MAYDAY, Structure Fire, Lapeer County, Metamora Township 4th Alarm Drone 4K 

Its always a sobering moment when the air horns sound, and the interior attack comes to an end. At that point, you know the building cannot be saved. I feel badly for the family. They've lost their home, in spite of the best efforts of several fire agencies. What miserable weather conditions for firefighting. Your videography is excellent, and so is your choice of music. Hats off to the firefighters, for making an aggressive attack on the fire, and for ringing in more alarms.

Pin a medal on that guy who followed procedure and put a ladder up to that second story window right at the beginning. He may have saved three lives.

Nicely done BOYZ whole lotta fire, limited water, limited manpower You guys did a pretty damn nice job! 😊🤙🏻 thanks to the puppy saving dude 🐾 🐾 🐾🐾🐾🤙🏻 Peace everyone goes home ❤️

Excellent work, Jason. And of course to the firefighters!

The thermal imaging shot was crazy! Very cool to see how it shows the heat and flames.

Great work by the firefighters in terrible weather conditions. I really like your videography and the accompanying incidental piano music.

Wow, this was professionally done, sounds, music, all views. Very impressed. Also including thermal, how bad it really is inside. I am surprised they were using the water canon with men inside, good way to collapse the roof onto them. Most I hear is 3 blasts, maybe that’s for everyone out, and mayday was that sound which is incredibly sobering to hear. So sorry for the home owner, glad they were safe and their fur babies. Just really love your editing, filming etc. you can tell you spent sometime in it. Well done. And most of all, thank you for the people that put their lives on the line to help friends and strangers alike. Being their on one of the worse days of their lives. Thank you for your service.

This video was simply amazing! Wow great job Sir

nice video and ya I was a little shocked they opened that pipe with members inside.

Thanks for posting this. I got into SDR last year and was listening to dispatch when this happened. It was tense. I had another RTL-SDR listening/recording the Road Commission and they were called to put salt down in the area, in particular around the water tower they were filling up at. Glad nobody was hurt, including the dogs.

I especially loved the soothing music as we watched someone's house and dreams burn down. I almost wanted them to stop putting water on it,,,like watching a peaceful fire in the fireplace.

I appreciate the drone coverage and the thermography at the end. Great work!

That was a really nice house. Good aerial video.

Great drone video coverage!

Very nicely done! Fires are devastating.

Thank goodness none of the impaired occupants were at home. Also, great response by multiple departments. There was great communication between departments - everyone seemed on the ball, alert, and well-coordinated. Is the part of the house with the bay window originally a mobile home?

I am sure the firefighters appreciated the piano music while they fought the fire :)

Hmmm, hand lines from the exterior and a ladder pipe flowing while crews are on the interior, gee, Iwonder why things suddenly changed and they had to bail out.

It sounds like the dispatcher is confusing a second alarm with a second page. After the IC called for the second alarm she called for the second page. Two total different things.

11:25 This is incredably dangeroius. If the nozzle persons feet slipped, that stream could knock those firefighters off that roof. 11:50 This is where they should have been from the beginning. Outside, upwind and at the venting location. They could have inserted and nozzle adjusted to a medium cone of water and fogged the interior and the wind would have driven that fog through the second floor. The moment the flames died down, vent windows on both sides to increase the cross flow ventilation and to further spread the fog of water. Then, you go into a much safer and clear environment to mop up. The Fountain Statue Water Squirting at the end is a far cry from real and effective firefighting directed by a Thinker.

Not trying to be critical, as I was a volunteer for 7 years (certified FF1, FF2, MFR), in a rural community where mutual aid and water shuttling was part of every structure fire, but I saw a lot of (safety and procedural) things that really bothered me, such as one person not wearing a helmet, on a ladder, serving as a backup to the red-hat entry guy (officer?) ! You go in as a pair and don't just wait outside while your partner goes into the abyss. And then a long, un-manned charged line was just sitting there, eventually picked up by someone not wearing turnout gear. Was this person a Firefighter or neighbor? That person was getting bounced around by the recoil, just shooting water onto the roof, without guidance as to what to do. We usually coiled lines to minimize 'recoil'. Was that person properly trained? I saw a lot of firefighters casually walking around the structure, while charged lines were unmanned. I also didn't see efforts at controlling the fire - which is very critical. Random window-breaking is not controlling the burn. I realize I'm going to get blasted for being critical, but if you sign up for the job, it is a tremendous responsibility that requires continuous training.

Thank you for replacing the important radio traffic with funeral music

Took me a moment to realize that the reason they quit was because the water had run out. Sadly rural residents cannot count on fire hydrants that urban residents do. Total loss by 3 minutes in on video. Good job FD. 8 minutes in evacuate! Heartbreaking

Thanks for posting this video. I do some RU-vid and some in-person training for fire departments. I don't monetize my YT but do give full credit. Wondering if you have the full video in thermal imaging? There are a couple of clips I would like to use. With your permission of course. I teach a class called The Art of Reading Smoke: The Next Generation. Anyway, thanks for considering it.

Hi, I am really impressed by your drone, the resolution is excellent and the ability to switch to thermal in real time is really cool. What is the make and model, and where did you get it? What does this model cost, if I may ask? Thanks much from Georgia, Scott

Hope all personnel are safe!!!! What in the world was any firefighter doing on the second floor of this structure? They had all of 15 FFs on scene and attempting an interior attack? I get the effort but wasn't the structure well past the point of offensive attack with limited water? The truck sat at the front of the structure for a long time and assume the lack of water is why it wasn't put in service?

And dats dat...Dere was nuttin else we could do...

What was the mayday? Saw guys coming out the second floor window. Did conditions just rapidly deteriorate on them?

Incredible video drone capture! If firefighters would have utilized drone thermal they would have known better where hoselines should have been placed! There was a lot of wasted water being placed on this structure! Otherwise great video work!

Love the thermal imaging. Are you able to share the info in real time?

💪no fear to the guys that were inside of this red hot structure

...Looks like a house with different sections built at different times... The original at the front left side, and what looks like two or three different add-ons at the right and back... Hope everyone got out all right...

hope everything is alright.

1st in crews deployed attack lines,just needed water which most rural departments are lacking.

Music sounded eerie,made me think of the titanic going down into the atlantic.

Timing was a bit off for the tower to open as FF were still evacuating , aside from that safety issue sad to see , hear that a family with disabled member are homeless. Chimney fire maybe , by the look of damage around the center

MADAY: 7:38

No one inside per the homeowner.

Was this in Michigan

Are the firefighters from the mayday call okay?

5th alarm

Never heard a mayday, was this cast over a tactical channel? For limited amount of people and resources seems to be an aggressive style department. I applaud you for this, there are always things we can do better or different, but with the dying breed of Volunteering I think you did well.

Why are you flowing a ladder pipe with crews inside…. Pick an attack, interior, or exterior. Especially when you KNOW NO ONE IS INSIDE,,,,MY GOD

I know it's super sissified, and makes you a wimp, but you know, when you are standing on a roof working on a fire, y'all might think about wearing your BA. If for nothing else other than eyepro. @12:10

Where the f is the water?

There are too few Men in adequate water supply Fire has too much headway mention never be in that structure. Men should never be in that structure.

Why did this need music?

If there is ONE thing I wish all of you scanner hounds would do is, in the text of the title or info, PLEASE POST THE CITY, COUNTY and STATE. Where in the wild wild world of Sports Metamore Township???????

Why they have to add this crap music for wow

2nd floor mayday called and the tower is spraying down into the 2nd floor, initially with a fog pattern ( could help cool it for the mayday FF), then goes to straight stream..........very dumb thing to do, good way to knock guys off their feet or knock their SCBA mask off if hit. 🤦‍♂️

I thought this was a practice Burn at first . Hope they had good Insurance . Firemen exit the second floor onto the ladder with NO HANDLINE . How are they knocking fire down ??? .

I’m not sure if I would have put any guys in this house . This fire was well off on arrival . It’s also a really old house with the potential to go up like a pack of matches . As it began to . Also , not having the manpower to form a RIT team incase of a mayday makes me nervous. Those guys got pretty lucky thank god . I would have went completely defensive here . And that’s not taking a shot at this department or these guys . It’s just a manpower thing . They did a great job with what they had . It’s just tough in rural areas like this . Stay safe

who are you getting permission from to fly?

4 alarm...not 4th alarm