I had a fire in my truck when I worked for NYCS and I immediately dump the whole load out before the FD got there thus saving the truck!

I have to say that seeing them use a metal cutting saw "with no eye protection" .. was an eye opener! ... interesting

It sure turned into a different game when those hydraulics failed to operate. Great coverage and thanks for sharing!

As a 1st responder EMS in NY. It’s soooo annoying when you “buffs” get in our way of the actual emergency. You’re probably the only one that actually displays common sense and gets out of the way, so that we can get to work. I thank you for that. Nice clip.

B4 i became a Firefighter i work for waste management in Phoenix AZ we was train to when you first see smoke dump out as soon as possible even if you are on the Interstate. Pull over and dump it quickly

pre arrivals are the best! great work as always john-thanx for all u do

As mentioned by other readers the load should have been dumped. The problem here is the driver waited too long to dump. With all the garbage truck fires I ever fought the best results were with a dumped load. You can see the issue is hydraulic since as the hopper section started to rise it goes up a little and then falls as the system fails After members cut in they still could not pull anything out because a modern garbage truck can pack 1000 lbs. or more into one cubic yard of space. This truck normally dumps with an front mounted ejector plate that pushes the load out the back. The driver attempted to push the load out of the hole the members cut but the truck could not build pressure due to failed hydraulics. Fortunately this truck is repairable. A new truck like this is a 300 to 400 k investment. So if any garbage route drivers are watching dump as quickly as you can once you determine there’s a fire in the body. I have seen these go until the entire truck is destroyed.

Pre-arrival footage is the best. Nice job getting that truck opened up. Could have been an inferno inside.

During the last few years of my career I had no desire to go to any more vehicle, rubbish or garage fires.

Another great video! I miss my beautiful New York. Keep making your fire videos. Thank you!

As a fire fighter I can say thank you to the people who try to help and point to where the fire is however it’s not necessary 99.9% of the time we no exactly where we’re going especially when smoke is seen miles away

You are such a wonderful man to bring us all these events! I have never seen anything like this before and I am grateful. It’s such a pretty truck....Be careful in this heat, John. ❤️

Just before you said something all I could think of was what a wonderful aroma that must have had LOL. Thanks for the coverage.

Good video. FDNY knows their stuff. Dispatch redirects units to a different response as acting when the normal units are busy on other calls. Sure enough in the case of this fire, the acting units had to respond.

AWESOME JOB ON THE TRUCK FIRE FOR ALL HANDS ON IT NICE JOB JOHN ON THE FOOTAGE AN VIDEO

The garbage truck driver is thinking ..there goes my raise that I was promised. Great Video

Great job as always

They should have just called a heavy wrecker to lift the back up so they could access it. What I think happened, was when they started to open it, the hydraulic hose melted from the heat of the fire.

I’d love to live in New York, I’m a big fan of American Emergency Vehicles, and to see it in real life would be amazing. Great video JJ!

Great video jj

Woo that will a blaze very nice catch Sir as always watching from the U.K. god bless you

Excellent catch my friend

Hell's Kitchen has really been cooking the last few days!

Nice video again!

Thank god for all firefighters around the world ..also I just love the NY accent

Well the recycling truck is now officially a fire truck.

thanks man.

Great scene video!

luckily two of the guys have tanks of fresh air on their backs. not like burning plastic is carcinogenic or anything...

Awesome catch my man! I’ll bet 30 truck was excited when they saw a loom up haha

Nice one!

Hi again John, One of two things, hydraulic line burned up, or he is over-weight, and the piston won't pick up the box. Later my friend!!

I’d bet Tim Alan would love being a firefighter. He’d get to play with power tools all day.

At least it was recycling and not trash, saved your nose a little bit, good catch.

That will be a costly repair on this dump truck!!

Awesome catch JJ! Glad everyone and including the driver of the truck was okay! Was the truck still drivable?

gives new meaning to the term dumpster fire

Good video

Long time ago I worked on that type of truck in a shop. The hydraulic lines on the side were probably destroyed with the fire shooting out. Which prevented lifting the rear.

Been watching FDNY videos for years. First time seeing one of them use a face shield.

Just a thought Maybe don’t open rear of truck until you have water available! Everyone knows air fans the 🔥

Our garbage haulers dump first then call the F.D., makes a mess but saves the truck. Last incident was a Waste Management truck, one huge mess but the WM crew did an awesome job on the clean up.

Truck fires must make those firefighters crazy.

Awesome job on the video, hows Tourism in the Big Apple, getting back to before pandemic levels yet?

Respect aux pompiers excellente travail aux aussi pour votre dévouement

Nice catch jj 🤮👍

Nice video JJ! We’re you right next to skyler Fire at the time?

No mask up on that fire attack? Thats some nasty carcinogens ....and also running that saw with NO EYEWEAR....one tiny sliver and his career is over.

I have the utmost respect for firefighters be they full time paid or part time volunteers and rarely critizise what they do but I can't help thinking that this was a very expensive cock up from start to finish. The hydraulics were probably burnt out by the flames on them while the back was open all that time while they got the water sorted. Surely with so little sign of fire apart from the wisp of smoke after they had got the water on the fire and the back had closed back up they could have got the rubbish truck to somewhere more open and brought in a big digger or shovel or forklift and lifted the back up as I've seen fire departments do in other videos on KZfaq and empty it that way. That would have surely been a much cheaper alternative to cutting the whole thing open in the sides. I noticed, unusually for FDNY, there were no senior officers in attendance. Maybe if there had been the whole episode would have been dealt with differently. And I am in England and our firefighters do things differently to your guys as well!

fire sums up NYC this summer.

He should have the back open dumped it b4 FD arrived

A good reason not to throw lithium batteries in the trash, they don't like being crushed by the compactor.

looks like a training class nice safety glasses

What the hell is this, Explorer Day? #1 don't EVER fucking open them without water already on/under them. #2 If you have to cut for access because they won't open, cut down in from the top, you don't need a door, just slots. #3 if you're wanting to access all of the fire, get close to the hole in the side and aim up so that the blast hitting the top inside sprays it all around. Two fails and an ignorance. Same rules as with structure, hit the ceiling.

Maji, the same thing just happened in MN. But that was a semi truck of scrap metal, burning. I said dump the load out. First fire truck pulled up, fire kept burning, second truck, they get a line over a fence, and eventually the driver and the FD figured out, dump it. But the video shows a State trooper hurrying to get in his car, and somehow, someway, some goes around the sign truck and another vehicle blocking the road. You would think, nobody could, it'd be impossible, but how in the H_ll do people not see all the cars stopped, the vehicles with flashing lights, a sign truck, and yet, someone always gets around them? The S.P. said you may want to get behind them before he starts writing tckets and confiscates the mans DL.

That camera is what we firefighters know as a TIC

Engine 221 was responding from engine 34 & Ladder 30 was responding from ladder 4 at time when call came in

In a pinch you need add hydraulic fluid and a wrecker. Because you need a way to lift the gate and eject the load.

Great Catch, not fire related but that dodge with the goose neck towing 3 cars, is that common over there?, im in New Zealand, and i have to say it looks impressive along with your Fire engines, keep safe everyone and keep smiling

Surprised you're not a civilian employee for FDNY under Public Relations.

Wow you just see a little bit of everything in the city lol

It would have been better to call the fleet wrecker to the scene to lift the tail gate with the boom of the wrecker. Could have saved the garbage company a few penny's rather then cutting the side of the box open. the fire was pretty much out so a few minutes of waiting would have been ok. great video as always

@ 12:25. I Can't believe that guy is cutting WITHOUT EYE PROTECTION

Niece video

Wow

What are people putting in there trash because tbw idk how a truck like that happens and I seen weird things like this there was actually back in 2014 when a biggest black smoke aka a large fire just happened a front of my face me wondering what are people even doing to there life or risking other people to danger and what a great video you just shared and giving example what people shouldn’t be doing to cause a fire

The drivers are trained if the load catches fire the are to ram it all the way to the back to pack it tight to choke the fire and go to the dump. The dumps have an area to push the load out on so it can be spread out so it can be extinguished. They need a heavy tow truck to lift the back up so they can pull the recycling out

This garbage is powerful even can save the fire for a while.

When a dumpster fire just isn't enough.

Why the refuse driver didn't drive twenty feet farther (panic) training would have helped, get the unit opened so they can fight the fire. Why in the blue blazes nobody wears eye protection NYFD cutting metal is beyond me. Wear air packs nobody has a clue what is in the hopper of a garbage truck.

Just think of those guys hadn’t passed the fireman’s test they might have been on the other side of the truck

How does the relocating system work? Great Catch!

I warned grandad not to put his depends in garbage after eating at taco max .... one spark... wooosh lmao 🤣

14:05 yes i love it the most usefull helmets. Look how looks helmets in Poland

I've seen more access doors on sides and top. Good job though

Can't help but feel not moving the garbage truck at beginning to middle of the road would been a smart idea, gives them plenty of access both sides of the truck on fire, shame they tried to open the trucks back more aswell as this obviously made things worse and forced them to cut the sides.

Hydrolics seems to have been blown...that dude no longer has a job...the MOB bosses whacked him for costing them a 200,000$$ truck

So all these firefighters going at this truck with diamond saws, sparks flying everywhere. And none of them using eye protection... And don't say "It'll never happen", because it can and does.

Now the trash company needs to find a way to patch the hole. Great video overall..

In UK fire engine carry water so there have hose direct to tackle the fire as soon as there arrive

Damn that water!

Is 30 truck still rocking a model 28 or did they switch to a Q?

Nice using more Q's I see!

I have a question? Why do they still have to send the ladder truck even tho it looks like a simple fire for just the engine crew to fight.

They burn when we fix them too it sucks once in great while we call fire they can be real hard to put out fire gets into tiny spots when welding

Would it have been an option to just drive it to an open lot or drive it somewhere to dump the load and then extinguish the fire?

Should have just dumped the load immediately, for the hydraulics failed and had to cut open its belly.

That refuse driver should have kicked that hot load on to the street.. that is NUMBER 1 get it out of the truck..

👍👍always 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸!!!

Soooooo hearing protection when using cutting tools? In ten years they’ll be claiming work-related disability for hearing loss.

Really cutting a hole in a truck. Most trash trucks I know just drive to the Fire Dept and then dump the load there, saves wrecking the truck like this.

love how all these keyboard firefighters are telling FDNY how to do their job

What's with the wood blocks on some of there helmets?

When the Refuse Truck dumps its load due to fire....who then comes to remove the rubbish. Is it the Refuse company or the Sanitation dept.

Could've opened it on both sides to see if there's any fire on the other side. That's what we do if the hydraulics are shot.

ooh my goodness, NYCFD does not know what they were trying to cut in to, thats like trying to cut through the armor of a tank, its not going to happen. About 17 years ago all recology changed how vehicles work there are no more top loaders for recycling to prevent people from stealing from their trucks and the trash is the only one with a top load.

Free truck wash

*never seen such an unprofessional crew like this*

- had the same type of job about a year ago, would of been better to dump the load then cut it open.

Is it compulsory for the FDNY to walk about with giant toothpicks at every incident