Excellent job! Very difficult fire surrounded by exposures and they kept this in check. Excellent aggressive firefighting and great job keeping it to the original building.
Im a former firefighter/EMT from Rochester NY. Injured in the line of duty and forced to retire in 2009. I found this channel after searching other countries firefighting techniques. I love how fast and aggressive your videos are. In America you are often drilled into your head to slow down. However, speed in heavily populated areas it is absolutely essential to gain control before it goes south and can become a conflagration. The video I watched had great obstacles. In cities we have exposure problems but it is very rare to have all sides in a residential area all 4 exposures. Lines had to be dragged in due to access. Exposures within a few feet. Wind driving fire across narrow alleyway into building on what appeared to be A side. Heavy fire through the roof with a collapse. I did notice water pressure issues yet every obstacle was overcome quickly saving that entire neighborhood!!! This was a textbook operation on aggressive firefighting that made a difference. Videos like this are therapeutic to me know after leaving a job that I loved. In fact, I would tell my wife if someone told me I would die in a fire if I went to work I would without hesitation go into work. We may face totally different obstacles with buildings, population density however, the brotherhood is the same. It’s universal when people need help you simply show up and help. It is what the world needs more then ever. I wished I had a translator to listen to comms on this fire. Again, I can’t say enough about how their actions stopped that fire in it tracks. I watched and was thinking this could go very bad. Great job!!!
@@michaelmaglier3915 Agreessive? It appeared to be an entirely exterior operation. The were certainly quick in deploying exterior hose streams. But aggressive? Aggressive is being inside the building.
if they were actually aggressive like say i dont know.. the FDNY then they would have been in that building. If they were aggressive... the fire wouldn't be blowing out every portion of that building lol
as I obserrve their technique they are not entering the house not making a forcible entry so that they can hit the seat of the fire, as we can see they are properly geared with BA.
@@ph11p3540 and each firetruck has a small engine and a small pump and an extremely small amount of water, after a some point it's just diminishing returns. Why not make engines higher, like in Europe? Or maybe make them as big as possible, and have all steering wheels and a second rear facing cab, so the engine does not need to make a U turn. Basically, instead of crew cab have a two commercial over the engine cabs. The engine space of the rear one can be used to mount a pump.
What is the water flow of each nozzle? There always seems to be a lack of water pressure in the hoses. How many gallons per minute can an average fire engine flow in Japan?
Okay, I've looked at a dozen or more of these videos and here is my thoughts as a retired firefighter. 1. There is absoluty no command structure NONE ZIP ZERO!! 2. There is obviously no building codes those homes and businesses are stacked on top of each other y'll need to visit your building code book if you have one. 3. Training training and more training, if you are going to utilize civilians then train them, from what I have seen civilians are chasing flames and smoke nope hit the base of the fire. 4. Learn to cover exposures, your putting water on the fire but the fire is laughing at you and jumping to other structures think ahead this is where command comes in. 5. PLEASE PLEASE learn to establish a viable water supply, there is nothing worse than starting a fight and running out of water, trust me I've been in that situation. 6. Your always defensive??? Why if your equipt go in and get it, it's what we call walking were the devil dances.
Wooden structure on fire has high risk of collapse, unnecessary entry and penetraion of fire crew into it is not encouraged. No doubt, they are poor in strategy an tactic.
It seems we have an other comment of the U. S of assholes, the way I see it they managed to keep the damage to one building unlike the U.S. where they let whole streets burn down. But that might be because in the U.S. they are allowed to build with matchsticks and PVC cladding. As for water supply firefighters have no control over that, so that was a dumb comment. But we all know everything is bigger and better in America. Other countries just have to work with what they have. You might be a retired firefighter, but you must have been retired after 2 years or so, as no one wants to work with an opinionated bitch like you. 🖕🏻