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This is from a fire on Thursday in Lamar County, Texas. There is more that 90 minutes of video in seven parts from firetruckenthusy33 on YouTube. At 6:54 on the first video (above) command orders everyone out of the structure for defensive operations. Part 2 is below. Click here for the rest of the clips.
The Paris News is reporting the destruction of the Family Life Center at Blossom Church of God in Lamar County. The fire broke out before noon Thursday.
Despite the damage, assistance from dozens of volunteer firefighters helped save the church sanctuary. Firefighter Tyler Browning tells the paper crews cut a hole in the roof in the corridor to keep it from reaching the sanctuary.
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Looks like a long duration incident in hot weather. Radio traffic for the parts I listened to seemed calm, but perhaps not fully utilizing the command system. That could have been because of the use of multiple freq.s. I’d love to see an honest critique of the incident. The lessons learned and shared could help everyone do a better job next time.
I agree, the radio traffic from command was very plain talk and direct. Some of the traffic going the other way, not so much.
Blossom FD – 2013 Assistance to Fire Grant = PPE and SCBA. Time to get rid of the cowboy hats and get helmets…..
Interior and Exterior at same time…..Oh well!
We don’t wear cowboy hats that man is on a diffrent dept thanks
Another great case for automatic sprinklers! And, it looks like the fireman’s friend, the welder, was on the premises and boogied after doing his worst.
My, my.
On the map it looks like a very rural area. They probably rarely get a structure fire and especially one of this size.
Wow . . . never thought I would see . . . WALKER – TEXAS RANGER on a hose line!! Near end of Part 2.
What a mess.
Is it just me or did anyone else think maybe they could have cut a hole from the outside to access the fire for attack. It looks like a pole building.
Not a bad idea, I have seen piercing nozzles used to good effect on simular buildings. Its not hard to find the right location to open, just look for exterior heat damage. The sheet metal can be opened with any number of tools besides a rotary saw.
Im interested in what kind of camera shot this. Im seeing more video of this type lately that appears to be floating. Anyone got an idea? Cellphone maybe?
Steve,
It’s not the camera. A few months back YouTube initiated a steady-cam type feature that smooths out the videos. I was wondering the same thing when I first saw the same thing on a few videos. I figured out it was YouTube.
The feature does degrade the quality of the video and sometimes crops it differently (zooms in a bit). If the person has any kind of graphics in the video before this feature is added, the graphics and titles will float all around the screen (quite annoying).
FYI YouTube also has a feature that will flip those sideways cell phone videos that we see.
Statter
I was on this fire. It was paged as a box alarm of four departments. Before my arrival the initial attack engine initiated an interior attack on the gym building where they could make access. Problem is the access available was poor at best and could not get to the seat of the fire easily. We got a good hit on it initially and it them found a fuel source and it enraged from there! Second alarm was called for four more departments. Soon after an all county pagewas done for all nineteen departments for mutual aid as well as five departments from the four surrounding counties including one from Oklahoma! We are pretty rural but have the resources and training from most of the local departments to handle such an incident. But when calling for other local departments which do not usually fight many structure fires especially ones of this magnitude, you will see the lack of PPE. It was told at the incident for anyone not having proper PPE to step away and be in a support mode for safety sake. There are still departments that go gung ho and don’t have the resources or training (background) to use PPE on such incidents. This happens everywhere! Not just in Texas! On my department we are fully bunked out for such incidents it is SOP! You can’t control SOP’s or lack thereof in other departments. Incident Command did a great job of the situation to the best of the ability that was presented. It was a very stubborn fire and not easy to get to. Lots of rooms in the building, and fuel, it wasn’t just an open gym area like it would look to be. That and not a lot of personnel was available that day, as every department but one on scene was volunteer. We saved the sanctuary and that is the heart of any church not the gym. It couldn’t have gone any better than it did with the conditions as they were. Thanks for listening.
Well said eagle eye one