I guess just 2 guys showed up on the fire truck ? It’s gotta be tough with that department probably being volunteer and this fire being in the middle of nowhere . And it being during the day when most people are at work . God forbid anyone gets into an accident out there .
@@chosenone1004 Depends on the dept protocol, looks like a five-seater engine , front passenger is the officer, might have been someone sitting behind the driver. Most districts have a four man crew requirement before responding, but, like you said, out in the middle of no where, you might only have get 2 or 3 to show up. Been there, done that. Was a volly for 13+ years.
That driver had a darn good trailer! Those trailers usually go up fast! Hopefully his load wasn't too bad from the water or smoke. What was he loaded with? Great recording job too!
I guess burning tires are particularly hard to put out. I seem to remember a junkyard full of stacks of tires burning for a few days 20 miles from where I used to live. You could even smell it when the breeze blew just right
1989 my dept got called in on a multi-county response for a massive tire fire in Catskill, NY. Yeah, only thing we could do is after dumping a shit-ton of water on it was to bury it.
My town had a 300yd X 300yd pit of tires that got torched out in the woods a number of years ago. Burned for 14 hours, required the entire foam stock of all 8 agencies that responded in addition to 500,000 gallons of water, before they got it out enough to bury the mess.
Comet is either he was not doing his inspections on the brakes and they were engaged not fully disengaged or like you said he was riding them or reheat them and this is the results but either way this is still the results of either lack of inspection or lack of not backing up on the brakes because you’re supposed to be using the engine break j Brick if you’re not using that or if you’re not downshifting you’re not in the lower gear this is the results of overusing breaks
What is shocking to me is that all the other truckers passing could have stopped and used their fire extinguishers to help contain the fire. Even if was just to stop it from getting bigger till the fire trucks got on there!
I did drive a semi-truck back in 1986 and up until July 1987 when I had to quit as my wife was pregnant with our son born in October. I didn't have a fire, but coming down a grade into Salt Lake City, I didn't have an engine brake, and my brakes started smoking and weren't able to stop the truck although I did slow down enough I turned into the guardrail and was able to stop. I was mad at the company I worked for as they wouldn't let me pay to have an engine brake installed. I had the same damn problem coming down hill after going over and through Donner Pass.
Fuck that. Im glad it's standard issue on the trucks in my company (I don't know if it is standard issue for all trucks these days from the manufacturer but 🤷)
Did it dawn on you to slow down and gear down without a Jake, or did you just decide to run with the big dogs, come what may. Did the boss excuse you for screwing up the truck ''cause I didn't have a Jake."
Commonly found dry chem extinguishers do not cool the hot surface, they just smother the flames temporarily, if the burning material is still hot enough , it will re-ignite. As for the technique(s) used by the FD, we have a saying in the fire service, the bigger the fire - the bigger the water.....don't waste time with silly little booster lines.....
That's true. But if you have no hydrant or open water source to pump from then you will do a lot more good with one of those little high pressure lines than you will emptying the tank in 20s of main line blast
They were using booster lines to conserve water. You can empty a tank with an attack line flowing 200 GPM in a couple of minutes. It’s a decision made at the time of arrival. Tankers eventually showed up it appeared. Good decision on the arriving engine in my opinion.
Opening the door would have been a huge mistake. If the temp inside had gotten high enough and the doors were opened it would have fed oxygen to the heated interior and could have caused a flash over. Keeping the doors deprived any fire inside of oxygen needed to grow the fire.
People should really learn how to use a fire extinguisher. IT'S NOT A FIRE HOSE, you can't aim it from a long distance and expect it to work. You MUST get close to THE BASE of the flames and then pull the trigger. This is what smothers the flame.
I went through six fire extinguishers. I was underneath the trailer, 4 ft away and it didn’t touch it. Then the fire truck ran out of water trying to put the fire out.
3D LAND depending on the extinguisher 4 feet in a reasonable distance . Plus he probably couldn’t get any closer . Fires are hot you know 😂 But hey he tried and that’s better then nothing .
OutDoor704 Yea that’s always tough when your out in the middle of nowhere . No fire hydrants. And they were using small diameter hose lines too so that definitely helped . But those water tanks can only hold so much . And It’s just tough to put out tires . Especially big tractor tires like that . I would hope this department has a tanker truck called out with them no matter what the call is . The old saying ..... It’s better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it .
If they dont placard they are not trained in TDG. From an Emergency Response First responders would be asking the driver what he is carrying as well they would be looking for Placards.
@@seanconlin8712 they are trained. Some dont do it because ereas like New York and ereas back east dont allow hazardous loads on bridges and tunnels. I'm a truck driver and I have called the cops on a couple drivers for doing that.
Also, you said people used 6 fire extinguishers on this trlr. Hell you could use 50 with same result! Why, they attack 1/3 of fire triangle which would be smuther. Heat(biggie) and fuel still present! Advice? Save those things for your own vehicle! I kept one those type fires at bay till FD got to us(near Yreka, Ca. on I-5) some yrs back. Noticed a homeowner watering his grass nearby. Got him two hook 3 piece of shit hoses totalling 250'. Small diam hoses(1/2") with crappy connectors, coupled pressure drop. I could almost piss more than that setup! But it worked till FD arrived!
It's not rocket science. It's all about defensive driving. Enter the down grade in low range and feather the brake as needed all the way to the bottom. I didn't have benefit of a jake brake for several years after I first started trucking, but thats how I did it.
@@pjacks4373 : I have a view of the freeway from my porch and it appears fairly level from a”four wheelers” perspective, but it’s enough of a grade to require trucks to downshift in one direction and use their jake brake in the other. Cars just wizze on by without realizing.
That driver was practicing CYA! Of course his brakes were out of adjustment. That's why the driver's side tandems were on fire first! So in a nutshell: the. number 4 & 5 axles (on the driver's side) were adjusted more tightly than the other axles; that would be: #1(steers); #2 & #3 (both drive axles) and 50% of #s' 4&5!(trlr tandems). This is why DOT is hard on us about this stuff! More than likely heavy load; wrong gear(too high) and thus too much improper braking! Even with automatics (like with CR England & US Xpress, to name a couple), you have to gear down, stay off service brakes, and let engine brake, do 90% of the work! Hell this can happen with empty trucks and/or on flat roadway surface, but not nearly as often! I don't buy this "Bozo" of a driver's story for one second! He's one those really smart newbies who's under the false assumption that he can reinvent trucking! Why? He got his CDL out of a box of Kracker Jacks, then only had to watch a 30 minute Safety video! And as a result, attempts to steer a "Big Truck" with a "4-wheeler Mentallity Still," because he wasn't trained correctly! Folks I'm not harpin on this one guy, 60-70% of new drivers are like this. Because Employers only want "bodies as steering wheel holders!" Yes Sir, you guessed Correctly! Thanks for vid!
@@Locker_Offroad Absolutely. First go fwd at 25-30mph. When you depress brake pedal (Service Brake) If out of adjustment, you'll feel uneven braking on trailer, side to side, that should tell you, that you have this problem. Next try adjusting by using slack adjusters. You do this by backing up a few times (at 3-5mph) with stopping abruptly(risking load shift backwards) using only hand brake(for trlr brakes only, Not Tractor Brakes!) If that fails, next, manually close slack adjusters' bolts with 7/16" socket and open with one turn on each of 4 all individually. Some say 3/4, some say 1, some say 11/2. It doesn't matter as long as all 4 are the same! Then step on Service Brake pedal after each adjustment. If adjuster pops back out, it's bad, probably due to wear. Also bushings could be bad. Problem is drivers don't want to take the time to do this! Either out of ignorance (because they weren't trained properly) or just plain lazy. I'll tell you what, if part A was done, they wouldn't he lazy! But, these bozos think nothing will happen to them! It's not a matter of if but a matter of when!
I would not want to drive past that when the tires are on fire. When they explode they shoot large chunks of rubber out. I did drive for Mid-Western Distribution from late 1986 until I quit in July 1987. My wife was pregnant and due in October and I couldn't be gone 6-8 weeks at a time. I did overheat my brakes a few times since I wasn't allowed to have an engine brake installed at my own expense.
One smart man : the truck driver unhppking the trailer to safe his truck. All the others : stupid.Walking around or passing by in a vehicle is risking injuries, or even your live. You never now what the load of the trailer is. It could explode !!
Could of alleviated all the headache with what is called and used by "professionals"..."Low Gears and Jake Brake" where as don't even need to touch the brake pedal.
Trailers seem better now, but I used to pull one and it didn’t brake well, and another would do all the braking. Bloody thing would leave skid marks when empty. Trucking :o) Glad I’m out of it.
that exactly what it was a brake fire, you only smoke the brakes once going down hill before you hopefully learn to slow down until the engine brakes hold you then use moderate brake application to maintain speed. The first hissing air sound was airbags popping off not tires, semi tires make big booms when they go off. FYI you got way to close to those tires to talk to buddy about the cargo, when they blew out they'd have hurt you good.
Let me say this again RU-vid. My thought on this truck fire. Is that it was an experienced turbit heads that don't know how to drive. They rode their brakes to the point of fire!!. Plus they don't know what a Jake break is . TO funny.
Brakes lock up for no reason on simi truck as I drove them but could be from hill no Jake brake and proper gear down hill7th gear I prefer to keep from going more than 35mph.. 9th gear or less down ahiil so transmission will act as break keeping you no more than 45 miles an hour staying stable and not burn up breaks like that and not catch fire. either .
CanadaMotorSports / Reel Life If he had pulled off of the road it would have been worse. Observe the dry grass. IMHO I would rather have inconvenience of the road blocked over 100’s of acres of grass fires, in an area with just a few volunteers to fight the fire. Look how long it took to get a response. Just sayin!
por suerte se le ocurrió la idea al chofer de ese camion de separar la cabina desde el remolque y así no se queme tambien la cabina. desde chile.....ANTONELLA DI VANNI DI BIAGGIO, edad 27 sin hijos y sin novio.
Probably a combination too much speed, improper braking, and or improperly adjusted brake cams. Jake breaks are to assist in breaking, not the primary breaks. A drive should be able to control in a downhill situation without having to use the jake brake, not all semis have jake brakes.
