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A neighbor captured the first engine’s arrival and initial attack on Burke Street in Hillsborough County on Monday. Besides thunder and lightning that appear quite close, there is a fair amount of airhorn action, to the point I am not clear what’s going on. On video 2, below, the airhorn sounds sounds again at about 3:41 and stays that way through the end of the clip, more than three minutes later. That’s one hell of an evacuation signal, or more likely, there is a malfunction (caused by the wet weather?) of the horn.
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Gold metal for the hustle to the pump operator. Well below the bronze for the others!
3 minutes for the white helmet to get dressed,,,why is he even on the truck??? When the video started and the young lady EO was stretching the hose for the entry team I thought we might have an agressive attack. When the officer could not even open his tank valve I had bad feelings. It went down hill from there. Career department with over 900 firefighters???
Where was the second due, and the Medic Unit doesn’t count?
Engineer did a good job but she needed to put gear on those ffs on the pipe were too slow. Also the thunder and lighting is so dangerous in fla [I live here] no matter what profession you have.
What kind of gear? She was properly dressed for job function.
Having to wait for 2in2out is like giving the opposition two points for every one you score. Tack on the lack of firefighting personnel, Chiefs don’t count, and they all did a good job. Bronze is a little harsh, Silver at least.
Kudos to the Engineer for taking this fire seriously and having a “sense of urgency”. Strong work.
If they’re waiting for 2in/2out, how ’bout doing a 360? I mean, they could’ve moon walked around the place with all the time they had watching the roof burn off.
My thought – probably a solid crew stuck with a less-than-stellar company officer. It happens.
Absolutely pathetic. The only one that looked like a pro was the engineer. Why wasn’t the other two ready to go when they got off the truck? Good thing no one was trapped the way they fiddled around.
Absolutely pathetic. At least the engineer looked like a pro. Sure glad no one needed to be rescued while the two got ready on scene instead while enroute.
Great Job by the driver… lots of zip in her step… for the rest of the crew…. you need to go back to probie school!!! over 3 min to get ready to go and that don’t count running the line since the driver did that for you…. come on man WTF ! Strike Da Box!
Livindadream thinks it is a SILVER! come on man… not even close… PISS POOR !!!! back to probie school
Anytime you see the driver making the stretch I would bet on bad things to come. If the pipeman(or woman) isnt capable or ready on arrival its going to be “bad start, bad finish” Meanwhile the guy videoing this is going to invest in another section of green line and and axe in case this ever happens to his home.
Was this “take your doppy cousin to work” day. I’m sure you see ff#1 pulling on the straps of the chief’s mask. Lame
Kudos to the pump operator who seemed to have a handle on what needed to be done. She actually did her job as well as a lot of what the other two (crew members?)should have done. If I were her, I’d seek employment with an F.D. that is as into the job as she is. How the two who were supposed to attack the fire ever made it through fire schoolis a mystery! One of the early tests times the student’s ability to don full PPE.They clearly don’t even come close to the maximum allowable time. Is it possible they were taking so long so that the fire condition would worsen to the point where they would be able to enter?
once again the florida standard of “they can do it with 3″ has shown its failure again.(BTW-sarasota runs two on an engine LRB never changed that for them)–i agree that the engineer showed alot of hustle and the folks at the front door dropped the ball. i can only assume that all the airhorn blowing was either a misake or somebody was at a hydrant. HCFD seems to need a little work on the tactics. the EMS crew could have jumped in
The driver has pride. The others are just unskilled labor. Go get on a trash truck. We are our own worst enemies. This is repeated every day around the nation, and embarrasses every single one of us. But I guess as long as you get to wear the t shirt and post “support firefighters” pictures on facebook that’s all that counts….
UnImPressed. after 10 minutes only 5 turned out FFs on scene ? wtf? Whatever happened to breathing air coming off the truck ? The (white helmeted) officer seemed to be unfamiliar with his SCBA, back to the academy for you !! No walk around, hope there was no victim holding their breath waiting for rescue to come. half way through the second part they exit the bldg without having knocked down the fire. still blowing and going and they’re union-breaking in the front yard, again-wtf? at least the airhorn malf was funny.
Breathing air exiting the rig? Were those “30 years in” spent at the office?
Ditto on that. Please tell me that was a typo.
Real firemen go on air as they’re leaving the station. Saves more time.
Pretty sure I would have left my partner if it took him that long to mask up. At least gone to the front door and tried to hit it from there.
I’ve had the air horn malfunction thing happen to me……in a parade. My officer looks over at me wondering when I’m going to get off the button, I look at him wondering the same thing. Just started laughing and once it stopped, we stuck with the Q and electronic siren.
Been on a call with a stuck air horn and it sucks! It stuck coming down the rode, driver stopped and tried to get it to stop but it wouldn’t, so he continued response. We had to crawl under the rig and unhook it from the Q.
The vol fire dept in maryland [pg co]where I was a member except the driver in this video made these guys look sick. I had excellent training through univ of maryland and pg co each week I guess in my 15 years I should consider myself lucky .
May I also add that we had to go through the same training as the paid ff’s did it has not changed.
I agree that the D/O did an awesome job. I also agree that the two donning their gear were horrible and took way too long. I don’t understand why the medic unit had to go nuts on his siren patterns when he was right in front of the house.. WE GET IT YOU’RE EXCITED. This department has a lot to learn. No 360 shown to kill firefighters. And it clearly wasn’t just that the officer was waiting for his 2 out to go to work. He didn’t get much work done with his straight stream shooting directly into the ceiling with no pattern work. Then he came outside and looked like he was going to pass out from four minutes of “work”.
Medics playing with the siren??
Who do they think they’re impressing??
Would you want an IV started by this person??
very hurtful to watch to be honest