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A fire yesterday on Benner Court in Pleasanton, California. No one was injured. Most of the close up action is on Part 3 below.
Sean Maher, Contra Consta Times:
The blaze was reported about 12:10 p.m. Monday in the 6000 block of Benner Court, Livermore/Pleasanton Fire Deputy Chief Jane Moorhead said. A woman who lives there with her husband and children was the only person in the home when the fire started, and left the building without being hurt.
Livermore/Pleasanton Fire Department Deputy Chief Jane Moorhead said eyewitness reports and other factors lead investigators to believe the blaze started in the attic and was caused by an electrical problem of some sort.
The home on the 6300 block of Benner Court suffered heavy fire damage in its garage and attic. The remainder of the house suffered smoke damage. The loss is estimated at $250,000.
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The only thing worse than standing directly in front of a blazing vehicle is kneeling in front of it.
But on the positive side, the video is proof that if you flow enough water onto a gasoline fire, eventually the supply of gasoline will be used up and the fire will go out.
Good thing they didn’t put a 21/2″ in the garage from the get go, then I wouldn’t have been able to watch 20 minutes of video.
Ok Chief, I got!!! Let go of the hose and go back to your fire SUV…GOOD GOD MAN!
Cap, can you tell the BC to leave me alone so I can fight fire.. plaease
looks like this chief was well on his way to seeing how many firefighters he could hurt, burn, or even worse possibly kill. how about we use an exterior line and push a gasoline fueled fire back into the house, then lets push as much fire back onto the interior engine co. after that ill drag an ill prepared (lack of PPE) firefighter and reposition him infront of a missle (front bumper)all the while dumping useless amounts of water onto a fire fuled by gasoline. how about a coordinated attack and some foam or at the least a dry chem
The White Hat wins. Put the fire out and you dont have to protect exposures.
How do you push fire?
I agree Jim, I do not see fire being pushed and there are plenty of videos on here for guys that do no have experience if they want to see that fire is not pushed. Now put that nozzle on wide fog and hit it head on then we may be pushing fire. The best way to fight an attached garage fire-one big line at the garage and one 13/4″ on the inside to ensure the fire didn’t extend inside open ceilings and such.
there is not enough gasoline in this fire to worry about calling in the foam and what not just put the stream on the fire for a minute and it will go out.
Put the fire out and the problem goes away. just like Johnny Awesome said.
I watched videos from California and Pennslyvania this week in Statter911 . . . its good to know that poor firefighting is not just limited to one area of the country.
To the nozzleman . . everything else said plus, learn how to move the line without shutting off the flow of water.
To the Video guy . . . are you a firefighter? If so, it is a disgrace that the neighbor knows more about flammable liquid fires than you.
Ok so the only guy you see is not so good, but to bash the IC may be out of line. Did you notice the truck company on the roof?? Yea yea I know no roof ladder and four of them in the “roof Shepard” position. Did you see the attack line in the front door of the home?? Did you read the home only suffered smoke damage? Did you hear the neighbor say and I quote “the garage is packed full of shit”?? Was it a perfect operation no, I was not there and not a member of the department.Jim if you don’t know how you push fire I can only assume you are not a firefighter, fire, heat, steam, and products of combustion are easily pushed on crews by opposing hose lines and master streams. If you have ever have had it happen it is an experience you will never forget.I don’t know where the interior line is or went so I would not judge if he was indeed pushing anything on anyone, at least the outside yard breather has proof if he did push fire on the crew he can say “hay the IC told me too look I have proof.” stay safe
Steam and heat gets pushed with the incorrect stream pattern, NOT fire!! If water or any extinguishing agent for that matter is applied to fire, IT GOES OUT! It does not “push” to another location.
I guess they do not carry a dry chemical extinguisher either….
You are correct water does not push fire but air does, like I said If you have ever have had it happen it is an experience you will never forget. I have and I won’t, sorry my helmet camera will be in for father’s day but I pray I will never be able to prove you wrong. LoL
My 2 cents from California.
Or 500 Miles South of the Livermore/Plesanton area, which is about 35 miles from San Francisco and about 10 miles from the February V-E-S Fire and Rescue posted by the Alameda County FD, in Castro Valley.
This fire;
“Teachable moment’s to remember ‘Situational Awareness’”.
1st. 14:20 minutes, of watching a flammable liquids fire under a car on a sloping drive way, floating on water towards the primary engine supply hose line. (Same as in a San Diego motor home fire shown here on Statter about four weeks ago and
Division “A” on a fire I was at this past Saturday as I was assigned to Division “C”.
What, after a couple of minutes of water not working, why not switch to a Dry Chem. Extinguisher?
Or have we become complacent about this?
And yes, it was unsafe to be in front of the bumper with active fire under it ( sveral years ago an Oakland FF was severally injured when the bumper flew off the vehicle at a garage fire and Yes this was “Pushing” a flammable liquids fire from the front of the driveway to the rear back up to the driveway.
2nd. Everyone was Not “Packed Up” and or “On Air” walking around in smoke and condensing steam.
No Excuse! They’re still breathing in Carbon Monoxide and HCN Gas. Note the comment about how full the garage was of “Stuff”.
3rd. The “White Helmet” or IC (?) seemed to be “Roving Around”
rather than remain stationary. Of course s/he could have been the “Operations Section Chief” or even the “Safety Officer”
not wearing an SCBA.
Can’t tell, maybe they left their “Command Position vest” in the Staff Car.
It shows that we all can make mistakes, by getting “tunnel vision”.
At least no one got hurt, but the question is about the next fire?
What a joke… the guy on the pipe needs a lot of help… Fire burned way to long… should have been hit real quick before the lines were run inside. Jr on the pipe well nuff said… wow K Strike Da Box