Good to see the engine establishing a supply line stop at the hydrant and have a crew member get off and grab the line and allow the engine to pull it up to the scene. So often you see them drive right by the hydrant and pull it by hand back to the hydrant they just drove by! Saves so much time. Great job well done good to see a B C with a clipboard keeping track of where everybody is.
Seems like that's a pretty standard SOP for the second engine to establish a water supply. I really don't know what that guy is going to do with a ladder, fire's already through the roof...
100% true. About 6-8 years before I joined our department my father and I jumped the scene of a brush fire in our town and helped the first due crew to stop it from getting away from them. (The department was already tied up on a separate brush fire and couldn't spare any trucks other than the 2,000gal tanker that doubles as a brush rig. All the other rigs were tied up on the first fire for another 15 minutes) funny thing is, one of the guys on the later arriving rigs was also a firefighter on a different department where my father had served for 11 years prior to moving to the same town we did. Got to serve with that man for 4.5 years, before he just recently resigned due to having a newborn. I still see him on occasion with his primary department when they call us as mutual aid. Feels good to be working alongside someone that served alongside my father back in the day
