Thanks for doing your job fireman and carrier,, my mail arrived today, wet, black and had dried foam on it. Thanks for setting it on the curb during the disaster.
Let's stop and hope everyone is doing ok the paramedics and firemen deserve a lot of credit your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks don't work to hard love and appreciate you guys great job great catches as usual way to go ! Joe
I'm the son of a retired fire fighter and certified fire rescue instructor in Rochester, Indiana. I would have thought the first fire truck would have pulled up ahead of the mail truck to allow another truck to be sitting where the truck is in video.
NFPA requires an apparatus is to be staged a minimum of 100' from a vehicle fire in the event the gas tank ruptures or the vehicle starts rolling. That is why a bumper hose load is 150'.
The Mail Carrier’s Creed reads something like “Neither rain not sleet nor snow nor dark of night shall stay this courier from his appointed rounds,” but somehow I think having your truck catch on fire definitely counts as an exception to the rule!
The reason they parked far away is because they are up wind where most of the smoke is headed, exterior firefighters aren't qualified to wear respiratory equipment ie: the driver/pump operator also you have no idea if something is going to explode so you keep your truck at a safe distance and create a blockade so someone doesn't come plowing through, last you have no idea what is in the vehicle that could explode upon arrival
Thanks for the video. I work for the Post Office in vehicle maintenance. I arrived at work today to find this very truck (or what’s left) sitting in our shop. Obviously a total loss.
I will air on the side of caution and just say nobody was hurt and as far as I know the carrier even got all the mail from the truck before it got out of control.
Great work to all involved from the mail person to the firefighters. Reminds me when I was a volunteer firefighter I can not believe that we would fight a vehicle fire without "scotting up" once again great work no body got hurt
A+ for removing the mail but it will have to be dried out over days because of the water and foam. USPS we get you mail to you rain sleet snow Fire and flooding.
They are doing the right thing by walking and not running and having an accident and creating another emergency! They are also 80 to 120 pounds heavier with the weight of the gear, so don't jump to conclusions if you don't know what they are going through!!
Nice videography. Camera doesn't turn away at every slight popping sound, no expert advice or necessity in explaining everything, stable image, landscape format video, high quality image and no "bodies hit the floor" music at full volume during important parts. Music applied at the correct time however. Thumbs up from me.
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There is going to be quite a few people not getting their mail on this day. Also a postal carrier who is going to need a ride & half to explain how this happen when he she gets back to the post office
These type of maitrucks are antiques made in the laye 80s, thru early/mid 90s. Every year there are approximately 30 electrical fires, the carriers have been lobbying for more trucks.
When you drive on a road with wide lanes in a Mail Truck whilst singing "Three Times a Lady" by Lionel Richie, and suddenly you hit a sewing machine that fell off a black sedan causing sparks to fly out of it and ignite the truck with Flammable Paint Thinner.
Actually, it was most likely happened due to the fact that the windshield wiper fluid in LLV mail trucks is located above the engine control unit, so it most likely leaked causing the wires to short circuit.
So the postal driver saved the mail, removed it from the burning truck. And then the firefighters hosed all the mail down with water and foam. Well, darn.
These guys should have moved the mail back once they had knocked down the flames. But I guess that would be asking too much. Another thing, they sure did move slow.
1. You would be surprised how often these vehicles burn up. 2. Mail saved from fire only to be destroyed by foam. 3. Supervisor furious that you failed to complete your route. “There are folks lined up that will do the job if you won’t”.
To all the people posting negative replys I dare you to wake up at 7am on a day off from work, or your vacation day, a day which you could sleep in but instead wake up get dressed as fast as possible drive to your local firehouse half asleep, just to put on about 75 lbs worth of gear in under a minute, climb with said gear up the side of a truck, pull up to the scene of a fire still half asleep help flake out a hose that weighs an additional 75 to 125 lbs hook it up to a hydrant then hold said hose that shoots out enough pressurized water to blow you off your feet, then unhook the hose walk it out, roll it up, climb back on the apparatus ride back to the station wash everything down including your gear. I would love to see you do that everyday for a month then lets hear you criticize and complain because until you have worn the gear and put in the time you have no right to judge.
Back in the mid 60’s our mail carriers car caught fire. 2 weeks later we received a plastic bag filled with burnt mail. Some barely identifiable. But they said they had to deliver what could be ID’d.
I spent 35 and half years carrying mail. I once opened a blue collection box to find that some jerk had dropped something burning in it. Some letters were barely singed, some were nearly all gone. Collected it as carefully as possible so as to deliver, or return what we could
I was a volunteer fireman many years ago. Getting in too much of a hurry gets folks injured. The hose is folded so that it comes out of the storage compartment without tangling or or getting knotted. It must be mostly stretched out before pressurizing it. These firemen were not goofing off. In vehicle fires, tires explode, fuel tanks do so only occasionally. Shock absorbers can explode and sometimes shoot out like a rocket. The postal worker should have moved the mail farther away-- an explosion could have destroyed it.
Not being in a hurry too much is still another dimension than this kind of slow ... I remember a video from Switzerland. A fire truck arrived on scene of a vehicle fire and it took them less than 30 seconds to get the water running from the moment the truck came to a complete stop
@@jacobsmith5510 Yeah like the RMG news and Loudlabs guy. Their footage is 99% trash with the occasional shock and awe content generating most of the views.
It’s a mail truck with no life threatened and the mail was out. No need to run around like an idiot. It’s not a house fire. We don’t put ourselves in unnecessary harm.
For those complaining about the mail being close to the truck the carrier was trying to get all the mail out didn't have time to run each tray/parcel away , they it all out then move it, however the fire got too hot carrier couldn't get close enough to the mail. Always easy to criticize other people
Hazmat is my best guess, these day's you don't know what might be on that truck or what people shipped. Just a few days ago someone sent pipe bombs to some politicians
Post office logic ... lets pull mail from truck, but lets put it only a foot or two away. Because heat and water from fire will not impact ground a few feet away.
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. It says nothing about fire.
Question, If your mail was destroyed by fire or water and you didn't get the 'bill', and you didn't receive the bill, do companies let that slide or do companies still penalize you?
Demonracer2 I hear ya i mean I backed up as it grew. Being in the FD I had an idea of how far back to be. The call was right down the street from my house!
I am a volunteer firefighter and yes this fire crew was not making much effort to get the job done. The mail should not have been put next to the burning vehicle and fire crew could have moved it. Poor maintenance and poor daily vehicle check helped the cause for the fire. Also the bad designed and built GM chassis a partnership of GM and Postal Service.
These Grumman antiques were built on the Chevy S-10 Blazer chassis and sport the infamous GM "Iron Duke" engines- complete dogs. Built from 1987-1994 and have outlived their useful lives.
It really took them 2 minutes (!) to get the water running? Seriously? Shouldn't it be at least a bit faster? I remember a video from Switzerland with a fire truck arriving on scene of a van on fire (I think it was a camper) and they had the water running within 20 seconds from the moment the apparatus came to a stop ...
AGREE, EITHER THEY ARE INCOMPETENT OF DON'T GIVE A DAMN. See similar fire truck arrivals in France, UK, Germany, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and the water is flowing in seconds....shit even Russian trucks and crews are quicker.
@@signature1990 I'm usually not the kind of guy talking bad about a department, but this was a bit too extreme ... I remember a video from Switzerland with a Engine or Rescue Engine arriving on scene of a van / camper van on fire. From the moment the apparatus came to a complete stop to the moment the had the water running it took them only 25 (okay, maybe 23, maybe 28, anyway less than 30) seconds
@Cris Becker nobody won't get killed when working at normal speed ... the fire-fighters in that clip I talked about weren't really racing at all to be honest; and there was no reason for it ... getting out of the truck, opening two compartments, starting the pump and rolling out a hose aren't really many or time consuming tasks ... And btw Chris I decided not be be active as fire-fighter any more for several reasons. I wasn't in the city where I used to live, nor in the villages I lived for some time nor in the town I live in right now.
@Cris Becker thick black smoke low above the street ... I imagine how it is like when someone left a window on his house open and the smoke gets in there for an unnecessary long time .... Or anything else damaged by the heat Where they weren't working at normal speed? The entire time? Just because there might not be a life in danger ... working faster can prevent other damages. Moving the packages further away would have reduced their damages as well (and concerning the time they took until they had the water running they had enough time to move it)
@Cris Becker I know it's not a competition or something, but I'll post it here as an example (the mentioned clip from Switzerland): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sOTG-nG463c.html Another one from Austria (yes, it has an aweful quality, but you can still see the water running within 30 seconds): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yoi4KmW2qfM.html IMO a quick attack hose is absolutely perfect for a vehicle fire. If they want or have to, they can still set up another attack hose and a supply hose if necessary, but the quick attack hose covers a lot of time until they are set up
It's crashing terrible! Oh my, get out of the way please. It's burning, bursting into flames and it's -- and it's falling on the mooring mast and all the folks agree that this is terrible. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world. Oh the humanity!
