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You always look back at academy days and appreciate it! Go 100% and you’ll be surprised of the number of ppl who know your name when you hit the track!
It’s refreshing to finally see a California department wearing traditional helmets instead of those ridiculous hard hat looking things. lol. At least you can fit a nice Paul Conway leather front on them!
Amazing work guys! I'm in fire school myself and finish this mid summer with a P-card and ready to work on the road soon! Sending my regards to all the lucky graduates from Columbus Ohio!
After watching 1000+ fire videos but never having once been a FF, I still, in my opinion think the Stockton FD is one of the top departments in the country! I also believe the poor dog was rescued from more then a fire, Imo, I see how quickly neglector returned that poor dog to it's filthy cell.
Great example of going slow to go fast. No manic power plays, no panicking, everyone on the job is treated with equal trust & respect and everyone knows their role.
Fast Spreading Fire = 2, 2-1/2" hose lines to knock down exterior fire showing. This fire stream application does 2 things. 1) it protects the exposures. 2) it slows the progress of the fire on the interior so an interior hoseline (1-3/4") can be streached to stop the fire from spreading. Chief Hughes Battalion 1 (retired) Chicago FD
That is the best footage i've ever seen by any firefighter channel. It is very helpful to see how dangerous fires are. When it's not edited and everything is rough footage, especially with the helmet cams inside. An apartment down the hall from me had a fire in our apartment complex. We have fire suppression sprinklers with the red tube inside. That red tubes burst at 165°. Thankfully, that fire in that apartment was out before the 2 minutes that it took for Dallas fire department to get here. We live downtown in a high rise. We are surrounded by more hospitals than I can count and at least five fire stations within a five mile radius or less. 2 of the Dallas fire stations are within 2 miles of where we live in downtown Dallas. We live in a newer building. We have fire suppression pression sprinklers everywhere, and a fire control room that can actually call the fire department with its computers. If this building had caught fire, somehow, right after it was finished being built and before anyone moved in. I know all this. Because I asked the firefighters when my down the hall neighbors had a fire due to taking sleep while cooking a feast. All 4 burners were in use, and all the food was on 🔥. Luckily for us. No smoke entered through our front door. It's a metal door. I did walk out to see what was going on. I was about to be choked out by the white smoke that smelled like all foods burning. It was thick smoke. It smelled like a good BBQ, though. I didn't stay out there for long. I got my 9 layer covid mask and went back out to talk with the firefighters. They explained everything to me about it being a huge food 🔥.
that dispatcher is on her game. She doesn't waste time, words, or anything. She's smooth as they come. Reads off the stations, equipment, location, situation, all without hesitation. Got to hand it to her. She knows that city well.
I was one of the few female firefighters in the ‘80s and DID ride the tailboard without a safety harness like they did in the video-hanging on AND putting on my gear as we rode down the road-usually in the rain. My first badge said “fireman”. That department was on a 24 hours on/48 hours off schedule. We would start the shift at 7am and closed the station at 9 pm to visitors and I, of course, would stay on duty, which didn’t make the wives of the male FFs very happy. Moved up to “Manual Pump Operator” eventually (now called Engineer) and the guys didn’t want a “girl” driving. When I got my first Lieutenant badge, less than 1% of the firefighters were female in the U.S. I was literally called a pioneer then. When I answered the station phone as a LT, the caller would always assume they were still talking to the dispatcher. (No male dispatchers at that time.). I also remember having to ask the Chief if I could get my ears pierced when I was 30 years old. (Hey, I was getting married!). We had to get permission from the Chief to go out of town on our “days off”. How things have changed. When I joined the department, I was issued men’s size 11 boots and had to put 4 1/2 sets of wool insoles to hold my 5 1/2 female shoe-sized feet in the boots! The bunker gear wasn’t much better-the jacket went below my knees standing so, of course, I was kneeling on the jacket at my first structure fire and couldn’t go further into the house. My then lieutenant thought I was just scared. He hit the back of my helmet and yelled to “GO!” but by that time I was wedged in the doorway-still on my jacket! Wonderful first structure fire! As a 5’2” 115 pound female in the FD, I was the smallest person and the one to do all the confined space situations-like attic fires or go inside car wrecks to stabilize the victims. The firefighters did the maintenance on the apparatus and I was the one to get inside the pump to do repairs because of my size. Still At the time I could out bench my weight and even out lifted another male FF in the leg press. (I ran out of weights at the station at 900 pounds!) It was a 24/48 hour shift at that first department and as a professional, state certified firefighter and EMT I started out at $8,100.00 a year, including being on call 24/7. Later added fire inspector and department training officer at a rate of $11,800.00 a year (even with a B.S degree and an A.S. degree in Fire Science). When I went to industrial firefighting in the early ‘90s, we had Gamewell boxes and when the bell alarm went off, we had to run to read the tell-all-tape to find out the fire location (just like in the video). Each Gamewell box had a 3-digit number and you had to memorize where each box was by its number. Some Gamewell were even on the roofs!! I’m retired from the FD now and totally LOVED being on the truck all those years. Wouldn’t change it for the world. Nothing beats hanging on to the back of the truck, standing on the tailboard, on a clear starry night going to a structure fire!
We'll Miss you forever in our community ❣️ god bless Max he's was a good man and firefighter 💯❤😭🇺🇸💕🌎🌎 we appreciate his service of city of Stockton California san Joaquin county officials loved ones thank you for the sacrifice and hope to save❣️ lives in danger ⚡❤ 🎉 everyone praying for the best of max fortuna ❤❤❤
Another stellar example of an accomplished, proficient and skillful Fire Department at work. This is a group of sure handed, polished, highly capable and thoroughly competent firefighters.
Still another example of a well-trained, effective and professional Fire Department. Any city would be proud to have such a skilled group of firefighters.
Been working as an emt for a while, how do I go about applying for the fire academy? I can’t seem to find any information online to her than the city of stockton website but no actual place to apply
The Stockton firefspiders are the absolute best of the best. They work long. Shifts anxious are severely understaffed because of that woke city government. That doesn't think they need to protect their would rather feed homeless than. Staff the fire service with what it nevery Engine company should have 4 firefighters a sign, not 3. They should have More fire stations and more men and women on duty every day. I cannot blame them. They do a fantastic jobut. I blame the politichoose of California. They're so stupid. It's not even funny. God bless you men and women of Stockton. Fire department you have the most dedication of any fire department i've ever seen
water on the fire fast as u possibly can thats why that man made it & staying low to the floor ppl dont realize the change in heat condition from floorcto ceiling
37 years here as a Captain. You have a tool on your rigs known as monitors. Heavy fire, turn the damn thing on. This was a crap show from start to finish.I get the unrelated report of entrapment, but it's better to wet the victim then then let them burn. You walked on this too long.
