This is a house fire handled by the Linda Fire Protection District in Linda, California. According to the department website:
The Linda Fire Protection District proudly serves the communities of Linda, West Linda, Arboga and Plumas Lake. The district covers approximately 52 square miles with 3 fire stations, 16 pieces of equipment, 16 full time personnel and 20 paid-call personnel.
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Too many empty seats on that first piece of apparatus!!! Pencil pushin stuffed shirt numbers crunchin college boys cuttin way too much outta the budget causes that.
Wow, Where did you learn that hose pull technique? Pull hose off engine and drop in a big pile. Why not tie it into a double bowline first.lol
Pull hose and drop and expect the driver or the couple of white shirts to flake it out, which they didn't. White shirts were looking for their vests I suppose. Otherwise it was a good knock with quick engine work.
The OIC did an excellent job of deploying the crosslay into a huge knot. Maybe he should have let the lineman pull it, and stuck with being the OIC.
Pulling hose: the most overlooked basic task performed on the fireground. Everybody knows how to do it, yet nobody does it right. I've said this now a dozen times on here.
That's a career department? Why so many empty seats?
You have to ask?
Ugly pull but guess what, they got water on the fire faster than most of the clowns that end up on here. Good push, open the nozzle knock some fire down at the door, move in, keep pushing and keep flowing water. Not bad, fast engine work can overcome a lot of other deficiencies.
I normally don't like helmet cam videos, but this one gave us a view of the fire pre-attack, and was good coverage inside. I saw nothing wrong with this attack except the hose pile next to the engine. Agree, more seats occupied would be nice, but that's how it sometimes is with combination depts. You can only wait so long for personnel to show up, or you might as well not roll the engine at all…you eventually go with who you have. You do what you can with what you got.
Not impressed with the stretch (pump operator saved the day) but still had water in just under a minuet, kicked the door then commenced to kick ass….. Gitty up and Strike da Box!
Great helmet cam video, actually one of the best I've seen on this site so far. Too bad the company was running with three on this engine. Was this their normal manpower compliment or have budget cuts gutted this department as well? We're taking too many hits for the sake of the razor necked pencil geeks. Seems the fire service always gets hte short end. When will they (politicians) ever learn?
No 360? Didn't look like anyone had any hand tools either. Officer definitely didn't, maybe the lineman did but it wasn't visible…
Hey let's all monday morning quarterback! Seriously, it's not like they made an aggressive attack and knocked the fire quickly- while being on that specific fire instead of watching it from behind our computer screens
Not sure where all you guys work but here in the People's Republic of California many departments run three man engine companies. Four man is somewhat less common. Do you guys work somewhere that would have a six man engine company?
Here in montgomery county maryland all the engine companies are staffed with 4. They have the staffing for that because they staff their trucks and squads with 3…
I was the one with the helmet cam. To answer some questions about the comments. We run a 2 man crew at all times. We haven't made any budget cuts, that's just the way its always been. I just happened to be at the station at the time tones went off. We average just over 3,000 calls a year between 2 stations. The third station isn't staffed full time. We always have a second engine respond (usually no later than 8 minutes after the initial tone). Our Chief and Asst. Chief were first on scene before us and turned the gas/electricity off. As for the hose pull, he is my captain so I'll leave that one alone. Thanks for the feedback and keep an eye out for more of my videos!