Two 2nd Alarm Fires - PIO Vlog 

This building was also mentioned with District Chief Powell's Day in the Life. He also mentioned the hazard here. I guess it was a matter of time. Great work knowing the layout and the hazards. Be safe!

My wife Kim and I lived at Club Valencia from 1985 to 1987. We lived on the third floor facing inside. I was always worried about the fire danger...and people used to prop open the fire doors.

Great to clearly hear the communications between everyone. Demonstrates how important it is for the incident commanders to have a working knowledge of the various buildings in their jurisdictions. This just deepens my profound appreciation for all of our first responders whether paid or volunteer. God Bless and keep them all.

Thank you Kim Connor Eric and Lauren from your friend in north Springfield Missouri kyle and merry Christmas to my PIO friends of south metro fire and rescue

These videos are seriously awesome! And that apartment structure was asking for trouble!

Eric and Connor ! Excellent work as ALWAYS ! Your videos are always educational and very well put together ! Another example of OUR Class 1 Fire/Rescue Department that protects Us ALL in Douglas Co., Colorado !!!!!!

Production quality on this one is above and beyond the rest. Excellent work!

Great job. Nice to see Connor and her update.

Two unique fires. Thanks for the update.

That is such an odd design building, cool looking, but a definite bear during a fire. Maybe a drone to see in the courtyard. I know that means another resource, but maybe worthwhile.

This is pretty crazy. Lovely job done by the firefighters on scene

Thank you so much for showing my patch! It was Naugatuck Fire, and you nailed the name!

Love the ending of the video🤣. Keep up the amazing work. Hope you guys have an amazing weekend.

Can’t wait for the new series! The fishing bit at the end was hilarious 😂

Hi Eric and Conner thank you for your service and I love your pio vlogs

great work guys and girls!

Loved to see Connor, really miss her on the VLogs!

I live in this area and tend to see engine 11 of Aroura Fire Rescue and engine 21 of South Metro Fire Rescue respond to fire calls and depending on the area SMFR, AFR, or Denver Fire Department send additional units and you can also see Arapahoe County Sherriff, Denver Police, and Aurora Police and you can also see Falck Medical Services, Denver Health, South Metro Paramedics, and other paramedics dispatched by South Metro respond to these calls it is just a area where all of there jurisdictions mix and they have to work together a lot of the time and I love to she the effort they make to make this area safer.

Awesome content! Stay safe!

Great video, I like this editing style, gives us more details on whats going on while watching.

I like the gamewell master box in the background.

Got Naugatuck pronunciation spot on

Great knockdown, I was upset at the 7min mark when the Subaru drove over your supply line, glad they didn’t hinder fire attack.

Merry Christmas to all the members of south mento fire department always work safe

Great vlog. It was great to see Connor again and her youngest is walking already, wow !! Merry Christmas and happy new year Connor, Eric, etc.

Merry christmas PIO team! Hope yall spend it well with your friends and familys!!

Good stop on the apartment fire 👍

I have to say that Eric did good pronouncing the Connecticut one

Good job SMFR, good to see Connor.

love the VLOG

Thank you for everything you do and Merry Christmas

Hi Eric and Connor 😃😃🎉🎉 This is an excellent Vlog, very informative and interesting 👍👍😎 It's Fantastic to see Connor again 💕😃😃🎉🎉 Great to catch up with Connor 😃😃

Good one guys! I'm Glade no one was badly hurt in both 2's! And was awsome to see Connor as well! She looks amazing fir having a a little one walking! Kids are the best! Sure keeps yeah on your toes!lol

Great Video

LOVE watching South Metro in action. That fire was starting to take off, heading for the roof, and they nailed it water in a hurry. I've seen other videos of the FDs being SLOW AS HELL going into action and they end up losing the structure. The second fire. Response time delayed due to the fire department gaining access to the structure. BAD!!

That is really using a Pro-Active approach will obviously pay off in the future, what was a great idea. That building is a nightmare for a truly big disaster to occur. I trust that efforts are being made to make that complex safer for the residents. The building is very attractive, but pretty building have been the scene of catastrophic events before. Very well managed despite the many challenges. On second fire locked gates, sometimes you just have to go to forcible entry to gain access if there is no one there to unlock them as there should be of course. Luckily this fire was isolated. Wow Connor is back with a one-year-old boy and walking, awesome. You look like a happy mom, but then again you are usually smiling anyway. Some cool patches and Connon gets first choice for her wall? Is that a coin toss, or does she just smile, and you give in? Another Awesome video of SMFR at work and icing on the cake a visit from Connon. It doesn't get any better than this. Looking forward to your new videos coming up too! You two are just too much!!

Can y'all do more day in the life even if it's a firefighter or engineer etc. Again I just love seeing them

Hey, Orwigsburg Pa. ten miles south of me in Pottsville. Pottsville home of America's oldest brewery Yuengling Brewery and still in business. Orwigsburg patch of the courthouse if my memory serves correctly is where the Molly McGuires were tried and first in prisoned. Look up the Molly McGuires for some important American history.

You actually nailed the pronunciation of Nagatuck

I live in the UK but these PIO Vlogs are such high quality I watch them even though I don't need to info myself! I just love the work of Fire services worldwide. Can I ask what the function is to have so many Police and Sheriff on scene? Always wondered if their vehicles get in the way. In the UK you will get a couple of police on scene to supervise but it looks like in the US you get a lot of Police arriving? Thanks!

Hey SMFR, I think it would be very cool if there was another channel for full radio traffic, dash cams, helmet cams, etc. Another thing would be that incidents like these fires, you could post short 2-5 minute videos running down the incident, a mini blog basically! :) Merry Christmas!

I love the video

Yes you did pronounce that name right Eric. The one from Connecticut 21:54

The second fire from far away looked like a tornado. 13:28

@21:53 happy my state is featured in this one, i remember when you guys featured my towns only 2 fire departments ,that what suprised me

letting people drive over the line is a NO NO

Finally, a video where the radio traffic is "Hey you, it's me," (e.g. Command, this is engine X) instead of "It's me, hey you" (e.g. Engine X to Command).

It's great to see you all. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas my friends ❤️🙂⚘️🎅🤶.

18:57 Spare tower gettin some work in

@South Metro Fire and Rescue PIO I really appreciate your videos they are very helpful and informative I just have one comment/concern, in the next videos could you when doing the patch shout out instead of bringing the patches to the camera just show a picture of them instead, because of the blurriness. Thanks

Stay safe Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I cannot believe that car was allowed to run over that supply Line. Crazy

did you guys get any new trucks? I noticed today a SMFR ladder company near Belview and 25 that had a slightly different livery with blue, But I couldn't find any station/unit number on it!

This looks like a public building that is middle after the Pentagon

Any updates on the new apparatus and medic units?

Happy holidays South Metro! Have any of the nine new medic units gone into service yet?

Liked and shared to my fb group

More helmet cam action, please! Equip the entire department with cams! Loved the video though, thanks!

How many alarm levels does South Metro use for responses?

have you never seen the pentagon or apple hq?

If there is no fire alarm or sprinkler system in the apartment complex, then what was that red fire panel shown in the first interior shot?

Í remember when we we did a ridelog with DC

21:22 is there a public SMFR map on ARCGIS? Or somewhere else?

I was listening to pluse point when the first alarm and when the second alarm got dispatch

Omg what fire code was this built to? How did they get away with no sprinklers?

What about the appatuts update

This is why I'll never have an apartment on the top floors.. too many careless people will get you killed.

Any updates on the new Red 1 and Red 3

What address can we send patches to ??? Great video .

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Its unsafe to not have alarm?

What’s the busiest south metro station?

Is your EMS Division Chief German or at least has been raised in a German speaking environment?

such an odd shaped building

I have been living at club Valencia since 2 years, and nothing like this will never again . but I was wrong. this building is not safe anymore . the 2nd fire happened in November, everybody are not happy, the fire brigade broken everyone's doorknobs and everybody have to put chairs or tables in the doors to wait for the maintenance people to come and fix our doors. later in November, December, and January ever thing is in peace until yesterday , a another fire? man, the HOA are not doing their job to keep everyone safe. this place use to be safe back in the 70s,80s,90,2000s and the 2010s,, then in the 2020s this is not safe anymore because of in may of 2022 windows smash and broken ! , going upstairs and saw a heroin bong back in June or July of 2021. look, I mean 2021 is not bad of as of this year and last year. I mean due all of respect am not going to stay here for another year . am out of HERE!

Wow

10:48 what happened to Connor???

I have a question. If I wanted to do dispatch until I was able to get into the academy could I do that?

Weres Conner?

Hype Hype

ERIC!!!! WHATS THE STATUS ON THE RESCUE TILLER?!?!?!?!??

Merry Christmas everyone I hope to get a beanie for Christmas from my family as a gift

Why do I want to be with the world

4:00 I don't care if they are told the building has 1000 children inside, all their efforts should have gone to this location First. Stop an engine with 500 gallons of onboard water, activate the pump, and knock this down with the Deck Gun within the first minute of arrival. While that is going on you pull a 1-3/4" line to that unit, get inside and finish it off. Done and Done in the first three minutes of arrival. There is no more combustion to worry about and each unit windows can be opened to vent without having to expose the tenants to an evacuation that could be in itself, dangerous. TELL ME WHERE AND HOW I AM WRONG! 4:11 This video is extensively edited so there is no way of knowing how long it took to get that line into play!! 4:54 The JOB didn't get thoroughly finished so it still poses a threat. Notice that lines have been pulled minutes before this point. Now watch what happens because they ignored this obvious threat. Every second that fire is creating new toxic and flammable gasses and increasing the heat inside the structure. All of which are threatening the people they are supposedly helping. 5:20 It took 3 seconds to eliminate those flames. How long did it burn before this happened?

Please tell me that lady got a ticket

Concerning the apartment complex, has a cause been determined yet? The complex was oddly designed but understandable considering the time period of construction. But pretty sure that floor plan didn't help with containment

Guys, where do I acquire one of your Patches ?? Headquarters?