Littleton Firefighting - A New Era 

Am im the first german watching this? From just this video and an outside perspective i have to say you guys seem to know how to do it right. Stay save and keep up the great work! Greatings from Lowersaxony, Germany

I am very excited to be a resident within such an Outstanding Department, as a retired Asst. Fire Chief, I have worked with many Fire Dept's and this IS one of the Best in the Country ! Congratulations on the merger for 2019 !

This South Metro Fire Rescue is top of the line. From being in and around the fire Service from the age of 4, and really working in at as a volunteer at 15, then career at 20, I’ve gotten to see many things. This department is really second to none. Watch there employees talk during there videos, they’re always happy, well spoken, precise, just flat out solid and impressive. If I was young again, and restarting my career, this without a doubt would be my first application!!!! I would do what ever I needed to so I could get hired and on the job with the quickness. Looking at there stations, equipment, all there gear and hand equipment, everything is perfect. That’s not to say things aren’t off or mistakes aren’t made because all have issues and do things incorrectly, but that’s every department in the world. I’m just saying when you see them in action, look over there equipment, the placement of Engines, Quints, Rescues, Heavy Rescue and Dive units, the Rescue vehicle on tracks, just everything. One thing I’ve noticed right away is there not afraid to cross staff units and use Quints. I’ve preached that for years as far as Quints go and was never took seriously. We had small crews during the day when I worked, out response for any structure was Engine and Quint Tower out first. We pulled up to a working commercial structure fire one afternoon, I hit the hydrant with the Quint Tower Ladder and got ridiculed for weeks for it. Now, it’s looked at a must when running these type of trucks. But, just they way they do daily operations, this Dept has it together. No doubt about it. I wish I was 20 again. Keep up the best work!!!!!

Congratulations to all involved with Littleton Fire Service, a great savant of its communities 👏👏👏👏👏

Very honored to have been asked to participate in this video with Littleton Fire Rescue - the department I grew up with.

South Metro Fire has an ISO rating of 1... only 270 fire departments have this rating, out of roughly 47,000 meaning South Metro is in the top .005%

Hello from a volunteer fire-fighter in Australia! You have an outstanding department!

Love seeing videos like this.

Best PR Fire Vid I ever saw...I retired 5 yrs ago after 30+ years...I started out gung-ho and eager but our Dept along with the neighboring Depts could not get on the same page...New ideas squashed and the older FF's were just plain jealous of us new FFPM's...Glad I left...Stay fresh and encouraging to all...

Amazing! So glad that you guys are adding littleton! Gave me goosebumps thinking of how much you guys have changed. Keep up the good work, you guys are heroes.

Douglas County Sheriffs Office's Deputy Zachary Parrish is one of my biggest heroes of all time, it is very cool to see the paramedics who responded to try to help him, unfortunately he was dead long before the Littleton paramedics got to him.

You guys and your history and your amazing paramedic skills are awesome! Thanks so much for all that you do.

Very professional video, very well done. I live in Phoenix Arizona and am close to the border between the Cities of Phoenix and Glendale. Both are known for being top notch fire departments along with the Police Departments of both cities. I once had a natural gas leak on the south side of my home. I called the non emergency number to request a fire truck to come check it out and told them there was No emergency. I used a neighbor's phone so sparks would not be caused at my house and shut the mail breakers off on my power panel then evacuated the house. Two fire trucks, one from Phoenix FD and the other from Glendale FD both driving down the street with lights and sirens going. I felt embarrassed as neighbors came out to see what all the noise was about. They also detected the gas odor and called Southwest Gas to respond. Even an ambulance showed up from Phoenix Fire. The men and women of both departments treated my family and myself with the professional skills they have, it was determined the leak was underground and not a threat to my house. A crew was on standby as I re energized the power panel. I was asked to call again, and to use 9-1-1 if there were to be any future leaks. Yet they commended me in getting everyone out of the house and shutting down the power panel. Southwest Gas went through the attic to trace the gas line headed to the central heating, nothing was left out. Highly professional Fire Departments is what saves lives!!! These two acted as though lives were at stake even though there was no true emergency!!! This video made me think of that day as I watched, The Denver area is blessed to have such a fine Fire Department!!

Love the narration! Tom really adds a great component to this piece of art!

Great history piece!

I love these videos. They’re always awesome. I’m not even from the area and still love seeing this Dept lol

Fantastic video,congrats to all Littleton & So. Metro Fire personnel.

the pulsepoint notification made me start looking for my phone lol great video

Well done video.......Thanks to all the men and women who put their lives on the line

The part about Emergency! Was the best...

Amazing History

I remember old station 2 thanks to the Arapahoe Rescue Patrol as our "headquarters" was in the basement and we did do some training with Littleton Fire

Awesome!!

Very well produced overview film.

The new series of unfortunate events season looks great

Nicely done.

Muy bueno información 👍👍👍

Great department history!

Wow what a history

nice s videos greetings from germany

Nice vid

Shit, my dad’s station normally gets about 1-5 every 24 hours.

Wikipedia says that Littleton has a bit more than 40,000 inhabitants but they still run more than 45 calls a day?? I used to live in a city with a population of 150,000 and the FD ran an average of 5 to 6 calls a day...

Can you guys to another Dive Team video?

45 calls a day! Jesus! My station gets 45 calls a month if that 😂

How will the station numbers work now?

Take Littleton’s international ambulances, and replace south metro’s ambulances with those.

Is statoin 11 just engine and medic 11 bc I need to know bc I'm trying to make a game on roblox

I remember growing up in Littleton when fire didn't transport in the 80's and even in the 90's they had there medics but all else transports where done by columbine ambulance company

So Littleton fire will no longer exist? And new apparatus will say South Metro?

Good afternoon, my name is Octavio Iram Alvarez, I send you a greeting from Guanajauto, Mexico, from the Civil Protection Coordination, State Firefighters, where I can send you the patches from my station

Who was the spokesperson

What’s the new name?

I got one question do you have to be able to swim to become a firefighter

Firefighter

I own emergency tv series

Oh yeah DRGW

Anyone else see the faces at 1:50

That Doctor Jordan needs to thank the life guards and that nurse that started cpr and shocked him first that's what really saved his life cause if that wasn't done by the time the medics got there it may of been to late !!!! 32 Years firefighter , past Chief and 15 years EMS it wasn't the Medics that saved him sorry

It's amazing to see how the USA fire service works compared to what it like here in the UK.

Ok I’m from U.K. where fire service and paramedic services are separate entities can any active us firefighters/emts/paramedics answer this are paramedics a higher rank than firefighters

10:50 Look at that depressing suburbia. Who would want to live there?? Just the same old unsustainable cookie-cutter homes and roads for miles and miles.... I WANT TO CRY LEARN WHAT DENSITY IS PLEASE

Game

They might be the "most innovative" in Colorado but they can't even figure out that their light setups are a confusing disorganized mess of colors??? TOO MANY COLORS TOO MANY LIGHTS LIGHTS NOT FLASHING IN SYNC UNSAFE ALL BLUE + A LITTLE WHITE WOULD BE WAY BETTER

Still Dutch, German and scandinavian emergency services are better.

Boring