NOTE: After almost a day on the site, these videos have now been removed from YouTube by the person who posted them.
From top to bottom, all four parts of a video from a house fire in Waldorf, Maryland (Charles County) on Thursday.
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These guys definately have an issue with safety of there members. I don’t care who they think they are they all should have full turn-out gear on working around this house. You have guys ventilating outside with no safety equiptment at all.
I love seeing the two guys in their “PPE” working hard. What century are we in again??? Just curious.
Doesnt make a bit of difference if they are paid or vollie. And toss out the “tradition BS too. Lets quit being a statistic people
Totally agree. If the person in the white t-shirt and shorts is a FF, he needs to be suspended. If he is an fire officer he needs to be demoted and suspended. If he is a chief officer he needs to be removed from his position by the Board of Directors. If he is a civilian he needs to be arrested. And we wonder why FFs get killed. Come on guys, wear your PPE.
All those rigs, and one guy in shorts and a tee shirt seems to be doing all the work.
Good way to get someone hurt.Evidently there is no control by whoever is running the incident.And people wonder why the members of fire departments get injured on the fireground. I know everyone wants to do their part but use common sense.A
“One hundred years of tradition unimpeded by progress”. No wonder fire insurance costs an arm and a leg in Charles County.
The old addage says, “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all……..” I’m not saying anything!!
DC’s finest…
So many things wrong here that it is hard to find a place to start.
i THINK THE VIDEO SPEAKS FOR IT SELF !!! The guy in the shorts shouten even be on the fire grounds ! And as far as COMMAND it burnt down with HOUSE !!! They should have vented that fire and tried to knock it down in the attic !!!! Point Said House and Fireman Safe !!!!!
Seriously. What is the deal with all these videos of late showing poor firefighting tactics and unsafe activities? Aside from “the Short King” running around playing Fireman… I have to wonder how long the span of fire was? How much time are we missing between videos? A 2 1/2″ with some ceiling hooks should have made quick order that fire.
Oh man I wish Grampa woulda got a head full of melting dripping vynal siding on his head when he poked his head in the door and yelled, “Hey guys, you got fire venting from the roof” OK Gramps, take your big red Hovaround and you can go go go back the the retirement village and dazzle all the hotties there of how you saved another foundation.
And Young buck in shorts and the white t shirt rippin the window out the back of the house. I’ll give you credit for using an 8′ pike pole instead of a 6′ pike pole, you were 2′ closer to where you should have been—on the sidewalk with the rest of the untrained onlookers.
I hate comin on this site sometimes because it makes me embarassed to be called a firefighter, the same thing these guys are called. I think we have to come up with a new term for people who fight fire, intelligently, who wear PPE, who use SCBA and who do it right.
DCFD’s finest…
Isn’t Maryland on the East coast?
I’m sure most of the people making comments about the guys PPE are either Fairfax Co. firemen, way too safety concious not enough balls, or the PG Co. firemen that showed and up and was standing outside. So if you wanna cast stones try to do some work yourself. He probably came from home and didn’t go to the firehouse to pick up his gear. What works for them is fine as long as it is safe, should he have had PPE on sure, but i’m not going to chastize him especially if he is a DCFd brother of mine. Oh and by the way whoever suggested a 2 1/2″ hoseline inside should go back to fire school. You are about stupid if you think they need a large hoseline like that in such a small house, people don’t realize that multiple 1 3/4″ or 1 1/2″ do just as well!!!!
Its not DCFD….last time I checked its in Waldorf MD…no where close to DCFD, might wanna check your google maps pal…
Many of their volunteer members are DCFD which is good. Working that close to an incident with out any PPE,not good. If they were DCFD off-duty, I bet they would not get away with those unsafe methods at work,would they?
where is command? whos calling the shots? saw a white hat, going inside? is he the only one? im my mind lack of command creates alot of freelancing, which in turn creates, dead firefighters!
What a JOKE!! These guys looked like a bunch of homeless bums at a carnival. The homeowner would have been better off just letting the house burn to the ground and collect the insurance.
I guess who ever posted the videos isn’t holding up well under all the scrutiny. I just tried to watch the videos and each of them are saying they’ve been removed by the user.
Oh my god is this what the fire service has come to a bunch of cowards crying about a little house fire. Sure things are not prefect but the job got done and everybody went home. I guess these days if you are not standing outside breathing air with your vest on and hiding behind the command board you are not safe. I was there on the first arriving engine and things went just fine. We put the fire out and the house was still standing, unlike some places around the metro area. As for the 2 1/2 with a lot of hooks the attic floor had 1/2 plywood floor so that was a good idea. NOT. Its a good thing the camera man didn’t get me coming out of the house when it was over because you girls would have had a baby when you saw me without a hood and my 3/4 boots folded down. What a bunch of crying school girls.
I agree Gil, some of these crybaby asses on here complaining are the same ones that you see outside with there vests on doing walk arounds while us REAL Firefighters are inside putting the fires out. Let the girls continue to complain and we will continue to put out the fires.
Good thing this was only about a 400 sq. ft house- if it had been any bigger it probably would have burned down to the foundation.
Don’t worry Waldorf VFD..probably the last time these ninnies saw a fire, was inside there training burn building where they lit off a bale of hay topped with 2 pallets.
When you women get together to watch Rescue Me, do you critique the shows entirety and say harsh things such as “oh my Tommy Gavin had his bunker coat unbuttoned and his Scott waist straps were dangling from his waist side”. And gosh after the fire was out, did you see FF Gavin smoke a cigarette.
Girls, you can watch all the DCFD Fire Videos in the world, but experience is what’s going to give yourself a mind of your own when your on the fireground. When you go to enough fires you will know what your capabilities are…Common sense rules over everything.
Sorry if I see light smoke showing or if i read the smoke correctly..lol….i’ll put my mask and helmet on and save the hood for the big one..Things like that are foreign to the safety critics because 1. they’ve gone to 11 fires in the last 15 years and 6 of them were training fires. 2. they haven’t developed a mindset of their own away from what they’ve learned at the training academy.
I think if this was a tree house on fire the safety commanders would have burned it to the ground along with the tree.
Ya just gotta love how the wagons are circled.
Instead of addressing the obvious issues, those people are attacked and made fun of, all the while not having a clue who they are and how much fire they may or may not see.
Point being, it really doesn’t matter how much fire they see when a scene as screwed up as this one is posted for the world to see.
But hey, keep defending stupidity.
I think all of your names will look good in emmittsburg with that kind of attitude.
Couldnt agree more Hook….
Would yall like your full name in the bricks at emmittsburg or first “nickname” last because with that advice thats where youre headed
Didn’t get to see the vids but I see the trash talking is hot and heavy. Love it. Why? It means one of two things. You’re hungry to do the job or you’re trying to justify NOT doing the job. Either way is good for me when I ride the back instead of driving. If you’re hungry, I’ll have good back-up when I beat your ass to the nozzle(HUNGRY old men are fast…we’ve been known to eat our young). If it’s the other, it will be easy to take the nozzle away from you, that is if you’ve even stretched the line to begin with. As for the turnout gear, oops we’re supposed to call it PPE now, you wear it, including your hood, incase the scene goes south. Hungry old men get grumpy when we have to catch you jumping out the window because you didn’t wear ALL your gear and that made it unbearable to wait for the ladder I’m bringing. Yes this Engine guy throws ground ladders. Last moan….using the term “girls” for a firefighter who can’t do the job, really. I know quite a few girls who can kick butt firefighting. There are good and lazy firefighters and they come in both sexes.
If this wasn’t as bad as it sounds, why would the user remove them from the site? I agree, we have a job to do and the building may have been saved. The ultimate goal though is to go home at the end of the shift to see my three kids and wife. I owe it to them not to get cancer for some house. Take 5 minutes and make it a little safe, how hard is it to put on gear? Whatever, were are own worse enemies. I amsure that whovere posted the video was embarrassed by the actions of some as the videos are removed…Enough said, leave the tactics alone, we have seconds to get it correct. So what they took a line you didnt like. Must have had enough water to absorb the BTU’s…Eventually…Oh and I am one of those guys that wears the Command Vest and sits behind the Command Board and I do require accountability. I also understand that some days are better than others and if we learn from it, then we are successful. I don’t believe in the saying “Well we put the fire out and nobody got hurt, whats the big deal”. When someone does get hurt or worse killed, what are you going to say then?? he was brave and was doing his job? Not without gear, that is the basics taught at any of your fire academies. I do consider myself a REAL firefighter with experience of about 8,000 calls a year and 25-30 “jobs” in a year, Not one of the GIRLS that SGT relates too….
The Charleston, SC FD considered their department to be second to none until about 4 years ago. I can be critical because I have been in the fire service for 30 plus years and will leave it at that. No sense in stating the obvious.
Damn, I missed it! Should have signed on as soon as I got the tweet from Statter911 instead of waiting til today to find out they were pulled. Bummer.
Did they buy their teaining at Walmart?????
Sorry……TRAINING!!!!!!
On a side note…..I was at a Construction site today and I was appalled at the many OSHA violations I witnessed. The biggest safety violation was the cowboy walking around without his hardhat and the other was the driver of the crane eating while he was maneuvering some steel around. I was further appalled to see that all of the portable toilets had empty sanitizer containers and had not been properly cleaned of and dumped of their human waste. Try going potty in one of those when its 95 outside and 135 inside.
To top this day off, I paid $38.50 for a bag of chips, 1 soda, and some rice/beans off the roach coach.
Hook,
I am shocked to read about your encounter with the lack of urinal cakes, the abundance of floating turds, and the stray pubic hair while on the work site. I hope this isn’t a case of PTSD in the making. They say that laughter is the best medicine, and since you made me laugh, I share this old, but solid joke with you.
Two firemen are using urinal at fire expo. The first fireman finishes and walks to the sink to begin thoroughly washing his hands. The second fireman finishes and bypasses the sinks and walks toward the exit.
The first fireman coughs and says, “In my (volunteer/paid/Northern/Southern/rural/big city/fill in the blank) fire department we always wash out hands after urinating. We pride ourselves on maintaining a safe working environment.
The second firefighter hikes up his pants, adjusts his massive belt buckle, spits a wad of dip on the floor, looks at the first fireman and says, “Well, in Texas we don’t piss on our hands.”
Really Chief 2 8,000 runs a year 25- 30 “jobs”?? What do you run every medical, trash can, dumpster, car, putting somebody back in bed ect ect. I bet your command board is all a buzz with 4 PAT tags hanging on it and supervising 3 guys standing around a trash can as paper, plastic and other rubbish burns. 8,000 runs; you sir deserve a medal because I bet you don’t have to even look at the cheat sheet any more to tell the first due company they are the attack group leader or the truck company they are vent supervisor and I’ll put a years salary that you even know that Squad is gonna be in charge of the rescue group. But then again your big on accountablity and I bet your guys have all of their costumes on including the scott pack on their backs!!! What is truly sad is you ” REAL FIREMAN” sit back and piss and moan about not having a costume on, what about the 2 lawn ornaments with hooks leaning beside them watching the short pants commando open this house up. Not only did the short pants commando take out the window to get the heat off the men inside but he cleared the entire window out. Why you ask because if one of the costume wearing souls has to make a quick exit they wont get caught up on broken glass on the way out. Kevin, I guess where you work or volunteer you guys wagon pipe a dog house, a 2 1/2 for a kitchen fire with some extention in to the attic, get a grip but then again I’m sure Brunacini and the rest of the bunny petters in the fire dept would most certainly agree with you. For you Mr Jake Speed it would be DC’s bravest not finest he’s obviously not a cop, because the plug out front wasn’t blocked by his cruiser.I should tongue punch your mother in her fart box for a comment like that. As for the rest of you bunny petters, the house would have burned down?? That’s amazing because by the looks of the video the bulk of the fire was knocked down in a reasonable amount of time and access to the attic was hindered as Gil informed you that the attic had 1/2 plywood decking for storage. But I guess if you drug in 3 or 4 2 1/2 and crossed the streams to further absord all available BTU’s this fire would have gone out with out a hitch. BTU’s thats funny the last time I heard that I was worried about how many I would need to heat my house not what a hose line is absorbing. Chief 2 you make me laugh…. Ive never heard a Chief use BTU’s in a real sentence un-less he was getting on a paralegal for being out of uniform, but then again he might had said BDU’s.
Oh by the way while you guys are being so safety minded….I’m kinda miffed that nobody realized that the shorth pants commando was not only in a T-shirt and short pants but he was also wearing crocks as foot protection. Certainly his piggys could have been burnt.
Texas Gordo…well done my friend….
On a side note for the others…I saw 2 teenagers today riding their skateboards without knee or elbow pads and also didn’t have their chin straps snapped together on their helmets…..Just a matter of time before their faces meet the concrete sidewalk and mommy has to break out the antibacterial ointment and bandaids…Cmon you guys wear your pads and properly utilize your chin straps.. Your not Tony Hawk or Rob Drydek…
Must be hitting too close to home for a few of the all-knowing ones.
Bunch of wimps anyways, why bother with engines? What happened to horse drawn steamers?
Turnout gear? Bah, another waste of taxpayer money.
SCBA? Screw that, leather lungs, baby, leather lungs.
How’s that go? 100 years of history unimpeded by progress, is that it?
Maybe some of you haven’t figured out that there is a happy medium between stupidity and overly safety conscious. But based on the comments, there aren’t enough living brain cells from all the CO you’ve taken in over the years to comprehend that.
Hookman…you will be the first to breech the “disability teet” in 20 years because your “extensive experience and knowledge” told you that you weren’t breathing anything toxic. Your experienced nose told you there were no sealants/adhesives/binders boiling and bubbling in that fire, so the smoke is perfectly safe to breath. Your x-ray eyes told you that the structure certainly wouldn’t collapse, so no other safety gear was required.
Those that decide on there own what PPE to use and when BA should be used are called “FREELANCERS”. As I recall “freelancing” is discouraged in the fire service.
Saftey rules and guidelines are there for everyones safety. EVEN YOURS.
Lets hope that someone at Waldorf uses these videos as a training tool.
That’s fine and dandy. When you’re dying in 20 years because of all the garabge you’ve inhaled because you’re too cool for SCBA, I’ll be not thinking of you while I enjoy breathing easily on my farmstead.
Chief2…are you self employed or are you just your everyday handyman…25-30 jobs a year..Were those jobs done with your hand or did they require different tools to get the job done right? Were those 8000 calls for service just your ordinary plumbing leaks to replacing some siding or were they more challenging?
Mark..stop reading so many Billy Goldfedder articles and when your done gazing at Firehouse magazines hotshots section, please wash your hands ok..we all know the “firefighter” you are and thats the nutjob with the handlebar moustachio, stickers galore on your Metro Helmet and tattoos all over your epidermis that show such things as flames stretching across your backside and your license plate cover says, my other car is a brush truck…
Hookman,
If you were still in the fire department, I would hate to have to tell your family that you died fighting a fire. But hey, maybe they would feel good about it if we told them you were getting some good nob time, he was whipping that thing. Wear gear, nah he didn’t need too, he was tough, but hey , we saved a piece of crap old house. I’m sure that would make them feel better. But then again, we don’t have to worry about that, Unemployed firefighters don’t get hurt or killed at fires.
Andy, well played.
Today I was apalled as I witnessed a truck driver, who pulled over on the side of the highway, get out of his cab without using 3 points of contact and on top of that his reflective triangles were not properly spaced apart..I guess this guy was better than the DOT and follows his own set of rules..
@Kevin..next time you get a chance, see if you can do an air quality test from the nice clean air that surrounds the Washington DC metropolitan area. You’ll probably die quicker from breathing the air outside then you will from any by products of any Class A ordinary combustibles.
Blah Blah Blah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s getting personal I see. Now it’s a party.
The thing is the cowards in charge these days have to try to keep real firemen from doing there job so they don’t look bad as they are hideing in the coward sector. Most of the the cry babies these days have never rode on the out side of a real fire truck in there life.
Teddy Bear, that has to be the most touching post of the year, but if your going to get to my nerve central, you’ll have to post something a lil more imaginative than that….Your right Unemployed Firefighters don’t get hurt at fires, but since my temporary work stoppage commenced, I’ve developed over the last year a slight pain in my left elbow, due to playing golf almost every single day. I guess you could sum up my situation and say unemployed “fireman” while temporarily on hiatus from work, risk the chance of getting golfers elbow, but when alls said in done, they do return to work..