Awesome job I was a volunteer fire fighter for over 25 years and when we got toned out to a wild land fire a lot of times we didn't know what we were going to need for gear
Good job! Thank you for taking time away from your day to go help others. Truly appreciated. Don't pay any attention to the heroes bashing you.. using the term loosely for them.
I was a volunteer, first one there opened all the doors, started the engine, tanker, and ambulance, put on your gear, and pulled out the vehicle you were assigned to while others were on the way.
It's a brush fire. In a town of LESS THAN 2,000 people, in the middle of april which is PA's rainiest season, of an area which is entirely forests and rocky cliffs. The place is soggy and deserted. Not every fire is a balls to the wall, chicken with the head cut off response.
Does not matter. Your insurance that the fire house has won’t cover you if you get hurt without your gear on. It’s there for your protection. Also if i was cheif and you went to a call with no gear on and still fought the fire without any gear on. You would be off the department. I am on a volunteer department in Nebraska. Getting tired of seeing these lazy departments do stuff like this and not get held accountable for their actions.
Wow! It's amazing to see such urgency! Never saw a crew leave the station so fast!! My local crew leaves the station so fast that the door doesn't get shut.
Volunteer orgaanization. You need staffing to leave. They were waiting for staffing. The days of everyone being able to leave work or living a minute from the firehouse are long gone. Second, its a brush fire.
I spent 20 years as a volunteer, if we were ever that lazy our Chief would have had our head and we'd be practicing racking 5000 feet of 5in. You take every call seriously, lazy firefighters get hurt.
People on here saying stop bashing them they are doing great and helping their community. Well a lot of them bashing are fire fighters that know a thing or two. Like my rant why no PPE I get it’s a brush fire but what if someone trips and falls and lands face down in the brush fire then what your burned. By the looks of things they had plenty of time to put it on. Today’s word of the day. TRAINING….
My dept , we just sit back and watch it burn 😆 usually all just control burns so there is no reason to get in a hurry! No reason to respond CODE either unless it’s a life or death situation..
@@cflshawn3377as an assistant chief not at this department correct? You ever think that they have different SOPs than you ? Technically all you need is one person on any truck to operate it . But we know you can’t do much with one guy . So ………..
@@cflshawn3377 To hell with your plan. Of course you only need one to drive a rig to the scene. Additional personnel can meet the tender at the scene but things generally go better with trained teams working together.
A lot of volunteer fire departments have members that respond directly to the scene with their gear in tow. Normal the ones arriving on the trucks, run the unit on scene.
"Who's going to show up?": I don't know about the US, but here in Germany we have an app for that. While we don't have to use the app (we also use a classic pager), responding can help leadership make the decision about who and what to send as the first vehicles. As for the lack of "hurry", my pager gives me the "key words", so I have half an idea what's happening and "house fire, people in danger" will get a different response to "small fire in an open area". I suspect they have something similar.
Wow it took them all of 3 1/2 minutes to pull out there is no excuse exception and reason for them not to be pulling out more than 1 minute this os negligence clean and clear period !!!!
