On its website the Granville VFD says this fire yesterday morning on Farmor Drive in Westover apparently started in the living room. Firefighters form Granville, Westover and Star City were dispatched to the scene.
As you listen to the clip you will note the videographer is providing a lot of coaching from the sidelines. We assume he is a firefighter and not a citizen.
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Hands down the most awesome display of roof ops I have ever seen…
you most obviously have not seen too many roof ops.
An awesome display of roof ops??? I dont believe I saw anybody sounding the roof or coordinating an attack. Not to mention no SCBA!!!
I would consider this fire VERY suspicious
At least they went inside and put out the fire unlike a lot of the ‘Hotshots’ that we are treated to seeing here …
Compared to the numerous, horrendously inexcusable violations of basic bread and butter firefighting that is seen here on an almost daily basis, I am surprised to see that only Mr. Fitzhume is able to point out that this was not a terrible fire attack and it’s likely that this department doesn’t have the luxury of responding to a large number of structural fires in a year.
The Granville VFD needs to put together a road show presentation of basic fire attack for small single family dwellings. It appeared that all who responded worked together toward the same goal and got the job done fairly quickly. Maybe they’ll be invited to begin their teaching in P.G.
I’m guessing Molly’s post was sarcasm?
Honestly, my department is horrible at vertical ventilation, they\we seem to believe that positive pressure is the only way of ventilating.
I think or know we should perform it more often.
Other than the guy on the roof lacking B\A and some other tools to perform the task, it didn’t look too bad.
Not sure what being shorthanded has to do with being stupid, but whatever floats your boat.
Yes, it was sarcasm. It’s always hard to indicate sarcasm in a written form…
I was impressed with the engine work here. They seemed to put the fire out pretty quick. The horizontal venting obviously helped a lot, unlike the virtually useless vertical vent attempt.
The reasons I was less than impressed with the roof ops are;
1. Single man ops for most of the time
2. Inadequate PPE
3. Inadequate tools to begin the task
4. Vent hole location (lowest point of the roof??)
5. Poor timing (to be effective the roof needed to be opened up much sooner, by the time it was finished it contributed nothing of value to the operation)
6. Poor technique (an inspection cut would have revealed the double roof much sooner and they could have adjusted their plan to suit)
7. Questionable need for vertical ventilation in the first place. (I’m all about venting, but it’s got to be done right time, right place, right type)
If anyone reading this was actually involved in the fire, please read my comments as suggestions for improvement, not as blatant insults or department bashing.