One thing we never want to do at STATter911.com is take the work of others without their permission. Our post this morning showing guys with guns putting out fires did just that. We embedded video from the YouTube account UpsetAboutSafety. Larry Steiner of BainbridgeGa.com informed me today that the videos are his property and he did not give permission to others to upload the clips to YouTube. YouTube has already removed the videos. Larry was kind enough to send us links to his original works and a few from his corner of Georgia that we didn’t use earlier.
The video above is from a fire Sunday night in Bainbridge. According to the article with the video, Bainbridge Public Safety Officers and Georgia State Patrol were in the area for another call and all responded:
As Public Safety Officers donned their fire fighting gear, Cpl Duke, Trooper Walt Landrum and Trooper Brian Palmer pulled hoses off the fire engine. Troopers Duke and Palmer hit the fire in the front of the house and then Trooper Landrum hit the fire that had spread into the rear carport area.
Click here for the full account of Sunday’s fire from BainbridgeGA.com.
Here’s the June 16 report on the truck that burned that we reported on when it occurred.
The video above is from a house fire handled by Bainbridge Public Safety on April 7. Click here for more details.
There are other places in Larry’s coverage area where apparently cops are cops and firefighters are firefighters. Law enforcement was on the scene first of this July 9 fire (above) but it left it to the firefighters from Decatur County Fire and Rescue, Black Jack and Climax. Details are here.
And there are times that it doesn’t matter who is on the nozzle because there is no hose or fire engine. Larry shot the clip above on July 21. Here’s more.
Also on STATter911 …
- Guns & hoses in three parts – August 31, 2010
- Must see video: When public safety officials decide what the public can see. A Connecticut trooper turned censor. – December 7, 2010
- UPDATE: Columbia, South Carolina Firefighter Chance Zobel dead & Firefighter Larry Irving injured. Struck by a vehicle while handling brush fire on I-20. – November 13, 2010
- Media relations video: EMS crew member tells reporter where to go at fire scene in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. – August 8, 2011
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Ya gotta hand it to em, not a bad knock down for an outside attack. They hit the hot spots and made it ready for the FFs to do the real work.
Where are all the safety sallys that are on here normally screaming about full PPE on a fireground. Yet another double standard between police and fire
The troopers did an okay job pitching in to help… But the only reason they were needed was because there were no properly equipped firefighter getting off the engine. Using departments of public safety is certainly one way to provide police & fire protection… but it seems that the folks in Bainbridge are using a DPS to shortchange needed fire protection.
gotta give it up to the police officers here… would have liked to see them a little further away from the structure but you do what you have to i guess