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Ed Malik with some daytime footage from Gary, Indiana, visiting the 3800 block of Massachusetts Avenue twice within an hour yesterday.
Here’s some of Ed’s description:
At around 11:30 am crews were dispatched to a reported fire in the 3800 block of Massachusetts. Crews found a working fire in the rear of a vacant house and brought the fire under control quickly with tank water. About 30 minutes later a rekindle was called in and a single engine was dispatched. Seconds later a full still was dispatched for a working fire and multiple crews reported heavy smoke showing from miles away.
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It is a shame budget cut backs have prevented the issue of full PPE to all that respond and only enough SCBA to use by every other fireifghter. And I commend the fireifghter on the porch for saving the City some money by not using his face piece so it will last longer. After all the buildings on fire were worth more than a few extra years of retirement for the fireifghter.
I was always taught there is “no such thing as a rekindle”. It wasn’t out the first time they were there!
Things will get better in Gary soon, I saw the incident commander wearing a florescent vest.
Thats no rekindle…..
I fear for the future health of those guys.
LOL, OUPS!
Im with robert… I would suspect suspicious before rekindle. I know, I wasnt there and yes its all speculation. But by saying its a rekindle, the rest of us here are assuming you were there and know the facts.
As for the SCBA statement. Change is hard! NOBODY WILL REALIZE THE DAMAGE WE DO TO OURSELVES UNTIL ITS TOO LATE. OUR RISK OF OF CANCER IS SKY HIGH AS IT IS…. WHY STACK THE ODDS EVEN GREATER????
These guys seem to catch alot of fires. We’ll I should say they have a lot of their fire’s captured on video. At any rate I really don’t understnd why every video from this department seems to have so many bad practices.
A defensive operation with seemingly no established collapse zones. In the video @ 3:30 two firefighter’s are standing directly in front of the house while the master stream is blasting away above them, and @ 4:16 they watch just a few feet away as the roof collapses in on the house. We have got to do better!!
Look back thru Dave’s files and you’ll find several Gary jobs with similar practices. Some of us have been slammed with the “they see more fire than you ever will so they must be doing it better” crapola. Most of us know better; just because they do it this way every day doesn’t necessarily make it the best way.
or even simpler terms:
just because you are doing the same wrong thing over and over again, and doing it often…..doesn’t make it right.
I feel sorry for those guys , they deserve better.
Looks like the torch used a lot more accelerant the 2nd time around.
I agree, Mack