PRE-ARRIVAL: Full House Fire Response - Thomaston, ME 

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Agreed as a voulenteer firefighter the videos I've seen theres some places that dont do any of the cycling

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That is the nerdiest fire video comment ever, commending their siren and horn usage, wow. Nothing about the excessive apparatus or lack of people actually in them?

@@dug2fire sounds like you don’t know what a rural fire department is, nowadays with little pay, training requirements and low budgets you’re lucky you are getting this. This is a mutual aid agreement where if there is a structural fire they send all these units to make sure that adequate staffing is met to reduce injury and ensure the public is provided for, E3 had 3 in the truck, Ladder 2 with 1 and E4 with 1, some full time departments run with 2 on each, not a big difference there. I’m from this community and most of these guys can run circles around some of the best departments in the northeast.

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Thank you very much!! I have multiple cameramen and a scanner so I hear when they get calls. 😉 Thanks for your support!

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That was a pretty LN Ford

An oil refinery, judging by the response.

There is your answer it is NY were so many have no respect for others, all they think of are themselves!

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I am a retired Firefighter, rural NY. City people just don't care. Rural people move over. Great video work!!!

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They're not as good as you think around here, but that was exceptional on the video. You would think people would do better. They always claim on facebook they want to.

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They're just jealous, lol.

@@deanvanluven6813 This is a very common response in volunteer fire districts. Call in everything you might need, send them back if you don't. Better to have and not need than need and not have. Great response and an awesome video. I miss those days but got too old and retired from volunteer fire service.

To the people who think is staged Him: Calls 911 911: Hello Him: yo can you connect me to the Fire Department i wanna ask them if they will help me make a video responding to a fake house fire 911: i mean its a total waste of resources and gas aswell as a real call might come through and we are gonna need them but sure why not like no this wouldnt happen they would just hang up

@@landon2050 you literally just made me laugh out loud! Love it!

@@deanvanluven6813 we'd send that amount of apparatus (and way beyond that) to large scale drills, but if absolutely necessary they can always leave for real incidents (at least the special operations apparatus); Normal apparatus are covered by other stations in the area then

All of my videos are Maine.

@@CoolFireTrucks Bradley fire,were a pretty quiet department.

interesting to hear about that; Over here in Germany Aerials have a crew of 2, sometimes 3, and an Engine / pump usually has a crew of 9 at volunteer departments and 6 at career departments; Special operations apparatus like Tankers, Heavy Rescues etc come with a crew of 3 as well

Does that include call fire departments in the UK, or only the full-time career departments? The fire department seen in this picture is not a full-time career department, they are paid per call volunteers (which is uncommon, most volunteers in the US receive no pay), so they may not have more than a couple people to respond with the engine at first.

@@daveadler6112 In the UK the statutory minimum crew on a pump is 4 for both wholetime (career) and retained (paid volunteers). We only have county (state) fire services and all firefighters are trained to a national standard. The retained firefighters are paid the standard hourly rate for their mandated training sessions and a call out fee plus the hourly rate every time they are paged to a job. Unless at least 4 retained firefighters respond to the station within a certain number of minutes that appliance is not mobilised.

Yeah 8 fire apparatus (and two Chief’s) is pretty good! I have gotten some bigger ones before though.

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The lights look just fine off camera, the camera doesn’t catch the strobes light frequency

@@seangoodine7139 that’s what I figured tbh, but idk to me it looks poor lighting, 2 lights on the back and 2 in the front, needs more in my opinion

Maybe ... ... if there was a report of 'Persons Trapped', then you need as much resources as you can commit ... ... especially depending on how large the structure is, and colour of smoke ...

More alarms [bigger fire] more units. Or spread

Or they need more personnel

Well seeing as most those units were tankers im going to go out on a limb an say no organic water source.

In my city, a structure fire response is usually 4 engines, 1 ladder, and a Chief. If it’s a larger structure, it’s, 6 engines, 2 ladders, 2 chiefs, and sometimes haz mat and rescue. It’s mostly for manpower, and it’s better to have too many at once, then not enough and play catch up, which never works out well.

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Some do but not all

Many of the departments here in Maine that are volunteer have fire police.

Thomaston has 3 Engines, 1 Ladder, 1 Utility and an Ambulance which is a separate department but kept in the same building.

Haha, two people and two cameras 😉

@@CoolFireTrucks Thx god! 😄

No they are the neighboring towns and Warren is volly and Rockland is a combination department.

@@CoolFireTrucks is Thomaston full time?

@@alexandermakrianis no paid on call

@@CoolFireTrucks oh ok, great video by the way. You guys have nice equipment.

@@alexandermakrianis thank you very much! Engine 3 is the best in the fleet in my opinion.

Possible structure fire.

7 fire apparatus, an ambulance and a couple chiefs isn’t very many to me.

@@CoolFireTrucks I guess out in rural areas they send more. In my (old) home area, for a box they'd dispatch 4 engines, a truck, and a battalion chief, with a heavy rescue at night.

@@elshpen yeah most of the departments around here are volunteer paid on call.

@@elshpen we send a convoy of 5 units to every fire call which isn't a trash bin or vehicle fire. Even if it's nothing more than an automatic fire alarm, with no-one reporting smoke showing, it will still be at least 5 units responding

@@EnjoyFirefighting Have it and not need it than need it and not have it simple as that.

It is a structure fire response. Turned out there wasn't an actual fire.

Yes except it wasn’t a drill.

Well better to respond and not be needed, than to be needed and not respond. Most rural departments for sure will bring the house initially. Cancel units if not needed. Mainly since they are volunteer and some have very far response distances.

The camera doesn’t pick up the strobes on Ladder 2 and Engine 4 very well at all.

@@CoolFireTrucks thanks for the response. I appreciate it. Keep up the great work!

You think they did this just for a video?

@@CoolFireTrucks I’m not the only video watcher that wonders. One noticed each truck held one person. I noticed at the end there was a view of the countryside (several times along the route) and no plume of smoke. I’ve always seen smoke in the distance when fire trucks are headed to a big fire. Is it perhaps a drill??

@@oldcodyjr manpower issues are very common with volunteer departments these days. They might only have a few people on board, and then have the rest arrive in their own vehicles.

What does your area take on a first alarm? Only 6 fire apparatus responded to the scene in this video (not counting the Chief's). The last Engine running code 1 was responding to cover for a different department.

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@@CoolFireTrucks To be fair, 6 for a house fire seems a lot, by non-American standards.

It’s a roto-ray.

This was 1st alarm and yes it is pre-arrival because I was there before most of the rigs.

You are correct, there were cameras at multiple locations because I did indeed know that they were about to respond because I have a scanner so I know when they get calls. They are volunteer departments so that gives me some time to set up my cameras. As you can see at the beginning of the video some units were already on scene when I started filming. It is definitely not a staged incident. Doing that would be very wrong. You can even hear the radio traffic of units signing in route at the beginning of the video.

It was a possible structure fire. And I don’t know where you got 10 Engines and 3 Trucks from…

Did u read the description?

4 engines 2 cars a truck a medic and 2 tankers, essentially all you need to battle a fire… you’d be fine with 2 engines a truck and a chief..

Unless u need a water shuttle……

@@jjb8740 not even! 2 tankers and 4 engines is perfect for tanker operations, bare minimum at least

most likely that is his own vehicle not a town truck in Maine chiefs can run light bars on personal vehicles and many are paid per call so they need a different gig the rest of the time

Yup. The last thing you want to do while responding to an emergency is create another emergency.

So true, it's always the second truck through that gets t-boned at an intersection. Drivers are so focused on the first truck they hit the gas without even realizing there are other units behind it. You never see that in these response videos.

And women!

Gotta love multi tasking.

It's probably his personal vehicle. Maine may allow RL&S for volunteers.

My town does the same thing, it’s sick