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Thanks to HLN’s Mike Brooks for alerting STATter911.com to this very clear helmet-cam video from Atlanta Fire Rescue. It’s the initial attack by first-arriving Engine 16 at an apartment fire last Saturday.
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GREAT JOB 16 Engine! Text Book…Laid out… several rooms off… did not hit it from the outside… went up the steps and got it… also notice it was a 1 3/4 or 1 1/2 line job…. not a 2 1/2. smaller line puts a lot of fire out and a lot easier to move around…. Don’t strike da box 16 Engine got it! Looking at the different videos on here you can tell who goes to fires, trains and who don’t! again great job 16 Engine… PS looks like this is not the first job in this building K
That’s the way you do it, good job.
Id like to nominate this video for the first ever “Stattie” Video Award. It should be titled “Gettin Some!”.
It would have been a little different if it was an occupied building or their were contents to burn. Looked vacant to me.
It is easy to handle the heat, minimal smoke conditions, and move right to the seat of the fire when it is essentially a training burn.
It is an excellent video and it was nice to see the engine officer sounding the stairs before they ran the line up. Minimal risk of collapse or flashover so may as well play.
This used to be known as bread and butter. Compared to most of the clusters from north of the Mason -Dixon this was a fine execution of tactics. In reality it was what should be expected. Refreshing for sure though.
Yeah, because theres never any clusters south of the mason-dixon line….
Good job AFD! Kept it basic, and the fire went out! No fancy CAFS engines, and they didnt need 15 officers telling them where the fire is.
Sorry Tower, there are plenty down here. Guess the good ol boys don’t have as many of dem fancy hat cameras y’all got up there .LOL
Here in North Carolina, posted videos from helmet cams are few and far between, at least as I have found. Maybe that’s true through the southeast. Far less of a “critical mass of stuff” that’s seen in the northeast.
mjl
you southerners should be good at fighting fire, General Sherman gave you boys a lot of practice along with that whoopin’.
You really got to let go of that animosity, lots of good firemen north of the mason-dixon. Hard to find cities that run more fire than up north.
Don’t see to many videos from Atlanta…. It’s about time. This fire department is a hidden secret… One of the most aggressive departments out there. These guys do the joband do it well.
16 is a Paramedic engine & in between running 20 plus med calls a day they also fight the most fire in the city,which is 1,2,or 3 or more everyday.
where was the screaming on the radio?! the missing nomex hoods and gloves? the guys on the roof with out masks on?! this can’t be an actual video on statter 911, must’ve been altered with some sort of software!
All joking aside, great job Engine 16 way to ruin the KIC’s day since they can’t pick your work apart!
Just goes to prove that a “big city” FD that sees plenty of fire can be bothered to wear their PPE. They don’t lean on the old, tired “we see too much to do it the right way” crapola.
Atlanta went with 1 & 3/4 inch hand lines in late 70′s. Very few 2&1/2 inch hand lines ever used anymore.Supply is 5 inch LDH.
Great job thats a great video on how its supposed to be done.
Helmet cams can be tough to watch but this was some good stuff! Great Job E16!
Just some more proof that bread and butter fire ground tactics such as a correct size-up, stretching a line properly, not crowding the stairs, calling for vertical ventilation early and aggressive offensive firefighting will make the fire go out quickly.
Exactly… Enough said right there!
This was a great job but the comments on downing other tactics are dumb…this is what you can do with the right staffing, construction type, etc. these guys are the minority in the fire service. A 2 person engine in a new construction suburb can’t do this so they have to try different things. Much like people say don’t judge Detroit until you walk in there shoes, do not judge the suburban and rural guys until you walk in there’s.
Leadership = “We can get this”
Thank You
Outstanding job.
That’s the way it’s done.
1 1/2″ line in the front door and up the stairs, ventilation started, no hesitation on that engine company.
No muss, no fuss.
And hey! No evacuation alarm!
True story…. So, I show this to the wife, who is sitting next to me drinking our morning coffee, and said “Here is is, no Backdraft stuff. This is what a fire looks like.” She looks at me with this concerned look on her face… “Do you go to fires that big?” I then said “Honey, when I talk about a room-and-contents-fire that is what it is like. That is how we normally catch them. The only thing you worry about tht is it autoexposing the common attic.” I guess I have to start making a bigger deal about things. It appears as though she was convinced that I didn’t really “go into burning buildings” for the last 20 years at work.
BTW, Good knock, Brothers.
Whatever-they ATL-FD stretched on a vacant-the officer was ahead of the line-there was no need to go in that building- 1 deck gun/2 minutes- everyone goes home
You should get another job!
Well put.
textbook fire with textbook results. thats how its done fellas. take notes on this. study this and see how it can apply to your tactics and operations. and to greaeful forever that said there was no need to go in is OBVIOUSLY in the wrong line of work. a deck gun on that would do nothing but push heat and smoke into adjacent structures and more than likely make matters worse. quit making excuses for not wanting to own your resposibility as a firefighter! own up or shut up and pack up. pick a new line of work.