Pre Arrival Fully Involved Car Fire Brick New Jersey 4/16/22 

Full PPE even at a car fire. I damaged my throat and lungs at a car fire resulting from a grass and woods fire that might have been a meth lab. Both myself and my partner went down due to toxic smoke. Had and beat throat cancer last year so you all protect yourselves at each and every fire.

A little trick I learned …. Put the nozzle of a dry chem extinguisher into a light fog pattern …. Watch how fast the gas is extinguished!!!

This looks unreal. Boots on the ground, fully geared up and water on target under 30 seconds. Awesome!

Wow heavy response to a vehicle fire. The Engine crew did a great job on initial attack when they arrived.

Super quick charging of hose, best I have seen on Utube.

Nice job by the fire crews and officers. Started with water which puts out most car fires, that didn’t work. Quickly moved on to some in line foam/chem followed by regular foam which didn’t work. Foam is most useful on flammable liquids, which this clearly wasn’t. Finally succeeded with the dry chem extinguisher on the ev batteries. Good job getting the speedy dry down in front of the storm drain. Most rigs are only required to carry 1 dry chem extinguisher, fortunately they had enough units on site if they needed more dry chem extinguishers. FDNY has a dedicated purple k unit for electrical fires along with e bike and ev battery fires. Many local departments are starting to carry multiple dry chem extinguishers or contract with local fire extinguisher service companies to provide on scene delivery of larger quantities of these extinguishers when needed. Great video

That was odd. Never seen one that hard to put out. Once the bit you can’t reach with the hose gets red hot it will alway light back up instantly. The scrapers roll a burning car over with a fork truck to get all access.

Move the engine away because of the gas fire...that's a good idea! Three or four years ago the station just a few blocks from my house lost the engine at a commercial structure fire. The building was a few feet above the level of the parking lot, all of the sudden some tank of flammable liquid inside the building failed and the burning liquid came pouring out of a roll-up door that was open and they were flowing water into. I talked to one of the VFF who was there. He said, with no warning of any kind, this wave of burning liquid came pouring out the door and they just dropped the hose lines and ran for their life's. There was no hope of saving the engine. So, moving the engine so it's no longer downhill of a flammable liquid fire, good move.

Good pump operator 👍 had that water flowing quick and the right time so hoses wouldn't get kinked good job men.

i've never seen it take so long to put out a car fire. Must have been a real stubborn battery. Once again, excellent footage from JSFR!!

Although I’m not a fire fighter or have I ever has to deal with such an incident. Total credit to a superb looking job. Also fantastic video work.

In many fire videos, the start of extinguishing is really slow. This is due to the fire hydrant system and its failure, or bad ways of working, long distances. Europe and the Nordic countries, fire trucks have large water tanks and extinguishing foam for car fires. This achieves fast action, which is important to prevent the spread of fire. For example, we extinguish a car fire with foam in tens of seconds ... minutes. Of course, there are also differences in car fires, they can be difficult depending on the size of the car etc. In the majority of car fires, we put them out very quickly. In America, the car fire is turned off three times and still it starts up again...🙂 Additional training, equipment development, they would be needed in many fire stations in America.

Thanks

I like the way those trucks sound

As soon as the truck stopped, men were in place and water was flowing. Great job.

Another car gone up in smoke goodness me fire crew r really fantastic well done guys fantastic

This was an impressive response to a car fire. Where I come from, because of financial constraints, just one engine would have turned up.

Well thank goodness it appears all the firefighters in the neighbors and everybody safe so thank goodness for that but man wow I never seen the car fire last that long

nice job guys

Nice job sir ! MoCo NJ

I agree with what others have said, very efficient and quick to get the lines charged and putting water on the fire.

I may be mistaken but when you use foam to smother the leaking gas, isn't it best to use a less forceful stream to prevent spread and disturbing the covering layer?

They did a great job knocking out the fire with the attack line. Looks like they had 2 lines on the fire in no time. Personally I would not placed the apparatus so close to the fire.It also appeared that the firefighters were not masked up full PPE should be used. Years ago we were not so concerned by eating some smoke. Best to be sale and save the lungs.

What a job..4 fire trucks were there but only 2 fireman r wokring..great job..👏👏👏

Foam and Dry Chem works together!

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Hony I think our new Tesla is on fire 🔥 😳 better call the insurance company. Great job guys, TMP from N.J.

My Heros saved the day. Thank God for fire fighters

Most of the fires I watch RU-vid when the firefighters arrive , they take a century to act , these firefighters as soon as they arrived they deployed the hoses and immediately started with the job, I call this efficiency, good for this fire department!!!👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Nice job with a very stubborn fire. I believe it is time for us American Firefighters to start carrying car fire Blankets.

Do you use a car scanner and a handheld one? If so what are they?

Car fires are always intense aren't they? As no fatalities were reported in this video, I can only pray that no-one was hurt, As always. the firefighters did an excellent job.

You need a 10ft long 2.5inch steel pipe with a right angle sprinkler on the end of the hose that you can push under the car that sprays up wards under the engine and floods the bugger.

This is crazy I have never seen this many fire fighters and equipment to a single car fire in the open. We send one engine and one medic to every car fire unless on the highway then two engines and a medic unit is dispatched. Hell we send two engines two medic units and one truck to residential structure fires unless its confirmed to be a working fire then you will get another engine and medic and sometimes another truck added to the call.

I own 5 cars and keep fire extinguishers in all of them. 1 is a beautiful 68 Mustang I've owned since 1977, and the other is a very nice 58 cadillac my parents bought in 1960. I keep 2 extinguishers in them. Never had a need for one but you never know. I also keep a Fire extinguisher in my 2021 vehicle.

No worries, it'll buff out just fine.

Must have been a quiet time at the fire dept., three engines and a ladder truck!!

Bring back the drone! :)

Great video

Newer cars are like these newer homes...so much plastic and synthetic materials in them, they burn like paper soaked in...well ...gasoline!! God bless our firefighters everywhere and keep them safe.

nice 🐸

That seemed to be a very hard fire to put out.

A ladder truck for a car fire just a little overkill. They need to use Purple K powder extinguishers just like they use on race cars to put these fires out quickly. Another product called Cold Fire puts these E10 fuel fires out quickly to. Water just wont do it fast anymore and will get worse when they go to E15 fuel.

That's a big response for a car fire.

If you are wearing an scba you should use it

Thar was one tough auto fire 🔥 too put out

Wow that was a stubborn one

Anyone thought of foam? Gasoline fire won't go out with water. They also needed to block the storm drain too

Why didn’t they use the PKP first, all that water and foam was good to suppress but the powder put it out ?

That shit was crazy!!

Wow.good

It will eventually go out !

foam or halon will quickly put this type of fire out. water only spreads the fuel feeding the fire.

Damn was that a hybrid EV electric vehicle or what man I can't understand what it wouldn't hit it with a fire extinguisher first and snapping out

Good job ! Electric car, sure...

When's the next live stream!

Propane or Natural Gas??? That is a clean burn starting around 5:33. This would have been nasty 4 floors down in an underground garage. I just read the other comments. I forgot about Ethanol. My van can run on E85 fuel, but there is nothing near where I live.

Does the engine respond driver only and everyone else responds to the scene w/ airpacks in their POVs?

I’ll tell you four firetrucks is a lot of firetrucks to have for one car fire. I’ve been a volunteer paramedic firefighter for 44 years I’ve never seen four firetrucks of a vehicle for unless of course the vehicle was a tanker.

The most expensive thing lost here is the full tank of gas

Type of car materials. Was this material is flammable?

Aspirated (aerated) foam, either A or B class would have extinguished the gasoline fire by blanketing (smothering). Non aspirated foam achieves nothing as per the video.

Why aren't they using foam to put out the resistant electrical and fuel fire?

Can't believe no one tagged on the way they had to pass one on the way in !!!

Dry Chem extinguishers are always left out of thought.

Was that weak water pressure straight from a hydrant? Should’ve pumped it thru a pumper

Is this a vol fire dept

And in some states you have to block the runoff as your fighting the fire.

How did the fire start

Wow crazy response for a single car fire with no exposers. If you got it use it!

Ev fire ?

I am watching from Elmira NY how long did it take them to get to the Schene? Elmira fire department would only take 3 minutes to get to the schene

What was the make and model of the automobile?

Nice pre-arrival and scene footage! 13:00 Class D Extinguisher for Magnesium Engine Block or Parts? 🤔Thank You and Happy Easter!👍 🙏🇺🇦

When seconds count the FD is minutes away

Damn that’s one stubborn car fire. I’m watching the bottom of that car early on and that’s burning strange, I’m guessing it’s a hybrid vehicle gas and battery. In my 25 years in I never had to deal with e-vehicles. Gotta say first arriving put a extremely quick knock on it but it just wouldn’t go out?

Pre arrival? Arriving before you arrive?

whatever foam they were. using obviously had no effect on the gas that was burning until 5 minss later im a vollly firefighter and my dept rarely gets car fire calls

It is good thing that less than 50 firemen are arrived at one car fire....

Car for sale: Ran great when parked. Needs paint and some interior work. Heater is super toasty! Best cash offer!

Where’s the new fire blanket

New Jersey cremation services? Looks like this blaze had help, it's a hot one!What started it?

Finely they get the extinguisher and suffocate the fire !

From a layman’s point of view that’s a lot of equipment and manpower to put down a simple car fire. I’m not trying to be a smart ass, I just don’t get it. In similar videos they send one truck and maybe a medic.

Jeez little over kill for a car fire 4 trucks 1 ambulance 1 Battalion? Don’t know how many cops what did the call came out as?

I am not a firefighter but does it take 3 trucks and over 15 minutes to put out a single car fire?

How come so many resources went to one car on fire? I counted 4 trucks of varying types, an ambulance, several police cars, fire service officer cars. In the UK that would have got one fire engine and that's it. More if next to a building, or on a highway but on a quiet street like that just the one truck would get sent.

What is the name of that purple fire retardant I can't think of it just now?

What kind of car was that???

I kept saying from the beginning (after realizing the fuel tank has been damaged) to use a fire extinguisher. Just suffocate the fire and be done with it. Regardless, the fire department did a great job.

The ABC a dry powder got it :o) Petrol fires are basically it’s thing. Bizzar stuff that can’t get wet and is science and chemistry and stuff :D

What would be the problem with just letting the gasoline burn itself out and the units stand by to prevent it spreading? Seems by using water or whatever, it just moves the fire and liquid into the sewer system and down the road. Clearly for the first 10 minutes everything they put on it just made it worse.

Why didn't they use AFFF or another foam?

A little Turtle Wax and that ride is ready for the road once again.

Why are they standing at the car looking at it with a hose over their shoulder? Are they waiting to be told to put the fire out?

At 8 minutes +- "Hey look at that, there's some fire under the car.. Wow!" My volunteer department would take 3 guys, the mini and fog that gas fire down, while another line dealt with the car. Maybe even put some of the white stuff on the red stuff.

Meanwhile across town, Engine 2312 has already put out a fuel station fire, got 5 cats out of trees and washed the fire truck. 😂

No foam on any of those trucks?

That car fire sure is stubborn!