The thought of a wildfire going through my house is all I think about when the fire season begins. It's like we wake up every day to hear of a new wildfire, sometimes getting into the hundreds of thousands or millions of acres in just a few hours, days, or weeks. I rest easier knowing hard-working emergency personnel like you get to those fires before they can get to us, and always have the last word.
I don’t know that we get them first, seems like we just witness what nature wants to do and sometimes we’re allowed to intervene. Thank you for your comment.
@@86joelt I would call it disaster edu-tainment or info-tainment. To be honest, it's not particularly positive, though it has its positive applications, so I'll understand if you don't want me to use it. With disaster footage, I mostly make short-to-long amateur documentaries to discuss aspects of disasters that aren't obvious in the footage itself and which I don't see talked about elsewhere, like little-known hazards, destruction statistics, any records that a disaster broke, interesting phenomena like fire tornadoes, or the distances over which embers were spread, some common mistakes/misconceptions people have about them, while putting a horror spin on it to make it more accessible.
@@DoctorProwl If you would agree to leave names and edit identifying markers out then I’d think the risk of personal and professional embarrassment would be minor?
As an ex volunteer firey of 20 years here in rural South Australia I can say you guys over there in Texas did a good job chasing down the Catesby and Smoke house creek fires after they took a fairly nice run your technique of using brush units and running along side fires as 6 of our fire agencies here in Australia including SA use the same attack technique only difference is the make and design of trucks most of them here carrying between 500 (quick attack)-4000 litres of water with crew deck hoses After having my back slammed into the corner of a 3000 litre fire tank chasing a running grass fire one season causing bruising I decided to shift away from volunteer role and be my own boss as a private owner operator
@86joelt it was a tricky start deciding to be an owner operator but with the undergraduate in emergency management I obtained during my first season has helped massively Thankfully this summer just gone was a dud and 24/25 looking to be much the same allows me to improve and better equip for 2026
Heck yes, it’s good that you’re optimistic about it. In time I’d like to try out working as fire dozer operator. I hear it’s good pay plus it marries two things I enjoy, running a dozer and fighting fire 😂
Salut from oklahoma, to you guys and gals. Were still having a hell of a season from in the east but nothing like you guys had. Im still reletivly new wildland firefighter, well i was before this season began i guess! Haha. Awesome footage
God bless everyone who responded to these fires we sent some trucks from our department to the one in Oklahoma we had a bad one going here to that wind was crazy!!!
Glad we could help !! Lost my own house last February to a fire I know how it feels personally!!! I retire out in two yrs can't say I'm not looking forward to it after the last few yrs!!
I hate to hear that about your home, also congratulations on the upcoming retirement. Not a lot of people I know make it that long and I can only hope that I can accomplish as much. For the time being I really enjoy it but I’m also aware of the dangers of burn out and how it can affect people’s lives. My guess is that you’re one of the good ones.
I enjoy doing it but there are some other things that factor in as well other departments around us are understaffed and so we get the majority of the calls because dispatch knows who will respond the majority is mutual aid though not like it was 20 yrs ago when I started but I have to admit we got a hell of a lot more and better equipment these days I've packed a leaf blower and shovel way to many miles in my day may the good lord watch over ya alway brother!!!
@@kevinsloan3019 I have used a shovel and leaf blower as well. Some guys prefer a rake but a flat blade shovel is my go to for being afoot. May god continue to watch over you as well brother.
Depends on the conditions I’m working with, I feel like I probably spend to much time adjusting my nozzle back and forth looking for the sweet spot. In the night video I’m struggling to get water to the fire due to high winds, and distance to fire. If I could have stayed closer to the fire then I could have utilized a fan spray, but I was squirting water 5-15 ft from my nozzle into 25-40mph wind. I would have been wearing most of the water as well as the driver. If you watch closely in the second fire you can see that I change from fan to jet fairly often based on the changing conditions. Thank you for your question, I hope I did a good job answering it.
@@86joelt Yup, thanks for the details! I kinda forgot about compensating for wind effects and it seems grass fires are always in windy conditions. Water does no good on you and not on the fire!
I think you did as good a job as possible. Your driver IMO was going way too fast. To stop a field fire you gotta get all the fire wet not just much of it.
@@mikehoysler4322 thank you sir, and I agree with what you said, that night was our first time with him as my driver and he was still feeling me out trying to understand what I was asking of him, and with the wind that night we were having a lot of trouble talking back and forth. We have com sets that I failed to utilize that as well.
The first fire at night was one that started in north west Oklahoma and was named the Catesby fire, the second fire in the video was the Texas Smoke house creek fire, we started as a task force that morning in Oklahoma conducting controlled back burns and extinguishing hotspots, then by afternoon went into Texas to help neighboring departments with a fire that hadn’t been brought under control yet.
Gotta say...one of the best vids ive seen of the Texas fires...great Strike Team work....i saved audio of the Grape Creek fire...that one was wild to listen to.
Thank you sir, one of the nice things about this part of the US is how easy it is to work at a moment’s notice with people you’ve never met. We all have similar tactics and the same end goals.
God bless you all and protect them in hevry secon that they ar fighting to control the wildfire, we pray for you and for the people that they listed all what they have , but remember they have treacheries in heven ,bcs in this Earth we are only residents we will get back like the faithful Job on the Bible! God bless you all! And God protect you all in what you do we are proud off you Fire Figther!
I just wish I could be out there with y'all, but 40 seasons on the fire lines has me too beat up to be much good anymore. Praying for y'all, stay safe my brothers and sisters!
I don’t guess I know anything about that, however your comments will bring views to my channel so by all means rant away. What else could you tell me about the national guard?
@@86joelt when a state has a disaster they have to declare a state of emergency and it activate the native guard...but the national guard is at the border helping trump and Abbott with photos of them at the border...while the state is burning
I see, I didn’t realize that. I didn’t even know that the whole state was on fire, I thought the fire was mostly in the panhandle of Texas. So how do you know where all of the national guard is and how does that work? And how did you know there was people at the border?
Good job holding onto them stands.. i know its a topdrive and all but man do a little work will help your goofball hands.. it whips a lot when the driller sucks the blocks back. You better than 99% of the other drilling rig hands ive seen trying to show off, stop latching.. you tha real deal G
Got in a motorcycle crash in 2006 put me out of the oil field use to work on Ensco rig 98 in the Gulf Of Mexico was the derrickman on that rig for 8 years and I miss it Thanks Rocking T for the trip back in memory lane.🤠
From. Canada ( You can. always get a job up in. northern. Canada Alberta, BC. ). camp jobs if you can. handle tough work and cold. anywhere. from -20 too 30. below and Lots of snow. working on the. drilling. rigs or service. rigs / And as far as I. know they had a drilling rig. school. south of. Edmonton city I am not. sure if it is still operating. presently, November. 30, 2023 / keep on drilling. the world need’s the oil and. natural gas reserves / have. a good. day/ Bill. S. Canada
About 93’ on average on length, and this is after drilling the hole, and tripping out to change the drill bit or bottom hole assembly and going back in to continue drilling operations.
Absolutely, pretty easy spot. I was never good enough to work a spot like this but sometimes when I was real tired working floors they’d throw me bone and let me take it easy at the board for awhile.
hi man, could you suggest any company how is hiring no experience people ? i use to work as a tower climber but now it too slow and not much work... appreciate any help
Thanks for posting. Mr. John shares the same birthday as my beloved uncle (1922). He turned 18 that day. He was the oldest of five siblings on my mother's side. She was the 4th. Sadly, I never got to know him as he was killed in action in World War 2 Germany on April 1, 1945. To make matters worse, that was also the same day that my aunt (their sister) got married. They were notified a few weeks later via mail, probably around my mother's birthday (April 17). BTW, Goff also happens to be my grandmother's maiden name.
Nice to talk to you, John Goff and my dad ran together trucking for Martin Trucking out of Hugoton Kansas. I meet John as kid riding with my dad in his truck, many knew him as the guitar man but I knew him as Cactus. As I got older I started helping him work on trucks and later began picking guitars with him. He was one of my favorite people.
How long you been running dozer ? I've been doing finish work for 25 years and pipline dozing with those fixed angle dozers is different then heavy highway, dirt jobs . I went to Texas and learned the steps to doing it . We did it there way different then what you got going on . I knew everyone didn't run dozer like his 5 step method.
@@kellykolnes1954 thanks for the input, at the time of recording that video I’d been in a dozer a little over a year, now days I spend most of my time clearing trees with the exception of a farm pond or terrace here and there. I wish I had more experience with dirt and could level a pad without the use of a rotary laser but I’m simply not that skilled.
Not to be a asshole. Two Tongs eh ? must have read that in a book. I’ll wear the equipment out before my men it’s safer faster easier with one. You just need to have good slips does clean table bushings and enough weight to hold tight in slips !!! And if you really want nitpick they need to get the spinner service or set to that but no need for that man to be making them things but more then ONCE lol.
