Well done to the postie for getting the mail out and saving a lot of bill worries for some. Great fire service you have.

I'm the son of a retired fire fighter and certified fire rescue instructor in Rochester, Indiana. I would have thought the first fire truck would have pulled up ahead of the mail truck to allow another truck to be sitting where the truck is in video.

I guess you could say that the mailman was carrying some "Hot mail" 😎

Thanks for doing your job fireman and carrier,, my mail arrived today, wet, black and had dried foam on it. Thanks for setting it on the curb during the disaster.

Let's stop and hope everyone is doing ok 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 great job great catches as usual way to go ! Joe

Greg, your photography is fire!

The Mail Carrier’s Creed reads something like “Neither rain not sleet nor snow nor dark of night shall stay this courier from his appointed rounds,” but somehow I think having your truck catch on fire definitely counts as an exception to the rule!

There goes my publishers clearing house check!

The reason they parked far away is because they are up wind where most of the smoke is headed, exterior firefighters aren't qualified to wear respiratory equipment ie: the driver/pump operator also you have no idea if something is going to explode so you keep your truck at a safe distance and create a blockade so someone doesn't come plowing through, last you have no idea what is in the vehicle that could explode upon arrival

To all the people posting negative replys I dare you to wake up at 7am on a day off from work, or your vacation day, a day which you could sleep in but instead wake up get dressed as fast as possible drive to your local firehouse half asleep, just to put on about 75 lbs worth of gear in under a minute, climb with said gear up the side of a truck, pull up to the scene of a fire still half asleep help flake out a hose that weighs an additional 75 to 125 lbs hook it up to a hydrant then hold said hose that shoots out enough pressurized water to blow you off your feet, then unhook the hose walk it out, roll it up, climb back on the apparatus ride back to the station wash everything down including your gear. I would love to see you do that everyday for a month then lets hear you criticize and complain because until you have worn the gear and put in the time you have no right to judge.

Great work to all involved from the mail person to the firefighters. Reminds me when I was a volunteer firefighter I can not believe that we would fight a vehicle fire without "scotting up" once again great work no body got hurt

1:18 a tiny explosion 💥

From a mail truck to a fire truck

It's strange that no one worried about the mail carrier but was real happy to see him save some damn mail

What a Real Rarity, seeing a American Fire Department using Foam against a Burning Car instead of flooding it for Hours with a Normal Water Attack ^^

I'm thankful for firefighters.

Thanks for the video. I work for the Post Office in vehicle maintenance. I arrived at work today to find this very truck (or what’s left) sitting in our shop. Obviously a total loss.

No urgency in these guys! Jeezzz! Oh, backup guy, dont forget to strap your helmet!

Kudos to the postal worker for removing the undelivered mail from the truck.

Nice videography. Camera doesn't turn away at every slight popping sound, no expert advice or necessity in explaining everything, stable image, landscape format video, high quality image and no "bodies hit the floor" music at full volume during important parts. Music applied at the correct time however. Thumbs up from me.

When you drive on a road with wide lanes in a Mail Truck whilst singing "Three Times a Lady" by Lionel Richie, and suddenly you hit a sewing machine that fell off a black sedan causing sparks to fly out of it and ignite the truck with Flammable Paint Thinner.

Legend has it those people still don't know what they got in the mail that day

1. You would be surprised how often these vehicles burn up. 2. Mail saved from fire only to be destroyed by foam. 3. Supervisor furious that you failed to complete your route. “There are folks lined up that will do the job if you won’t”.

Wow, someone on youtube that has a real camera and knows how to film

Glad to see the mail carrier removed the mail from the truck. My brother used to fix UPS trucks, had one catch fire and burn also.

So much for saving the mail! Even though someone removed it and put it in the driveway the firefighters still soaked it with water!

A+ for removing the mail but it will have to be dried out over days because of the water and foam. USPS we get you mail to you rain sleet snow Fire and flooding.

Nice clip was going good there Keep up up the great work love the Maryland stuff some great Apparatus down there

There is going to be quite a few people not getting their mail on this day. Also a postal carrier who is going to need a ride & half to explain how this happen when he she gets back to the post office

I know the mail van is destroyed but jeez American firefighters love taking their time to fight the fire

Now that’s what I call Hotmail

yeah,i am gonna be the only one who talks about how cute that truck looks

Good job on the hose deployment. No rush either. Easy does it. It ain't going nowhere.

wow he must have done that pritty fast to get all that mail out damn boy your fast under pressure

I was a volunteer fireman many years ago. Getting in too much of a hurry gets folks injured. The hose is folded so that it comes out of the storage compartment without tangling or or getting knotted. It must be mostly stretched out before pressurizing it. These firemen were not goofing off. In vehicle fires, tires explode, fuel tanks do so only occasionally. Shock absorbers can explode and sometimes shoot out like a rocket. The postal worker should have moved the mail farther away-- an explosion could have destroyed it.

These type of maitrucks are antiques made in the laye 80s, thru early/mid 90s. Every year there are approximately 30 electrical fires, the carriers have been lobbying for more trucks.

This is why you don't have taco Bell until you've finished your work shift 🔥

Pretty good video. Looks to be high quality.

I thought nothing stops the mail -- neither rain, snow, ice -- but fire does

I appreciate the U. S. P. S. Carrier that saved everyone's mail from the burning in the truck. It did get soaked by the fire fighting efforts, though.

Good deal for spraying the foam from the beginning. If there's burning fuel involved and they use water, the fire can go on forever.

That's the definition of hot mail right there

Wow how the people find out that they're mail got destroyed in a fire

I hope nobody was sending themselves through the mail in this happened

I am a volunteer firefighter and yes this fire crew was not making much effort to get the job done. The mail should not have been put next to the burning vehicle and fire crew could have moved it. Poor maintenance and poor daily vehicle check helped the cause for the fire. Also the bad designed and built GM chassis a partnership of GM and Postal Service.

¡Un Fuego!

Nice clear coverage of both the fire & firefighting operations. Subscribed!

Postal code.. Rain, hail, sleet or snow, we will go But a fire will stop us... Great video, don't know why I'm watching a video about fire....

Congrats on getting on inside edition. Aw some footage

Driver got all the parcels out to save them…then the firemen cover them in foam !

It amazes me how slow they are in the US when fighting a fire. In my country, it takes roughly 20 seconds from arrival until water flows....

Awesome Video.

So the postal driver saved the mail, removed it from the burning truck. And then the firefighters hosed all the mail down with water and foam. Well, darn.

For those complaining about the mail being close to the truck the carrier was trying to get all the mail out didn't have time to run each tray/parcel away , they it all out then move it, however the fire got too hot carrier couldn't get close enough to the mail. Always easy to criticize other people

That's why my package was late!

Back in the mid 60’s our mail carriers car caught fire. 2 weeks later we received a plastic bag filled with burnt mail. Some barely identifiable. But they said they had to deliver what could be ID’d.

That video was lit. That's why the scrap aluminum market crashed. All those burned postal vehicles. The turbo heater was switched on.

Fun facts, those mail trucks are made of mostly aluminum, and they don't have fire extinguishers.

I’m glad it wasn’t a rescue because the time the water got on the fire was ridiculous

Postal worker saves the mail but the firefighters drench it in foam & water! 🤦‍♂️

Sorry guys... I was getting my mixtape delivered.

It's crashing terrible! Oh my, get out of the way please. It's burning, bursting into flames and it's -- and it's falling on the mooring mast and all the folks agree that this is terrible. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world. Oh the humanity!

Nice to see the Foam was good for something

Someone bills was 🔥

No rush fellas..please take your time

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. It says nothing about fire.

Carrier didn't curb the wheels,here comes the PDI!😂

By the end, that truck looks almost as good as new

If that mail truck was in front of my house I would have had water on it before the fire trucks came !

Gonna be a hell of a report that letter carrier is gonna have to write!

The mail carrier saved the mail from the 🔥 on the postal truck, but not the firemen, oh well

Nice video, not sure I would have been that close but god shot nevertheless

Rumor has it, the first firefighter that carried the line out is still trying to get his sh** together. Ha!

I can't believe that. They didn't curb the wheels.

HOTMAIL!

Busting mine to save yours iam a fire fighter in sc with 42 years still going strong may the good lord look after us 😁😉

How did that fire started? Hope mail and packages are safe?

MSN need to start putting explosive plaque cards on their hotmail before sending them snail mail.

awesome video wow a mail truck hope they got all the mail out

That's where the cash I sent to my ex-wife went lmao

No excuse, he needs to keep going even with a flaming van as per USPS creed.

So much for the mail and packages thay unloaded in the driveway. Now there soaking wet.

2:37 It took them long enough to respond. Half of the truck has already burned away. Some rather sluggish firefighters there.

I like where he parked....up the street and around the corner

"Our government" at work. Thanks.

Nice catch! Looks like it didn't take long to start burning fast.

Yes a much larger tire fire would be quite an explosion indeed as they are much larger

Postie saves the mail only for the fire service to give it a thorough soaking! 😆😆

As far as I'm concerned that right there should be should be labeled a federal federal crime that's terrible absolutely terrible

Don't seem to be in a rush. Surprised they didn't have a coffee break before

Post office logic ... lets pull mail from truck, but lets put it only a foot or two away. Because heat and water from fire will not impact ground a few feet away.

How did the fire start, was the mail safe, did the mail carrier get hurt

New meaning to hotmail

Be interested to know what started the fire

Good job guys

Nothing stops the US mail

I was reading the description. Which callsign is which unit?

If this was British firefighters they would of had water on it in under 10 seconds

Thanks 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

HotShot delivery gone very wrong. Turns out the driver had the wrong address!