I am a fire alarm technician with over thirty years experience and I have yet to do testing at a fire station where the alarm panel hasn’t been neglected. One I did was completely down and had been for at least 6 months. When I asked if they had a fire watch the captain looked at me and said no we don’t have the time nor money to do that and yet they will red tag buildings for not having a working fire alarm
I lived in Washington, and within about two weeks of each other, the Local PD had a patrol car stolen as an officer went inside a night club to respond to a fight, and a fire station had a small fire (due to ground power) that only damaged an electrical line and slight damage to a fire truck.
As an European, I can't understand why the station wasn't updated with fire alarms downstairs... In Europe even older stations have to be "upgraded" - it's mandatory over here...
Nevermind the guys there, imagine youre at a different firehouse, passed out sleeping, hopefully for the night. All of a sudden you get woke up to the sound of a call, a fire with the address being the next fire house over. That would be wild. Glad noone was hurt
my guess is it started in a fire engine or truck.....it happened to me when I was a fireman, but we woke up and put the fire out before it spread...but, who knows until an investigation is completed.
No I live very close to my house like 23 steps and you see it what caused it is someone threw cocktail or a motolov my uncle said he heard glass shattering people said a bømb started it
CA: you don't need guns to protect yourself because we have police, just like you rely on the fire department to protect you from a house fire while you are asleep. Also CA: our fire departments cannot protect themselves from a fire while they are asleep. Moral of the story: don't rely on the government to protect you when they need a good Samaritan to protect themselves.
When the trucks are parked there's a lot of chargers with lithium ion batteries recharging could be possible that the batteries went up and took everything else with them
I'm surprised there aren't heat detectors in the engine bay. Also rather curious what started it. Maybe there was a cheaper LiPo battery that failed somewhere, but typically nothing rated for heat has those batteries in it (radios, flashlights, pagers, etc.).
@rd8370 nope, that all depends on where you live some cities require it but others don't and residential homes don't require anything besides a smoke alarm on each level of the house and many fire departments are older especially volunteer departments and they're not able to be upgraded due to funding and how old the structures are , in order to modernize a fire system the electrical wiring would need to be installed in all of the walls or ceilings which costs a lot of money which is difficult for many departments to get because they're not funded by their city government much of what many fire departments get in way of gear or other necessities is donated generously by residents that live in the community or businesses that help care for the people that keep them safe.
@@josephbennett3482 you don't need to have fire protection systems installed. It says they didn't even have smoke detectors in the Bays. They could have ordered them off Amazon and put them on the ceiling themselves. 🤷♂️
@eriksand9262 fire stations are classified as Type B buildings, which mean that they are public buildings in which the general public can be inside of and go to so they're required to have wired fire protection systems in which someone can activate the alarm by pull station or the alarm would activate on it's own and send a signal to the 911 dispatch center of an alarm activation , that station technically wasn't up to code since they didn't have alarms in a location where there's vehicles filled with flammable fuel and is a place where civilians would visit during daylight hours or if the bay doors would be open the alarm could be activated by a passers-by if there isn't anyone in sight.
How does the "apparatus Bay" not have smoke and fire alarms ? Aren't all buildings including homes (no matter the age) required by law to have smoke/ fire alarms ??? Something smells fishy here.
You would think given the importance of fire departments for the community they serve not to mention the cost of the apparatus and associated equipment that the station houses the building would be equipped with a fire sprinkler system, alarms systms that are monitored by a third party and building materials meeting a minimum of 1 half hour burn time as per several of the NFPA standards that apply to industrial, commercial and residential buildings. Really does not make sense.
These issues won't be any more frequent with electric trucks; these fires happen all the time with liquid fuel apparatus as it is. Firetrucks are unfortunately susceptible to fires more than other vehicles because they already have increased electronics on board for various motors, emergency lighting, etc.
The rest of us are required to have smoke alarms in multiple rooms no matter how old the building. But they don't require any in the apparatus bay. Sounds like typical government policies. Required for thee but not for me.
So Damn Stupid buying Electric Fire Trucks just glad all the Fire Fighters are ok but now you are going to have to post a Fire Watch in your Own Stations
There is a significant number of new fire trucks with digital controls and computers that are spontaneously combusting. It strikes me that more people should be concerned about that.
DRAKE BELL: Procrastinator, the fire station’s on fire! PROCRASTINATOR: That’s terrible! I’ll rescue them … EVENTUALLY! Sorry, this reminded me of the Amanda Show.
I thought it kind of looked like the fire station used in the pilot episode. It was two stories with three bays like this one. The opening scene everyone is upstairs asleep, the callout tones go off everyone jumps into their turnout gear, slide down the pole, and roar off to a paint factory fire.
Strange, how that's always the first question on somebody's mind... anyone seriously interested in this matter could find out that ICEs are a lot more likely to burn.
One would think a couple of them would be up on duty, keeping everything right to go or to spot stuff like this. Especially with how prevalent lithium ion batteries are now and its nasty habit of sometimes just randomly combusting for no apparent reason.🤔
That a Pathetic, excuse it's an older firehouse.Therefore we don't have fire alarms in the apparatus bay A little bit hypocritical and preachy Just thank God. No one was hurt. just their pride.
"There are no fire alarms in the apparatus bays of older fire stations", well here's a solution. Go to the friggin Home Depot and buy some. Stupidity is rampant in California.
imagine your own station getting on fire and having it destroyed and the community expecting them to protect everyone else further away. like i get it might not be their fault but lol bro its charred
