This fire was reported around 5:00 PM on Tuesday. It occurred in an import/export warehouse that store scented candles. An auto parts business is next door. Click to read more from KTLA-TV.
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LOOKS LIKE THE PHOTOG NEEDS SOME PPE TO OPERATE THAT CLOSE TO THE IDLH. GOOD TO SEE AND OPERATION OF THAT SCALE WITH ALMOST EVERONE IN FULL PPE.
I was waiting for an East Coaster to say how a real fireman would have walked into that fire sans B\A and knocked it down with a booster line.
Definately need PPE for the Photo guys.
A little more aggressive attack with 2 1/2′s on the ground might have been more effective in stopping that fire.
mark says: “I was waiting for an East Coaster to say how a real fireman would have walked into that fire sans B\A and knocked it down with a booster line.”
Mark, yours is a baseless shot at excellent Firefighters young man. In the northeast, a well advanced fire in such a structure would have been dealt with using several tower ladder streams as well as ground based monitors and 2.5″ hand lines. And yes, these would all be equipped with smooth bore tips to insure that there would be maximum reach and penetration of the streams. You see Mark, the goal of Firefighters when faced with a situation such as the one depicted in the video, is to apply more GPM’s to the seat of the fire than it can withstand thus achieving EXTINGUISHMENT. As can be clearly seen in the video, the ground level streams (in this case, all are hand lines equipped with fog nozzles) are frequently shown to not be applying water to the fire (you can’t knock down any fire at all with the nozzle closed). When they do open the nozzles, it’s readily obvious that the broken fog streams are totally ineffective (Also totally ineffective is the 1.75″ hand line that one firefighter is seen operating for a short period of time.)
Before you take shots at Firefighters from other parts of the country, you should make sure that your crew does the job properly. Clearly your crew ‘dropped the ball’ on this one.
Yeh! What Thaddeus Fitzhume said!!! Besides all that, those California style helmets are shall we say, goofy lookin. Ya’ll need to pony up some money and get a New Yorker. Then although, you might just look the part, maybe, just maybe, the helmet may make you a wee bit more schooled on the way to put a fire out, the right way, the New York way. (Hint #2–ditch them crazy wooden ladders you guys use, it’s 2010–they make’m out of aluminum now)
lol, Thad, you haven’t a clue where I’m from.
BTW, thanks for the lesson, wish you would have been at the fire we assisted at last week. Tried telling 2 EO’s from other depts that their fog nozzles on their platforms were worthless, especially when there was about 1000 GPM running out the back of the building.
But I was just MA, so what do I know. And late called MA at that.