Just love those comments from people who haven't got a clue. An aerial applinace has been requested as they do not attend on these calls except on request. Obviously an entry has been made from the rear (it's not rocket science - think about it) no ladders needed for entry. There is a BA entry control officer manning a STAGE 2 entry control board. Water from outside is being limited so as NOT to hinder those working inside. All goes to show the poor assessment capabilities of some of the negative commenters who seem to think they know everything. We do NOT access flat roofs on foot - we watch too many American fire fighters make the same tragic mistakes time after time after time.
Considering the roof is already on fire I wonder if an inside attack is such a smart move. Anyway, in our region in Holland for a fire like this a turntable ladder or elevated platform truck is alarmed by default. Mind you, due to cut backs on material it can take up to 20 minutes before it arrives.
There was an inside attack. You could see water shooting out the windows, though I admit to being confused at first, as well. Not sure why they chose to spray from outside. Maybe just doing it until inside team was in place. Then once they were inside the outside guys sprayed up onto the roof instead.
This is likely to be a mix of wholetime and retained firefighters... In the centre of the picture you'll see a firefighter wearing a black / yellow chequered tabard (1:15) - he's BA Entry Contol Officer. There's a BA emergency team at the board and you can just make out four BA tallies on the board denoting 4 BA wearers more than likely making an inside attack. Hope that helps...
Floyd Young when a team of ba wearer's enter the risk there has to be an emergency team of equal members standing by incase of obvious reasons, the ba entry control officer is responsible for checking that the crews are ready to enter ppe and briefed with the task and to work out and monitor the crews air supply so they are out of the risk before the time of whistle (running out of air) and also to get an update of the conditions inside and if any casualties are found hope this helps
That building has to be a total loss... the fire has already broken through the roof, and there's no sign of a ladder or elevated platform truck, so not much water is going to reach the fire.
Do not insult volunteers. When those people are on call they drop whatever they are doing, rush to the station and risk their life in order to help others. Are they less well trained than their professional colleagues? I don't know what it's like in other countries but in Holland volunteers go through the same training as the professionals and have to meet the same standards. The only difference is that the professionals do their training during their working hours at the fire station and the volunteers during their spare time.
@@charlesmallo when the real firemen turn up the retained ones have to let them take over. They should have put a ladder up to the roof and attacked it from there, they made a big mistake by not doing that.
@@charlesmallo volunteers do the same training as the full time fire fighters. In my last job if we had any empty high-rise flats they would use them for training exercises. With the volunteers working along side the full timers.
