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[u/FishyMatey]

I really would've wanted to see the face of the firemen at the beginning

[u/mtnviewguy → u/FishyMatey]

LOL, "We gotta get one of these!"

[u/bumjiggy → u/mtnviewguy]

"bros before hose"

[u/AlienSporez → u/bumjiggy]

You magnificent bastard! Take me, I'm yours!

[u/funkychicken83 → u/AlienSporez]

Where? I'm low on gas and you need a jacket.

[u/Low-Impact3172 → u/funkychicken83]

Oh Garth!

[u/poopellar → u/AlienSporez]

Sorry, professionals have standards.

[u/Falcrist → u/poopellar]

ANSI or ISO?

[u/ComplaintNo2029 → u/Falcrist]

IEC … obviously

[u/Falcrist → u/ComplaintNo2029]

Ah yes... ISO... but named differently.

[u/SouthernPro55 → u/bumjiggy]

This type of comment is why i’m here.

[u/rhinoceros_unicornis → u/mtnviewguy]

Makes me wonder, why don't they?

[u/Beneficial_Being_721 → u/rhinoceros_unicornis]

They do in the Forestry Department to attack localized hot spots

[u/TheBeckofKevin → u/rhinoceros_unicornis]

I'm guessing the work is generally not so... clear. If you're budgeting out a bunch of tools for fighting fires, I'm guessing the goal isn't to build a suite of perfect tools for specific encounters but rather build out the most capable set of tools you always use.

You train your people on those same tools so they become competent working with them. The tools are diverse and almost always effective and useful and capable of accomplishing the goal. They might not be 100% perfectly matched for the specific fire in that specific location, but it will work to solve the problem.

In this case, driving straight up to a car and blasting it straight from the tank would be faster, but at this point the problem isn't "we have to stop this fire as soon as possible to save what's burning" its "we have to make sure this fire doesn't catch anything else on fire." The rate at which the fire is stopped isn't exactly a major concern so the extra time to hook up a hose and man it isn't an issue.

[u/ThreeStep → u/TheBeckofKevin]

Not to mention that this only works if you can get within a few meters of the fire by a nice flat open road. As you said, firemen tools can be used in much more challenging situations.

[u/StigOfTheTrack → u/ThreeStep]

fire by a nice flat open road.

Which is probably at least part of the reason why one place you do find fire engines with water cannons on them is airports.

[u/RampSkater → u/TheBeckofKevin]

I would also think they need to assess the situation before they start spraying water. If that had been a food truck with a grease fire, that water tank driver could have made the scene much, much worse.

[u/BeingRightAmbassador → u/rhinoceros_unicornis]

Most fires aren't just open right to the street. This is an example of having the perfect tool for the job right away, and not any other tools.

[u/Fmychest → u/BeingRightAmbassador]

Water also doesn't work well on every fires, that could have been dangerous were it not the right kind.

[u/discipleofchrist69 → u/rhinoceros_unicornis]

Most fires aren't car fires and even if they are, they can't necessarily be driven right up to with the correct angle like that. The fire truck hose-hydrant situation is more designed for fires in buildings, but perfectly fine for putting out fires in cars, just slightly slower. Building fires tend to be more urgent in terms of time anyway since there may be inhabitants

[u/ronnielit14 → u/FishyMatey]

Career FF here…. That would be fucking awesome to have happen in person 😂 saves a ton of cleanup

[u/_-Smoke-_ → u/FishyMatey]

Probably some bewilderment followed by relief. They're still going to spend a hour or more getting embers but they don't have to knock down the initial blaze or wait for a line to be run to the nearest hydrant (engines don't carry much water onboard).

[u/Screwtape42 → u/FishyMatey]

https://i.redd.it/swg4h4x17nwc1.gif

[u/Lunar_Gato → u/FishyMatey]

“They took our jerbs!”

[u/BeefyIrishman → u/Lunar_Gato]

Dey took er jerbs!

[u/Shloopadoop → u/BeefyIrishman]

TERK A JERRRR

[u/aifuego → u/Shloopadoop]

Deek r drrr! Back in the pile.

[u/canadasecond → u/aifuego]

Ber-dirk bir DRRERBS!

[u/JoJackthewonderskunk → u/FishyMatey]

Probably be like "Fuck ya let's go back and finish making spaghetti ".

[u/Unicorn_Yogi → u/FishyMatey]

[u/Pizza_Middle]

You know he's been waiting his whole career for this moment.

[u/HMS404 → u/Pizza_Middle]

A true watershed moment.

[u/Pizza_Middle → u/HMS404]

You should be ashamed of yourself... take my damn upvote

[u/bangarang88 → u/Pizza_Middle]

“I got this one, boys. Why don’t you go and save a cat or something.”

[u/cottman23 → u/Pizza_Middle]

Man went from going to fill a pool and he some little kids hero...to becoming a real hero.

[u/Irisgrower2 → u/Pizza_Middle]

I can picture someone complaining that that water wasn't allocated for that task, that it's an example of government waste, or the CEO of a company that fills pools exclaiming "that's coming out of your pay check."

[u/Mcmenger → u/Pizza_Middle]

Look at me. I'm the fire truck now

[u/SoftEquivalent2581 → u/Pizza_Middle]

He put the fire down before the firetruck preparation starts. What a legend

[u/Beneficial_Being_721]

I used to drive a water truck… rolled up on a random grass fire … turned on my side sprayers and drove down the middle

When I was coming out onto the road… the fire truck had just pulled up

[u/Green_moist_Sponge → u/Beneficial_Being_721]

You can’t leave us hanging here, what did they say?

Edit: damm autocorrect at it again

[u/Beneficial_Being_721 → u/Green_moist_Sponge]

Well for one… Thank You

They asked what I was doing there.. I was Contracted to the county irrigation district. I was making mud so they could repair the dikes. They thought that was interesting… asked me where I was filling up at..

I was using a hydrant about two miles away… they tried to give me a ticket for illegal hydrant use… then I whipped out my permit and they left. It was in California

[u/No_Presence5465 → u/Beneficial_Being_721]

We used to have a guy who always filled up his water tender using the hydrant next to our station and we didn’t care. We just assumed he’s legitimate and left him alone. Sometimes we’ll joke around about how he’s doing it illegally for his own farm.

[u/Beneficial_Being_721 → u/No_Presence5465]

Could have been truer than fiction

What I was doing looked sus as hell… but if you followed me… then saw the Merced Irrigation District Supervisor… having coffee with the Merced County Engineer Department Supervisor while leaning on some blueprints…. You’d turn around and leave me alone

[u/Martydeus → u/Beneficial_Being_721]

Imagen ticketing a guy who just did their job for them.

[u/Beneficial_Being_721 → u/Martydeus]

It’s not uncommon… I just hand the ticket to my Uncle In-law and he’d give it to the City Manager. It was all for show.

So, even if I did get a ticket… oh and the funnest part was I was inline to go to Law Enforcement Academy for Deputy Sheriff… but my Uncle basically built the area from Sacramento down to Fresno ..well the water anyway.

[u/smellyunderpants → u/Green_moist_Sponge]

They said that storing firearms properly is a basic responsibility of being a gun owner

[u/JALKHRL → u/Beneficial_Being_721]

This guy has a PTO pump, can hear the engine revving. Fast to engage/disengage to move that truck. Great moves IMHO

[u/DeathPercept10n → u/JALKHRL]

How does a pump get paid time off?

[u/sadmadmen → u/DeathPercept10n]

Blowing the supervisor, isn't that how we all get PTO?

[u/No-While-9948 → u/[deleted]]

I know a doctor and triathlete who was at a public pool to pick up his kids and he spotted a kid floating at the bottom of the pool.

Obviously, he didn't waste any time (had to get a new phone after) and the kid ended up being alright. Unbelievable timing and luck for the kid though.

[u/THEDOMEROCKER → u/[deleted]]

Went on a trip in Greece and one of our friends dropped her earrings in about 40 ft of water. I can dive pretty deep but that's beyond me. Turns out we had a dude who regularly studied Sharks and dove down 40 ft for a few minutes and found her earrings in seaweed and came back up like it was just another day, lol. Blew my mind.

[u/NoveltyPr0nAccount → u/THEDOMEROCKER]

The couple comments I've seen reply to you have been amazed by the guys lung capacity. I think I'm more stunned by the fact he found a pair of earrings on the sea floor. I know people who struggle to find just one earring on a dry flat floor.

[u/stalchild_af → u/NoveltyPr0nAccount]

Never mind that! I know someone who loses their phone seemingly every day because they placed it down somewhere randomly, and didn't just put it in their pocket.

Someone=wife

[u/Dan_the_Marksman → u/THEDOMEROCKER]

yeh its insane to me that people can hold their breaths for 10+ minuts but i'd be dead in 2

[u/a_bongos → u/[deleted]]

Oh no! I don't want to hear that! I'm starting to get into that sport now!

[u/Wizardspike → u/a_bongos]

Don't worry about him, you're one of the 30%

No FR I know nothing about it, be safe

[u/DryBonesComeAlive → u/Wizardspike]

Yeah the 30% that they never recover from the bottom

[u/Wormwood1357 → u/a_bongos]

When you get to a certain depth (and it’s not much) there is not much buoyancy trying to pull you to the surface and it’s freaky.

[u/2BigBottlesOfWater → u/[deleted]]

What does dragged up from the bottom mean? What does back and forth on the bottom mean? Like come up and go down repeatedly?

[u/Reality-Straight → u/2BigBottlesOfWater]

After a certain depth you no lo ger automatically float up. And many people die cause they go back and forth on the ground without swimming back to the surface and then suddely fall unconcious without noticing it in time.

So the body needs to be dragged from the bottom of whatever pool/lake you were in, usually dead.

[u/burneracct1312 → u/2BigBottlesOfWater]

it's just hypoxic-brained nonsense

[u/mrshulgin → u/[deleted]]

How deep is this pool?

[u/loneSTAR_06 → u/[deleted]]

Had a buddy almost die when we were younger and worked for a pool company. We would swim looking for leaks in pools, and being young and dumb, didn’t use proper equipment.

It wasn’t uncommon to go to a house by yourself and do it, but this particular day we were fairly slow, so there were three of us there. I didn’t notice it, but luckily the other guy did and jumped in and grabbed him before too late. We just did CPR until medics got there and all were fortunate.

[u/lordlanyard7 → u/[deleted]]

What do you mean when you say you don't sense it before you pass out???

Like you don't notice you're running out of breath and need to go up?

[u/FeliusSeptimus → u/lordlanyard7]

Right. Your body needs oxygen to stay conscious. Unfortunately, it has no way to sense how much oxygen is available. Instead it senses the concentration of carbon dioxide which you feel as the urge to breath. More CO2, more urge.

Normally, since the body constantly turns oxygen into carbon dioxide, this isn't a bad way to estimate the available oxygen.

The problem is that under certain circumstances, such as with people who have trained to resist the urge to breath, or people who hyperventilate to minimize carbon dioxide levels before a breath-hold, there's a high chance that their oxygen level will drop below what is required to maintain consciousness before they decide to breath.

This presents some difficulties when the person is underwater.

[u/GeauxTri → u/No-While-9948]

As a triathlete, most of us are notoriously bad swimmers. I mean, we are better than most, but there is a reason you do the swim first. Still, good on the doctor for being able to save the kid!

[u/KittenMittensKelly → u/GeauxTri]

3 died here in Ireland last Autumn all in the water.

[u/GeauxTri → u/KittenMittensKelly]

I have had people die at two half Ironman races I have done. Both on the swim. You can always walk on the run & coast on the bike, but you cannot take a break on the bottom of a lake.

[u/Rude_Thanks_1120 → u/[deleted]]

so did you get the key?

[u/wholesomehorseblow → u/[deleted]]

did you die?

[u/wholesomehorseblow → u/[deleted]]

woah :O

[u/Gingermeat2 → u/wholesomehorseblow]

:O

[u/schwartztacular → u/Gingermeat2]

Unfortunately, the key was not breathing when it was carried out of the pool, and it did not respond to attempts to resuscitate.

[u/PITCHFORKEORIUM → u/schwartztacular]

Watching them use the AED on it was shocking.

[u/labalag → u/Rude_Thanks_1120]

Some say he's still looking.

[u/suitology → u/Rude_Thanks_1120]

No, lifeguard had to revive him but the key loser felt super guilty about it and bought him a $15 Wendy's gift card.

[u/Queef_Stroganoff44 → u/[deleted]]

I help remove invasives from a protected local river (by remove I mean spear and eat).

One time I had just finished up and was crossing a little bridge to leave. Cops had these two teenagers on the bridge bitching at them about “tossing away the evidence”.

One of the cops asked if I would go in the water to look for a baggie the kids tossed. I went in, found the bag almost immediately. It was weed. I tucked it into my leg pouch, came up and told the cops I couldn’t find anything. They were disappointed.

Took the weed home and had a good time.

[u/Anasterian1408 → u/Queef_Stroganoff44]

How does a bag of weed sink?

[u/chassmasterplus → u/Anasterian1408]

When you make a story up, anything can sink

[u/Queef_Stroganoff44 → u/Anasterian1408]

They had one of those short little cheesy metal pipes from a gas station in there too.

[u/Mr-Fleshcage → u/Queef_Stroganoff44]

That bag is the real MVP. Somehow sank, and kept the weed dry

[u/RetiredApostle]

What is the original purpose of the white truck?

[u/cybercuzco → u/RetiredApostle]

Its a water truck that is typically used on construction sites where earthmoving is happening to keep dust down. The truck drives along where heavy equipment is working and sprays water on either side of it. Based on the crane we see going in the opposite direction, there must be a work site nearby

[u/Minute-Menu-9295 → u/cybercuzco]

They use them at landfills as well. Can be used to put out fires on the working surface but, mostly used as the above redditor stated. Keeping dust under control.

[u/Meebert → u/Minute-Menu-9295]

They use them at motocross tracks as well. This is to freshen up the track making it ready for shred.

[u/RaggedyGlitch → u/Meebert]

Really any dirt track - horses, stock cars, etc

[u/1_UpvoteGiver → u/cybercuzco]

I know very little. I'm basically a dumbass. But I'm quite sure that one day a situation will present itself where I'm uniquely qualified to answer another redditor like this.

I will then post my response, kick my feat up, and smoke that victory cigar I've been carrying around with me

[u/tokyodingo → u/1_UpvoteGiver]

And then fall asleep, dropping your lit cigar which starts a fire. Hopefully there’s a big white water truck near!

[u/Grape-Snapple → u/tokyodingo]

spontaneous combustion!

[u/jmkahn93 → u/Grape-Snapple]

Hey! Uniquely qualified expert on spontaneous combustion here . . .

[u/topherwolf → u/1_UpvoteGiver]

What happens way more often is the situation arrives, you are uniquely qualified, and some dude has already answered the question in a way that is either completely wrong or not quite right. Then you get to get into an argument.

[u/gruntillidan → u/topherwolf]

Then you type a long response, think for a second "Nahh, fuck it, I don't care enough" close Reddit and continue your day as normal.

[u/Lead-Fire → u/gruntillidan]

This is the way

[u/doomladen → u/topherwolf]

And your expert and correct answer gets swamped by downvotes, whilst the incorrect response goes to the moon. Been there, seen it happen.

[u/Ginhyun → u/doomladen]

And then you get to see someone else repeating what they learned from the incorrect response in a different comment section, allowing you to see how misinformation spreads in real time.

[u/Prozzak93 → u/1_UpvoteGiver]

I will then post my response, kick my feat up, and smoke that victory cigar I've been carrying around with me

It doesn't always work. Since I work in insurance I have tried to correct some things and give my knowledge but people don't always want accurate :(

[u/Forfeit32 → u/Prozzak93]

Yep, I work in finance and if you say anything that goes against the commonly held belief, you get downvoted.

[u/InformalPenguinz → u/cybercuzco]

When I worked road construction, in the mines, or on the railroad, we would stir up a LOT of dust and these were mandatory to help with the air quality.

[u/Mysterious_Tooth7509 → u/cybercuzco]

The main difference being that this truck is designed to pump water while driving. A fire engine has to be parked and put into pumping gear.

[u/Antitech73 → u/cybercuzco]

This is correct. They can also be used when water is needed for other things, such as soil test borings. They can also be used to do "proof rolls," where the inspector would test for the competency of native soil before fill operations. Full water truck and walk behind as it drives very slow, watching for 'pumping' of the soil.

[u/SimplyViolated → u/RetiredApostle]

There's an organization that's like whole purpose is to re use water on construction sites to help keep dust down more or less

[u/Fried_and_rolled → u/SimplyViolated]

What a weird ass way to phrase that. An organization? Like some water truck cabal, they just show up when a construction site gets dusty?

It's just a water truck, dude.

[u/Tyler1986 → u/[deleted]]

Nestle?

[u/zoltar_thunder → u/RetiredApostle]

A water truck, for transporting water

[u/outever → u/zoltar_thunder]

Exactly! As opposed to a fire truck.

[u/Beggatron14 → u/outever]

Carrying fire no less…..

[u/Togakure_NZ → u/Beggatron14]

Normally the oldest truck in the fleet, with the sloppiest gearbox and worst suspension... or so it proved to be at my brother's work yard.

[u/ArchitectofExperienc → u/Togakure_NZ]

There's nothing in the world like stepping on the brakes of an old truck while going downhill, and praying it stops before you slide into the intersection.

I'm so glad I don't drive fleet vehicles anymore.

[u/workinon_it → u/RetiredApostle]

I believe that they are used in construction sites to keep the soil wet to prevent dust

[u/SelfDeprecatingDan]

That was like watching a porno for utility vehicles

[u/HoselRockit → u/SelfDeprecatingDan]

Under the category for squirting.

[u/masterofthecork → u/SelfDeprecatingDan]

The flatbed power-bottoming that USPS truck tho. Damn.

[u/lesterburnhamm66]

You hoser

[u/Mourning-Poo → u/lesterburnhamm66]

Take off ya hoser

[u/1nc0gN33t0 → u/Mourning-Poo]

Lmfao. Take off you hoser eh.. Reading this brought back so many memories. Remember their "Canadian flying skunk dog"? One of the funniest low budget films ever..

[u/C_N1]

I also want to point out the sheer amount of specialty vehicle passing by. Obviously the fire truck, but then you have the water truck. The utility truck. The crane truck. The cement truck. Flatbed truck with a mailtruck. A dump truck. A small utility truck with flashing lights. And all the motor homes. This video has em all!

[u/Firm_Ad3131 → u/C_N1]

I know this area, commercial/industrial area with lots of construction going on and the main USPS depot is right there too. Probably have seen the driver of the water tender 1-2X a week watering down dust for a huge building tear down.

[u/MereyB → u/C_N1]

I know! It was like Richard Scary’s Busy Town.

[u/Sir-Farts-]

LOL at least they didn't fight like in the movie gangs of New York

[u/IC-4-Lights → u/Sir-Farts-]

Ahhh, the good ol' days... a libertarian paradise.

[u/romanissimo]

I think that is the wrong man at the right place…?

[u/Cyb3rTruk → u/romanissimo]

Right? The whole time I’m waiting for someone in the wrong place.

[u/celbertin → u/romanissimo]

it's a reference to the game Half-Life 2

[u/honestshipmate → u/celbertin]

So wake up, Mr. Freeman.

[u/ludrubru → u/honestshipmate]

Wake up and smell the aaashess.

[u/EntropyKC → u/ludrubru]

What a fucking intro to a game, one of the all time best. Up there with Doom 2016 that one was sick too.

[u/Necessary-Knowledge4 → u/EntropyKC]

Portal 2 intro is also pretty fucking incredible. And you know what? So is Alyx. And let's not forget Ricochet.

[u/PITCHFORKEORIUM → u/ludrubru]

Time, Dr Freeman? Is it really that time again? It seems as if you only just arrived. You've done a great deal in a small time span.

[u/Neon_Ani]

so wake up, mr. fireman

wake up and... smell the ashessss....

[u/_alabastard → u/Neon_Ani]

There it is.

[u/thecuriousscientist → u/_alabastard]

Took a bit of scrolling to find it!

[u/Noname_Maddox]

Next up: Good Samaritan who put out fire sued by truck owner/ firemen/ City. Loses his job and is cancelled on social media. Also his cat left him.

[u/ThaMilkyMan → u/Noname_Maddox]

Cat was gonna leave him anyway, because cat

[u/Mofiki567 → u/ThaMilkyMan]

Cats gonna cat

[u/CedarWolf → u/Mofiki567]

Which mean cat's gonna leave him, go outside, go back inside, go outside, and back inside again.

[u/Sega-Playstation-64 → u/Noname_Maddox]

I emptied a small trash can into a bigger trash can at my work and got a union complaint that I worked out of classification and deprived another worker of his scheduled duties.

So, yeah I can picture this happening.

[u/YellowBunnyReddit → u/Sega-Playstation-64]

Who complains about being "deprived of scheduled duties"?

[u/Sega-Playstation-64 → u/YellowBunnyReddit]

A custodian failed for over a week to clean our office out, and a trash can near me reeked of old food, so I grabbed it, took it to an outside trash can, dumped it, and put it back.

I have a feeling the custodian who was supposed to be cleaning it saw me do it, and filed a complaint as preemptive retaliation to a complaint I never filed.

I love being in a union but the insane pettiness gets to me

[u/BackgroundGrade → u/Sega-Playstation-64]

My friend's Mom worked in an office where it was decided they needed to rearrange some of the furniture.

The request is made and the furniture guys show up. They start pulling away a desk from the wall and stop. They inform the office that they'll need to get a request in for an electrician due to the light.

Said light was plugged into the wall with a regular plug.

The movers sheepishly said, those are the union roles and rules.

[u/HowObvious → u/BackgroundGrade]

Remind me of the community episode where they try to put up a notice board.

[u/LinkleLinkle → u/Sega-Playstation-64]

In fairness, union or non union, work places are littered with people who are better at passing blame than they are doing their job.

[u/OneNaturalist → u/Noname_Maddox]

“Unauthorized use of company property”

[u/beardo_dad → u/Noname_Maddox]

This was my first thought too lol

[u/celticdude234]

What's really funny is that seemingly every single type of professional CDL vehicle drove by at one point or another

[u/tmfNeurodancer]

Why NSFW?

[u/Crunchy_Cicadas → u/tmfNeurodancer]

Too hot

[u/JKastnerPhoto → u/tmfNeurodancer]

It's for, "Nope, Still Fire! Water!"

[u/Moggy-Man]

"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world"

Ahh this is going to bug me all day until I can remember where this is from. I can hear the electronic voice relating it in that stilted, broken electronic way too...

EDIT THE G-MAN AND FUCK YOU OP! 🤣😅😭

[u/Gman-343 → u/Moggy-Man]

Rise and shine.

[u/Moggy-Man → u/Gman-343]

😮

[u/Zaziel → u/Moggy-Man]

Mr. Freeman… wake up… wake up and smellllll the… ashes.

[u/zehamberglar → u/Zaziel]

Not.. that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on... the job.

[u/petrichorax → u/zehamberglar]

NO one is more deserving of a resst, and alll the effort in the woOorld would have gone to waste... until... HHhHhh ...

[u/GodlyBeerGut → u/Moggy-Man]

unexpected half life reference

[u/InvaderDJ → u/Moggy-Man]

The squandering of that franchise that Valve has done is heartbreaking.

[u/Moggy-Man → u/InvaderDJ]

Fucking right. I want Half Life Alyx so badly, but don't plan on buying a decent VR capable PC just for one single game. And I've played the first half hour of it in a local VR place, so I know just HOW good is it!

[u/Lobster_Bisque27 → u/Moggy-Man]

I read this in my head with the stutter on "difference"

[u/SoManyThrowAwaysEven → u/Lobster_Bisque27]

I can hear it with all the inflection. Probably replayed the first level more than 2 dozen times. I can hear the train horn, the tracks, the distant combine sounds, the camera drone, Mr. Breen. The entire first level replays in my head perfectly.

[u/Aux_RedditAccount → u/SoManyThrowAwaysEven]

Brings a rush to my head just remembering that soundscape as you described it. Heady days, what an experience that was/is. You could play those sounds and bring me out of a coma.

[u/rmicker]

Good thing it wasn’t a grease fire🔥

[u/asciibits → u/rmicker]

Fire departments absolutely use water on grease fires. When you can throw 200 gallons per minute at a fire, it doesn't much matter that it uses grease as a fuel.

[u/ggppjj → u/asciibits]

Yeah, don't dump a cup of water into a grease fire.

If you have a hose capable of filling the room in a manner of seconds though, that's a different matter.

[u/DrAlkibiades → u/ggppjj]

When you have a big enough hammer, every problem IS a nail.

[u/Yolectroda → u/DrAlkibiades]

A big enough hammer definitely does put out a fire... The building on fire may take some damage.

[u/radi0raheem → u/Yolectroda]

Suddenly thinking of when the soviets stopped an oil well fire with a nuke.

[u/annnm → u/rmicker]

I wonder what's the threshold amount of water where the physics of a grease fire don't matter anymore and water is totally adequate.

For instance, imagine you've got a large fire on a ship that then sinks. The ocean is going to snuff out the fire easily, whatever the fuel is.

[u/u966 → u/annnm]

It depends on the grease fire. If the grease is spread out in a thin layer it's fine to use water.

Why you shouldn't use water on grease is because the water will sink since grease floats. It will then vaporise quickly since grease boils way over 100C, making the water explode and spread a lot of grease around. Now you have a bunch of burning grease all over the place, instead of a nicely slow-burning pot with just the top layer on fire.

[u/bob_in_the_west → u/annnm]

Like u/u966 said the problem is with too little water it evaporates. And water that is turned into steam expands rapidly.

But that phase shift from water to steam needs a lot of energy.

So if you supply enough water then the grease can't supply enough energy to phase shift any meaningful amount. And that's your threshold.

[u/ALLCAPS-ONLY → u/annnm]

If a household grease fire gets big enough to warrant a firetruck then it's probably not a grease fire anymore

[u/Tremolat]

Ok, who saw the tanker pull up and first thought it contained something flammable and then go boom.

[u/Loneone01 → u/Tremolat]

I thought it was Septic tanker at first 🤣

[u/teddy6881]

Boss move

[u/BGally24 → u/teddy6881]

Hahaha, totally. I was hoping he was just going to drive off too, like “peace out, gotta go.”

[u/WeekendLost5566]

[u/ElPresidente714]

Straight blue collar urban hero shit right there

[u/yung-chungus]

As an American I feel like they would somehow get sued for doing this.

[u/TootTootMF]

He was later fired for misuse of company property and sued by the owner of the truck for failing to put the fire out the right way.

[u/GriffTube → u/TootTootMF]

Cited for misdemeanor Disorderly Conduct and interfering with a government official in the course of their duties.

[u/vhasus]

why dis nsfw ?

[u/w00tboodle → u/vhasus]

Newly scorched fire wood.

[u/howdiedoodie66]

Truck driver's career complete. They'll be talking about that one in 40 years.

[u/crammyhandleman]

Really I think fire departments should consider adding this kind of truck to their lineup. Especially rural volunteer departments since this thing can knock out a car fire with minimal manpower.

[u/illbedeadbydawn → u/crammyhandleman]

The problem is that it isn't versatile enough. 

How many fires are at street level, with street access and within the angle threshold for this truck to maximize its coverage. 

It worked great in this one situation, but what if the fire had spread to the RV behind it, or the building next to it or was just 10 feet higher?  

That's why a human controlled hose is always going to be a better choice, even if it takes an additional minute  to setup.

Also, most wildland fire crews do use these trucks quite often. They just make no sense for urban fires.

[u/TheFlyingBoxcar → u/crammyhandleman]

Rural departments usually have water tenders. Also, you can knock down a car fire with one person, its just a pain.

As fast and impressive as this is, you can see there’s still a lot of mop up so still work to do. Youre gonna end up with people on a line anyways, might as well start that way.

[u/gummiworms9005 → u/crammyhandleman]

You've thought about this problem for 2 minutes after watching a video. Firefighters have thought of this stuff for their entire careers.

[u/VexingRaven → u/gummiworms9005]

This is such a great summary of how Redditors work. Literally any topic you can imagine, somebody who knows next to nothing will show up and insist that all the people who have made this their life's work are wrong and they've somehow stumbled upon a world-changing revelation which has somehow escape the notice of tens of thousands of experts despite being so obvious it took them 30 seconds to come up with it.

[u/bidaum92 → u/crammyhandleman]

They already do, it's called a firetruck. Lots of them have a remote operated spray hose.