Major Response To Tinicum Township Brush fire 

Many of the rural township and village fire departments have a high percentage of volunteers. Line officers such as chief, deputy chief and captains in Pennsylvania are permitted to have red lights and sirens on their personal vehicles as they may be responding from home or their work place. When fighting brush fires and forest fires adjacent to occupied dwellings and industrial areas it is common practice to use the ladder trucks and snorkels to set up a water curtain to protect the roofs and a water screen down wind to protect against airborne embers spreading the fire.

Gotta love the two or three open cabs with the real fire truck sound coming out of the Detroit diesels. Bring back the deep growl of the Detroit diesel

Old school Federal Q will forever be the gold standard sound of a fire engine. Just a beautiful sound and it's recognizable no matter where you're from.

As a Lt in A rural fire department when you have a large brush fire your going to need help , not only man power but water resources . A lot of people don’t realize rural areas don’t have fire hydrants , you have to pull water from rivers or streams or ponds . A lot of these fire trucks are coming to bring water. People don’t realize but brushfires can spread extremely rapidly and are extremely hard to put out. A few years ago in North Carolina we had a large brushfire involved nine different fire departments and I would guess around 30 to 40 different fire apparatus and probably around 3 to 400 firefighters. Most of them were volunteers. In rural areas you have to run water shuttles code 3 back and forth to water supply points . During this massive brush fire we even had a large fuel tanker truck brought out to the scene to keep the fire trucks running and to supply fuel to the trucks shuttling water . It took several days of constant fire suppression and then having to overhaul all the burned brush to find hot spots . We had firefighters so tired that groups of us literally laid down on a tarp to catch some sleep while others kept battling the blaze . People just doing realize how physically exhausting fighting brush fires are .

wagon 70 and the last engine... literally killing it!! love it

Only in PA are the weeds tall enough to require an aerial ladder grass fire truck.

WOW! That must have been some event! It almost looked like all of Tuesday was burning down!!! You're the best for staying out there to catch all those awesome pieces responding!

That last one is just pure badassery!

Wagon 46 Jesus! They were leaning and blowing black smoke!!

Incredible response... One of the best FD response videos I've ever seen!

Thanks for staying out there so long to catch all of these!

What a powerhouse of a fire engine at the end. @ 12:05. Roaring Detroit Diesel 8v-71.

At the beginning of this video that black Chevy Trail Blazer light set up was VERY NICE!!!! It is the best pov response I've seen EVER!!!! LOVED IT!!!

RIP TAC 8 😢 One of my favorite rigs ever other than Hecktown Engine 5311

It was amazing to see different Units Responding especially those Unmarked Unit...🤩👍

6:50 when your department can’t get a powercall so you gotta get creative

I like the one at 1:44 including the sirens.

It’s always mesmerizing to see emergency responders from other countries. Great video brother!

The amount of pov's to the scene it's amazing they even get actual apparatus there...

The 4 runner and the Chevy blazer I believe that’s what it is. Those are pretty sharp vehicles Ngl. And the pov response with the tan ford fire police van. Great catch. Much love to all firefighters. My dad was a volunteer firefighter for 23 years he had a 2000’s impala he would fly in that car. I’m surprised the suspension didn’t give out from how many times he would go airborne crossing the railroad tracks responding to a call or the station

Gramma's bush is on fire

Nice black exhaust coming out of Wagon 70.

Above all apparatus that responded, I have to say, that Sutphen, whew............man that thing can roll

Love how the smoke gets worse each time you pan towards it.

Delco's finest....a plethora of wacker mobiles

Awesome! These are some of the best rigs I've seen in a while!

5:23 That old truck almost tilted. They must have been in a huge hurry!

That last one really charged through like a boss! Good video!

I'm amazed at all the people that kept on driving while the units were trying to get through the intersection. I guess they are blind and deaf.

5:03... Boy that truck wasn't playing hot dayummmmmmmmmmmmmn!!!!

Quite the action you got there for 12 minutes there were a lot of units responding for a brush fire

Lmaoooo 6:51 playing with the EQ making it the powercall

Love the Pierce arrow ladder!

Gonna miss seeing Tac8 vids ! Also. The dark color 4 runner, the first responding POV, any other video of it? We have a 4 runner looking for ideas on lighting placement & it looks sharp.

Here in the Colorado Springs, CO region, depts have lots of Brush Trucks, google it, a 4x4 one ton flat bed with water tank, small engine to run the water pump and some hoses. they hit the fire and keep going back to nearby water tanker for refills. We have lots of dry windy weather so grass fires are not rare.

I like that Powercall Siren on the Fire Truck at 1:46 SWEET.

Nice rigs, All, but wow @5:11 “Wagon 70” drive it like you stole it!!

Amazing how many of these trucks don't either slow down or stop at a red light just to make sure everyone sees them. But a major response great video.

What a great way for Tac 8 to celebrate retirement!

Love the Squrt 43 clip...

6:07 love that old ladder truck

Being in Southern California these guys are bad ass.👍👍🔥🔥

Is there a prize for which FD can mount the most flashing lights on a rig ?

5:16 that fire truck done rolled coal on everybody XD.

1:18 did anyone else notice the driver of the Subaru turning on its blue lights? 3:30 lovely old Dodge! 4:30 very interesting rig! 4:50 is a gorgeous truck, love it!! 5:21 looks so damn cool too! 6:34 also looks really cool with those 3 units coming in at the same time! 7:19 that older blue E-series with the red lightbar looks quite unusual. Do you know what that is? 8:05 old school beauty! 9:38 that's an interesting HME(?), followed by a wonderful looking Seagrave with a beautiful light setup! 12:05 wow! Those are some amazing catches Mike! Absolutely awesome video! 😊

Oh man..saved the best for last! That tac 8 sounded some good!

Outstanding video, what was the time frame from the first unit to the last. It's a 12 min video, I'd say you were probably standing there an hour. Great job! God Bless!

man so many engines and so little brush trucks lol

If rocky run came why not Media fire co or garden city of rose tree they are all 15 minutes from rocky run!

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Great catch .. ah, the sound of a finely tuned "Q" .. that siren, it makes the ground shake. thanks!

Awesome captures my friend 👍 Thumbs Up & Big LIKE 1338

Love those little personal cars correct me if they're not but they make the video the best like at 0:11

You think these. Fire trucks. Cool you are to see Jackson Tennessee. Awesome

Powercall siren gets me every time.

0:54 sounds exactly like the ambulance we get in the UK

Was this @ the industrial park in Essington pa?

Superb video thank you for posting

0:44 (-~Guy looks at the trooper~-) 1:28 I like how they have many undercover cars like that subaru

I am watching from Elmira NY it must've been a pretty big brush fire to have that many units of emergency personal respond to the schene

That makes no sense if there all responding to the brush fire in tinicum then why is the tinicum engine 48 rate there and not at the fire already 10:02

Old and new apparatus and engines, nice one

5:23 is my favourite part

So many fire departments responding... awesome video

Wagon 70 movin‼️😂💪🏾💯💪🏾

Nice little view of the RSH-10 Thumderbeam down the street at the end

3:58 the Vic 👀 🥵

I'm at 3:56 but man do PA300s sound good. It's also one of those with a phaser instead of Hi-Lo

Dam for all those Responding that Brush Fire Must of been Huge

Great job u are really keeping mt baby brother enertained

That must have been one doozy of a brush fire.You would have thought a nuke went off by the response.Each twig had it`s own engine :)

To what I think, these are one of the most biggest PA fires in history. Living here in PA is very tough, and I understand..

Basic everyone with flashing lights and a noisy horn gets to go…the equivalent of half of England’s fire service went on that shout😂😂👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

Wagon 70 was definitely the best one!

A lot of engines, but not many brush units.

2:40 finally an actual fire engine

I am as many others have said surprised that there a new brush trucks. Here in Maryland almost every company has at least one if not more brush trucks. I have to assume that the aerials are mostly for manpower.

I love engine 12-1

While you look up the road from the sunoco, you will see a dennys,red roof inn. Back in 2005 a major fire that started in the kitchen of a Diner while people were eating were told to leave. I watched as a normal restaurant setting went from food on tables,lights on as normal to flickering light's to smoke to watching the roof cave in and the diner went to the ground. That was nuts! Tinicum-Essington merged,prospect park, Ridley,Norwood,Glenolden etc,,always have been good companies, but hands down Norwood has the best latter truck. Just think for a moment, These are volunteers going towards the smoke. Well done..

Love wagon 70!

This is Pennsylvania.. the drivers there won't get out of the way for a tornado. Heaven forbid they might lose their place in line

Wow, that last truck was really freaking old. I’m 35 and it’s probably older than me.

Best one is the old mid 80’s open cab sutphen with that screamin detroit!

Cool to see someone catch Edgmont its a rare occasion

Liked and shared, nice one 🧑🏻👍🏻🔥🚒

3:19 that engine looks better than all the rest!! I didnt see a single type 3 brush fire engine!! All of them were structure engines!! Those states in the east are not prepared at sll for fires. Unlike california, arizona, oregon, nevada, colorado texas in my opinion have rhe best including new york and florida,

Never seen so damn many aerials heading to a brush fire.

Hey I've got a question how come some of those pickup trucks that went through the intersection had yellow lights on their light bars, but they had sirens as well. And just about every state in the United States Amber or yellow lights mean caution not emergency vehicle that's generally reserved for red and blue lights with a combination of white, so how do trucks up there respond to emergencies with Amber or yellow light bars with sirens that's strange?

That's pretty rare. An unmarked police car to have a powercall

3:28 love that siren!

3:44 Horn blew out

9:41 damn drive it like you stole it!!

Okay... that Ford Van with the lights? Police?

Damn the 1st two look like undercover cops.

Must be one hell of a vegetation fire 🔥 for that type of a response with Snorkle units even.

So all of them EMS responded to a brush fire. Wow

Boy some old rigs still running in this video. To bad the roto ray wasn't working on the old Sutphen

That was awesome!

I wonder if any of the fire trucks were from Philadelphia.