Working the Catesby and Smoke House Creek Fires 2024

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Go pro footage clips from working the Catesby fire at night near Gage in Ellis county Oklahoma and the next day working the Smoke house Creek fire first in Ellis county Oklahoma and then Hemphill county Texas near Higgins.
Smoke column collapse at 13:36?

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28 фев 2024

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@thurmanluper5885 4 месяца назад

I don’t live in Texas but I salute all of you fighting these wildfires. God Bless and stay safe!

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

Thank you

@robbiestewart1984 3 месяца назад

As an ex volunteer firey of 20 years here in rural South Australia I can say you guys over there in Texas did a good job chasing down the Catesby and Smoke house creek fires after they took a fairly nice run your technique of using brush units and running along side fires as 6 of our fire agencies here in Australia including SA use the same attack technique only difference is the make and design of trucks most of them here carrying between 500 (quick attack)-4000 litres of water with crew deck hoses After having my back slammed into the corner of a 3000 litre fire tank chasing a running grass fire one season causing bruising I decided to shift away from volunteer role and be my own boss as a private owner operator

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

I don’t blame you a bit, I’d like to be my own boss someday. Thank you for commenting.

@robbiestewart1984 3 месяца назад

@86joelt it was a tricky start deciding to be an owner operator but with the undergraduate in emergency management I obtained during my first season has helped massively Thankfully this summer just gone was a dud and 24/25 looking to be much the same allows me to improve and better equip for 2026

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

Heck yes, it’s good that you’re optimistic about it. In time I’d like to try out working as fire dozer operator. I hear it’s good pay plus it marries two things I enjoy, running a dozer and fighting fire 😂

@Christy-js8nh 4 месяца назад

Thank God the wind has let up some. These guys are heros

@jackburgess9482 4 месяца назад

I just wish I could be out there with y'all, but 40 seasons on the fire lines has me too beat up to be much good anymore. Praying for y'all, stay safe my brothers and sisters!

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

Thank you

@Grounded75 3 месяца назад

Thanks for working so hard! God please bless all of our first responders!

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

Thank you

@DoctorProwl 2 месяца назад

The thought of a wildfire going through my house is all I think about when the fire season begins. It's like we wake up every day to hear of a new wildfire, sometimes getting into the hundreds of thousands or millions of acres in just a few hours, days, or weeks. I rest easier knowing hard-working emergency personnel like you get to those fires before they can get to us, and always have the last word.

@86joelt 2 месяца назад

I don’t know that we get them first, seems like we just witness what nature wants to do and sometimes we’re allowed to intervene. Thank you for your comment.

@DoctorProwl 2 месяца назад

@@86joelt Fair enough! Also do you mind if I use some of your footage from the Catesby fire?

@86joelt 2 месяца назад

@@DoctorProwl I’m not against people using my material if it’s for a positive reason. Out of curiosity could I ask what you’ll do with it?

@DoctorProwl 2 месяца назад

@@86joelt I would call it disaster edu-tainment or info-tainment. To be honest, it's not particularly positive, though it has its positive applications, so I'll understand if you don't want me to use it. With disaster footage, I mostly make short-to-long amateur documentaries to discuss aspects of disasters that aren't obvious in the footage itself and which I don't see talked about elsewhere, like little-known hazards, destruction statistics, any records that a disaster broke, interesting phenomena like fire tornadoes, or the distances over which embers were spread, some common mistakes/misconceptions people have about them, while putting a horror spin on it to make it more accessible.

@86joelt 2 месяца назад

@@DoctorProwl If you would agree to leave names and edit identifying markers out then I’d think the risk of personal and professional embarrassment would be minor?

@eblanks15 4 месяца назад

This is one of the coolest firefighting videos I've seen in a long time. Stay safe brothers.

@86joelt 4 месяца назад

Thank you brother.

@zeeboo2012 4 месяца назад

Gotta say...one of the best vids ive seen of the Texas fires...great Strike Team work....i saved audio of the Grape Creek fire...that one was wild to listen to.

@86joelt 4 месяца назад

Thank you sir, one of the nice things about this part of the US is how easy it is to work at a moment’s notice with people you’ve never met. We all have similar tactics and the same end goals.

@zeeboo2012 4 месяца назад

I did 15 yrs in an all Vol Dept. So i know all too well...never fought a big one like that...thank god....but yall did a great job with what yall had.

@86joelt 4 месяца назад

@@zeeboo2012 Thanks again, it can be a surreal experience for sure!!

@soonerstatefirephotography 3 месяца назад

Salut from oklahoma, to you guys and gals. Were still having a hell of a season from in the east but nothing like you guys had. Im still reletivly new wildland firefighter, well i was before this season began i guess! Haha. Awesome footage

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

Thank you, we are also from Oklahoma and I’m still new as well so we’re learning together. Thanks again for your comment.

@kevinsloan3019 3 месяца назад

God bless everyone who responded to these fires we sent some trucks from our department to the one in Oklahoma we had a bad one going here to that wind was crazy!!!

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

Yes sir it was, thank y’all for the help 🤠

@kevinsloan3019 3 месяца назад

Glad we could help !! Lost my own house last February to a fire I know how it feels personally!!! I retire out in two yrs can't say I'm not looking forward to it after the last few yrs!!

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

I hate to hear that about your home, also congratulations on the upcoming retirement. Not a lot of people I know make it that long and I can only hope that I can accomplish as much. For the time being I really enjoy it but I’m also aware of the dangers of burn out and how it can affect people’s lives. My guess is that you’re one of the good ones.

@kevinsloan3019 3 месяца назад

I enjoy doing it but there are some other things that factor in as well other departments around us are understaffed and so we get the majority of the calls because dispatch knows who will respond the majority is mutual aid though not like it was 20 yrs ago when I started but I have to admit we got a hell of a lot more and better equipment these days I've packed a leaf blower and shovel way to many miles in my day may the good lord watch over ya alway brother!!!

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

@@kevinsloan3019 I have used a shovel and leaf blower as well. Some guys prefer a rake but a flat blade shovel is my go to for being afoot. May god continue to watch over you as well brother.

@robertnelson432 3 месяца назад

Sure hope there is followup tanker to get what this one misses.

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

Yes sir, there is a line of them.

@carlosmerino5547 4 месяца назад

God bless you all and protect them in hevry secon that they ar fighting to control the wildfire, we pray for you and for the people that they listed all what they have , but remember they have treacheries in heven ,bcs in this Earth we are only residents we will get back like the faithful Job on the Bible! God bless you all! And God protect you all in what you do we are proud off you Fire Figther!

@86joelt 4 месяца назад

Thank you

@remidubaut8070 4 месяца назад

Good job

@86joelt 4 месяца назад

Thank you

@cheetahb5 3 месяца назад

So question…wouldn’t a bit of a fan spray be more effective at knocking down than the stream? I would think you’d get better coverage?

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

Depends on the conditions I’m working with, I feel like I probably spend to much time adjusting my nozzle back and forth looking for the sweet spot. In the night video I’m struggling to get water to the fire due to high winds, and distance to fire. If I could have stayed closer to the fire then I could have utilized a fan spray, but I was squirting water 5-15 ft from my nozzle into 25-40mph wind. I would have been wearing most of the water as well as the driver. If you watch closely in the second fire you can see that I change from fan to jet fairly often based on the changing conditions. Thank you for your question, I hope I did a good job answering it.

@cheetahb5 3 месяца назад

@@86joelt Yup, thanks for the details! I kinda forgot about compensating for wind effects and it seems grass fires are always in windy conditions. Water does no good on you and not on the fire!

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

You’re very welcome sir

@mikehoysler4322 3 месяца назад

I think you did as good a job as possible. Your driver IMO was going way too fast. To stop a field fire you gotta get all the fire wet not just much of it.

@86joelt 3 месяца назад

@@mikehoysler4322 thank you sir, and I agree with what you said, that night was our first time with him as my driver and he was still feeling me out trying to understand what I was asking of him, and with the wind that night we were having a lot of trouble talking back and forth. We have com sets that I failed to utilize that as well.

@zeeboo2012 4 месяца назад

Im guessing this is when the fire passed over into OK?

@86joelt 4 месяца назад

The first fire at night was one that started in north west Oklahoma and was named the Catesby fire, the second fire in the video was the Texas Smoke house creek fire, we started as a task force that morning in Oklahoma conducting controlled back burns and extinguishing hotspots, then by afternoon went into Texas to help neighboring departments with a fire that hadn’t been brought under control yet.

@eddysurya3477 3 месяца назад

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@TomManning-cs4el 4 месяца назад

Why isn't the Texas national guard helping putting out the fire

@86joelt 4 месяца назад

I’m not sure that they wasn’t, seems like everyone pitches in to put out wildfires around here.

@TomManning-cs4el 4 месяца назад

@@86joelt they are protected the border for a trump visit..... WOW how awful is trump and Abbott

@86joelt 4 месяца назад

I don’t guess I know anything about that, however your comments will bring views to my channel so by all means rant away. What else could you tell me about the national guard?

@TomManning-cs4el 4 месяца назад

@@86joelt when a state has a disaster they have to declare a state of emergency and it activate the native guard...but the national guard is at the border helping trump and Abbott with photos of them at the border...while the state is burning

@86joelt 4 месяца назад

I see, I didn’t realize that. I didn’t even know that the whole state was on fire, I thought the fire was mostly in the panhandle of Texas. So how do you know where all of the national guard is and how does that work? And how did you know there was people at the border?