Fireground audio & more Guy Zampatori pictures from Monroe County Fire Wire
In Rochester, New York last night, a house fire near North Clinton Avenue and Long Acre Road. It was dispatched with a report of people trapped. Two people were brought out of the house before firefighters arrived.
Guy Zampatori photo. Click the image for more.
Guy Zampatori with Monroe County Fire Wire was on the scene quickly. Guy’s initial video is below. The video above is a little later in the fire. An evacuation order came at about 2:40 in the clip. You will see it was responded to immediately. Here’s how Guy describes it:
Quint 6 went on location with flames from a 1 1/2. Battalion 1 assumed command and reported a working fire in a 30×30 1 1/2 with fire on the first floor extending to the second. Two civilians were pulled from the house before firefighters arrived. There were some scary moments while Quint 6 was advancing their line. The fire rapidly grew, so command ordered an emergency evacuation. As you can see in the video below, one firefighter had to bail out a window.
Quint 6 went on location with flames from a 1 1/2. Battalion 1 assumed command and reported a working fire in a 30×30 1 1/2 with fire on the first floor extending to the second. Two civilians were pulled from the house before firefighters arrived. There were some scary moments while Quint 6 was advancing their line. The fire rapidly grew, so command ordered an emergency evacuation. As you can see in the video below, one firefighter had to bail out a window.
Also on STATter911 …
- Raw video & fireground audio: Rochester, New York house fire with evac order. – June 12, 2011
- Early raw video: Two-alarm house fire in Beltsville, Maryland. – April 11, 2011
- Helmet-cam video: Hartly, Delaware house fire. – January 6, 2011
- Fireground audio & raw video: Baltimore battalion chief calls in dwelling fire with jumpers. – January 24, 2012
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Some thoughts I have every time I see something like this or have a RIC drill.
A quint crew can not perform both the tasks of an engine and truck company at the scene of a fire. Not even on a 30×30 1 1/2, let alone a 3 story type 5 residential over commercial.
The firefighter that bails out the window is in good physical condition to make that kind of exit, a tip of the helmet for that! I know a great deal of folks who would have struggled to make it into the opening, let alone the nice landing. Well done.
But where is your partner? Surely you were not in there alone. I was not in your situation and when the evac horns go off self preservation kicks in for sure, but even my dept trains our RIC to rescue one person. Now I know why.
So often we would say “Why are we only rescuing one person? Shouldn’t they be with their buddy?” But their buddy got the heck out of Dodge when the horns hit.
Again, I am not criticizing the firefighters in this video, he is alive and that is what counts, I merely wanted to say now I know why we RIC drill for 1 rescue, not an entire company.
I was not there, I’d likely be the first one out the window myself if the horns hit.
Great video.
There is nothing in the initial video that indicates a hose line was advancing (ie. water out a window, smoke color lightning, etc). Were they advancing a garden hose or more likely an improperly supplied fog nozzle. Many departments choose to use fog nozzles that claim to flow 250 GPM through a 1.75″ line but they either don’t send the correct nozzle pressure or the nozzle operator doesn’t open the bale all the way. So, they end up flowing more like 90 GPM which as we all should know won’t do the job. What it will do is allow the fire to spread unchallenged and place trapped occupants and searching firefighters in great jeopardy (as is seen in the video). That’s a little bitty house, they should be able to operate the line from the front door and hit the back room if there are no obstructions … Hopefully nobody was injured in the making of this film …
uhmmmm Definitions-
Fire Hose- (fir/hose) a flexible tube, with a synthetic or natural rubber inner liner and a woven outer jacket that is used to convey water/and or a foam solution for the purposes of extinguishing a fire
Fire Fighting-putting the wet stuff on the hot stuff.
What ever happened to aggressive engine company tactics?
Is there a reason there is no water on the fire yet?
Save Your Own is all well and good, but just because you learned how to do a “head first bailout” doesn’t mean you can’t come out of the house like a gentleman when it’s time to leave. For Pete’s sake, it’s just few short steps to the door, but as soon as the surrender is sounded, this guy makes his department look like the 101st Airborne.
“There were some scary moments while Quint 6 was advancing the line.” Give me a break.
It appears that he hit the dismount pretty well. I noticed his toes were pointed and he certainly cleared the boxwood hedge. He had some difficulty with his momentum, but I’d score him high for effort and degree of difficulty.
This fire burned, unchecked for an extended period. Saws running, ladders placed, the scene was lit up like a movie set yet no change in smoke. Where is the water? This appears to be a one or two room burn on arrival. Get inside and get to it!
Well the video doesnt do the fire conditions justice. Jet black perssurized somke coming from every window upon arrival with visible fire on the bravo and charlie sides of the residence with extension to the 2nd floor. Thats what they had, not to mention two people that had been removed from the house, one of which had to be removed from the front of the house. SO Quint 6 made the front door with 4 of it’s 6 members, 1 left to operate the pump and one to tend to the fire victims. A line was taken and a search was started. Listen to the radio traffic, they were told not to advance to far due to conditions. Command ordered everyone from the building within 5 minutes of entering due to the poor conditions. The 2nd due company was on another job further delaying any backup, and none of the Quint company started any truck company operations. A quint first due to a fire is an engine with a ladder ontop of it. Water was applied to the fire area, look at the conditions, granted it was not doing much but water was flowing. As for the debate of an automatic fog nozzle or a smooth bore I think that is a mute point. Not every department uses a fog or smooth bore. Rochester uses both, so who know what was deployed. Rochester is an agressive compitent fire department that has had reductions in manpower over the last 2 years and they still hold to the same agressive and safe tactics. So lets not try to make a coffee club judgement upon viewing 5 minutes of video of an incident of an hour or more.
I’m waiting for someone to chime in and let us know that the first-due was at a medical, the second-due’s pump seized, and they were on a dead hydrant.
Anybody? Bueller?
That was a pretty sweet jump.
Anonymous says, “Water was applied to the fire area, look at the conditions, granted it was not doing much but water was flowing. As for the debate of an automatic fog nozzle or a smooth bore I think that is a mute point. Not every department uses a fog or smooth bore.”
My point is not about applying water, it’s about applying the correct amount of water in the correct location. If you are putting the right amount of water in the right place, you will not see what you see in this video.
If a department insists on using fog nozzles for interior attack, it is essential that:
1) the nozzle be set on straight stream.
2) the nozzle be completely free of debris that will obstruct the stream.
3) the correct pressure must be supplied at the nozzle.
4) the bale must be open all the way.
My post is not intended to slight anyone or any department, but rather it is intended to provide information that can save civilian as well as firefighters’ lives by controlling and extinguishing fire.
Three words: “Positive Pressure Attack.” Google it, You Tube it and learn about it. Admittedly, Monday morning armchairing on my end – guilty as charged. But worth thinking about on this fire. Mostly, I am glad the brothers and the customers are okay.
Positive Pressure Attack isn’t the answer either Chief!