*Early Arrival* LAFD Battling Detached Garage Fire (Mid-City) 

Taking the hydrant that was right in front of the fire would have been faster.

Unfortunately, I disagree with the speed that the driver used to lay in that feed line. If for some reason that line would have become tangled, the feed would have taken much longer to establish. In this case it worked out well, but this is not a drag race. Just my thoughts. They, however, overcame MANY obstacles to contain/extinguish that fire.

@@edloeffler9769 you say it's not a drag race but wow the amount of fire vids i've seen where a crew takes ONE WHOLE MINUTE from the time the alarm sounds till the time they are literally out the door and you should see the bad comments... folks are ripping the crew apart for "taking to long" or "dragging their feet"... i think the public appreciates the all out hustle and maximum effort in this situation... there are too many vids of fire crews being UNFAIRLY criticized for their lack of effort or moving too slow... well, i suppose i'd rather be criticized for being TOO FAST than for being too slow

There’s an art for it to NEVER kink.. I was an LAFD Cadet and witnessed the incredible art behind how it unloads and is carefully loaded back !

That's what I noticed tool. Everyone hustling. Nice to see in these times.

And his partner just dumped his at the doorway. SMH...

You kinda have to know what was going on like have a degree of experience fighting fires with LA city and LA County FD Initially life force 94 was for manpower only due to the obstruction i.e. all the cars in the way of the initial attack. Remember, the first in engineer had already said to the fire fighter looks like they have a knockdown. At some point it, the fire extended to the actual residence, at that point life force 94 took up attack lines to initiate an internal attack. The reason why the captain didn’t have his BA on was because they were there for manpower. Now, technically anytime your support for a structure fire of any sort, you should have a BA on, however he did not but the internal attack was minimal no harm no foul!

@@bondservantministriesinc.672 The reason Capt 94 didn't have his SCBA on was a lack of discipline. Don't try to paint it as something else.

He looks like Jeffrey Donovan

The difference is make and model. The first engine is an older Seagrave engine (usually used in reserve) and the second is a newer model KME engine.

Getting cancer is dumb?

It's always sent in structure fires when these types of conditions on fires exist

If is usually used to contain runoff

Yup they added themselves when they saw the loom up when they were headed back to their district from a follow up to Cedars-Sinai

100% correct . Looks like 46’s 94’s , 58’s we’re nearest AV units

Seeing how both engines didn't want to hook up to it. It's probably marked on their maps as inoperable.

Giving them too much credit

Look up -structure fire in Korea town. Great show of resources from LAFD 🚒💨

I can't speak specifically to LAFD's policies, but some departments are moving to a "don your gear at the last minute" approach based on the idea that turnout gets contaminated by carcinogens through usage, and the more time you spend in your gear, the more you are exposed to left-over contaminants from previous fires, etc. And they don't want gear in the cab of the truck for the same reason - you don't want miscellaneous contaminants leaching out into the interior of the truck and exposing everybody who rides on the rig, on every single call. It's part of the whole "clean cab concept" stuff that's en vogue these days. Now again, I don't know for sure that that's the deal with LAFD. I'm from the opposite side of the country and have no connection to LAFD at all. But I strongly suspect that that's at least part of the reason.

It is called clean cab concept. Keep the cancer causing chemicals out of the cab area….turnouts can be laundered (at the station) hard gear cannot…

Threaded LDH is extremely common throughout the US, as most hydrants accept a threaded coupling without the need for an additional adapter. Its rare to see any type of storz style quick-connect here.

@@Nervegas - not sure what part of the country you're from but from what I've seen here (NC) most LDH is use Storz couplings, with an adapter for the hydrant end. And more and more hydrants are showing up with the Storz coupling "native" on the steamer port. The only threaded LDH you usually see around here would be something like a short "pony" section that's carried in the engineer's compartment for those cases where the hydrant winds up 10 feet from the truck. We used to carry a section like that, that as threaded. But even then, I think we only had it because it was donated to us by another department. If we 'd bought a section just for that purpose it probably would have been Storz coupled...

Looks like a stortz those take a lot to disconnect

They responded via line of sight after some administrative duty. So not a typical call out.

Prob coming from a medical.

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