The next to useless ladder is parked where the Multi Tool of firefighting SHOULD be parked. The Engine! With a Line of Sight on the burning material. In this case, right where the camera is. However, the Fountain Statue mentality of USA firefighting takes over. The Deck Gun should have shut down within 5 seconds after the flames were shut off so the rest of the job could be performed surgically while using the least amount of water. That takes THINKING. Then, once they finally get the ladder set up, it joins in to dump even more water on that one spot that couldn't burn if you dropped napalm on it. 12:00 While that one spot will never burn again after seeing 5000 gallons of water dumped on it, the rest of the house fires right up. But that ladder refuses to give up on that one spot and hopes the water level will rise up enough to drown that second-floor fire. 13:00 Notice where that ladder stream is going. When you look at how long it was putting water into the next block, keep in mind, the video was edited. 40:30 Now that they have vented the roof to allow the attic to breath and ignite, notice how the smo0ke coming out the gable end window and second floor windows are still flowing smoke. It is not going out the hole in the roof. Now flames are coming out of the attic window. The second-floor smoke has still not gone up the hole in the roof. 47:20 Now that they have opened the roof to let the fire breath much better, look at the conditions now. A coordinated attack does NOT exist in the USA fire service, nut it sure sounds good on paper! How does VVing improve conditions on the lower levels? This is the USA fire disservice people. The ones you consider to be your heroes. I'll bet that property owner doesn't think so. If you aren't a responsible and competent worker, you can forget about being anyone's hero.

Beards. SMH.

Early in the video we saw two hand lines throwing copious water at no perceptible fire. Once the roof got goin they were temporarily out of water. I honestly question if these guys could put the dog out to pee…smdh. Every fire it’s the same nonsense.

So slow compared to Australia, we have fire trucks with plenty of water and equipment before hydrants are required. 2 house fires in my area in the past year and a bit were put under control within an hour both 2nd alarm (unfortunately both houses cannot be occupied atm) due to asbestos

What does “W/T.T.F” mean?

Question for you. After seeing several of your videos I'm wondering why you don't move around more, you seem to show up and then stand in one spot. Showing arriving apparatus getting positioned and set up to work would be a great thing to do...... Thanks.

Nice

So why was my original comment deleted. Nothing negative

Great video!

I'm assuming this is a no water situation? Otherwise I can't understand why I'm seeing what I'm seeing.

Not sure what they are waiting for, someone to say, 1, 2 , 3, go?

Great job guys. Thanks

Hopefully the two firefighters were okay, and glad that the residents were able to get out in time. Thank you to all firefighters everywhere for protecting the citizens of your coverage area.

Firefighters should be SCBA ready when they get out of the Engine

What year is that Milton tanker? That's a nice looking truck, im glad to see it still working

Sounds like the pumper was going into a vacuum

OMG! Im glad i don't live in Schuylkill county. I'd be embarrassed of those so called firemen

I cant believe it took them so long to flow water that could have stared a brush fire probably all volunteers but that could have been a out of control brush fire

This looks just like a control demolition fire!

I’m just here for the arm chair firefighters! Seriously though, fully involved not much there to save other than framing. Put it out and go home. For those of you that are complaining about what went on here remember this, most if not all of you weren’t there(including myself) so you don’t know the whole story. And for those of you that are “experts”, I’d love to have you ride with me on my rig and do what we do. I bet you change your attitude! For those of you that do fire, be safe!

These are very good "FIRE" men.

If there was no one to rescue and their wasn't an exposure problem why bust your butt and risk injury? Either this was a delayed notification or a long daytime response. Either way the battle was over before arrival.

Facial hair. SMH

I did see that utility company did arrive

Each apparatus has water except Truck! This is a poor excuse of firefighting. Pretty apparatus but learn it uses

i am not american or russian but I watched some russian rural fire incidents , but the russian firfighters reponse is way deferent and quicker , they always start with the water they have in their fire trucks befor figuring out later another source of water ..maybe they have deferent approach on what is the priorites in handling the fire but in most videos i watched the russians seems more effecient .

SH*T SHOW

They sure did Save Water on this House Fire.... Why drop tones for a Second Alarm ? There is Enough Firefighters standing around doing Nothing..... Literally NOTHING... (1 Volunteer FF) sprayed water for 2 minutes and then shut the line down....

Wow..... What a Totally Useless Fire Department....

I heard Chief advise of utility lines down, never heard any request to Dispatch to get Power Company enroute

"working" generally means somebody works.

It’s not a real fire it’s just AI

Skook, where they never leave room for the truck company!

no shortage of photographers to showcase how pathetic this was.

Control burn. Owner pays $2000 for a burn permit and let it go to the ground. Less clean up.

darn tones are so long when it finish the house would be on the ground

The OIC is supposed to be top notch in that area .........hmmmmm

My favorite part is when they shut down the ram after 60 seconds of use!

If you are not going to put water on it then why show up? Cue all the firefighter fan boys justifying this.

Oh, how I need to chime in on this call. What was the problem in getting water on this fire? There was a hydrant at E Mah & 5th and you had ample tanker support. This is why pre-planning is so important.

Over 8 minutes in this video to put water on the fire. This was most likely 25 minutes since the call went out which is well below standards of a fire department. The citizens should demand change or replace the entire fire department with staff who can do the job efficiently

The red stuff goes away if you put the wet stuff on it guy's

Good save of the cellar hole.

When the request for second alarm was put in that house was a total loss at that point.

Glad that there were no injuries to anyone related to this incident and that everyone was able to get out in time. Summer time fires and high heat, make for a hard fire to fight. Thank you to all firefighters everywhere for protecting the citizens of your coverage area.

If a fire is this far gone and there's no exposures, let it go. Fire departments waste so many resources on things like this and there is zero way to change the outcome. There's Only risk to the responders. Especially in super hot, humid weather like this. yes it stinks for the homeowner, but as one of my instructors said many, many years ago; we didn't start the fire. I was always a very aggressive FF when I was young but eventually I saw that no matter how hard we worked, sometimes (many times) the place just got torn down anyway. Risk vs. Reward. The idea we need to do "something" needs to change.

Ok.. who got the marshmallows??

Luke, use the force to fill those tanks!!

Hey probie, I need the water hammer and drop tank keys off the engine!!

Without the information that I.C. had at the time, the structure was so fully involved that there was nothing to save. Rather than use the limited resources of a rural fire dept., (lack of unlimited water supply), I.C. apparently chose to use his resources to extinguish the remains. This may seem terrible to laymen, but nothing could have been saved. These are my thoughts, not being anywhere near the situation.