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Raw video from a house fire at 1325 Arkansas Street in Vallejo, California on Monday. Video first spotted at backstepfirefighter.com where Bill Carey discusses ventilation techniques. More details about the fire can be found here..
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Once the first hole cut is determined effective… get off the roof truckies…
Most of California does things a little differently, as influenced by LA, SF, etc… they cut holes until the fire goes out or someone decides the roof is unsafe.
Folks…vent with a coorinated attack. Nothing coordinated about this one. How many times were they going to try opening that garage door without a handline ready. The guys on the roof…did their job but cmon, cut it and get off, this couldve been placed on the “close calls list”.
-Be safe out there
I love to see good basic firefighting!. Everyone has a job to do, and they do their job…..Do your job and the fire goes out!
Great job Vallejo!!!
I concur with Oh Lord. The roof of an attached garage in a home, as old as this one appears to be, is seldom protected by sheet rock. The result can be an early weakening of the roof. Having seen more than a few of these jobs it seems to me that a sequence has been when the garage door burns through it is followed quickly by the roof. In this case the door was metal and perhaps bought some time. Had it been opened, as was being attempted, things may have been diffrent. I noted an increase in fire during the attempt to open the garage door.
And we wonder why we kill firefighters………….Venting a roof over a garage on a one-story house is not worth a firefighters life. Knock a hole in the flimsy garage door and hit it from the outside while a crew protects the interior door or vice-versa. It just isn’t worth it.
This is bread and butter boys. What was uncoordinated? The line didn’t go in until there was ventilation. Old Sutter, you gotta know your areas building construction. Fact is, I have never been in a garage where I work that was not completely sheetrocked. I bet that one was as well. Regardless, the roof is sounded from the roof, not whether or not you think it may or may not be sheetrocked.
Amazing the amount of work that can get done in 3 1/2 minutes when you do it RIGHT, and not a single line sprayed in from the yard or even into the garage from the exterior.
Dave, you need a “like” button.
Dave this is a teaser, you put that still frame photo of the truckies on the roof to bait the arm chair commanders. This was a good knock down and done basically by the book. Could it have been done differently with similar results; yes. In areas where manpower is short the garage door would have been forced and a hose line would have knock it out in a similar time frame, with possiblly less damage done from venting. But these guys made a great coordinated attack achieveing all the task simultaneously. I for one am a little jealous, wish i could put this many ff on the ground at the same time.