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Video above from AllHandsFire.com from a fire last Saturday. Here’s part of the description:
A 3-Alarm fire occurred in a strip mall in Neptune NJ. The Jumping Brook Plaza is located at 3705 Highway 33 just east of the Garden State Parkway. This video was extracted from a helmet camera from a fire lieutenant from the Unexcelled Fire Company.
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Why do truck companies cut holes in the roof… to look down and see the engine crew doing all the work… LOL
Nice work. Clear and calm. Patience with the probie(s) The Lt. knows his stuff. Stay safe brothers….
What happened to referencing the building and exposures by A, B, C, and D sides? Not sure I like the idea of “double time” when it comes to a ladder carry either. On the plus side, they did a fine job of removing the roof.
No need to hit the gym tonight guys, the crew on the roof got a real good work out, and they did good hard work.
typical nj volunteer fire, lots of hand holding of un-trained firefighters and the over so popular failure to pull ceilings. they probably made a nice big hole to dump a ladder pipe down into at a later point of the incident.
Apparently you didn’t watch the video all the way to the end.
Where was the “over popular failure to pull ceilings” that you “didnt” see???
Typical response from someone who has a burr up their butt about NJ Volunteers. I watched the video and thought everyone involved was professional and did the work required in an effective manner. If these were volunteers it certainly reflected well on the training and experience they have received. As far as I could tell they didn’t burn the building to the ground and the fire was under control near the end of the video. Good job.
Solid roof work, but put your damn masks on for crying out loud.
I feel that they did a great job and fast too . That is a great video of how things are to be done.
Good Truck work. Probably not the best example of an “urgent” transmittion.
Remember to wear your mask when venting the roof, because if you do it right smoke/fire/combustion bi-products come out.
Always vent going towards your egress.
Try not cut around vent stacks and other roof penetrations. They usually are reinforced and not the easiest to vent (especially for your initial vent hole).
“Heavy fire”??? Looks like a hand pump job!
Those truckies did work, cut till your saw is out of gas or there is no roof left to cut
very professional….good work guys…..nice stop!
The Lt must own a roofing business.
Good job guys.
Nice job.
Crow bar, you’re an idiot. You don’t have to like the idea of “double time”, you just have to leave the fire service. No hustle makes for trouble. That’s all you’re worthy of hearing.
Yes, many NJ fires do suck and can be improved. The lack of SOP based operations (as in what firetruck does what job, eliminating manpower pools and other accountability destroying games) makes it confusing and ineffective. I can say this because I’ve spent over a decade of time in NJ on fires that could’ve been put out, but instead, were clever events that led to some really nice parking lots.
These guys in the video did a solid job dropping the right sized hole for a flat roof on a strip. You can’t argue that at all. Kudos to them for DOING THEIR JOB. I may have smacked the camera man in the mouth for talking so much, though. Sometimes, you just have to shut up and cut the roof.
Finally, it should be noted that when you open the roof, fire comes out. That’s the rules. So, if that little bit of flame is “heavy fire”, then Dave Statter is a woman. Catch my drift? Identification is half of the game. Proper mitigation is the other. ‘Nuff said. Bye bye.
MDFF, lets see where do we start. I think Fred said it best with his statements of lack of sop’s. Why didnt the first in piece drop a supply line? This is a typical hand holding NJ fire, it took a very extended amount of time to pull ceilings on this fire, almost the entire video length. To make matters worse is someone probably had to stand at the door and tell the crews to take hooks in because there is no forward thinking in the NJ fire service. Very few fire departments get the big picture in this state, this is demonstrated in this video by the helmet cam equipped firefighter thinking he see’s heavy fire. It all starts with training, and if the Neptune Firefighters went to the Monmouth County Fire Academy then that explains a lot right there. From what i’ve heard that place is very weak.
And further 3 alarms? looks like a storage room in the rear of the business.
Agreed on the heavy fire and 3 alarms.