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This video is from a fire yesterday at 22 Continental Court in South River, New Jersey. Early in the video the airhorns sound and the crews are pulled temporarily before continuing the interior attack.
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Oh Boy,,,, please I swear to you all,, not all volunteer departments are like these two in new jersey!!
oh my wipe the tears, guess your one of those guys who doesnt make mistakes and all your men are flawless, my guess, you must live in a surroundig town and didnt get called in.
LT19FPVFC: Wearing shorts is not a mistake. Its a decision that a chief makes when he dons his helmet and turnout coat. I’m sure his bunkers are lying right next to those items in his show ride. The choice to wear them re-inforces the idea that safety is 1. Not that important. 2. He has little understanding that what he does establishes a culture that is uninformed and ignorant. Monkey see, monkey do. Which is evident by your response. And, 3. Paid or Volley, we represent a society that prides itself in being professionals. Lets start looking the part.
Nice legs Chief!
Hey, Chief Bubba, that’s a damn sweet look with the meaty bare legs, shorts and sneakers under your white coat and helmet.
I think they sounded the evacuation horns after they realized that no one on the exterior had a clue what to do about the PASS alarm sounding and they were hoping one of the interior folks had some ideas.
so on your scene you would like everyone to run inside when a pass device goes off and create chaos and panic and loss of accountability.
Be nice if someone silenced it though.
Not if obviously sounds like it’s a bit closer than the interior. Duh.
So you’re saying you and your department’s SOP/SOG is to just routinely ignore PASS alarms??
If your policy is for everyone to run inside when a valid PASS alarm is heard (how you would tell a valid one from all the other ones you’re ignoring, I don’t know), then we have to congratulate you on a completely uncontrolled and unstructured scene staffed with undisciplined personnel.
This is apparently news to you, but some folks have policies (and RITs) in place for use when mayday situations develop; and most of thos epolicies involve an orderly response to the problem, not a stampede of everyone on scene. Other jobs need to keep being done.
Of course, one great way to help determine when a problem develops is to TRAIN your people in incredibly difficult steps like how to reset your PASS when it inadvertantly alerts. If your fireground is populated with folks who don’t know how to rapidly reset their PASS (or the one on the spectator standing next to them), I wonder what other simple skills they are missing.
Damn pretty rigs, though. Congrats on that.
PASS device works.
Capt 45-2, You’ll have a hard time convincing anyone of that. Search back a few and you’ll see more guys Jersey boys in shorts.
its easy to pick things out when your not the ones who are there.
ha, sure like this is the first fire video with a PASS alarm going off. It happens. Everyone’s an arm chair quarterback until it’s their department up on the web and then they are the best. The fire service would be much more productive if it wasn’t filled with type a personalities that can’t think.
If you’re going to routinely ignore the PASS alarm, why do you have them?
More importantly, if a FF doesn’t know how to reset his own PASS when it inadvertantly activates from standing still, why is he qualified to wear SCBA??
Correction ‘Brew’ The fire service would be “much more productive” as well as much more effective at saving lives and property if more personnel would learn from their mistakes rather than getting their feelings hurt and retaliating by taking shots at folks who point out numerous violations of basic bread and butter firefighting practices. BTW,in the interest of protecting the faint of heart, no windows were broken in the filming of this video…
NJFirefighter do me a favor pull your head out of your ass and shut up, if you are even remotely defending the actions of these fire fighters more than likely you are one of them or were trained that these actions are acceptable, either way this is what kills and injures fire fighters every day. I don’t care where they are from it needs to stop today, is my department perfect?? Far from it, but the members are making strides to make good decisions and be honest about what is wrong what works and what needs to be fixed.
P.S. False pass alarms are my HUGE achilles heal, it absolutely makes me twitch.
Livindadream I know it makes me twitch,, LoL I just got a helmet cam for father’s day but my department has a SOP on media release LoL I wrote it so breaking it would not be a good idea. I can assure you we are out here,, professional well trained fire fighters although it does not show LoL.
Brew the fire service would be a better place if a department and its members could do an honest gut check and identify what is a complete Charley Foxtrot and what works, I am not talking about what works for FDNY or Charleston but what works for that department. If you are un-willing to identify what is dangerous or un-acceptable how will things ever change?? The actions on these videos are not nit picking, now I know there is plenty of that on STATer but these are blatant safety violations that are very well known for many LODD.
From watching the video it seems people are helping others out of the building and maybe they are the ones who activated the pass alarm? Dont really see any problems.
you must be one of those guys in your company who bitches and crys nfpa laws at everything they do. somebody get this guy some cheese to go with the whine. cant view the video but who cares if the chief wore shorts? does he go inside?
Ignoring the shorts the chief seems out of place. No clipboard no command presence. Does he have any idea who’s inside? Regroup quick hit from outside and move back in coordinated and put it out.
And allowing the pass alarm to go off uninterupted causes them to be ignored.
NJ Volunteer Firefighters, thanks for continuing to show the world how “great” of firefighter you are. Disgraceful, cheap the entertainment coming
Over and over, videos like this one keep being removed by the uploader.
If the people and departments involved claim to be able to justify and stand by their actions/decisions, why do they keep taking the videos down???
i took it down, i never put it on statter. was just on youtube till linked here with caption. reason i took it down is because statter is full of class act firefighters who know nothing about fighting fire other than what it says in a book. No fire scene is perfect, and thats all part of it and knowing how to deal with it when it happens. And by reading all these comments it shows how much character you firefighters have.
Once again, you get what you pay for.
I wanted to watch, but I guess the poster of the video got the message, It has been removed.