this just hurts to watch

Actually a great fire to demonstrate the benefits of a "preparing" operational mode. Ventilation to the fire was restricted until (almost) the last second and the fire simply sat in neutral while oxygen deprived by its own smoke. These are the perfect fires to polish the cannonball before pulling the trigger. If you're rusty, leaders need to slow everyone down. Take the time to set up. Buddy check. Cover your bases. Assuming that you've somehow verified the structure is unoccupied- Apparatus had time to stage, lay lines, establish water supply, presumably isolate utilities, ladders thrown and crews had a chance to dust off some skills. Face it, very few fire departments are running consistently enough on fires to be really "good" at them and being a little rough around the edges is expected. A few people standing around uncertain of what to do... the guy who appears to be in command is pulling hoses off apparatus on arrival- He comes from off screen to the right far away from the structure so I'm not sure if he got an early 360 done prior to the video? Anyway- assuming he did one- he saw the fire was oxygen deprived and started working through his tactical plan. Smoke behavior tells the story- If he didn't do one and just rolled the dice hoping for the best- well... next time a little less task level entertainment and a little more tactical planning and accountability plox. Tell the truck where to stage on the radio (Declare side A and tell it to stage there and for what task- let the company officer coordinate how that happens- you don't need to stand there like a flag person and usher him to the curb.) Ref. the line pulled to the front, then over to the left side / B- one thing to consider is pulling the second line to the second entry point that way you don't need to drag A hose from one side to the other as the situation changes. In this case it's a small house with no fence so it wasn't a huge deal- next time it could be a larger house and moving charged lines can be exhausting. Some dude running around with a charred black helmet on who has a serious dislike of straps and / or belts I'm assuming is "the experienced one" since he's been in a hundred fires so far this shift... Not sure about him and what he's trying to prove but I'm not sure he's quite hitting the mark. As others did I noticed they breached the door prematurely but the guy on the halligan realizes this and does end up closing the door back up. It was a mistake and it was corrected pretty quickly so kudos to the guy for maintaining situational awareness while others are losing theirs- even if you lost it for a second... Guy goes in with his air off- again, no real excuse for this since there is no hurry. Buddy checks are like bike helmets- people feel like they're too cool or too in control to need one... A great training video for the department to review what happened. Everyone went home and the building was saved but I'm sure they'll find opportunities to raise the bar with just a few minor changes.

Why not tank up en route to a report of smoke showing?

1:47 guy gets out of the engine in gear wearing sneakers.

Lack of training, lack of training, and oh yeah lack of training. Stay safe brothers and train train train

Have to remember to turn your air on before you go into the fire room. Bet he never forgets to do that again.

Looks like he pulled the disconnect of the central Air Conditioner. Smart guy

Hartranft 1 is too slow to get dressed... Hartranft 2 forgets to turn on his bottle...wtf...

To the fireman who forgot to turn on his bottle - thank you for the laugh

well, sometimes its best to say nothing at all.

3 engines and 3 ladders, and they are the slowest bunch I've ever seen, nobody was ready and first due didn't even get out of the truck with their pack on

Jesus H. Christ... What a cluster! Not a single one of those firefighters we're prepared upon arrival. Then it took FOREVER for them to get their act together and actually start working. Ugh... I don't know where this is, but I'm just glad I don't live there.

I like how the one guy gets of the engine and has tennis shoes on. Look close

And no one comes off the truck ready to go to work smh

At 3:58, guy comes out and then has to turn on his pack? You hear the vib alert turn on. Did he go in without his air on????

As an FYI: I used to live in this area. These guys and girls are mostly volunteers, that offer their time for very underfunded Fire/EMS departments. They have fundraisers to purchase necessities. Personally responsible for much of their training expenses. Thank you all for doing what you do!

It's amazing how different countries have different techniques

thanks

Rolling commentary during replay… Shutting off large amp service!!! Smooth laminar flow of light white smoke. A water can could handle this good DAMN!!! 2 water supplies in 10 seconds!!! Badassery. Even more smart is the door control!! I wanna work here!18 is the only 1 who seems clueless.mixed dept? Don’t mind me rolling a nice loop up in ya!!💪🏼

That first truck is the coolest looking fire truck i've ever seen

love the camera work, they really get in there!

The department I am with we are completely bunkered out prior to getting on scene

This is a fucking joke of a fire department. As a fire fighter myself it Makes me cringe watching this.

The firemen act like they've never had any training... Upon arrival, every firefighter should know their job, and by doing it, eliminate all the standing around, doing nothing... Based on the different turnout gear, they must be from two different agencies.. I also noticed the accessible entrance on one side so that should have prompted the first-in crew (EMS rig) to breach the house and do a search for any disabled or elderly person that was trapped... The taxpayers are being cheated by this group of bumpkins...

Was this supposed to be funny? I couldn't stop laughing.

Hopefully lots was learned from this experience

Great footage as always. Thanks for posting. Love your videos! 👍👌

I Love tue Engine drin Rosenbauer... Nice Video

i had no idea these types of videos existed wow, very interesting

Suprised the whole structure didnt go down for how slow it took to attack the fire

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Take your time, fellas

Any one else hear the Benny hill song.lol guys seemed clueless.

Wow on many levels.

ok... LOTS of learning points here.... just, wow.

might wanna pick a different color for the crosslays. that green is basically camouflaged in the grass

Uh, does anyone ever think of smoke ejectors, hand lights,& arriving ready in full gear ? (SAVE your air 'til you go in)!?!

Super, Rosenbauer Fahrzeuge, das sind die Besten der Welt.

how do you hop out the truck without your boots on @1:47

This is why my department turns on SCBA and puts their masks on inside the truck before they ever step off if they’re on the first-due engine. We just get out, pull lines, and go in. No bullshit, no waiting, just an immediate attack on the fire. We can usually get a line going in in under a minute from arrival.

When I first watch this, I thought the crews were out drilling as one does, in a relax manner, no rush , no hurry. I was very shocked that this was a real incident. What can I say, it was sloppy from start to finish. In the UK this would not be accepted.

Guess everybody had to get off work at Walmart to fight this fire

Why on earth did the truck stretch a line with 3 engines on scene and I love the hard charger off the engine in bunker gear and nikes. And also why did attack from the rear of the house

truck and engine at the same time... truck take your pressurized water can in to force entry and find the fire while the engine stretches the line with that little smoke!!

Nice close up footage. I'd like to add my 2 cents. I know that the first due has to be getting the info that it's a working fire. What I don't understand is how come these guys are not coming off the truck already packed up. When I was still in the department, if you sat in the pack seat, and you know it's work, you better be packed up and ready or next time you DID NOT sit there.

Engine 18 looks awesome im guessing it new or newish

At least they had a water supply. 2 trucks laying in..

Might want to check to see if their is a door before destroying a wall for entry.

Where to start.Absolutely horrible. The "Chief" in the beginning, if you need to tell the chauffeur where to park the quint, he should not be driving it. Do you really need to tell the quint officer to start off of their tank? Quints in general, confused fire trucks. Why not have the ENGINE do the attack and the quint do the truck operations? The officer of the quint should have been dressed and ready on arrival with SCBA on. If the crews were light, the Chief on scene should have also been on the rig or dressed and ready to assist. Why would the engine not just reverse lay? No sense of urgency, and what is up with the guy in full turnouts with sneakers?

As a first responder myself, great knock on the fire. Apart from that there was a few things I saw wrong in this video. 1. Always come off the truck ready to go. You should've had your pack on ready to go. 2. Always make sure your straps are strapped. They are there for a reason. I don't care if you've been in the service for 10+ years or 9 months. ALWAYS come off the truck ready to work. 3. Why are you in your tennis shoes wearing bunker gear? Not hating, just don't want someone teaching the rookies coming into the service this job if they can't do it right either.

Great Pre-Arrival Video Newsworking, keep it up. 1:51 I hate to say it but this incident was a bit of a cluster fuck, are they always like this, IDK?? *NO, I am not a troll & I always support fellow brothers but there were a few things that were seriously screwed up, for no need or reason. 1:51 Officer from the quint/truck was bottling up for an interior attack, he takes his PAT tags off & throws them on the grass, while incident command(at that time) watched him do it & said nothing or didn't pick them up. They were still on the ground @ 7:24 of this video, then I wasn't able to see them any longer because of camera angles, yet people walked past them & never touched them during this incident. There NO excuse for that, especially from an Officer & IC. There were a number of other things, but I'm not trying to bash everything. Hopefully, this was just a bad day(because we all have them) & things normally go better than this.

Take Forever to get inside omg ... In PG County we already inside pulling it out by the time they finished masked up

PA departments are truly some of the worst

Damn, Nice equipment, nice manpower lol, Im super jealous. Hell we were lucky to get 3 of us on a recent travel trailer fire

Prior Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance..

What's the point of pulling off the screen at 5:00?

please someone tell me this is a practice, or a promo video to recruit people for fire department

Observant neighbor saved this home. I won't repeat the obvious criticisms, they've been covered.

OMG? No one gets off packed up? What a waste.

Are the ones with red stripes trainees?

1:48 dude has tennis shoes on with his bunker gear

3:42 what is the point if putting a helmet on if you sont strap it on. The moment you look down it's gone.

I like the FF that comes back out of the house to turn his air pack on!! I think they should have broken a few more windows and poked walls to allow more air to fuel the fire. Doesn't seem like you have to bee trained to work on this department?

Who controles who's in and who's out...i can't count the FF who get in and out. If one FF get's in trouble nobody is missing him.

One fire department not to call if you have a fire. Do any of them know what they are doing ?

Was wondering when the guy who forced the door didn't think about door control. Yeah we have a active fire here and lets just add more air to the fire prior to us going in. doesn't matter if its into the house or Garage in this case. Didn't see too many guys going in with a tool or even a tic which is not good. other then that seems like they did a good stop and building is still standing.

The lights on Ladder 1831 are not synced.

That post fire critique must have been interesting.....

hi Shaun here firefighters fight more fires cause they work hard

After watching this is don't want to rush in to commenting 😝😂😂🤓

soup sandwich in a paper bag with one chopstick . . . .

4 ladders on a house no one went to the roof to vent on...interesting

Please tell me these guys aren’t paid...Only guy who looked like he knew what he was doing didn’t have gear on and was feeding the line

Talk about not being prepared

Now that boys and girls is textbook firefighting.

8:20 Hulk Hogan is a Firefighter now.

Without being unkind that was awful. The guy forgets to but his air on for Christ sake.

I hope I never live in their fist due.

4 minutes and their putting water on the fire. Good job.

homeboy needs to clean his helmet with all that carbon unless if he wants cancer

Reminds me of Team America.

At least NW got a snip-it of the glorious part at the end. Putting away the hose...

Who called the ghost busters

Guys I swear the rest of the east coast isn’t like this....

It's a cluster, but the fire went out and no one died. so..

We’re these guys paided?

OMG...... I thought this was just a funny training video. Then I realized that this was a real call. The chief and training officer should hang their heads in shame.

Why make big ass holes in the wall? Im confused are these real fireman?

2 minuets and 30 seconds to make entry just sad and to the girl who I believed asked the officer of the first arriving truck what do I need to do and then doesn’t even get the ladders like she was asked (KNOW YOUR JOB) and the chief officer pulling lines at least where I come from that dosent happen where I’m from it would have been a bad day with the chief at the station afterward

The female FF at 1:12 looks like she was napping before getting out of the truck, she wonders around without doing anything to help or get herself ready, then after watching many mistakes by others, I see her peaking around from the back of the truck at 2:02 to see if the video guy was still there, so then she scoots back behind the truck again, still without any gear on yet! She was either very confused or was a bit undertrained!

Start venting the ROOF!

1:49 dude tries to put his helmet on over his hat

That was Disgusting!

I guess the guy with bad comment is gone

Airpack unbuckled

what a shambles

at 7:38, instead of just tearing up the garage walls trying to guess the fire is..try to use a t.i.c. camera??. saves time and useless distruction

What the hell did I just watch

wow

These guys are a disaster. It was time, and luck that the building wasn't gutted or in the foundation..nothing more. I've seen their work on here before.