Couple of tips for the cameraman: turn ya phone sideways to get into landscape mode and stand still and hold the camera still. It's dancing round all over the place!
for the know it all camera man, that building is fully involved before the first 2 pumps even got there. the standard initial turnout is 2 appliances, the incidident commander would have requested further resources the second the got there, the further resources cant fly and will take some minutes too arrive. building was lost before it even started.
I thought our underground hydrants were supposed to be easy to access. Why are they having to dig into the ground. It wastes time connecting. I always wondered why we don’t have many above ground hydrants. Why was that standpipe hard to reach? Did the council pave over it? Maybe all our hydrant access points need regular inspection. But maybe it’s time we had exposed hydrants US style.
it had certainly been painted over with the double yellow lines, possibly tarmac too. Even with just the paint it will take quite some effort to break it off.
Here in the USA, fire departments do regular fire hydrant inspections. That consists of removing the caps, running the water over various gauges to test flow rate and pressure. They also will remove a small screw in the top and refill the valve with a light oil to keep the valve shaft and valves lubricated. In the larger towns and cities, hydrant locations, flow rate and pressure as well as water main information is on the CAD ( computer aided dispatch) on each apparatus computer. Because they are regularly inspected by the fire department and water department, they are normally in good condition.
looking at the size of the building it is bound to go up like a that but for someone to film and then make criticism of the fire service for doing there job could you do better because in my understanding talking dose not put fires out what if they did nothing because I could guess the disaster that could of unfolded if that gable wall collapsed on top of the petrol station, the explosion afterwards would of blown bricks all over the county
i can understand your logic of the gable wall collapsing on the petrol but believe me my friend that would not have happened, I have worked in a petrol station. If the attendant in the petrol station had an wits on him he would have shut off the fuel pumps via the emergency fuel cut off button (most of the time located behind the counter somewhere easy to get to) as soon as he saw the fire, that would then make the fuel airtight and the vapour safely trapped underground
In all fairness to firefighters the hydrant was painted over making it stick and sometimes they just don't work and from experience if that's the closest it's better to take ur time get it open then try find and get another one in place. More to it then they couldn't get water. Until u made up for more appliances and man power that's not coming under control. They had a initial jet supplying water before hydrant was in and they arrived and got straight to work knowing where hydrant was.
if you listened to the audio the guy said he phoned the firebrigade and told them the furniture factory ws on fire ...so stands to reason it would be Packed with loads of flamable materials and it looks like the ground floor was a show room outlet if you look the place up on google street maps and go back before the fire!
Straight bore tip was kinda pissing in the wind, not sure max pressure is on the U.K. Fire truck. In my world big fire - big hose- big water = less fire gain I guess the paving company paved over the ground hydrant?... ( why would the put them where that could happen...... Firefighters with a loosing battle the wind feeding the fire from the "c" side of fire building nothing but an oversized furnace at that point. Fight the fire from the adjacent apartments unless concrete firewalls. Without the hydrant issues you probably would have taken a good crack at it.
These are insurance jobs. There’s not a factory warehouse left in Leicester that hasn’t had a ‘fire’ I guess it helps with the private school fees and a nice fortnight away in the Caribbean for winter. I don’t no why the insurance companies don’t get smart and quit paying out. The fire hydrants right outside a petrol station are painted over 😬 , so obviously aren’t regularly inspected or Maintained. The man speaking says he called the fire brigade ages ago and nothing. The fire hose and water they attempt to use when they first arrive is just the internal water tank of the engine and the hose was on slow or else all the water would have gone in a minute max. This whole episode is a shambles.
Way too long to put water on fire. Way too long to get additional units on fire. Where was the incident commander? 2 people on the engine not enough, should have had at least 3.
@@roymurray6839 There were 4 on the appliance, the OiC is doing his scene assessment and it is pointless getting water on that until connected to a hydrant as you drain the tank on a fire engine within a minute. If you use that water and then have to fit up to a hydrant the fire will continue to burn and all the work you've just done is pointless. Connect to hydrant first and then start working on it.
Poor fireman and fire women having trouble getting water and the incident commander would have already called for back up!! And maybe YOU SHOULD BE A FIREMAN YOU KNOW SO MUCH!!! This is what happens when councils paint the bloody fire hydrants the fire brigade struggle to get to water supply!! AND WHAT GAS LEAK!!??? SO STUPID WHY DONT YOU TWO LEND A HAND??
+BenjaminArmishaw Not really. The station could very well have caught fire and burned, but there would have been no explosion, as wilsjane explained previously. Still, that was a pretty damned impressive fire!
