In this episode of Fleet Friday, Engineer Steve Alred and Lieutenant Chris Phipps provide a tour of Brush 22 and Fan 3 at Station 22 located in Aurora, CO.
I'm a Firefighter in Alberta Canada and our brush trucks responds to more calls then our rescue truck. We've been super busy and I love being able to do my job and come home to my wife and son. When we are done a call or just around the station I love watching these videos
Hey, Hi Conner! This was another great Fleet Friday with Fan 3 to ventilate buildings and Brush 22 for Wild Land Firefighting. Nic e to have the front bumper nozzles to protect the apparatus's tires and provide a safe passage out of the fore zone too. Just another way to provide the public with great service and protection. Great video coverage as well.
Thanks Mate to address this! I also want to ask you if he can do co-narrating, nareate l some of your films? Consider to ask him a few times. Great voice!
Hi Connor and Erik, just wanted to say I’ve been interested in joining the fire service and this channel really made me even more committed in doing so. Over here in Oklahoma I’m actually planning to do their explorer program which they are starting to meet soon during COVID. Also congrats on almost reaching 100 thousand subscribers. Best of luck to your future endeavors! 🎉
Can I just say every single time I hear that pulse point notification I check my phone thinking my pager ( volunteer ) is gonna go off lmao starting to get into these episode more watched 2 full episode so far
As a firefighter from Europe, a good majority of these compartments are really large compared to what they actually seem to carry. And I'd be almost scared to drive with the unsecured heavier tools loosely stored inside.
Also interesting to see them use hoses with a thread, instead of the Storz-Coupling we use. Seems like a waste of time to have them as screw on, especialy on a brush engine, were you may have to decouple hoses quickly to get the vehicle away from fire...
Yeah, though I imagine the problem of coupling issues might be less frequent and severe with simple threads. Damn hard to close/open a Storz hose coupling sometimes!
Benjamin Köppler threaded couplings are very secure and have fewer moving/breakable parts. they're just reliable. they're also the standard in the US. also, this brush truck would almost never be attached directly to a hydrant as a water supply, it would probably draft off of a porta-tank or body of water, both of which would likely be relatively far from flame fronts.
BFF. I got the "B" (Big), and the second "F" (Fan), but i wonder what the first "F" stands for... i think i saw the entire state of Colorado move a few feet when you cranked that BFF up. I think I figured out what the first "F" stands for.
Do any of the brush trucks at south metro have burnover shields or roll bars equipped to protect personnel during a burnover or if a truck is to rollover.
Amirul Sufyan If you watch the very end of RED3s Fleet Friday video there is a reference to a new addition of RED4 with the inference that it will be featured in Fleet Friday.
Amirul Sufyan I see. I thought about sending a message to the PIOs and asking. I doubt there would be a future episode dedicated to a bucket. Lol If you watched the very end of the video and what is said then you’d understand how I understand it the way I do.
Yeah are we starting to get into the more rare units HaZmat and so on, non rare in my mind if airport, dive, brush since those are not called out less then once a month
Colorado has its own wildfires that are separate from the wildfires on the west coast more than 600 miles away. Typically west coast refers to the states of California, Oregon, and Washington. Some media outlets might be reporting it as the western United States wildfires, which Colorado would be part of since that covers the western half of the United States.
That is the most trouble sum 4 wheel drive ford ever made in them years. You will be stuck in the mud only to realize the 4 wheel drive front hubs striped out and are not working. I have had to fix's 100's of these at the shop I work at
@@some0ne8 It is possible and Decon 17 is on the list to be featured one of these days. Since it was worded as "Former Littleton Hazmat-17," I believe they are most likely asking about the former Littleton Fire Rescue Hazmat 17 vehicle which was a 1992 Chevy Kodiak / SuperVac and a full hazardous materials unit. Hazmat 17 made a single run as South Metro Hazmat 17 in the very first month after the South Metro consolidation and was then replaced with the current Decon unit. The vehicle that was Hazmat 17 was sold this past June.
Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) are not worn on wildland fires because they are quite heavy and not very useful as a single tank is usually empty within half an hour. Wildland fires are usually endurance battles which can last hours or even days and requires firefighters to be mobile and move quickly. While the air might be smokey, it is still somewhat okay to breath and some firefighters will use a mask to help filter out some of the smoke from a wildfire. SCBAs are typically only used where the air is not safe to breath such as a structure fire where the air can be several hundred degrees or toxic due to the materials like plastics being burned.
Wildland hose is a smaller diameter single jacket hose that is lighter to carry and deploy, which is important where you may need to deploy several hundred feet of hose through difficult terrain where a truck cannot reach. At 6:33, Engineer Alred showed the progressive hose pack which has a 1.5" trunk line which supplies a 1" line that is they use to fight a wildland fire. The smaller diameter a hose is, the less water it can flow which is all that is needed to put out most wildland fires. A regular hose line is a double jacket hose that is more durable and heavier. Usually those kinds of hose only need to go a couple hundred feet into a building. Some of the typical diameters of regular hose are 1.75" and 2.5" which allows them to flow a lot of water that is needed to put out a large fire.
@@dfw_fpis7655 Also depending on what they choose to deploy, some wildland hose also weeps water through its jacket and soaks itself in water to protect the hose from burning out.
Decon 10 is a dedicated COVID-19 decontamination unit that responds to hospitals and stations to decontaminate vehicles and equipment that may have been exposed to COVID-19. Decon 17 is a hazardous materials decontamination unit which carries all the specialized equipment to decontaminate people that may have been exposed to hazardous materials. Decon 10 is hopefully a temporary unit while Decon 17 is more permanent.
The answer is related to the historical numbering of south Denver metro fire agencies which is not as relevant these days. There were once many departments in the area, so it was agreed to at some point to adopt a uniform numbering system so that there would be no confusion of which units belonged to which department. Castlewood, which became South Metro, was given 3 and therefore all of their specialty units would have to have a 3 in them like Chief 3, Decon 3, Dive 3, Hazmat 3, Rescue 3, etc. and so Fan 3 was named following that tradition. You can still see the old designations printed of many of the specialty rigs like Decon 17, Dive 31, and Hazmat 38 even though they are no longer called that. I am not sure why Fan 3 was never renumbered to put it more in line with the other units, but it will probably keep the Fan 3 decal that ever happens.
Gas engines are plenty powerful enough for what this truck is doing and for the amount of use it will get. There really isnt much weight on the brush truck so its capable enough. And you avoid the diesel regulations and dont have to worry about DEF and regen cycles.
TEMS was a term used by Littleton Fire Rescue and its meaning is in the link that Tim shared. While South Metro did inherit the former Littleton TEMS vehicle, I think that they do not call it that if it still around as South Metro's counterpart is their SWAT Medic team.
ok im a firefighter from sunshine fire department and i was late getting on here and i only got to see 30 seconds of the video if that much and i couldnt get anyone in the livestream chat to answer me.this makes me mad.
I am not leaving the channel or anything but I found it extremely disappointing that nothing was mentioned about 9/11 it is not a republican or Democrat thing it is an attack on America that seem to be forgotten I am just disappointed I still want to join the department but I just started high school and I am in California
You may want to consider that this is a Fleet Friday so the expectation of this video would be that it provides factual information regarding a specific piece of apparatus. Vlogs and Incident Reviews are the only videos that are intended to provide retrospective updates of events that occurred in the past weeks. RU-vid is not ideal for covering events in real-time since these videos require a lot of hours to record and edit, but it is very good for communicating older information. South Metro held a ceremony for 9/11 and the whole organization observed a moment of silence. If you would like to see real-time updates where they did post how they remembered 9/11, you will want to follow @SouthMetroPIO on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
