Our stand protecting a house from large grass fire saline Co ks 2/29/24 

FULL BODY CHILLS listening to the roar of that flame front coming right towards you guys.

People will talk smack about safety but y’all saved that house. If they’re not willing to stand between fire and property, it’s time to find a new line of work. That’s the job. Well done.

Terrifying!! That's an act of heroism right there. Thank you for doing what you do.

God bless the crew. You folks did one hell of a good days work.

Rocky - You guys made a decision that you knew was risky & fortunately, a higher power joined your Team. Balls of Steel brother! Great job & I hope this video shows everyone how bad it was out there. Wow! Glad you guys are OK & glad that homeowner had a home to return to because of you!

You guys are old school SMART! Totally respect you!

I was a volunteer firefighter and I gotta say you guys kicked butt to save that home. I've seen some wild stuff but nothing never like this or that bad the wind is so destructive, definetly not an ordinary field fire. KUDOS to all the brothers and sisters kickin butt y'all rock.🇺🇸👍🙏

Good work fellas! Thank you for serving and believe you are volunteers.

Great job!!! I'm sure the homeowners are very appreciative of your work.

To see the embers burning on the camera shows you how it is able to skip over long distances. Thanks for your dedication to protecting others.

The fire and the fury, up close and personal, pure nasty, NOT a day at the beach...Thank You for your efforts and for posting.

One should keep in mind that the job of a fireman is always dangerous. It doesn't matter where you are in the world. Here in Germany, 5 firefighters died in a vegetation fire in 1975. In 2023, two firefighters died in a house fire. I myself was buried in a house fire, but I was lucky in the accident and got away with very slight injuries. Things don't always go as they should. That's why I wish you all safe and sound.

I've seen a lot of wild land fires make their own wind, THIS thing tops them all.......watching the pines before the flames got there, to when they did was a huge difference in wind speed. GREAT job to your crew.

This is so hard to watch. I live in Texas. Thank you so much for what you do.

Holy shit dude when you said this video was risky I didn't think this bad. Im just glad y'all are ok and got the job done! This is a good video to look back on and think about.

Congratulations mate well done good save

I pray each day for you guys. Wow, such heroes! The video was amazingly hard to watch, about the time I thought it was over, it got extremely worse! God bless from this old Texan!

I was a firefighter 🧑‍🚒 long before women were. Given a 1950’s old style suit & helmet ⛑️ Firefighting is hard physical work! Being a female I was never ordered updated gear. 😮 🎉 to you 🔥 fighters! Kudos

Man things got real western really fast, great job buddy, shout out from Texas much love brother

Well done!!

Good work folks, you didn’t back down and you had the right equipment. Those pesky flying embers are notorious for getting pulled in and igniting air filters on engines but I’m sure you’re well aware of all that stuff. Hopefully the wind quits. That’ll help a lot. Stay safe and keep up the great work. From a retired volunteer fire department Chief.

you did a hell of a job

Thank you for your dedication

At about the 5:30 mark the fencing through all the smoke look like crosses protecting the home and firemen. God bless y’all.

Strong work! Anyone can Monday morning QB a video after the fact. I'm sure there will be plenty of discussion back at the fire station. No amount of Red Card or other training can prepare you for what you faced. God Bless and keep up the good fight!

Stay safe out there mate

Thank you so much

👍Wow! That was unimaginable. Great work!

Respect to the many unsung heroes.

Awesome video…..

Amazing video. I'm glad y'all saved the house

The homeowner needs to buy you guys some steaks and cold beer. Great job!

Very well done! Nice job.

God bless the firefighters and keep them all safe and healthy. 🙏 🤲

As a USFS firefighter. This was crazy and a risk that should not have been taken. Lack of training and the ability to stay calm. You can’t bring people back from dead But u can rebuild a home

Thoughts are with you guys!

Great Jobs guys I was out there to see the Amazing work you did to save them homes

Are prayers are with u for yr 100 percent success❤

Don't know how y'all survived the smoke. My husband and I fought a fire that jumped a hundred ft firebreak we had plowed and got into a ten acre patch of mowed buffalo grass around a house. The only thing that saved the day was we didnt loose electric power and the homeowner had a good domestic well that put out 15 gpm. That lady had hundreds of feet of 3/4 inch garden hose all over the place that we used to wet the cedar shingle roof and flood water onto her evergreen windbreak. If that windbreak had caught fire the house would have probably been lost too. After it was over I couldn't believe we succeeded.

Its gonna be a record year this year, brother. Stay safe.

Strong work! You did right. That’s what hero’s are made of!

At one point we could see your silhouettes surrounded by flames; we imagined it was like what King Nebuchadnezzar saw when looking into the fiery furnace seeing Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. You guys are awesome!

My advice is to buy a lottery ticket because you're extremely lucky those cedar trees along the road didn't turn into a 2nd wall of fire and surround you and the truck.

Good save all the smoke n ash had me tearing up n i wasnt even there but been on may that only by the grace of god noone got hurt its a tough call to make somtimes

Nice job. 👍

Bravery! Respect from SCFD #5….

God bless!

wow it look like the sky was on fire amazing work , how do you even breath , I have burned grass piles and that is some choking smoke with out those air tanks ?

Some real heroes 🫡

Hi to all i need to say that saving lifes is a must i am a 23 year volunteer firefighter we need to stop the game of jugeing people all we want to do is to be the person who can rescue those in need dark ours go by no one there to rescue you? Let me say it is no go homes can loss total but life not

I turn 18 next month on the 19th of April and I need advise before I graduate in may and join Geary County Rural Fire Dept and leave there Fire explorers program.

I can't figure out why some of the farmers can't make a fire break with the plows run a tandem plow I know that it can be a problems at less try to

What were them winds blowing at? Looks like Gale force.

I won't blast you, I'm not sure what is going on, I thought it would be a tractor going around the house to create a firebreak, but looks like you were pumping water toward the fire. A very dangerous situation and I'm glad you made it through to post this video.

Any more grass fire footage? Your fire season goes into the summer right?

how are you guys walking with those huge balls of steel!!

What truck were you running? you should do a truck update on the new 342.

Class A pumper?

HEROES!!!! SALUTE!!!!!

Where in Saline county? I used to live in Smolan and Brookville

Con valentía fueron contra el fuego 😮

This video will go crazy.

The first thing very notable is how "ungreen" everything looks.

What were you driving, it is impossible to tell.

Where is this?

At 4:30mins into this world have pulled a line and carrie it to the road try and dampen the grass slow the burn before jumping and hitting the trees.... Help a brother out

🙏🧑‍🚒🙏❤️💙

Im not one of the only one in the comments of your videos this time and it feels weird.

Should have just got a big fan and blow it back the other direction.

Did you go to school there?

It looks like you guys had defensible space around the home with the exception of the trees. God was definitely watching over you. Here's my arm chair quarterback response to this after seeing you guys pass up other engines. I'm not saying they were wrong or you were wrong, but instead offer a solution: Do any of your fire departments carry class A foam? Now, from this video I obviously can't see the whole fire picture, so what Im about to say may or may not be applicable. Ahead of a fire front, it's possible to have time to foam houses ahead of a fire front. It takes a 3% solution of class a foam which basically looks like shaving cream when you're done. It has to be timed correctly because if it's done too far ahead of the front, the foam will dissipate before the fire reaches the homes. It does take a triage approach because if a home doesn't have enough defensible space,(few trees, low cut grass, no wood piles against the home/outbuildings, a wide enough driveway to allow trucks to escape safely, etc) , it's not going to matter. Also, manpower for the whole fire is a factor in this. I know you guys are neck deep in fires right now, but a class that would serve your communities well is wildland/urban interface where you will go in depth into this situation. Its not strictly for a suburb about to catch fire, either. It just means how to defend homes in this situation. I'm not saying the feds do everything correctly, because they don't, but the training they offer for wildland fire is very, very good. When things have gone wrong on fires, it's the human factors, not the training itself that's bad. I feel for you guys. We are in for a very looong fire season across the country. Even up here in the Midwest it has started up early. And there is a huge lack of snow pack in the west. Stay safe everyone. www.usfa.fema.gov/wui/

Our department got in on some of the plains fire action as well. Nice video, good job ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V6XnECbOJmE.htmlsi=n5c9emdh_iNojzBq

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Fighting a wild fire is like a battle you cant orchestrate, or throw a Texas punchline at. California could put it out in a couple days with their army of woke smoke jumping millennials