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This is from a fire at a four-unit apartment building on Wayne Street in Archbald, Pennsylvania (Lackawanna County) Saturday afternoon. At 2:45 in the video you will hear the evac tones and air horns.
Robbie Ward, thetimestribune.com:
The house at 310-312 Wayne St. sustained severe fire damage, including a collapsed roof and fire damage from the second floor to the attic, said Archbald Fire Department Chief Bob Harvey. He said the fire appears to have started on the second floor and will be investigated by a state police fire marshal.
“It appears to be accidental,” said Chief Harvey.
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Please tell me someone on STATter was there and can explain or defend what was going on!!
yea, I can explain it. the 3rd in engine was 1st to put water on the fire. We had a good knock on the fire. after we knocked the initial fire room out we made entrance to the attic. where we started chasing the fire. It was a balloon framed house. The borough chief pulled us out of the building . He saw the fire and smoke coming out of the vent hole ( that’s what it’s suppose to do). this is a on going issue with this borough chief. He fights fire like he did in 1975.
At about 2:45 it looked like they might be getting a handle on it, but went defensive. Looked like they were chasing it. Nasty building.
Ladder pipes don’t in vent holes for starters!
the flux capacitor malfunctioned and Marty ordered everyone out of the building to avoid the bolt of lightning.
silly people, you could have figured this out yourselves.
Why can’t guys remove the entire window??There is a differance between venting and vandalism….
Is it just me or is the practice of blowing the air horns being overused? I was always taught it was for EMERGENCY evac. ie collaspe-fire hooking you etc. It seems like getting in the habit of air horns for just changing gears from interior (offensive) to defensive (exterior) will eveuntally have the same effect as crying wolf. Kinda the way PASS devises have become.
I like the shots of the exterior line in service mixed in with the crew gearing up and going in the front door. Wonderful.
What ever happened to an aggressive interior attack?
Man I was please… looked good job and the crews went in and kicked but…. looks like a good push into the attic.. they were there…. I could see the stream venting and extinguishing fire at the vent hole… What went wrong to pull them out? Was a lot worse when it was pushing a lot of smoke… WTF….. Help me understand. GOOD JOB GUYS ON THE PUSH… until you were pulled out so please tell me something was bad that we could not see. Strike Da Box K
I am the one who shot the film and from my perspective the roof in the center was giving way considerably at the time of the EVAC I was on the side/corner and you can’t see it. I did move over to get that shot and I could see how the roof looked and I said to myself it looks like it is going to cave in.
Chaos I appreciate your comments.
I shoot fire video when I can and provide them to the responding departments for training purposes. I provide all the raw film in this case about 40 minutes. The Youtube is a highlights portion of the video.
I wasn’t so much complimenting your video skills (nice job, though) as I was sarcastically commenting on ANOTHER instance of exterior lines being used while interior crews were, well, still interior.
I hope this video (nicely done, BTW) will be shown in a staff meeting and critiqued so the involved fire department can tighten up some procedures. It can be a good training film.
I think our slack jawed friend may have a good point on the use of air horns. I believe those tones probably woke the dead.
Please tell me Command didn’t pull those guys out because of the fire VENTing from the VENT hole. You know, what it’s SUPPOSED to do?
the borough Fire Chief in this town hits the panic button way too quick.
Did they cut the vent hole on the windward side?