On watching this video along with both UK and other country services .WE in the UK Must be thankful that UK appliances carry a supply of water giving time to connect to a hydrent and fight the fire at the same time .My thanks to ALL UK firefighters.
What size (diameter) hose are they using? It looks like they got a good knock on the fire, but awfully small hose lines. In case anyone asks, I'm in the US, standard size attack line is 1 3/4" diameter.
Where I live, they wouldn't even of had to pull hose off the rig. The firemen are so tough that they could have extinguished the blaze just by pissing on it!
@graham yogibear ...how you dare...Unions have decreed that “haste is harmful. and irrelevant ” Firefighters are workers like everyone else and aren’t militarised corps or soldiers as happens in the horrible, backward and enemy of individual freedom Europe, blah! 🤢
+Andrew Wallford I think that the engine on fire. I'm more amazed that so few engines catch fire, given the flammable oils used to lubricate them and how hot they get.
+graham yogibear If you look, the Firefighter on the far side of the bus is wearing BA 1.01 The Initial attack was started from a distance without BA to control the fire whilst keeping out the smoke to allow the BA wearer to don up
graham yogibear we don't use the larger diameter hoses on small fire we use the reeled hoses on vehicle fires bin fires and even house fires though with house fires if fully involved (whole house is on fire) we will use the reeled hoses to control the fire and start putting water down while the appliance is connected to the hydrant and main hoses are laid and connected with bigger fires just the main hoses are used as the pass more water and are a lot more powerful and need two men to operate them as for vehicle fires only the reel hoses are use they aren't as powerful and are operated by one man and as the engine has enough water on-board to put out upto 8 cars fully alight there is no need to have a line running to the hydrant at that time and afterwards the tender in refilled back at the station or on rout back to the station