Firehouse 21 - Station Saturday 

He was demonstrating how to sporting equipment needed to be used. He was working out in the bay, they they moved to the main workout area and while the camera panned to show to equipment on the right, he was 'suddenly' use the stairmaster at the right side of the room. Then they continued to the kitchen and there he was cooking away. I loved that running gag!

@@2Fast4Mellow I spotted him at these times, lololol: 2:21, 7:29, 9:10, 11:43, 14:03, 14:32

Same

Yeah lol.

He had to have lost a bet

And he is also working out in the downstairs room.

Missouri guy here to

Best part of the video😂

Nice headband.

Station 21 protects 3.6 square miles of unincorporated Arapahoe County where original residents did not want to be part of Aurora or Denver. If South Metro wanted to forfeit that geographic area to Aurora Fire Rescue or Denver Fire Department, the 3.6 square miles would either need to be annexed into one of the cities or fall under a paid contract for service, assuming Aurora or Denver would be interested in such an arrangement. Those residents would also have a change in EMS and rely on Denver Paramedics or Falck Ambulance, and likely wouldn't have 2 dedicated Paramedic transport ambulances like they do with South Metro. Ultimately there would need to be community agreement and perhaps even a vote / changes to the tax structure. For those reasons, trading district territory is very complicated. Automatic aid agreements between Aurora and South Metro certainly help with area coverage, but Denver does not have automatic aid agreements with any neighboring fire districts. Mutual aid can be requested and requires approval from a chief officer. Regarding the S. Quebec Way incident on April 15, 2022, multiple callers reported the fire at different addresses, both in Denver and Arapahoe County. Since some callers provided an address in South Metro's jurisdiction and smoke was visible from miles away, DC1 upgraded the SMFR response to confirmed. SMFR Engine 21 and Medic 21 were the first units to arrive, they discovered the main fire building was located in the City of Denver at 1885 S. Quebec Way. Fire from the main fire building extended into and destroyed the Charlie 1 exposure located at 1891 S. Quebec Way (in South Metro) and extended into vehicles located at 1970 S. Valentia St. (also in South Metro). With fire involving one structure in Denver, one structure and two properties in South Metro's area of responsibility, SMFR maintained a full response until unified command made an updated resource determination. A three-way switch between West Metro 15, South Metro 21 and Denver 30 is easier said than done legally / contractually, but in concept it does make sense. The easiest solution for everyone involved would be an automatic aid agreement like South Metro and West Metro have, which now includes GPS based closest unit dispatching. Hopefully that answers your great questions, please let us know if you have more!

@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIOLike every other division of the department, SMFR's communication/PIO team is top-notch. A big thank you to Kristen, Eric, Connor and the entire PIO staff for your detailed reply. The description of the Quebec incident was especially informative. Since I'm not familiar with the location, I wasn't aware that the incident literally occurred on the border between DFD and SMFR's districts. With that in mind, District 1's decision to upgrade the South Metro response makes much more sense now. At the same time, it also reinforces my original point--This 3.6 mi² shouldn't be SMFR's responsibility to begin with, and incidents like this illustrate why. But that's what the tax-paying residents within want, so I'll shut up about it. You do make a good argument about the availability of having 2 ALS ambulances dedicated to covering that territory--as opposed to DFD providing only BLS, with Denver Health providing transport and ALS care; and Aurora staffing EMT-Ps on all their frontline apparatus but contracting Falck for transport--and I've argued for years the advantages of fire department-based EMS, but to be fair, 21 runs two ambulances _because_ they're isolated from the rest of the district; when the next available ambulance in the district is 7 miles away (at 31s and 32s), you can't afford to have a single unit out of service. Lastly, about the headaches associated with selling voters on the benefits of redistricting: I get it. I started my firefighting career in St. Louis County, where there are 43 different fire departments/fire protection districts. covering (or not) 7000+ mi², and not including the city fire department, because the city and the county are entirely separate entities and mostly don't want anything to do with one another. In St. Louis County, *_every_* working call requires mutual aid because no single department (except the city) has the individual resources to fill even a first-alarm card. By comparison, the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood MSA encompasses 8,344 mi², and is served by 15 agencies. My point is, the professionals in the Denver area have figured out how to convince voters in the districts they serve that redistricting and/or consolidation is a good idea, something that at worst provides the service they expect and maybe for a few bucks less, or better service for only a few bucks more. I picked those three stations because it seems to me that it would be an easy sell if you clearly spelled out the advantages to the stakeholders in question. Once again, thanks for indulging me, and keep up the good work.

2 reserve towers 1 reserve ladder and 7 engines

It is effectively a island, of the two neighbouring districts, Denver Fire Department doesn’t have a Automatic-Aid agreement with SMFR (or anyone for that matter) and Aurora Fire Rescue they only have Automatic-Aid specifically for Station-11 only, any other non-SMFR stations are Mutual-Aid only and would require SMFR dispatch to physically call up the respective dispatches and request specifically which stations/units they require and then their dispatches would need to call the Tour-Commander (or other designated officer) and they would need to approve the request, then their dispatch can tone-out the requested units, the time it takes to do that when compared to dispatching other SMFR units is minor, SMFR generally only requests either DFD or AFR (excluding AUE11 which is Automatic as described above) when a second alarm is struck or when SMFR units are stretched thin and the response times are longer. A typical working structure fire response for a standard residential fire in 21’s area would typically consist of. Initial reported fire response E21, AUE11, T32, M21/211, BC5, SAF35/18 Working fire response E22, E31/38, M211/21, BC3, MED1/2 + PIOs, Fire Investigators, Rehab etc.

Medic-21 and Medic-211 generally alternate when toned-out (assuming both are available) along the lines or Call1-M21, Call2-M211, Call3-M21 Etc, if/when both medics are needed (for example a structure fire in 21’s 1st-due) then they would be toned out in the order of who’s next for calls.

This fire station is within unincorporated Arapahoe County. It's a small 3.6 square mile area of county land surrounded on 3 sides by City of Denver and on the east side by City of Aurora.

Eight departments have combined to make up what South Metro is today. No changes were made to any municipalities as a result of the mergers. Most of the departments that joined were their own organization separate of the local municipal government.

euro helmets... gross lol

Currently the fire station shirts are only available to SMFR personnel, but we're looking to create a new merchandise store this year that will have community versions of the station shirts. Stay tuned!

Battalion Chief 5 is stationed at Station 22

@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO thank you

Shifts will continue to rotate through a pattern of A, then B, and then C. The shifts do not have a set day of the week that they work on. In your example, the A shift would do Sunday through Sunday to Tuesday, B shift would do Tuesday to Thursday, C shift would do Thursday to Saturday, A shift would return and do Saturday through Monday, and the pattern would continue. Because there are 7 days of the week, it will take 7 weeks until the shifts work the those same days of the week again.

Agreed I want to see station 32 is it well but they also did a PIO Vlog where they toured the station and it’s gonna be a long time for the station Saturday to come out so if you get very bored waiting they have a Vlog

@@3catfirephotography374 ik I see the perimeter in 4 days

@@3catfirephotography374 the vlog

It on in vlog 5 s1

@@3catfirephotography374 oh

Station 21's area has many 3+ story buildings due to a high density of multi-family and commercial structures and the area sees a lot of aerial work when there is a fire. I cannot speak for South Metro on their exact choices, but the goal is to control the fire as quickly to minimize the spread and damage which an engine is better at. If the fire has reached the point where they need to use an aerial, then the building is almost certainly already lost. As the saying in fire service goes, "when the ladder goes up, the building comes down."

@@Spitfire8520 personally I’d say switch the engine to an ariel (all of SMFR ladder and towers are quad so they have engine capabilities as well). That being said I don’t know the area and department one day Aurora or any of the others could not be available just giving my opinion not trying to start an argument.

@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO they all look so nice

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@@jmchinch fired from biatlion chef

The reason they say it is kind of an island is because it is surrounded by aurora in Denver so it’s impossible to get to the main part of the fire district without going through those cities so it’s not one piece so Station 21 is between aurora in Denver

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@@anddrewb1367 Advanced Resource Medic staffed with a paramedic and nurse practitioner, it's like a mobile urgent care.

@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO ok thank you

Did you not see him walk up the stairs lol

@@JohnSmith-fs8bu I said that the yesterday. Lol.

@@keeganklepper1301 oh my bad

@@JohnSmith-fs8bu Bro you're good.

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Yes about 2 weeks ago.

yup. a department that is there 24/7 and 29 Stations is volunteer.

@@burgerfatty I know you're being snarky, but just because a department is big doesn't mean it's career. Consider Boone County (MO) FPD: Covers a territory of roughly 500 square miles out of 15 stations with 200 (give or take) firefighters--ALL of them volunteers. They're also the host department for FEMA MO-TF1. Or, Montgomery County (MD) Fire & Rescue Service: Though officially a combination department, nearly all of the 42 independent fire companies under their umbrella are staffed--24/7--by over 2000 volunteers. Oh, and MCFRD also hosts Maryland's regional FEMA USAR task force--MD-TF1.

The closest station that would respond to assist would be Aurora Station 11 which is only a mile down the road and a drive time of 3 minutes. There is a call transfer delay of 2-3 minutes, but they would still arrive before any of the other South Metro fire suppression units.