They are the drivers, who remain with the pump and are responsible for maintaining water to the incident. This is not an easy job, requiring them to have a good knowledge both of the hydrants and the number of lines the pump can support at the required pressure. On a major incident, they may need to fuel and add lube oil to the pump. This may be very difficult wearing full attire and a helmet. In addition, they may need to organise water from distant supplies requiring tandem trucks along the route, supply pumped water to the ladders, or set up suction to draw water from tankers of a lake (requiring strainers), not to mention moving their truck. On large incidents, their attire makes it obvious to the command post that they are not available as firefighters. The US deal with much larger fires than the UK or western Europe, some of them going on for days, so this arrangement works, avoiding problems such as pumps running out of fuel or overheating.

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There is stations numbered 21-46 in all divisions, A, H, F, E, G, with some omissions in each division (e.g., no A27, H30, F31) as stations have closed over the years, additionally, newly formed stations like Heathrow (G56) and Harold Hill (F57) have high numbers in the 50 range for whatever reason. I can send you a list of all stations and callsigns if you want.

@@LondonEmergency999 What little I know about the LFB I learned from reading the book Red Watch and from a firefighter friend who visited London and Hampshire many years ago.

Yup, 64m with a lift fitted one of 3 such appliances in London based at Dagenham old Kent road and Wimbledon, usually deployed with an aerial support pump

@superbro3491 what’s he supposed to do? Grab a bucket or two and start throwing water on it?

I don’t think he has his own fire apparatus, the fuck do you want him to do?? 😂😂😂

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@@superbro3491 Is that your age or your IQ?

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Barents PL and HVP - they have to send out PL with the HVP

​@HarryEmergencyVids..... yeah I get that, but where is Barents? Never heard of it. Do you mean Barnet's?

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The police were there dickhead. Clearly the HGVs and other vehicles couldn’t be bothered to move, even though the industrial estate was clearly closed.

Considering it appears to be a major hub for industrial activity AND the highway is right there, its actually not that easy. Please educate yourself before harassing people when you dont even understand how difficult their job is nor the strategies in place.

​​@@amazonbox5551Oh give it a rest. I guarantee there will be thirty of them stood rubber necking the fire, there ALWAYS are. Even as a Sub Officer I've had to detail members of my own crew to direct traffic as the police showed no interest in doing so. If you've see some of the early videos of the Strangeways riots that Sub Officer stood at the junction of Bury New Rd and Southall St conducting traffic is me. There were dozens of police stood doing nothing at the time.

​@@amazonbox5551haha have a day off.... uk cops absolutely clueless.... all about box ticking now than the right man for the job. Embarrassment

the crews will wait to be given instructions from the Command Unit. they turn up, hand in their nominal roll board which has names and skill list and then they get deployed around the incident ground with varying tasks etc.

@@georgedawson7895 I was actually talking about the HGVs and cars blocking up the round about but thanks for the info

@@spewmister Sorry! I'm not the brightest spark in the universe

1.00 - it’s alright London, Essex are here 😂 We’ll put out your fires and nick your kit afterwards 😅😅

Firefighters or civilians? Theres an explanation for both.

People who have been evacuated from their work?

Having a command structure and on scene command is crucial, without coordination or people to keep track and assign tasks it will simply become a place of uncoordinated chaos that can end up with things getting worse. That is why there is a national handbook for command strategies.

Makes sense considering its a group of firefighters showing up in 1 vehicle rather then single high ranking officers showing up in their cars usually from different parts of the city

Thanks mate, with the fire brigade not to sure as Essex and Kent like to help out London especially Rainham Area as they always attends but unknown if it’s strategically placed to attend

Station 50 ecfrs is Grays Only 7.5 miles away from the incident And station 55 is Orsett only 9.6

@@bluelineairsoftesc4975 Thankyou for the info.

All fire brigades come under the command of the Home Office, so although each county operates financially independent of each other they are all ostensibly one fire brigade. This shout was, apparently, a 20 pumper, that would stretch any one county and leave its risks under covered, so cross border shouts are the norm. I don't recall attending any cross border shouts but we frequently moved to cover the bigger station in the next town while they sent their appliances to cross border incidents. One particular time one of our appliances went to cover the bigger station and a rural fire station appliance covered our station.

@@HarryEmergencyVids There’s two Rainham’s - one in (old) Essex and one in Kent. This was the London/ old Essex county one, bringing Kent over the river is part of a radius call-out between the three brigades. Kent would also have had to battle through the Dartford crossing, they did well to make that timeline. Moving Essex (Grays and Orsett) to this job was far easier, with Rayleigh and Brentwood then being able to move down to cover Grays and Orsett’s grounds.

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Might be a transfer run

It was normal attendance for high rise afa

@@HarryEmergencyVids thank you