PRE-ARRIVAL: Apartment fire goes 2-alarms at 729 3rd Street in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania
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- Late Sunday morning (11:27) Lehigh County Comm transmitted the box for 729 3rd Street Catasauqua Borough for a house fire with 10 people trapped sending Engine 2, Quint 18, Ladder 2 and Medic 75. Greenawalds Rescue 11 was alerted for the F.A.S.T. Company in the working fire signal.
Chief 18 (Scheirer) arrived and reported smoke showing. The fire radio advised him all occupants were out of the house now. Moments later he reported entrapment, and told the fire dispatcher he was going inside to attempt the rescue.
Prior to the arrival of the Engine, he reported the victim was out of the house and wanted EMS to the front of the building to check the occupants.
Engine 2 brought in their own water supply from 3rd and Walnut and stretched a hand line to the 1st floor per orders of chief 18. Quint 18 came in from the north and nosed into Engine 2 right in front of the house. Ladder 2 was positioned behind the quint.
The 2nd alarm consisted of Coplay Engine 5, Whitehall Engine 39, Hanover Ladder 15 and Air 32.
Three lines were stretched and in operation. The fire was darkened down and under control about 30 minutes later.
#fire #workingfire #smoke
That was painful to watch. 20 firefighters on the front lawn whilst one guy causes more damage to the upstairs than the fire.
When is there not 20 guys watching?
and good luck suing them to... FF are protected under qualified immunity
Those are standard fire procedures to check for extension of the fire (removing siding to get to insulation material underneath). Breaking windows is a standard tactic to vent a fire. It is cosmetic damage. It's a trade-off....do some cosmetic damage in order to try to save the structure overall. The goal is to get the fire under control quickly enough so that the structure might be salvageable.
The fact that they didn't completely lose control of a fire in an old frame house is a miracle.
this was a nozzlemans dream, pull a line, u see the front room well off, go in, down the hall, bang a right, you'll see fire...this should have been a quick 1 maybe 2 room job 1 line, 2 as backup maybe...smh at this video
thats what i was thinking
Did I miss something that was not on video. Fire coming out of first floor window nothing on 2,ND floor . Roof still looked solid and the call evac. Maybe that was because they had their lines all tied up in knots trying stretch them. Very poor attack
I agree 💯
What a fuck up lost the whole house incompetent fire crew we do the right way in the uk
What you missed is having the slightest idea what you are talking about.
Vergognoso, un incendio il piano terra è finito che avere fatto bruciare tutta la casa. Vergogna, io se ero il padrone aprirei una causa nei confronti dei vigili del fuoco per farmi risarcire il danno che hanno fatto. Alcuni vigili ci godono
It started as an electric fire in the wall. The fire was inside the walls of the house. Very hard if not impossible to put out. You have to pull the walls down to get at the base of the fire.
If this gets any worse, I' m calling the fire department!
wow, back to training, just wow
Why do they let the fire spread before they start to put it out???
This was one of the worst attacks I've seen.... no wonder the fire got away from them.
Who the hell taught them how to stretch ?!?!
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Horribly sad.
Certainly not you because you have never spent a single day as a firefighter
Dry stretch as fire blows out the windows, you love to see it
Hater
@@anthonybarber869 hes right these volunteer companies are painful to watch because they are severly undertrained
@@fhp2024
You haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about
@@virgilhilts3924 listen i never meant all volunteer fire departments, there is plenty of volunteer guys who get the work done better than most paid guys. but i’ve seen a ton of videos of fires with volleys who lack proper training.
@@fhp2024
You haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about
I think Chief Green had to many Red Bulls
running around like a headless Chicken
Not armchair quarterbacking here, just some food for thought.... A quick blast of water in the front window, before entering, may have gone a long way towards a knockdown before entering. It also seems as if they had a hard time finding the front room and getting water on the fire. At one time, it is obvious that they are in the living room trying to hit the fire but they don't realize (or heavy fire is keeping them back) that there is a doorway going into the enclosed porch. One thing I will criticize is, that you should never have to call for the initial RIT team....it should be automatic alarm on a confirmed fire.
You gleefully claim "I'm not armchair quarterbacking"... Then quickly proceed to armchair quarterback 😆😅😂🤣
About the only thing you actually accomplished to proving that you have no idea what you are talking about.
@@virgilhilts3924 34 years in the fire service, how about you? Water in the front window was not a criticism, it was a suggestion. Watch the video a bit closer....my comments are right on with the interior crew. And if you don't have a RIT crew coming automatically, you shouldn't be in the fire sevice....prove me wrong...
@@TheRonKlimo
Every phony firefighter on Yt claims "I have XX years of service" 😆😅😂🤣
I do not have to prove you wrong... Your own words prove you have never been a professional firefighter
@@virgilhilts3924 funny how people like you result to insults. Maybe do a little research on Govenor's Island with FDNY and you might learn a thing or two. Its quite interesting.
@@TheRonKlimo
Well except for the fact that I "insulted" no one, I stated a rather obvious FACT. Now if that fact hurts your feelings... oh well... maybe you should stop pretending to be something you aren't.
That's the thing the YouToob Phony Firefighter Brigade never seems to grasp... Is that actual experienced Firefighters can spot your type a mile away. You think because you toss out some lingo or repeat things you have heard others say that it validates you. The fact is it is like waving a big giant flag that says "I have no clue what I am talking about!".
Again, your own words prove you have never been a professional Firefighter.
Anyone know if they ever got any water on the fire?
This is not a fire department, but a bunch of clueless bunglers. What a disgrace.
Great video and yes, it had some good and bad. The first two guy who geared up and went inside stayed there for a while. I don't get the hoses staying inside the house for the most part?
So directing water into the vented window even before members make entry was not considered??
I always thought that you have to spray water on the fire to put it out?? Guess I was wrong??
Perfect example of the issues operating 2inch smoorh bore lines. Run out of tank water in 2min
Later comment said "First in engine caught a hydrant".
This was probably a 20 gallon fire at the beginning.
I can't fathom why nobody got an external line on that porch window early, just standing around letting fire eat without any suppression effort. Even a single 1 3/4 line would have made a difference early on. The fact it took 10 minutes to get water in that window was a serious failure.
I guess they haven't heard about Transitional Attack yet.
Or hit it hard from the yard, then go in. It hurt watching this.
Why are the going in without the Lin charged
great coverage.
I haven’t commented on a video in awhile but I had to on this one. I watched this and was in pain. It’s the dang stigma of “we go interior” or whatever that does this. Nothing says you can’t finish the job inside but quite literally letting the fire progress when you could keep it in check from outside is insane. At the end of the day the job is to suppress fire and in-turn protect and preserve property when life hazards don’t exist. No where in the job description or mission statement does it say to make tactical decisions based on what will produce the best helmet cam footage for the year in review video.
I’m a chief officer at a department who runs with 1 to 3 guys on an engine depending on the time of day etc. We don’t get it right everytime but I’m proud to say we would have checked this up from the exterior before going in as additional resources arrived. We always have to consider exterior attack due to a lack of manpower.
Long story short do what is best for quick suppression. Sometimes that’s interior attack sometimes it’s exterior sometimes it’s transitional but only ever doing it one way is foolish. I’d rather get a quick knock, save the house, and minimize my firefighters risk than tell a cool story later about our gnarly hallway crawling smoke eating push we made. Gotta put your guys and the citizens first.
Would hoses left behind on interior fighting left charged too ? If hose behind nozzled burns away then even higher psi in more concentrated areas while flopping all over !
First I wanna just say Great filming!.....please could someone tell me what happened with water supply......I've watched a couple versions of the fire and can't make out the radio traffic well enough to understand the water issues.....Thanks ahead....!
I can speculate, . 2inch smooth bores, @50psi flows avg. 240GPM, Add another one, and thats most booster tanks in 1 minute. 2 inch lines have been taking over. Due to there flow rates and ease of handling. But this is a example of what happens if your 2nd engine isn't directly behind you bringing the slug.
The 1st due engine secured a water supply. The hydrant was only operating at 50% or less. The water department is working on the problem Monday.
@@newsworking Thanks Boss!....Just sucks losing the Battle....
@@shanestamball1886 British fire engines carry high pressure hose reels for first attack
whilst getting main line hose to work. High pressure hose reels are wonderful.
@@tomhollandroberts1737 high pressure reels used to be standard in the USA, not much anymore. Flats fires in the UK vs. Balloon construction row homes in most of the USA city's. Least not forget it was Ahrens&Fox who invented and mastered High pressure that was stable without water hammer. By 1941 300 to 450psi was very standardized in booster reels.
This is one of those fires where you just scratch your head and go WTF are they doing
A properly trained fire dept would have had the fire out in 5 minutes and contained it to the front room.
My dad was a fire fighter and fire rescue instructor in Indiana. It takes longer than 5 minutes to contain any house fire. I don't know how you figure 5 minutes especially when several people are trapped in the house
During the first half of this video WHY WAS THERE NOBODY PUTTING WATER ON THE DAM FIRE IN THE FIRST FLOOR?? YOU GUYS ARE STUPID!!!
3/4 of video watched and still NOBODY PUTTING WATER IN THE FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS WHERE THE FIRE IS!!!! YOU ALL NEED RETRAINED
Nice video Bill!
Thanks!
@@newsworkingeveryone remain calm
Calm down @@ItsTheCostanza
Just wondering why fire just inside & right not hit first ? It's their entrance
Sagt mal Leute , werdet ihr dafür bezahlt , dass ihr das Haus abbrennen lasst ? Ihr solltet euch schämen und besser den Beruf wechseln .
The first in Engine did lay hise at hydrant but no other unit picked it up...
You guys are going to have to get additional ventilation happening 😮😮😮 I will agree with some of the other post this in its entirety is very frustrating and painful to watch! Guys get training in incident command and control management of what should be a typical residential structure fire! If you cannot get control of a single room fire with 2 interior hose lines....something serious is wrong. Sorry just being honest! The vent hole in the fire room should have been done in the first 5-10 minutes!!! Great video coverage though!!!
Is there a reason why their not spraying the fire?😮
I have questions....The first in hand line got their asses kicked and didnt put a lick of fire out. Looked good until the stretch to the first floor.
This has to be the most under trained fire department I be ever seen.
So very sad, it took three guys three times to ask for water on the only line off the first truck I have heard fireman don't like going into a building burning but two guys went in with no water in the hose. . ???
Awesome video! Thanks for all you do guys!
Why dont they put their BA equipment on when on the truck ??
Who taught that 1 ff to ventilate & more important why was he the only one at the outset up there?
How in the world did they not get an immediate knock down? The fire is literally in the front room where they made entry?
thank you for filming!, stay safe
Outstanding work. Nothing like responding to a reported structure fire with occupants trapped and getting off the rig ready to go in so there's no time wasted 🤦♂️
I dont get it, are they letting it burn down on purpose?
Why are there 15+ men watching the fire on the front lawn and no one i putting water on it ???
Why no exterior lines??? Why did they never attack the heart of the fire? It is clear it started in the kitchen. Yet, they seem to run into the far interior or upstairs first, then get lost in the house and never attack the kitchen fire, so it takes hold and spreads.
One hose??
Good Job On Video Bill
This is unreal. I’m not a firefighter, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to notice something isn’t being done right 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🙆🏾
Not a firefighter got it.
I hope everybody is okay and The?
Fireman's be blessed.🙏🙏🙏
Entering a building with a dry line. Why? A lot of running around with nothing getting done.
I have to stand up for these firefighters. I was asking the same questions. But i wouldn't do what they are doing for anything. Not all volunteer fire departments are the same. My dad, my brother, now his son (my nephew), all with the same department (my dad and brother have retired. ) i am sure these guys were doing the best they could. It could have been some of their first real fire. Please do not blast them. And, get them discouraged. I really hope that after this video is watched by them. They will see theirs mistakes. And, i hope the chief will get to work fixing the problems. Pray for these guys. Support them. Tell them Thanks. Make it where they want to improve.
What makes you think they made mistakes. Do you or anyone else know the layout of that house? No you do not, every fire is different. We're there people in that house don't know that either. If there were people in that house they come first as with all fires job one is to save life then property.
@jamesaddie4895 I really did not mean mistakes. If you read all of my post. Not just one sentence. You will see that I said all departments are different. I should have worded it different.
What baffles me more than anything is the fact that they waste precious time by having to kit up before entering the house. Goes for the relief crew as well. You KNOW you're there to relieve those inside. Why not arrive with your masks, gloves, etc. on.
Absolutely pathetic fire fighting. 10 minutes in, and no water on that fire. Two f’ing hose lines inside, and they let that thing go that far?!?!
What a absolute $hitshow
Glad I'm not the only one to think there was much too much time wasted just standing around. There seemed to be 5 guys just standing around for every 1 guy working!
First line went in quick, but did not seem to hit fire. What went wrong. Next time hit the Hydrant. Takes away any issues with relay and running out of water.
Just from the outside, you can tell that the fire room is an enclosed porch that most likely has a door going from the living room out into the porch. I would think that the fire was also rolling into the living room, and they may not have realized (or fire pushing them back) that they had a wall, with a door between them and the actual fire room.
Too many hands in the cookie jar and not enough people knowing what the hell they’re doing
What happened
That was painful waiting for water.
This should be a training film on how not to attack the fire
Continuing their long held standard of firefighting.
Didn’t do much inside inside of that window was still going
Oh I do know what im talking about I'm a retired firefighter with 30 yrs experience
Funny how every phony firefighter on TH-cam says the exact same thing
Oh I will disbeliever
Battalion Chief here. Who are these guys?
That fireman dragging all that flaked hose? Why the hell don't they adopt rolled hose like the UK?
Do they not have hose reels on American fire engines for first attack?
"Why the hell don't they adopt rolled hose like the UK?"
-Because that would be stupid.
"Do they not have hose reels on American fire engines for first attack?"
-US FD's used to use reel lines but then they chose to leave that ancient outdated technology behind
@@virgilhilts3924watching TH-cam vids of UK firefighters and US firefighters it sure seems that “outdated” fastattack reels really work more efficiently. The Brit’s woulda had two high pressures on that in 30 seconds while the other crew readies the low pressure side. Honestly I’m convinced the Europeans know better. Always seems to take the US teams many precious minutes to even deploy a single drop of water.
@@jaywhoisit4863
_"watching TH-cam vids"_
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You feel free to keep watching videos, I rely on well proven research and science along with real world experience.
There is a reason rigid line hose reels were abandoned for structural firefighting in the US a half century ago... Because they suck! They are difficult to use, take up too much room on the Engine, and do not flow enough water to be properly effective. Especially with the rapid rise in HRR over that same period of decades. They are no longer even certified or approved for structural firefighting use anywhere in the US, primarily due to their inability to provide adequate GPM's.
Firefighting is simple math, science proves that for a given amount of HRR you need a given number of GPM in flow to counteract. I can approach a fully involved compartment with a Super Soaker squirt gun and have water on it in literal seconds, but it will not be sufficient to counter the HRR. Same applies to the UK and their tiny little garden hoses...
In the UK your dinky little reel line is flowing about 25gpm
You claim 30 seconds to application after arrival
So at say 5 minutes ET you have put ~112 gallons on the fire
In the US I can flow 200gpm out of a quick attack line
I'll be gracious and double your application time to 1 min
So at 5 minutes ET I will have put 800 gallons on the fire
All with a line that is lighter and far more maneuverable
On any sort of seated residential compartment fire time to first water is vastly trumped by time to appropriate GPM. Reel lines with ridged hose and HP attack lines are nothing new, in fact both were in use around WWII and advanced quite a bit in the years that followed. But fire science and real world use proved they were relatively ineffective when compared to HVLP firefighting, which is why almost no one uses it today. Heck when I started my firefighting career back in 1980 there was a big push by manufacturers to reintroduce HP and VHP into the fire service, it was a failure then as it is today with the latest "next best thing".
Chief Green acts 'green'. Making entry solo, coming out with no mask and going back in same way. Took no scene leadership role after being relieved of command. Ran around John Wayne style as a one-man crew, giving himself assignments. I'm embarrassed for him. Most FCs I've known would have demoted this guy for this incident alone.
Guys going in and out of the fire not wearing PPE!!!. Dude climbing a ladder for no apparent reason Guys climbing the roof when the fire on the first floor. Wow
Looked to me like there was a possible gas-fed fire in that front room. After being knocked down the first few times it blazed up again.
I feel so bad
That is one of the worst videos i have seen. A prime example of how firefighters can get killed or seriously injured for no reason.
Respect the firefighters please ,
Isnt it normal procedure to turn the gas off at the gas meter during a house fire like that Duh !
Omg wow
it was more like 75 FF and tearing out every window they can..lol...it took forever to put out the flames in the widow,,had to come back like 3 times...
yet again all standing around and a good 5 minuites before any water was put on that fire
Someone could have been using a hose and putting water into the open windows
I'm kind of surprised, this department is usually good at knocking it down. I thought the first to guys made an aggressive attack but clearly they missed this room. Of course don't know the layout. Still surprising
They didnt have a clue. The line isnt even charged when they went in and its a small fire on the first floor.
Amateur hour
The upstairs window is wide open suggesting that there was egress
Why are you going into a hostile environment without a charged handling and no secured hydrant? Setting up your crews for failure and maybe even worse.
First-due engine laid in from a hydrant a block away.
Then where is the water??@@newsworking
What planet are you on? Everyone goes in on tank water.
@@shanestamball1886 no kidding, my point is they went in without the line even charged.
Then they evacuate saying “they got overrun”
Did they really?
Or did they enter a building not prepared to adequately attack a relatively small fire.
Hmmm. Another American fire fighting disaster. No 360, entering without charged hose, not attacking seat of fire, firefighters entering the building without ba. and that’s within the first minute or so.
They should have been geared up when they arrived
Very slow reaction
why don't these guys put on masks on the way to the fire instead of in the front yard
That officer is doing just about everything he can except go inside coward
One of worst I’ve seen..that Chief banging on siding and holding ladder…find a new job please
Im sorry, but good job doesnt looks like that! 30 firemen and you let go the house! Its not possible job like that in Europe! Its terrible job! Looks like "to have job" for every the men! My God!
The fire was contained to the front room with no major extension apparently. Last I heard from your side of the pond, Spain lost a 14 story apartment block...
That man said his son was in there
That's painful to watch terrible job the fire department cause more damage than the fire. Cutting holes in roofs are a thing the past knocking every out window in the house is a thing of the past . what they teach now days when you to fire schools and trainings is its better to take the oxygen out of the fire that means keep everything closed until you have the fire knock down then ventilate. But that doesn't mean go knock every window out of the damn structure . When the truck rolls up who ever isn't the front should be masked up ready .
Wow they could have had that under control looks to me they just wanted to stand around that roof should have been vented
Single room fire on the first floor and they still stuffed it up
Why is it so painful to watch when the obvious is neglected?
Saw on the porch roof? Cmon fellas
Not good, they just let this house burn. Unreal
In the disco planet, where I work from time of dispatch that would’ve been less than five minutes overall and I’ve been done and we had not ruined the man’s house to build it. That’s five minutes.
Sad
Sad bunch of firemen. All that equipment, 2 lines fighting fire. Sorry bunch.
Just put it out you took enough time screwing around on the front porch then you advanced you had a good push going. Smoke look good now she’s kicking harder than she was at the beginning. Just put the effing thing out not a whole experience, but you’re doing the best.
Incredible bad work! You may learn by Tulsa Fire department how to do!
DMN WHOA HUGE FIREBALL ETC ONLY 2ND ALARM ;
What the Hell 🤔🧐
What a clown show. 10 dudes standing at the front door as the house burns down.
Now if they put their equipment on in the trucks on the way there they wouldn't save a lot of time
Lets all put our hands in our pockets and watch. Duh...