My dad was FDNY. They taught a hydrant blocker a lesson (1980s). They broke both driver and passenger side windows to allow the hose to reach the hydrant. Said the car owner was very mad.
Driver has nothing to be mad at... They are in the wrong for blocking a fire hydrant or parking with in 10 feet I think the space is of a hydrant to hinder the fire crews access the hydrant and blocking a safe working area....... My view of the driver is "sucks to be you, hope your car didn't become a pool"..... 2 broken windows and I hope a good ticket for there stupidity.
What I love about your videos compared to other youtubers is you leave out all the unnecessary commentary you let the video and audio speak for itself!
Yes!!! Thank you!!! It drives me bat-shit when the cameraman keeps pointing out the obvious! This other guy on RU-vid makes great videos but just needs to shut the fuck up!!
@@Johnny7051MC I've brought that up numerous times so what he did was blocked me from commenting. We don't need to know there's heavy fire coming out the roof when we can see it ourselves lol. There was too many times where I've thought he's a hindrance to the ffs on scene and he's going to get injured by being where he shouldn't. Like you said he does make great stuff but can always elevate his quality.
In my city, your double parked car gets bulldozed out of the way by the fire truck and then you get the illegal parking ticket and bill for any damages to the fire truck. Double parking can easily cost you thousands of dollars. DON"T double park ever.
I had a stroke and was ambulance lights & sirens to the hospital. Every second was crucial,. Whether I was going to survive. You need to yield to our Police & rescue vehicles. Some ones life is depending on it.. 🙏
New York traffic is a mess. I have no idea how these fire trucks are able to navigate through. Then you add on idiot drivers who feel they are more important so they can’t move out of the way. Personally I feel if a car is blocking the way the fire department should be able to force cars off the road, put fire hoses through cars, etc, and it’s the car owner’s responsibility to pay for damages.
There's an easy fix for this. Every fire house should have a tow truck that follows them on calls. Vehicles in the way? Tow them. Blocking an emergency responder? Charge them triple to get the vehicle back from the tow yard. I don't know how much that is in New York, but here in Hawaii it'll cost you about $400. Triple that amount and it's $1,200.
@Rune Willem If you are legally parked you are not in the way. If you are in the way it is very unlikely you are legally parked. That being said, rigging a car for towing takes a *long* time. No matter what the cost to the owner, the cost of the people that might have no other chance of rescue than that fire truck is immensely higher. Don't park where you should not. It could very quickly become a matter of life or death, and that's just not worth it.
@Rune Willem Well your claiming that a car legally parked "has not done anything wrong" Which is true, But useless to the arugment. The only reason for you to make this claim is if you think the person in this video that double parked did so legally. Which they did not. Your comment is stupid and has several errors, It doesnt matter if its "not made for debate" You made a counter-statement, Thus you entered a debate.
@Rune Willem Except you NEVER said that they look like that. You ONLY JUST NOW said that, There is no "like i wrote" when you have JUST made the comment.
These guys are so much nicer than 25 years ago. Before then, it wasn’t uncommon for a tower truck to “initiate movement” of an offending vehicle whether there was a driver in it or not.
@@tomcarl8021 Fantastic job far left leadership has done with NYC. JK it’s sad to see another American city get scratched off the place to visit list because of defund the police and let crime go unpunished.
I like that you showed some of the very unglamorous bits of the job...all the time they have to take very carefully rearranging and putting up hundreds and hundreds of feet of firehose. That must've taken about as long as putting the fire out if not longer. But they have to do it. Also, that trick with the bleach bottle was genius.
That is why they should get proper high pressure hose reels like we have here in Sweden, and like all north europe and i gues even south europe. Super efficient! And easy. Each reel is 80 meter long and you normally have two. Deployment time? From that the truck stops at scene, it takes roughly 20 seconds to get water on the fire.
Nice job FDNY, please thank your families for us, and thank you all for your sevice!... I'm not sure about your chauffeurs, but I think if we put two long forks on your rigs, that can push vehicles or lift them up, I'm all for it. That would drive me bonkers waiting for someone to move their vehicle. God Bless, and stay safe, thank you all for the work you do! Rick K. EMTP retired.
@@aliciaaltair The rope is packed in the bottle and kept on the rig, and the boss can easily grab it. When you reach the point from which you want to deploy, you hold on to one end of the rope and drop the bottle.
@@aliciaaltair Well, to be honest with you, I don’t know of any tools or equipment carried on FDNY fire apparatus that have “magical properties.” Do you?
I get it about the firetruck pushing the vehicle but the problem is it wouldn't work in this scenario. If they tried to push it, it will just end up going into one of the legally parked cars (unless the steering wheel was perfectly straight and car was aligned which is unlikely), which obviously will damage everything but then make the blocking car still block the road and become unmovable.
I saw a vid about a robot, long rectangular body, two big poles in front, pick up a car and pull it straight out. I think it said NYC is experimenting with these. Much faster than a tow truck.
Great footage. You should give this video to the transportation Department to show new ,and old drivers how not to park. If that was me driving that fire truck, I would have blasted the horn twice then put the bumper against the car and push it out of the way. Don't they have parking enforcement officers to stop people from double parking. Here you don't dare double park unless it's an emergency, as the fines are over $100. if your double parked or blocking blocking traffic.
Despite the fact the fire department was short handed and lacked enough equipment, the towering inferno of New York was extinguished before dinner time.
I was gonna make a sparky comment, but I understand why they did what they did. Could been SERIOUS BAD NEWS. Better to have too much than not enough, and then wait while more help comes.
Driving a fire truck in NYC has got to be stressful, there's so much traffic you can't move in some places no matter how much you blow the horn and have the siren on.
A kid with a garden hose would a had that out in 5 minutes. Unbelievable waste of taxpayer money. Once they saw what it was all but one of those units should have gone back to the station.
@@chiptitus8510 no one knows the extent or the source until they are in position and observing including possibly pulling away building materials with sledge hammers and crowbars. Therefore your comment is unfounded Chip Titus.
What is the blue jug that says e-14 called officially? I like how it’s a drop to pickup the hose but is there an actual name for it, and is the rope fed through the jug and tied through the bottom so the rope is stored In the jug prior to deployment??
They do push cars with the trucks. I've seen them break car windows because the car was blocking a fire pump. They literally ran the fire hose through the broken windows. FDNY are in a different league. Great guys!
Glad to see 3-Truck using a Fed-Q, those new sirens are hideous. If they’re not going to use a Q, they should just use the old sirens from the 90’s and early 00’s, they sound a lot better than those newer ones.
The restaurants are definitely in the way too. Half the cars are probably rentals registered out of state do to taxes, fees, and inspection laws associated with state of New York and New York City.
New York should have a parking enforcement division and if it does then force them to do their jobs. I say let the fire trucks push the cars out of the way at owners expense.
@@yukilover4 The broken windows theory states that any visible signs of crime and civil disorder, such as broken windows (hence, the name of the theory) vandalism, loitering, public drinking, jaywalking, and transportation fare evasion, create an urban environment that promotes even more crime and disorder. Cops are not concerned and drive past violators.
A friend worked for PG&E, they had a big job in San Francisco, signs for 2 blocks says NO Parking. They got there the next morning at 4;30 am to start to dig up the street, 20 cars were parked where says no parking. The SFPD call 20 tow trucks and towed them ALL away in 30 mins. At 7 AM people came out to go to work and there car is GONE !!!
could it be worthwhile investing in fire motorcycles? have a fire hose rolled up in one of the side bags basic first aid, a collection of hand tools and other small stuff in the other. fire extinguisher on top (or some other combination that fits your department's needs) respond with 2+ of these motorcycles, you could get to the location fast and get to work faster on simple issues, or prepare fire hydrants and closing the road for when the trucks arrive. Here in the Netherlands we are running a pilot program with firefighter motorcycles, and it seems very successful. we have 2 variants the first variant has: 25 liter (12.5 gallons) tank, a short hose, but has lots of tools, first aid an the like. The second variant has: 50 liters (13 gallons) of water/foam, with a 30 meter hose (98 feet) with a pretty decent spray distance. It carries less medical supplies, relying on our ambulance motorcycles to make up for that. These can just zoom through traffic, reducing response time, and reducing the cost of the simple calls that do not require a large fire truck and a lot of firemen.
Start running the houses over the cars and through the windows. They’ll stop double parking when it gets expensive. Those trucks got the push bumper. Do it to it.
1. Maybe start looking at getting smaller trucks. Turn your heads towards Sweden and other nordic//north europe countries. SMall, agile and Very potent trucks. 2. How about getting high pressure reels now. That old school hose dragging is just.... there is more modern stuff that solve a lot of the fire situations.
@@robcaines8652 understood! What I posted was more tongue in cheek than criticism. I was a PFD medic for 11 years and prior to that a volunteer medic in another county. We trained a lot with the companies and believe me I would never debase or put any ff down. I never had to “crawl down the hall” but I’ve treated and transported some who did.
Keep in mind the fact the game was played on a regular schedule for a while after the first game was played in a hotel in London in October and November and then it went to the same place for two days and the next week it was on fire
I wonder if the tangle of flashing lights on the trucks would better serve the need for motorists to identify the trucks as unities and be able to quickly track their relative distance and movement if all the lights were coordinated to flash in phase (i.e. simultaneously and at the same rate) and with bi-lateral symmetry of flash color. Actually, I think I know it would be better. Flashes that appear 'stray' to observers make spatio-temporal 'sense-making' of the scene slow and ambiguous if not impossible.
And what if the person has nothing but the damaged truck to sue for. Better yet what if the truck is illegally on road with fake plates and window stickers and driver is non citizen. It's NYC they just walk away. Many times I've towed away illegal vehicles from accident scenes no driver to be found.
