I am impressed by how Fire Depts across the country, come up with new procedures, including training for situations that occur. Every fire reacts differently, and things happen, that are not expected. My foster Dad was a WI firefighter, and taught me a great deal about what he did. I was just a kid, but it stuck with me, and I was grateful for the knowledge. He prepared everyone in the house on what to do in case of a fire, and we knew how to use the fire suppression equipment he installed in the house. As a result of what he taught me, I studied Fire and Arson Investigations in college.
I had my guys and gals slow down calling MayDay MayDay MayDay. It is heard better than a Fast Mayday call. Remember the best weapon of your situation is keeping calm. Work the problem you are facing, but if you are entangled, trapped or lost still call your MayDay MayDay MayDay. I had no problem going in myself after a brother or sister who was in trouble. The only problem I had as I got older was learning to walk on floor joists only in trailers.
I am a driver engineer, 27 years in service. We were third on, on a two story single family dwelling. 30-40% involved. We were assigned to RIT (dammit)! About two minutes after our assignment, my captain shouted to me " we gotta RIT activation, so and so is missing"! There I stood...tee shirt and bunker pants. LIKE A FOOL. The lost firefighter was almost immediatly accounted for, and RIT was canceled. Because of my lax attitude, at a 'piece of cake' fire, one of my brothers might have died. Please learn from my mistake. I did. Keep safe out there.
PoppaBlue59 I’m in fire academy right now and hearing this story makes me completely focus on all my training to never allow my fellow brothers and sisters to fall into a bad situation that I may be there to help them in. Thanks for keeping me on my toes. Complacency kills.
I am not a firefighter, however, I have faithfully watched and learned from every firefighter training video I can find, no, I am not a firefighter, but even those who are not firefighters should indeed learn from these lessons, it may save your life!
Great video. Here (In Canada) We've started and have and added as standard training our "Auto-sauvtage" which is roughly translated as "self-rescue" in which maydays are done with self rescue tactics as well as air control in order to extend our air reserve. We keep thinking about wanting to rescue people in need but this brought to light the fact that we also need to be trained to stay alive first. Again, great video and much needed lesson to be learned. Stay safe!
I don't want melted plastic in my ear either, but, in my opinion, the use of an ear bud far outweighs the 'once in a career melted plastic.' I bought a handful of $1.00 ear buds that fit our belt pagers. My guys got used to them very quickly and it made fire ground ops a little easier. I could give an order to one individual, or the whole group, and every1 heard the command. They would raise a hand in the air if I talked to a guy on the roof, or across the fire ground just to say 10-4.
here in wayne county, ny which is not to far from you if your in livonia ny, we have gone over md's, but have not had any in my few years. we go threw a process when ever we do interior training. this is a good video. two thumbs up
In my mind ... and i'm NOT a Firefighter .. but .. if there are no persons to be rescued then why should there be any need for Firefighters INSIDE the Building when there is NO NEED until the Fire is under control. Defensive actions first .. then Attack.
As a Firefighter we never know if there is anyone in the dwelling when we arrive on scene, and that is due to the many calls that 911 recieves between the start of an incident and when we arrive, so it is our job to perform a sweep of the building to make sure there is no one trapped in the fire. In some cases if we are arrive real quick on scene and the fire hasnt breached the roof or the sides of the home then we can confine the fire to one spot and limit the amount of damage done
Fact is people squat in abandoned buildings, sometimes people dony realize someone came home or was working late. It actually happens more than you would think. We must look for opportunities of survivable space in every structure fire. You would be amazed at what a closed bedroom door can keep on a house that looks like its fully involved
Never assume the building is empty... even if bystanders tell you so...... That being said there are times when primary and secondary searches are not conducted if it seems too risky on sizeup
Good to have this plan BUT, if you fight fires from the Outside In instead of the ignorant tactic of fighting from the Inside Out, you would avoid the vast majority of Maydays. You, "Eliminate the Threat as Fast and Safe as you can while using the Least amount of Water."
What is it with the east coast and everyone not dressed for success. I see videos all the time with FF's in various stages of being geared up. IN LAFD, etc. they all are outfitted in full gear, a real protective helmet on, etc. And they trot or RUN when laying lines, etc. To the average viewer just a more professional look and they get water on the fire where it is burning and fast. Sorry, just what i'm seeing.
Howard Engineers and Commanding officers normally don’t were full gear because they normally are not going to be in the fire And I don’t know what your talking about in this video everyone is in full gear and proper helmet
Your comment was as ignorant as you obviously are. Did you miss the fact that this video is an instructional video? And the fact that you decided to insult firefighters in my country is a further display of your obvious ignorance of what you are talking about. The U.S has some of the best fire departments in the world. At least we tell people to evacuate a burning building unlike say the LFB.
