I am amazed at some of the big city fd.'s attitudes about scba. I know many volunteer Fd's who had mandatory mask up policies unless it was a brush fire call including the one I was on.
One serious question. Once they got the water flowing which was from the Booster Tank the why didn't the Engineer hook the Engine up to the Hydrant which was only a few more feet from the Engine.? They already had water flowing but it is important to havea positive source of water ASAP.
@@briansmyla8696 Probably not. His claim for occupational cancer will be shot down by the city and they will use these videos to back the denial. If you don't use the protective equipment you're provided, your cancer treatment is on you.
I almost gave this a thumbs down just because not a one of them have air pack's on. Don't they teach you to use proper protective gear? I can assure anyone watching, that is some really nasty smoke and can't be any good for their health (5 years riding the trucks in Houston on 2 different shifts). Yes the wires involved are likely phone lines or cable lines or both. Now both can carry a small current, but it is not enough as a general rule to hurt a fire fighter. If you call this in as power lines, the power guys are going to come out and then get seriously PO'd that they were called out for phone/cable lines. The different folk that work the lines DO NOT get along and usually don't want to be working together. It is not hard to determine which type of line you are looking at. Power is up top, for a reason - it's dangerous! There is an non-insulated wire below the lowest power line. This is neutral and is tied to ground. It is used a third conductor on the lower voltage lines, for example to get two 120's from a single 240 feed for houses. Cable and phone lines will normally be below the neutral wire. Round wire is likely cable. Flat or oblong cable is more likely telephone. In residential areas, the upper most power lines are often running 15,500 or higher voltage. This will turn you into a pile of ashes before you can say "Oh Shit". Drops from the top to local house/building feeds will at some point have a fuse, sometimes called a door (fuse not blown and arm/door closed - current can flow, fuse blown, arm/door hanging down - door is open, current will not flow. In my current neighborhood, the older lower arial power lines are not used because the area has been re-done with mostly underground lines. So we have groups of ground/pad mounted transformers, fed by a single wire set that is fed by only one of the top phases. I live on a block with a large number of duplexes. Each pair of duplexes connect to a pedestal and each transformer supplies up to 6 pedestals. This block has 8 pad mounted transformers off of a single feed with an auto re-closer on it's door. This device will attempt to re-close the door a certain number of times and if it continues blowing, it will stop after a while. That way if a storm has left a tree limb across multiple upper wires, it won't re-try constantly. We had a news story once back when stealing copper wires was a big thing. The power company got an alarm at one of it's sub-stations. Knowing about the wire thefts, they sent PD out first.. Sure enough the officers got there in time to see actor #2, dragging the still smoldering body of his buddy outside the fence area. Actor#1 made the mistake of trying to remove the copper ground wire from an active 138KV circuit and became the path to ground, for a moment.
Nice description of what wires do what and the location of each. However, you failed to mention that the neutral is designed to carry the differentiating voltage and is therefore carrying voltage in itself.
Yeah i was thinking the same thing. Where are their air bottles. I'm sure their BC would not be very happy. Stoopid Lapd didn't block traffic. I don't know who that vehicle was on the otherside. But that didn't appear to be DOT
Sad Culture complacency! No, SCBA’s! Do, that during your academy time, and they will “FAIL” you!!! Please, challenge me if wrong! 31year Retired Veteran Fire Captain enjoying Retirement, because I wore mine!
