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This is from a fire on June 10 in the 2800 block of 26th Street in Rochester, Iowa Minnesota. When I first posted this, I missed the most interesting element of this video, but our KICs didn’t (must have been dozing off in the middle of the video). Check it out at 4:50 in the clip as the tower ladder’s stream fires up.
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Check out the poor firefighter at the bottom right of this image.
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Holy crap!! Boys in the bucket be aware of your streams!!! If you watch at approx 5:01 in the video they are adjusting their stream and take out one of their own between the tree and the building. Looks like he got back up. The bucket crew (or anyone else) didn’t even seem to realize what they had done. Ya can’t just open the line and then figure out where to point it!!! At least have it aimed in the general direction of the fire. Geeze louize already!!!
I agree. Great comment CoffeeTime. I hope the ff is OK. He/she got back up and seems to be OK.
Since I’m working on my K.I.C. here at Statter U, I figure I’ll ask WTF were the guys in the bucket doing around the 4:50+ mark? It looks like they were targeting one of their own guys, then proceeded to play a game of who else can we knock down.
If I worked for RFD, I’d probably rethink posting videos where the truck company plays a fireground game of “Angry Firefighters”
That being said, the video begins long after interior operations have started, and they appear to wait until everyone is out prior to raising the tower.
I just rewatched the video…looks like the guys in the tower had no idea they blasted a guy on the ground. So much for S.A.
Oh Dave, just wanna say how apropos this video is, considering we are having Safety Stand Down Week.
Tower crew needs some training. Hope the FF is ok that got splashed at the 4:50+ mark. That’s gotta hurt.
Absolutely pitiful!
The poor firefighter at 4:53! Answer me this, my FF friends – was more than his pride injured? It looks like it would hurt to this layperson…..
wow. hope the safety officer saw what happened to that guy. getting blasted by that master stream woke him up for sure.
HEY , DAVE CHECK THE FIGHTER AT 4:57 IN THE VIDEO GET KNOCKED DOWN BY THE TOWER WATER STREAM.GOTTA HURT….
Thanks. I’ve updated it. Didn’t watch it all the way through.
Ok, here’s my idea.
All cameras shooting fire video, should have a recording function with a display graph on the bottom of the screen.
it should show the GPM’s flowing on the fire at the exact time of each frame.
for this video it would be fairly simple, 5 minutes and 0 GPM going on the fire.
hence the black smoke and flames.
folks, they buy you those pretty red trucks to do something. the something is to put water on fires when one breaks out.
this was your day to do it.
sorry, not sure when the next one is coming up.
get the camera ready.
95% I think they were conducting interior ops when the video began. You can see the hose line stretched into the building. There are guys leaving the building as the tower sets up.
At first I thought they were taking a long time, but when I watched it again, I noticed the hose line etc. Also in the video, you can see a firefighter walking with empty/refilled SCBA bottles.
4:58 mark, guy gets taken out by the stream from the ladder pipe. A/D side of the building.
Did we see the firefighter hit with the tower pipe as he was walking near the a/d side of the building.
Is that not called situational awareness on the bucket operator!
OH THAT POOR SOB HE DIDN’T EVEN SEE IT COMING
LOL, OUPS!
Jim, I told mike not to do it…. But he said watch this! Then I kinda said “I double dawg dare you”. I didnt think he would, lol.
Say something about the tower crew again! I dare you. (JK)
I’m trying to figure out why the stream was directed at the ground in the first place. “Aim at the base of the flame” does not apply here!
At least they douched him with the fog, smooth bore might have left a mark. Nice move Suck company.
In the beginning of the video, they take the time, energy and effort to put a PPV fan in the front door. Whats the purpose at this point in the fire? I’m really asking…..the fire is blowin through the roof with a heavy wind all ready. I cant figure out how this TACTIC (read tool for the job at hand) is useful.
That was quite a while to get the tower actually in the air and operating, especially when the stabilizers are set and water is to the rig right off. My question is how good is your crew at getting your aerial in place, set up and operating? Training is the answer!
And as for the poor bastard that got hit by the master stream, I hope he’s ok. But, since we’re being honest here, I was laughing pretty hard. Seriously though, u gotta be careful where your srteams, any stream, are pointing. I have been on the recieving end of some misguided efforts due to a lack of communication and assumptions. Its not a fun time.
Dave, can we assume that you checked in with the fireman who was laid flat, as well as his relatives and made sure everyone had been notified before you posted this video?
Did you also check with the national editor-in-chief to make sure all affected residents knew their apartments were destroyed by fire?
I hope so, otherwise I’ll be making a call to Larimer County Sheriff’s office for the possibility of 2 violations of the newly amended 1st Amendment.
Damn Mark, I am not even competent enough to follow my own advice. I will get this right out to the future Minister … I mean Secretary of Information. In the meantime, please, no one look at it.
Allright. I stopped.
Dave,
One minor note, this is actually from Rochester Minnesota home of the Mayo Clinic not from Iowa.
Stupid me.
As a retired ladder engineer it sure took long enough to get the stick up and put the master stream into action only to sadly knock one of their own down with it. More training with that apparatus is highly recommended.
I agree with everyone . I learned no matter where you are check your surroundings before you open up any nozzle poor judgement truck crew. I hope that the ff is ok.
This is truly sad. The tower ladder should have been up at least 4 minutes sooner. It’s a no brainer…put tower ladder up, fire goes out. And get the nozzle where you need it before you call for water. This is not rocket science.
Easy everyone it might be their first day at a fire or this is their first day operating the tower. Either way it was their first day doing something.
Situation Awareness(On the part of the Bucket Boys and The Ground Crew)
Well, there is a first time for everything… and for these guys it was going to a fire. I have paid to see things that were less of a circus…
Someday would be getting there ass whipped after this catastrophe
Ha, bet ya he’ll pay up on his house fund now!!!
I wonder if that FF on the ground was waiting at the base of the aerial when those guys came down, probably not empty-handed.
I had the pleasure of being on the receiving end of the same aerial while working interior twice a couple of years apart. After the second time, my Capt had to literally tackle and sit on me and wrestle a halligan out of my hands after the 2nd time to prevent bloodshed.
Actually, blame the turntable operator. At about 4:33 he tells the guy on the ground to open up the valve, and the guys in the bucket clearly weren’t ready for water.
True enough. After taking the better part of 5 minutes to get the bucket up, we should rightfully assume it will take another 5 minutes to get the monitor aimed in the right direction.
Ok I hope the guy that got layed out is ok. We have ladder truck in place,line hooked up to intake, ladder still in bed,line is charged,ladder still in bed, FF milling about turntable, charged line,ladder still in bed, FF make it up to bucket, What the hill took them so long to get the stick up and put water on the building. Let alone when they do start flowing water they lay out a FF on the ground. There is no reason for all of that to have happen. Need to be trained/retrained on truck ops.
I guess these guys aren’t bad ass smoke eaters like all you internet losers. Nothing like abunch of fat idiots sitting around talking trash in there moms basement.