Click here for a series of pictures from the fire by Lou Minutoli
Two parts of video taken at a July 19 fire on Robby Lane in Garden City Park in Nassau County. At about 1:30 in the clip below the evacuation of the home is ordered. According to a report at FireRescue1.com this came in as report of a car fire that spread to another car and the house.
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Ever wonder why firefighters are injured or killed? Check out the two “idiots” at the 2:50 mark. You have one person in his “fire proof red t-shirt and shorts”, you can see he does have his radio, which leads me to believe he is a firefighter and in the background you can see a firefighter fully prepared to do battle with a hose line but he appears to have forgotten to don his helmet or simply chose not too. Where are the officers on this scene? These two “potential statisics” should have never been allowed anywhere near the scene without all of their PPE properly donned. I don’t know if I am disguted by the stupidity or infuriated by the arrogance. If this was my crew I would call in for a replacement crew and remove my crew from the scene immediately. Our calling is dangerous enough already without creating needless dangerous situations ourselves. For the sake of our families, friends and ourselves, use your training, equipment and common sense. Stay Safe
Good ole Long Island fire service at it’s best!
It’s vollies. It’s tough to enforce rules when your employees are working for free.
Thaddeus
Don’t paint all vollies with the same tar stick, I am one and if any of our members operated this way, it would be their last call response for a long time.
Dave – It’s not a ‘shot’ at vollies, it’s just a fact. It’s extremely difficult in this day and age to recruit, train and retain sufficient number of really top shelf personnel and have them perform all of the duties of a firefighter on an unpaid basis. What you see in this video is common place … just look at the fire scene videos that grace the numerous fire service web pages …
Stay safe.
All the fire tax, free beer and racing couldn’t save this house.
I have no problem with volunteers but that was one of the worst fire attacks ever. Try getting the water on the fire instead of shooting over the house and at the eaves.
I thought I was watching a P.G. county video due to the obvious similarities in the operation, but then I realized the video didn’t subject the viewer to a lengthy view from inside the cab of their over – lit circus wagon as it raced through the streets with their calliope screaming placing everyone at risk while trying to beat the first due company in.
Its easy to Monday Morning Quaterback. Fact is there was fire in the Garage, Basement and Attic of a pre dawn, ~5000 sq/ft occupied Colliers Mansion, in wich the homeowner tried to extinguish for 10+ minutes before a neighbor smelled smoke and called 911.
Fire in bsmt was knocked down by an interior line and then the same line started on the garage fire. The attic only had access through a small hatch which made it difficult to have an effective interior attack, even though a line was in place trying to make that attack. Pulling the ceilings didnt help as the attic had a full plywood floor.
When the evac order was given, lines were being placed to feed the 2 Towers, infront of the building. Firefighters who were placing hand lines into the eaves were doing so in an effort to get water on the seat of the attic fire, not merely spraying the eaves. The attic plywood ended about 2 feet prior to the facia board, so by attacking the fire in that manner they actually were getting water on the fire. Once the towers went into operation, they were able to reach the attic fire from above and was quickly extinguished.
As for the PPE issues? The red shirted free-lancer is an idiot, I heard he was a chauffuer of a rig not being utilized at the scene. The helmetless firefighter was apparently told to don his helmet as he did about a minute later in the video.
I'd love to see any department, not have a few issues at the scene of an alarm… Capt Dave must run a tight ship;)