LACoFD Engine 26 & Quint 118 Handle Garbage Truck Fire 

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Yes sir that's exactly what they are

CNG tanks are the worst thing a fire can touch. One leak and BOOM they explode.

Exploding bongs. This is California.

@@RLTtizME 😂😂😂💯💯💯 WHERES THE LIE THOOOO 😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥

Improper disposal of hazardous materials, i.e. paint cans, etc.

Tiller quint

@@emt5330 Quint Tiller was my stage name when I was a male stripper in the 70s.

Quints have nozzles and pumps. Tillers don’t. And it is a Quint

Says "Quint 118" right on the truck. But yeah whatever.

@@inothome I like how this was a year ago

I hope the homeowner who put the flammable item in the trash got to smell it.

@@THETRASH153 That isn't a curbside truck. It's a dumpster collector, hence all of the furniture and almost no bags. Probably just smells like burnt wood.

They should have left it on the street. For life with that crazy city. Any how you know they didn't and ir was cleaned up right away.

On Skid Row that pile of trash would be equivalent to the opening of a new furniture store.

Car battery

Gas container

It does. And it is

I see what you did.

The trash company

@@Mr.G626 thanks

Yeah VVS is responsible for picking it up

Most trash companies has an incident response team or contract team that has a dump truck and front hoe that comes and picks it up usually called right after fire department is called

@@EricWhiteTheGamer cool thanks

Yea make lame jokes

If this is really the case, someone fucked up in the design of the overpressure valve. For the CNG forklifts we have at work the maneufateurs instruction is to cool the tanks.

The ladder truck is deployed as it has has the extra personnel, plus the compartments are full of additional equipment, that may not be on the fire engine.

The " Horrible job" would be the guys that have to clean up afterwards.

I am sure that they had their reasons.

@@davidhelsem8794 Well I can tell you that if it was my truck the load would have been in the street before the FD showed up.

Why didn't you give them a call?

The garbage truck operator should have dumped the load once he realized it was on fire.

@@eriksand9262 probably not the best idea. Keeping a fire contained is always the best thing to do. If they dump a flaming hot pile of garbage into the middle of a residential street and the wind shifts either direction then you could have a house fire or harm to civilians on your hands.

Lol

Good luck 👍

Yes but you don’t know what’s in it, there could be something dangerous that could be hazardous of explosive that's why they kept it contained in the truck until fire got there and had some water on it.

That is the absolute worst thing that anybody would do because a fire at a landfill or at a transfer facility is one thing that nobody EVER wants to happen because landfill fires burn for days and they release a ton of extremely harmful stuff into the atmosphere. I highly doubt that you have any experience in the waste disposal business or any knowledge of trash truck fires , when a trash truck compactor box has a fire it needs to be immediately dumped and the fire needs to be extinguished right there cause letting it burn would only allow the fire to grow in size and the truck would be completely destroyed cause the hydraulics would eventually rupture and the fluid would ignite feeding the flames even more. The compactor box is not designed to contain a trash fire it's only intended to haul trash , and no driver would EVER take the truck to the landfill or a transfer facility and risk not only their life but also everybody else's along with the environment.

What?? Hope you are not a firefighter.

NO. Thanks for posting. Perhaps they could dump it in your front yard so that you could supervise.

@@josephbennett3482 agreed that's the dumbest comment I've ever seen.