Littleton Firefighting - A New Era
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ธ.ค. 2018
- January 1st signals a new year and a new era of firefighting in the City of Littleton, Littleton Fire Protection District and Highlands Ranch Metro District as Littleton Fire Rescue and South Metro Fire Rescue join forces. We are thrilled to welcome 160 Littleton Firefighters into the SMFR family who bring 128 years of dedication, service & innovation with them.
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Hello from a volunteer fire-fighter in Australia! You have an outstanding department!
Hello and thank you!
Am im the first german watching this?
From just this video and an outside perspective i have to say you guys seem to know how to do it right.
Stay save and keep up the great work!
Greatings from Lowersaxony, Germany
I am very excited to be a resident within such an Outstanding Department, as a retired Asst. Fire Chief, I have worked with many Fire Dept's and this IS one of the Best in the Country ! Congratulations on the merger for 2019 !
Congratulations to all involved with Littleton Fire Service, a great savant of its communities 👏👏👏👏👏
This South Metro Fire Rescue is top of the line. From being in and around the fire Service from the age of 4, and really working in at as a volunteer at 15, then career at 20, I’ve gotten to see many things. This department is really second to none. Watch there employees talk during there videos, they’re always happy, well spoken, precise, just flat out solid and impressive. If I was young again, and restarting my career, this without a doubt would be my first application!!!! I would do what ever I needed to so I could get hired and on the job with the quickness. Looking at there stations, equipment, all there gear and hand equipment, everything is perfect. That’s not to say things aren’t off or mistakes aren’t made because all have issues and do things incorrectly, but that’s every department in the world. I’m just saying when you see them in action, look over there equipment, the placement of Engines, Quints, Rescues, Heavy Rescue and Dive units, the Rescue vehicle on tracks, just everything. One thing I’ve noticed right away is there not afraid to cross staff units and use Quints. I’ve preached that for years as far as Quints go and was never took seriously. We had small crews during the day when I worked, out response for any structure was Engine and Quint Tower out first. We pulled up to a working commercial structure fire one afternoon, I hit the hydrant with the Quint Tower Ladder and got ridiculed for weeks for it. Now, it’s looked at a must when running these type of trucks. But, just they way they do daily operations, this Dept has it together. No doubt about it. I wish I was 20 again. Keep up the best work!!!!!
Very honored to have been asked to participate in this video with Littleton Fire Rescue - the department I grew up with.
Tom - an excellent narration. I have been closely associated with LFR since 1959 and am glad to see some of our history saved. Thanks for your participation
SO glad you participated! @@petecernich2476
@@tomcostello7793
Very well done to all involved in this video. At first, I thought it was a local news story piece but the longer it went I began to see just how well Littleton and the rest of South Metro work together and that this was not a "Pat Ourselves on the Back," this is (or was) a story to show the residents out there that they still matter, and now they have a larger set of resources to help them when (Heaven forbid) they need the help. Keep up the good work.
South Metro Fire has an ISO rating of 1... only 270 fire departments have this rating, out of roughly 47,000 meaning South Metro is in the top .005%
in 2020 only 77
@@everythingmax3623 The 77 number is of agencies that both hold an ISO Class 1 rating and are internationally accredited by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI) as of 2019. In 2020 there are currently 393 ISO Class 1 departments out of 39,378 departments that have been rated by ISO and there are 284 internationally accredited agencies by the CFAI as of this reply. There are currently about 100 agencies that are both ISO Class 1 and internationally accredited by the CFAI.
Love seeing videos like this.
Great history piece!
Very professional video, very well done. I live in Phoenix Arizona and am close to the border between the Cities of Phoenix and Glendale. Both are known for being top notch fire departments along with the Police Departments of both cities. I once had a natural gas leak on the south side of my home. I called the non emergency number to request a fire truck to come check it out and told them there was No emergency. I used a neighbor's phone so sparks would not be caused at my house and shut the mail breakers off on my power panel then evacuated the house. Two fire trucks, one from Phoenix FD and the other from Glendale FD both driving down the street with lights and sirens going. I felt embarrassed as neighbors came out to see what all the noise was about. They also detected the gas odor and called Southwest Gas to respond. Even an ambulance showed up from Phoenix Fire. The men and women of both departments treated my family and myself with the professional skills they have, it was determined the leak was underground and not a threat to my house. A crew was on standby as I re energized the power panel. I was asked to call again, and to use 9-1-1 if there were to be any future leaks. Yet they commended me in getting everyone out of the house and shutting down the power panel. Southwest Gas went through the attic to trace the gas line headed to the central heating, nothing was left out. Highly professional Fire Departments is what saves lives!!! These two acted as though lives were at stake even though there was no true emergency!!! This video made me think of that day as I watched, The Denver area is blessed to have such a fine Fire Department!!
Fantastic video,congrats to all Littleton & So. Metro Fire personnel.
Douglas County Sheriffs Office's Deputy Zachary Parrish is one of my biggest heroes of all time, it is very cool to see the paramedics who responded to try to help him, unfortunately he was dead long before the Littleton paramedics got to him.
the pulsepoint notification made me start looking for my phone lol great video
Same man.
My Engineer has the pulse point tone as his notification tone for texts and emails... Needless to say it drives everyone crazy haha
I did the same thing!
Me too lmao
Love the narration! Tom really adds a great component to this piece of art!
You guys and your history and your amazing paramedic skills are awesome! Thanks so much for all that you do.
Best PR Fire Vid I ever saw...I retired 5 yrs ago after 30+ years...I started out gung-ho and eager but our Dept along with the neighboring Depts could not get on the same page...New ideas squashed and the older FF's were just plain jealous of us new FFPM's...Glad I left...Stay fresh and encouraging to all...
Well done video.......Thanks to all the men and women who put their lives on the line
I love these videos. They’re always awesome. I’m not even from the area and still love seeing this Dept lol
Amazing! So glad that you guys are adding littleton! Gave me goosebumps thinking of how much you guys have changed. Keep up the good work, you guys are heroes.
The part about Emergency! Was the best...
Amazing History
The new series of unfortunate events season looks great
I remember old station 2 thanks to the Arapahoe Rescue Patrol as our "headquarters" was in the basement and we did do some training with Littleton Fire
Very well produced overview film.
Nicely done.
Awesome!!
Great department history!
nice s videos greetings from germany
Muy bueno información 👍👍👍
Wow what a history
Is statoin 11 just engine and medic 11 bc I need to know bc I'm trying to make a game on roblox
Nice vid
Can you guys to another Dive Team video?
Good afternoon, my name is Octavio Iram Alvarez, I send you a greeting from Guanajauto, Mexico, from the Civil Protection Coordination, State Firefighters, where I can send you the patches from my station
45 calls a day! Jesus! My station gets 45 calls a month if that 😂
yes but I think its from all of the stations combined, still a good amount of calls!
They have 9 stations...Calls are split up by district
How will the station numbers work now?
Shit, my dad’s station normally gets about 1-5 every 24 hours.
Wikipedia says that Littleton has a bit more than 40,000 inhabitants but they still run more than 45 calls a day?? I used to live in a city with a population of 150,000 and the FD ran an average of 5 to 6 calls a day...
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO thanks for the information, that explains it a bit. Still a very large number of calls, or just a low number in my city. They cover the entire city area from a single large fire station (at least first due; there are 2nd due stations from the volunteers scattered in the city)
So Littleton fire will no longer exist? And new apparatus will say South Metro?
Take Littleton’s international ambulances, and replace south metro’s ambulances with those.
I got one question do you have to be able to swim to become a firefighter
some places yes.
Firefighter
Who was the spokesperson
I remember growing up in Littleton when fire didn't transport in the 80's and even in the 90's they had there medics but all else transports where done by columbine ambulance company
What’s the new name?
I own emergency tv series
Oh yeah DRGW
Anyone else see the faces at 1:50
Ok I’m from U.K. where fire service and paramedic services are separate entities can any active us firefighters/emts/paramedics answer this are paramedics a higher rank than firefighters
Typically in most fire departments since fire and EMS are the same department, all members are firefighters and at least EMT's. Paramedics are still fire fighters, they just have a higher medical license than most the others. As far as rank goes they're typically held at the same as other fire fighters, although pay is typically higher.
That Doctor Jordan needs to thank the life guards and that nurse that started cpr and shocked him first that's what really saved his life cause if that wasn't done by the time the medics got there it may of been to late !!!! 32 Years firefighter , past Chief and 15 years EMS it wasn't the Medics that saved him sorry
It's amazing to see how the USA fire service works compared to what it like here in the UK.
What are the differences?
@@Darthvaporapex
•Types of trucks . Because we don't have brush trucks or many ladder trucks that are that big
•How the paramedic system work (because we have the NHS)
•Types of calls like over here we never really have fire respond to medical calls unless it's a trapped victim or car accident
•types of equipment
@@ethan.dalton6404 yeah we have in integrated fire/ems. It's tough because you never know what you are responding to. There is also overlap between police and fire. For example, we( fire/ems) often respond to drink drivers as welfare checks. We normally try to snag their keys and wait for police but it can be risky and take a while. The police in my city are severely understaffed and we often take up the slack.
@@ethan.dalton6404 Greater Manchester FRS have trauma technicians who have served in A&E depts. They do respond when GMAS request them, especially to Class 1 heart related calls. Dublin FRS though not in the UK also use the American system of EMT's and man their own ambulances. Their clinical ratings are higher than ambulance technicians.
@@Biffo1262 thanks mate I didn't know that all I know about is Suffolk FRS and Norfolk FRS because that's were im from
10:50 Look at that depressing suburbia. Who would want to live there??
Just the same old unsustainable cookie-cutter homes and roads for miles and miles....
I WANT TO CRY
LEARN WHAT DENSITY IS PLEASE
I live in a neighborhood like that, probably near there but not there. It is a communist hellhole, where HOA is the KGB. There are 4 houses just on my street that are literally the exact same blueprint as mine.
Game
They might be the "most innovative" in Colorado but they can't even figure out that their light setups are a confusing disorganized mess of colors???
TOO MANY COLORS
TOO MANY LIGHTS
LIGHTS NOT FLASHING IN SYNC
UNSAFE
ALL BLUE + A LITTLE WHITE WOULD BE WAY BETTER
These are fire trucks, not police cruisers. Plus, and trust me on this one, no amount of lights whether many or few, will stop people from getting disoriented or crashing into trucks over here.
1st you insult the community then you insult the FD. Why don't YOU come over here to Colorado and show us how YOU would do it. SIMPLE ANSWER- YOU CAN'T. WE CAN AND WE DO and when we show up nobody cares about our lights-they care we are there.
@@rolandmiller5456 lol this was a year ago I was a little obsessed. And yeah what matters most is that they make it safely and quickly and do their job well, which I know most firefighters do!
I just know jumbled lights are statistically a little less effective 🤷♂️ so I felt the need to point it out
Still Dutch, German and scandinavian emergency services are better.
Boring
Willam Tomczak Your mom is boring