resources

Or maybe, just maybe, it was a quarter acre because of this response. A quarter acre can turn into 100 acres and 50 homes in just a few hours. It is ALWAYS best to have to turn units around than to call form more when you could have had them a hour ago.

I understand I have fought some large forest fires in Ohio, Tennessee,and North Carolina.It's exiting being a fire fighter.

There was a tender, i just missed it, and in ventura the only time a type 3 really responds is if it’s a very large fire with access issues, this one was not the largest and the units operating had access to it.

@@socalfirebuff91377 also the type 3 engines probably on another fire doing mutual aid.

Meaning VCFD type 3 engines

I BELIEVE VCFD TYPE 3 TRUCKS WERE ON A MUTUAL AID.

Cal Fire and all of the brush based departments have members tough as nails, love to see them at work, thank you for commenting, and I hope the service is treating you kindly!

You're comparing apples to oranges. On a structure fire the first due engines' officer will assume IC until relieved. The engineer has to be at the pumps to deliver water. Officers and engineers definitely do go into the fires when manpower and resources permit. On a wildland fire, it is mostly handwork so you don't need someone monitoring the pumps. Even on wildland engines the pumps don't need to be monitored as closely as they do on a structure fire. CAL Fire most certainly does the same thing as other departments do when they respond to structure fires. Wildland and structure are two entirely different types of operations.

No that's not why. Wildland firefighter's utilize water management and most of our firefighting is done by removing the fuel from the fire. We need so many engines because we need the manpower and have big fires.

touchmaster

@@socalfirebuff91377 Awesome thank you

no sir!

ventura county. and they are pretty nice

@@socalfirebuff91377 absolutely 💯 👌