I don't live anywhere close to your 1st Due, but thanks all the same to you and the other members of your department for your service, Chief.

You tell ‘em uncle John, appreciate your service for all the years

That's right Calvin Robinson... Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. That's how we NC boys do it

Damn straight

Different Cities ,Counties..Anything On A House (Carport Chimney ) Is Toned Out As A Structure Fire Or Possible Structure Fire... Don't Know How Y'all Get Dispatched But We All Have Different Responses

+Calvin Robinson Well in a village in Upstate NY we would roll all trucks to a chimney fire. Half of our district had hydrants. Better to be cautious. If a full response was not necessary you just radio back to the station to hold back a truck or two. In the middle of the day you may only get enough of a response to roll one or two trucks. First two trucks carried a total of 2400 gallons of water so if you were out of the water district you had enough water for a while and if you knew you needed more, mutual aid was a radio call away. This was a good response.

I was on 2 departments in RI. One volunteer the other full time. A chimney fire with the paid department got a full building box response. 3 engines, battalion chief, a ladder and a rescue. This was a small department. 5 engines. 2 ladders. 2 rescues and 1 chief per shift running out of 4 stations. The volunteer department went with 2 engines, 2 tankers and a rescue. If we had a ladder that would have gone too.

bigum7509 she's a beast. Trust me on that

bigum7509 don’t you miss the sound of a Detroit diesel I sure do miss that rumble

Might need some headlights though!

NVTrucker I agree, however, I live near Harwinton and I can tell you it's a small town - I think the only traffic light in town is at the intersection of Routes 4 and 118. You're right; the jack@$$ has some growing up to do.

The guy must be from New York

@@doverpoint1 As a New Yorker I would say 'stick it in your ass', however you're probably right. Idiots dont yield and still don't grasp the 'move over' law.

Won't stop assholes like that

Pit maneuver the asshole maybe that will teach them

Yeah. Thought so as well. That was quick!

Yes, made sure the emergency lights were on , but neglected to turn on the headlights on an extremely dark night. Tunnel vision at its finest 💁‍♂️

first-due has to upgrade the scene to a working structure fire

it depends on the type of call that comes in

Redman147 Tanker. My department covers an area with no hydrants

It's a 45 but everyone goes 60-80 known speeding area there is a pull over spot where the state cops sits waiting for speeders if he doesn't get you he'll make sure your caught before you get too far always three cops in 6 miles or less

In Kentucky, if you are driving with emergency lights on, law requires you to have the siren activated as well. Even if its the middle of the night. Now not everyone does that most will still use the sirens.

Connor Brumleve that’s just daft!

It’s is a Sentry Siren but is actually a single phase 3V8 (I’ve seen it many times).

Trains and Sirens shut down cycle

Can’t kill a Sentry!

10v?

Here in Pa, if your lights are on, your siren will be on. Visual and audible for emergency vehicles in my area. If you get smacked by a passing vehicle, chances are it's your fault.

@@adamkeyser3737 I run in PA and that is not a rule. That may be your depts rule.

My guess would be a volunteer firefighter. A lot of states and/or counties allow volunteers to use private vehicles with lights to respond to the station.

Cleveland, MS does...both the city and the county firemen use lights and sirens....and when they still used the overheads, it was city policy all vehicles pull to the right of the street and stop until the siren stopped sounding...let the firemen through....and it worked....all volunteer...class 4 insurance rated...

he could have been a chief officer in CT like NY the firefighters use blue.... im located in MA we use red/white here'

Alex W Ah, okay. Thanks. In German all additional lights are absolutely prohibited if you are not a city's fire chief (he also needs a special permission). But every single volunteer firefighter is allowed to break traffic rules while responding to a call on the way to their fire station (if necessary and nobody is put in danger by doing so). As far as I know most US VFs are not even allowed to drive faster than usual. Is that right?

DeBukkIt correct here in Massachusetts we can't speed. Also our red lights are only courtesy meaning other traffic doesn't have to pull over for us.... however most do. Where I'm located everyone pulls over. And we go thru the red lights only when everyone has stopped and allowed us to go thru.

+James Gorden so I am not the only one who noticed that. and the jerk blowing the horn at the tanker. I hate that.

pipesmoker I can understand why they honked, that tanker pulled out onto the road without even checking. It probably scared the shit out of the person in that car. I think these guys need to do some more EVOC training.

+James Gorden The tanker had his red lights on and sitting on the apron for a bit. If the car is approaching the firehouse and sees a emergency vehicle with its red lights on he should slow down. That being said yes the driver of the tanker should also use caution when pulling into traffic. I have seen to many times with civilians that they DO NOT respect an emergency vehicle and that was the intent of my previous comment.

pipesmoker I agree with you, people don't respect emergency vehicles and that is why operators have to be extremely vigilant. If you get in an accident then more than likely you're going to court and you very well may lose. These guys had their lights on by no sirens, and that tanker driver didn't slow down or stop and check the road before pulling out onto it. On my department that's a big deal, if any of us are caught driving like that then we lose that privilege.

My Fire Departments trucks are built once the master switch is turned on the headlights automatically turn on

Well,if the town is that small then I guess that loud siren at the beginning woke the whole town up anyway so why not run the siren?

mining city comm Ray Small towns use the siren sparingly, but hell, third out could at least turn on the headlights.

You don't have to use the siren. Only if you need to clear traffic. If you use it all the way there all you will do is annoy everyone between the department and the scene.

Our rescue rig goes to all our calls regardless of nature since it has our saw, jaws, etc. on it. We have 6 trucks as a volunteer dept serving 3500 or more people. We tell our guys to take the Pierce and Rescue rig first (all seats full) and anyone that gets to the station after those 2 rigs leave will take our brush truck (for manpower on scene) and if that truck is full, then the other FF's can take a Rural pumper. Most of the time though only 3 trucks leave the station due to guys being at work or out of town, at which point we would call for mutual aid from our buddies of a town about 5 miles north. Small town complications, but we make it work lol

+Blake Pamperin yeah the town I live in is Goreville Illinois and our fire department is also voulnteer and we have one engine one tanker one brush and two rescue units and our county ambulance service is the only transportation ambulances we got and they have four for the whole county and our rescue covers our town and all the county side Inbetween one is like a 1980 ford rescue box ambulance looking one and one is I think a 1990 pickup with a cover (that we just got about two months ago) and one of them and a local Goreville officer or sheriffs deputy goes as first responders and help whoever needs help until the county ambulance service gets on scene then they help with lift assistance if they end up transporting. Small towns make the best with what they got :)

looks like the call required a full house response

I'm certain that it's a Sentry 3v8.

The first ALF (E3) that pulled out was doing it's last run as first due. It was replaced by the pumper in the far end of the middle bay, you can see the back of it when the middle truck pulls out. It was 20 years old at the time of this call. It is equipped for brush fires and water supply duty now and for the last 7 years. It's replacement is being specked at this time. The last pumper out, also a ALF, E2 (with the infamous late appearing headlights) was given to the town of Bono, in the Dominican Republic and is still in service there. On a personnel note I find amusing the number of comments disparaging this department responding 3 pumpers and a tanker to a chimney fire. The severity of chimney fires runs the spectrum from, "no big deal, all we need is a Indian can and a few shots of water," to, "Oh sh*t! it's in the wall and spreading to the roof." I've seen many examples of each. During the "Energy Crisis" in the early 1970's this department responded to over 150 such calls and at the time they were categorized separately from structure fires. This lead people in the fire service to believe Chimney fires need not be taken seriously. They were almost regarded as service calls. Over the ensuing few years it was found to be prudent to bring enough at the start in order to have what you need on scene or on the road if need be. Anyone that has been doing this very long knows, the fire dictates what it's going to take to put it out. I frequently recall the words of an Assistant Chief from Hartford that we had as an instructor for many years, I paraphrase: "We didn't start the fire. Every fire goes out, even the ones we don't go to. We're here to see to it they go out after causing the least amount of damage possible. I'm not here to tell you guys how to run your fire department. You've been doing that longer than anyone and know what works for you."

Lily Dane I am sure it does blast every day afternoon, but it usually blasts off every morning and at night

Lily Dane I'd have to admit that noise can be as loud as 100DB's

This type of siren can get up to 110, which isn't even that loud!

Some are loud some aren't . At the penn wynne fire company, most sirens blast at a very high frequency

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it could have caught the whole house on fire

+Travis Hanson Harwinton actually runs a large volume of calls. Mostly motor vehicle accidents, as they are number 1 on the list for being toned to the areas major highway. Route 8.

Travis Hanson Well I don't know how you construct chimneys in the US but most chimneys are designed to contain fire consequently chimney fires are usually soot fires. In 25 years I have never required more than one pump to deal with one. The only exception I can imagine more than one pump attendance is for a thatched roof (reed covered). The only time I ever had fires outside of the chimney is what we call a 'timber under hearth' fire where due to poor construction timber joists have projected under the hearth and caught fire due to a crack in the hearth stone. At one time a fire in a dirty flue could result in a financial penalty but a defective flue was exempt. That eventually fell by the wayside due to the fear that home owners would refuse to call it in just in case they got a fine. I presume you do full turnouts because most US houses are timber built.

Quite possible. A friend of mine (Mike g. on KZfaq) works for the most of Reading, Pennsylvania’s fire departments, (he’s an assistant chief) has been honked at so many times before Reading added the stop lights, also, chimney fires are common.

Another fucking armchair quarter back

Does not matter. Emergency lights were on so the car should of taken caution.

Mathew James Nardella Exactly, RED LIGHTS MEAN SLOW DOWN, REGARDLESS