Above is Bill Rohrer's video from a fire at Charlie Brown's Steakhouse, a vacant restaurant at 108 Walbert Avenue in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania around 1:00 this morning. Bill has details of fire company assignments on his site NewsWorking. At 6:22 on his video you will hear the order to evacuate the structure due to a ceiling collapse.
Below is more video from firtog on YouTube.
Also on STATter911 …
- Pre-arrival video: Townhomes under construction in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania. – October 18, 2011
- Raw video: Three alarms for rowhouse fire in Allentown, Pennsylvania. – December 14, 2011
- Pre-arrival video: Three-alarm house fire in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. – July 12, 2011
- Raw video: Third-alarm in Chalfont, Pennsylvania. – February 16, 2012
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The type of construction that fights firefighters back.
How can you tell who the chief's are when everyone wears a white helmet?
What is the fascination in cutting holes in roofs.
Whats the fascination of watching 8:45 of smoke, 3 Alarms for this? I guess you have to love the Pa firefighters lol.
Just going to sit back and wait on the comments on this one. They sould be good.
At :29 seconds you see way too many FF's on the roof. Where is their roof ladder? Where is their saw? Where are their spotters? This makes me cringe everytime I see this. One of these FF's can lose their footing and roll off this roof like a golfball missing the 18th green by 20 ft. As a permanent truck driver/never detailed, I know a few things about truck work. Come on Whitetehall….
RJ
Trucky??? More like Douchy
What is allof the stuff on thier helmets.?.Gone are the days of a firefighter wearing a classic leather and not stuff with alot of junk that they never use anyways.
Once again…is there no fire prevention in PA, especially the Whitehall region….?
I have to agree with "the dude says"
These guys seem to catch alot of fire but do not gain any experience from it. One year of experience twenty times as opposed to twenty of experience.
Just goes to show that practice does not make perfect, but it does make permanent.
Why? White hats throwing ladders into service lines, that one got me time off at the academy, bucket guys without helmets but have packs on? For us west coasters thats a fine to the state.
I know we all look to these videos for a learning point, but come on, really. Is a firefighter not a firefighter in all the public's eyes. If one is a putz then we are all putz's. Help us all to be proud not as Steve Martin says, what ever you do dont call the fire department! Do the Job, be smart.