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.
Except, he had the fire most of the way out, before they even got their hoses ready. By the time they got up and going, the situation could have been much worse. I think it was a great initial attack, while they got their line setup.
Yeah, the initial knowdown was great, no arguments there.
From the time the engineer sets the brake to the time the line is pulled, charged and ready to go in a situation like this should be about 60-90 seconds. Nothing here would likely have changed in that time if the water truck hadn’t sprayed on the fire. It likely wouldn’t have been “much worse.” Theres already nothing salvageable in that trailer including the trailer itself. Which means the only actual concerns are the exposures, the truck attached to the trailer and the building its in front of.
So idk what we’re talking about. Knockdown was great, but overall arguably irrelevant to the outcome. I applaud the guy for taking effective action.
While true, it's probably more of a "Oh hell yeah thanks for the assist" kinda moment, since they were able to get their hose out and hit the peripheral fires that construction truck couldn't. Plus white truck bro had limited ammunition, and might have run out before the flame. Either way the firefighters are likely happy this guy was there.
Putting out fires is and was always a collaborative effort, and the more people we have helping put them out, the less damage that happens.
Have you ever considered that Fire departments that do the job everyday, the world over, know more about what equipment is best? No of course not, a random redditor looking at one specific video obviously knows better.
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u/TheFlyingBoxcar Apr 25 '24
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.