Excellent job! Ladders all the way around the building perfect! They had room for the stick out front . First arriving units perfect placement of apparatus on a Commercial Job,very important ,nice job ,very well trained.
Boy, are the negative comments necessary? The fire service has many full and volunteer members. Each fire presents a different situation. Let's give these folks a cheer instead of a jeer!
Absolutely I agree with you what firefighters have to deal with fighting a fire .I have 5 buddies of mine that are firefighters and the job they do I could not do
I would never criticize firefighters unless I saw blatant and obvious incompetence and that's rare. I would leave the negative comments for actual firefighters to make and then I hope they would be constructive criticism.
@@DavidSmith-sb2ix you mean like actually setting ladders for rescue and maybe venting windows since the ladders are set for ventilation? Why such a fascination with vertical vent? Finally, maybe not drop the hose line like spaghetti so it gets tangled up…
This was actually very well done. People who don't understand fire service, & why certain things are done may not get it. The fire was knocked down fairly quickly with an interior attack (out of view). The fact that they were able to stop an old matchbox from getting out of control is a miracle in itself. Insurance will be able to restore the inside. This was well fought.
Well done except for the initial setup of tower 602... don't have any clue what they were thinking, because unless the roof burnt off, they weren't going to do anything where they were initially.
As the person before me said - the placement of that tower ladder was ridiculous. Made no sense at all whatsoever. Ladder truck operators are taught to get their turntable *just outside* the engine company on shorter buildings, right?! Right?!?!?!?! Tower should have either backed in (or gone straight in) just outside of the engine or pulled further forward in the first place. If they had gone to the viewer's right of the engine company they wouldn't have needed to reposition.
Engine Company did a great job. Tower was not in the correct position at first. But was corrected. Not sure why they didn't pull further up from the start had the room.
Every fire represents it's challenges, initial ic set up and good radio communications of first in engine placement and second due is critical, also collapse zone area. Not knocking, just a word to other people being negative, if your not in the service one might not understand fd ops.
Kudos to the Tower/Ladder truck for repositioning even after fully extending and realizing the better position of being nearer to the front of the structure. Learning how your aerial works and positioning is learned in real life situations. But time repositioning is time your not looking for possible survivors, just saying. Good job all around.
@@happycommentator6773 pretty sure their tiller was the other aerial device up in the air; we just couldn't see it in the video with Purcellville's tower in the way.
Nothing like parking that tower a half a block away. What I can’t figure out is why in the heck they bothered to set it up. There is no way it was going to reach the roof there.
hey naysayers, be quiet. LCFR is combined volly /career, not all volly! All are professional though and deserve your respect. And, some of these building are 200+ years old, lined up like dominos and are dry as a bone and burn fast. They did a very admirable job limiting the spread. Plenty of manpower, [plenty of equipment Every call can be critiqued, true, but come on... say something nice.
No this is not entirely true. Leesburg, VA has a volunteer "live-in" program in where their volunteer firefighters live at the station, the Live-Ins currently operate out of Fire Station 1 located at 215 Loudoun Street SW. Now mind you these "live-in" firefighters are not paid to live out of the station and all have other jobs.
Yeah, they knocked it down pretty quick, and credit to the first due Rescue for forcing entry and getting in there with cans. Otherwise everything seemed okay, except for that tower ladder placement...
Northern Virginia has very good firefighters and law enforcement personal... 90% of firefighters and law enforcement personal are well trained... One thing about the firefighters in northern Virginia area if someone has house fire they do their best to save the house and you personal items....
Knew that was the wrong placement for the areal ladder from the get go. Great job at laddering the building! Men moving with purpose! Seems to be a well trained department. Remember training and physical health could save yours or someone else life one day. Overall very good job by this department.
Someone tell Tower 602 that 100' is only 100' its not the metric system. I think my newest rookie could've set up better than that. Great job to the men and woman working this fire,, great use of ground ladders.
Too bad you couldn't see more of Ashburn's Truck Co.6 in the video. Sharp looking rig: mnsand.smugmug.com/Virginia/Loudoun-County-Virginia/Station-6-and-22-Ashburn/i-jmd9tCT/A
Love seeing ladders at all egresses!! Fantastic job. Ever standing around and don’t know what to do on the fireground? Throw up a ladder to the A, B, C, and D side of the structure!
Agreed. You don't see much ground laddering any more - theyusually just let the aerial or tower take over. The old way is faster and perhaps more effective.
There was a fire fighter where I live with a cigarette in his mouth when He was helping hold the fire hose why another firefighter was sparing water on a fire in town. that smoking firefighter lost his job
@@leonardsirwinirwin4247 people smoke. That's the way of the world. I probably smoked for 99% of my fire service career. But that was mostly 1990s and 2000s before the karens of the fire service started having convulsions over firefighters smoking.
What was up with initial position of the tower ladder truck!? Were we doing an extension test to give more time for roof team to start ventilation via ground ladder!? You didn’t want to be relevant early in the operation?
Tower and ladder trucks are generally only used if the fire breaks through the roof or to put firefighters on the roof to vent it as they did there.The tower could easily reach the roof from where it was. Yes it probably could have been closer but it could reach it.
1st due ladder did have the front of the buildings. I had to watch twice but the ladder was on side a. Just seemed like it took the ladder alot of time to set up. The tower needed a better spot on arrival. Nice stop overall especially one of the building houses a barbecue store. Great video work!
First due ladder looked like a tiller and arrived close to the start of the video. But who knows why it took so long to get in service. They did do a really great job. Do you know if they are volunteer, paid, or a combo? I have seen larger city run departments who would have set up no less than 3-4 ground monitors on this and probably elevated master stream through the second story windows. Destroying everything and not actually hitting the fire.
@@williemartin9872 The red tiller went out of service due to a mechanical issue after arriving on scene. They moved out of the way so the next in truck company could take their position. Loudoun County is a combination system - paid county department and 15 volunteer fire/rescue departments.
The first in engine made a poor spot. Didn't leave the front corners for the trucks to set up. Should have been on the curb across the street from where they were. Had they done that, the Purcellville ladder could have made the roof on the first set up by nosing in closer. Also made it harder on the hose crews by not getting PPV going earlier rather than going vertical vent thru the roof.
Welcome to urban firefighting in rural Loudoun...the rigs have to get used to close quarters. Positioning drills!!! Ground ladder drills(need to be placed for egress) Who the hell is pulling those lines and why were they hung up? Every second counts! Volunteers or off duty guys need to stay in their lane.
Leesburg and other historic towns cant afford to lose historic buildings. Too many have been turned into parking and vacant lots already and tourists can see those anywhere.
Volunteers did great hustling you might’ve parked at bucket up on the sidewalk so you could reach it. What are you doing with two water cans with that much smoke showing I did up watching it I know it’s gonna be a parking lot.
Great STOP guys, only a few negative comments. too many on the fireground without gear and the tower operator needs to go back to school and refresh him or herself on apparatus placement.
How very refreshing to see American firefighters moving with a sense of urgency. This should be the standard for all firefighters over the pond. The only urgency that some of them demonstrate under normal circumstances, is if they desperately want to use the john.
I was raised in that area and was previously a vol at tower 602 station. It could be the rescue truck was at the station just down the street and thereby closer than the station at the other end of town.
Eng 620 was positioned perfectly. Lines pulled off of officer's side and possibly rear of engine. Truck 601 or 620 was on side A. I agree Tower 602 could have positioned better. Possibly backed in. Also random dude pulling line needs to stay away. Lol. Anyways good catch. And good job to All LCFR personal.
I was assuming the guy in civilian clothing was an off duty firefighter that was in the area of this small town. Thank you for watching and for the comment.
The urgency in these firefighters is good job done not like the normal turn up wonder around & if your lucky get the water flowing if it hasn’t burnt to the ground
First arriving heavy, hats off. Great positioning and great on entry and can work. First due engine, perfect placement, a little slow to get your first line charged. Lines were coming off the engine properly, until random dude starting pulling off drivers side and then further line clutter where ladder should place. Yellow tower ladder, very poor placement, you couldn’t have made the roof of you tried from where you first step up. Need to work on placement. Stick ladder great job for a second due. I love to see the ground ladders placed at every window, whether placed correctly or not doesn’t matter as much to me as the OVM got em in place and made the effort to get it done.
Loudoun County is a combination system with County department career staff and 15 different volunteer fire/rescue companies. Volunteers typically run first out 1800-0600, with career staff on day shift running out of the volunteer-owned stations. This call was predominantly career staff as tones dropped around 1100.
@@JoshuaTownsend-1 thanks we have a all vol co to stas get out ok day nite a lot better we have day time mutial aid wrks great for us mon - fri 6 am 6 p in are county Pd staff wouldnt wrk well her and with arevol firemengald it wrks for u dept np
Damn fine job....proper apparatus placement, ground ladder usage!! Do know how many times I see a million dollar ladder truck directly in the collapse zone. And since there’s a for sale sign out front, save this video for C&O.
@@AStaticCharacter front line pumper is in proper placement, the tower should have came in behind the front line pumper and not meet it. 30 years of doing the job, retired as Chief so I’ve seen much worse, so this would have been fine in my book.
I try not to be too critical of the volunteer departments after all they are doing for free what I get paid to do. That being said training is training and it could make your job a little easier. This by far isn’t the first department I’ve seen do this but you guys need to learn how to lay in a supply line. It makes absolutely no sense to pass right by a hydrant only to have a firefighter or worse yet your engineer hand-Jack a large diameter supply line back to a hydrant you just shot past. You have two choices; catch the hydrant on the way in and lay the line as you go, or pass the hydrant and go directly to the fire and let the second engine company lay a line from the hydrant to you. The way you guys are doing it is a waste of time and resources. I can understand if the hydrant is close say within 10 or 20 feet but don’t hump a supply line a city block. Work smart not hard. I’m not going even get started on the rocket scientist driving the areal truck.. 🤦♂️.
I thought the first truck was to drop the supply hose at the hydrant and tie the hose around it. The second truck attached and charged the line. Maybe that's too logical??
Ron Bradley... I was wondering that myself. First in engine approaching the scene, heavy smoke showing from side A, obviously a working fire, why not stretch in from the hydrant?
I'm just seeing this for the 1st time. A ton of comments about the Truck placements. The 1st due engine sets everything in motion. If they pulled over more to the right and maybe 20ft forward you leave all the room for 1-2 even 3 Trucks to get in place. All in all, a nice job !!!
Seems like the driver of the ladder might have cataracts or be completely blind. Those are the only logical reasons I can see for parking the first arriving aerial that far away.
Nice video and very well done! What camera did you use? I wish I could have been there to capture the it on video for my Instagram and TH-cam channel of all types first responders.
Usar snorkel.....y monitores.....para actuar al primer minuto....ayudaria a ganar tiempo y detener en parte el avance de foco del fuego y asi evitar propagacion..
That tower/ladder should go around the block and position in front of the D exposure. It will be ready there to ladder the roof of the fire bldg or to use its master stream to prevent spread to exposure.
Speaking of preventing spread, the fire did spread to two buildings that were physically attached. During the entire time I was there, which was from before the first firefighters arrived, I never actually saw flames. Just very thick smoke and lots of it. The fire started in the rear of the building where the kitchen is. I think it could have been worse if the fire had spread just a bit more where there are more buildings. Thankfully it didn’t.
@@EarlWoodJr I'm not surprised. The probable reason why you didn't see any fire is the age and construction of the buildings. Wooden buildings with balloon frame construction, which was prevalent in the late 19th Century/early 20th century, allow the fire to work its way into the walls and ceilings and travel unnoticed throughout the structure, hence the lack of visible flame and the huge amount of smoke seeping from every crack and crevice.
The ladder truck would not have to go around the block if the fist in eng didn’t pull all that hose on the street in front of the fire building , they could have pulled the cross lays from the curbside of the rig and stretched either down the side street or on the sidewalk , keeping the street open for the ladder truck. The ladder trucks gets the front of the building !,
How many fire department were you rejected by before becoming so bitter? I ask because they had not one but two lines advanced inside and up onto the 2nd floor working the fire within 2 minutes And a 3rd back up line was advanced about a minute later Thanks for proving yourself another YT 🤡
Leesburg Fire did one hell of a job on this call. The only thing I saw and can't understand is who was the numnut pulling attack lines. If he's a volunteer firefighter, he need to go back to basic and learn to pull hose. Other than that great video.
ladders are great but you have to place them ready for use and you need to clear out those windows or at least have them in position for egress if they are needed. Other than that good job
This department almost always throws for rescue. However, the first arriving truck (TT620) went OOS mechanical so the chauffer and tillerman dumped the ladder bed as fast as possible so they could then move the truck out of the way for TT606 (the first truck on the RIT assignment) to take their position.
Yes and no, you have tank water for a reason, if it's close enough to hand jack it you can have water on the fire while you tag it, it's all situational
@@JosephStAmant-vm1cg that makes no sense. I am talking about the first in engine that almost shot past the structure. They pulled the two 1 3/4” cross lays off the side away from the fire.
Now that is called HUSTLE! Volunteers do love to attack fires. To the naysayers, it is good practice for the first engine to go to the fire, and the second to supply water. And for good measure, they did not try to see how many windows could be broken.
@@EarlWoodJr To simplify the roles of each truck can be done pretty easy. An Engine is mainly tasked with fire attack and securing water supply. The ladder truck is generally in charge of searches and ventilation and the Rescue can be pretty flexible on fire scenes. The rescue tends to have the most experienced and senior people on them so they can be really assigned to anything. But this is a very and i mean very simple way of breaking this down.
Thank you for this. I really appreciate it. It will be helpful as I watch other videos that are similar. I have a much better appreciation for the roles of each truck type now.
I do not like to see crew members running at a fireground. Safety is paramount. Injured FFs become liabilities instead of assets. Why did the aerial tower operator stop & set up so short of the building. They were forced to reposition wasting time. Luckily they were not required to rescue citizens or FFs from the roof but the ventilation was not thoroughly performed so the engine crews were exposed to heavy smoke conditions & possible flashover. Please drill on these issues. This could have involved serious loss of life.
@3:40 Guy vaping is like "this smoke is bad for my lungs, I better move"
Excellent job! Ladders all the way around the building perfect! They had room for the stick out front . First arriving units perfect placement of apparatus on a Commercial Job,very important ,nice job ,very well trained.
Fabulous job chaps. Great to see some urgency amongst the volunteer fire crews. Well done to all involved.
Boy, are the negative comments necessary? The fire service has many full and volunteer members. Each fire presents a different situation. Let's give these folks a cheer instead of a jeer!
Absolutely I agree with you what firefighters have to deal with fighting a fire .I have 5 buddies of mine that are firefighters and the job they do I could not do
@Huxley Sonny what the hell does this comment have to do with this video SMH
I would never criticize firefighters unless I saw blatant and obvious incompetence and that's rare. I would leave the negative comments for actual firefighters to make and then I hope they would be constructive criticism.
@@DavidSmith-sb2ix you mean like actually setting ladders for rescue and maybe venting windows since the ladders are set for ventilation? Why such a fascination with vertical vent? Finally, maybe not drop the hose line like spaghetti so it gets tangled up…
This was actually very well done. People who don't understand fire service, & why certain things are done may not get it. The fire was knocked down fairly quickly with an interior attack (out of view). The fact that they were able to stop an old matchbox from getting out of control is a miracle in itself.
Insurance will be able to restore the inside.
This was well fought.
Well done except for the initial setup of tower 602... don't have any clue what they were thinking, because unless the roof burnt off, they weren't going to do anything where they were initially.
As the person before me said - the placement of that tower ladder was ridiculous. Made no sense at all whatsoever. Ladder truck operators are taught to get their turntable *just outside* the engine company on shorter buildings, right?! Right?!?!?!?! Tower should have either backed in (or gone straight in) just outside of the engine or pulled further forward in the first place. If they had gone to the viewer's right of the engine company they wouldn't have needed to reposition.
Great use of ground ladders.
Ojr
@@tonypuntillo4931 really? Why are they set for ventilation and then windows not ventilated? Why are none of them set for rescue?
No sure what the bucket was meant to do, a little bit of sighting practice might help.
Man power and back up for major flare up...these are old buildings.
@@skiqsr no he just didn't know crap about apparatus placement! It's that simple!
Yeah whoever was running that tower needs some serious remedial ASAP.
Should have backed in right next to the engine
@@engineer5213 That's what I was thinking. Or at least pulled forward initially...
Engine Company did a great job. Tower was not in the correct position at first. But was corrected. Not sure why they didn't pull further up from the start had the room.
Every fire represents it's challenges, initial ic set up and good radio communications of first in engine placement and second due is critical, also collapse zone area. Not knocking, just a word to other people being negative, if your not in the service one might not understand fd ops.
@James Newton Front was open but for some reason the first trk arrival didn't set up there.
I wonder where Leesburgs tiller was ?
Kudos to the Tower/Ladder truck for repositioning even after fully extending and realizing the better position of being nearer to the front of the structure. Learning how your aerial works and positioning is learned in real life situations. But time repositioning is time your not looking for possible survivors, just saying. Good job all around.
@@happycommentator6773 pretty sure their tiller was the other aerial device up in the air; we just couldn't see it in the video with Purcellville's tower in the way.
Nice catch. 620 is a great looking unit.
Nothing like parking that tower a half a block away. What I can’t figure out is why in the heck they bothered to set it up. There is no way it was going to reach the roof there.
Yep. Same thing I thought. Amateur hour
I totally agree.
They really need training right way.
They wanted to keep the truck cleaned.
@@felicianocancel7766 Hah, sure.
Was pretty disappointing ngl
hey naysayers, be quiet. LCFR is combined volly /career, not all volly! All are professional though and deserve your respect.
And, some of these building are 200+ years old, lined up like dominos and are dry as a bone and burn fast. They did a very admirable job limiting the spread. Plenty of manpower, [plenty of equipment Every call can be critiqued, true, but come on... say something nice.
No this is not entirely true. Leesburg, VA has a volunteer "live-in" program in where their volunteer firefighters live at the station, the Live-Ins currently operate out of Fire Station 1 located at 215 Loudoun Street SW. Now mind you these "live-in" firefighters are not paid to live out of the station and all have other jobs.
Yeah, they knocked it down pretty quick, and credit to the first due Rescue for forcing entry and getting in there with cans. Otherwise everything seemed okay, except for that tower ladder placement...
Well done Leesburg. Saved a historic building with an aggressive interior attack.
Northern Virginia has very good firefighters and law enforcement personal... 90% of firefighters and law enforcement personal are well trained... One thing about the firefighters in northern Virginia area if someone has house fire they do their best to save the house and you personal items....
Nice video. Good hustle on the part of the initial crews.
Knew that was the wrong placement for the areal ladder from the get go. Great job at laddering the building! Men moving with purpose! Seems to be a well trained department. Remember training and physical health could save yours or someone else life one day. Overall very good job by this department.
Someone tell Tower 602 that 100' is only 100' its not the metric system. I think my newest rookie could've set up better than that. Great job to the men and woman working this fire,, great use of ground ladders.
What the hell was the Tower Ladder doing setting up so far away.
Inexperienced officer and driver IMO. Forget the jack plates already but good job repositioning……..nice work gang!!
do you not see the engine in front of it blocking the way?
HaHaHaHaHa !!!
Great video of the work done by the crews!
OUTSTANDING KNOCK DOWN. Thick gray brown smoke turned white quick upon arrival. Great Job
Tower Truck is a little far away ??? lol WTF
But it's purdy !
Keeping it clean
Nice video. You caught it before the first Engine arrived. Rescue kept it in check with three water cans while waiting.
I must admit that is a very nice looking engine. Solid work fellas
The engine's paint scheme matched the building itself.
Great catch! Really good footage of the arrival and firefighting
Good looking trucks!
I agree...first thing I noticed actually
Too bad you couldn't see more of Ashburn's Truck Co.6 in the video. Sharp looking rig: mnsand.smugmug.com/Virginia/Loudoun-County-Virginia/Station-6-and-22-Ashburn/i-jmd9tCT/A
Great job by all the units. I’m not going to second guess anything because I wasn’t the guy on scene. Good job, guys!!!
till 15 minutes they prepare equipment's ???
What a great paint job on the fire engines.
Thumbs up !
. . . yes - and that nicely spinning light wheel in front of tower ladder 602 - an absolute must have . . .
Love seeing ladders at all egresses!! Fantastic job. Ever standing around and don’t know what to do on the fireground? Throw up a ladder to the A, B, C, and D side of the structure!
Agreed. You don't see much ground laddering any more - theyusually just let the aerial or tower take over. The old way is faster and perhaps more effective.
That was probably the best thing they did - quick setup of egress ladders. Makes a big difference to FF safety.
Properly placed ground ladders. Great job with those they set up for every area that was going to be needed.
@@popswhippersnapper9629 everyone wants to ride that bucket these days. Ground ladders were well used on this Fire set up correctly
@@frankiefoster9730 really? Then why are they set for vent and not rescue?
Way to hustle! These guys are awesome!
They showed a lot of hustle.👍
Guy smoking in front of a fire is priceless 😂😂 “welp smoke one if you got one”
There was a fire fighter where I live with a cigarette in his mouth when He was helping hold the fire hose why another firefighter was sparing water on a fire in town. that smoking firefighter lost his job
I was a vol firefighter. The cigarette thing always amused me.
@@leonardsirwinirwin4247 people smoke. That's the way of the world. I probably smoked for 99% of my fire service career. But that was mostly 1990s and 2000s before the karens of the fire service started having convulsions over firefighters smoking.
What was up with initial position of the tower ladder truck!? Were we doing an extension test to give more time for roof team to start ventilation via ground ladder!? You didn’t want to be relevant early in the operation?
Awesome footage. Congrats.
Awesome response as well. Really cool.
Thank you for watching!
these guys moved! some were actually running, good job. AND, they actually opened a window instead of smashing it out.
oooh. 1 window opened and at least three smashed for ventilation. But yeah, as you were saying.
Dam nice work...two VOL. F D.. working sweet...get the job dunn...
All companies are Carrerr now but have Vol that still Run
Excellent job of the use of ground ladders.
One of the best clips for aerial operator class….lotsa learning here.
Tower and ladder trucks are generally only used if the fire breaks through the roof or to put firefighters on the roof to vent it as they did there.The tower could easily reach the roof from where it was. Yes it probably could have been closer but it could reach it.
It was mediocre placement... The operator should know better.
Totally ignorant statement. You have zero fire service experience.
1st due ladder did have the front of the buildings. I had to watch twice but the ladder was on side a. Just seemed like it took the ladder alot of time to set up. The tower needed a better spot on arrival. Nice stop overall especially one of the building houses a barbecue store. Great video work!
First due ladder looked like a tiller and arrived close to the start of the video. But who knows why it took so long to get in service. They did do a really great job. Do you know if they are volunteer, paid, or a combo? I have seen larger city run departments who would have set up no less than 3-4 ground monitors on this and probably elevated master stream through the second story windows. Destroying everything and not actually hitting the fire.
@@williemartin9872 The red tiller went out of service due to a mechanical issue after arriving on scene. They moved out of the way so the next in truck company could take their position. Loudoun County is a combination system - paid county department and 15 volunteer fire/rescue departments.
@@JoshuaTownsend-1 you gotta hate it when there is a mechanical failure. But they handled it good improvise adapt and overcome. Thanks for the reply.
The first in engine made a poor spot. Didn't leave the front corners for the trucks to set up. Should have been on the curb across the street from where they were. Had they done that, the Purcellville ladder could have made the roof on the first set up by nosing in closer. Also made it harder on the hose crews by not getting PPV going earlier rather than going vertical vent thru the roof.
Nice video and outstanding performance by the fire departments involved in saving that building...👌👊🚨🚒🙌🏼👏🏽👏🏻
That first due engine 620 or something i really like that light bar
Thats a whelen roto beam
Whelen Rota-Beams look dope. I agree.
These guys weren't messing around. Bravo!
It was impressive to watch and informative reading all the comments.
Those firefighters really hustled, great job.
Welcome to urban firefighting in rural Loudoun...the rigs have to get used to close quarters.
Positioning drills!!!
Ground ladder drills(need to be placed for egress)
Who the hell is pulling those lines and why were they hung up? Every second counts!
Volunteers or off duty guys need to stay in their lane.
I must have missed the part where they lost the building.
Awesome deploying that pre connect! Right into the street! Never seen the spaghetti deploy method either with no PPE.
Hopefully the building on fire wasn't actually historic. It looks like it's newer, just designed to fit in with the older buildings around it.
Pompiers très efficaces, bravo 👍👍 .
Anyways thank goodness there's people there to answer the call
I never saw a bucket wobble like @12:13. Never would have expected to see that from a Pierce or E-ONE.
Any aerial will do that without proper stabilization, doesn't matter the make or model.
Leesburg and other historic towns cant afford to lose historic buildings. Too many have been turned into parking and vacant lots already and tourists can see those anywhere.
Volunteers did great hustling you might’ve parked at bucket up on the sidewalk so you could reach it. What are you doing with two water cans with that much smoke showing I did up watching it I know it’s gonna be a parking lot.
Great STOP guys, only a few negative comments. too many on the fireground without gear and the tower operator needs to go back to school and refresh him or herself on apparatus placement.
Great video. Great hustle. Does anyone teach apparatus placement anymore?
How very refreshing to see American firefighters moving with a sense of urgency. This should be the standard for all firefighters over the pond. The only urgency that some of them demonstrate under normal circumstances, is if they desperately want to use the john.
I’m glad no one was hurt,mad I’m gonna have to find another place to get some great bbq
Explain to me why they decided to take a first due truck as a RESCUE??
The rescue could have been on the road when the call was received and arrived first. Don;t jump to conclusions.
I was raised in that area and was previously a vol at tower 602 station. It could be the rescue truck was at the station just down the street and thereby closer than the station at the other end of town.
Eng 620 was positioned perfectly. Lines pulled off of officer's side and possibly rear of engine. Truck 601 or 620 was on side A. I agree Tower 602 could have positioned better. Possibly backed in. Also random dude pulling line needs to stay away. Lol. Anyways good catch. And good job to All LCFR personal.
I was assuming the guy in civilian clothing was an off duty firefighter that was in the area of this small town. Thank you for watching and for the comment.
@@EarlWoodJr No Firefighter would pull a crosslay like that. Lol.
The Leesburg fire department is Combination fire department ( Volunteer and Career) under the Loudoun county Fire/Rescue umbrella
Fair enough :)
Now you have me curious just how common it is to have bystanders jumping in to “be helpful”
I assume that's a off duty guy pulling the crosslays?
Good question. Buy not entirely sure. I would hope so.
That's correct.
Does anyone know what diameter that first supply line was that was laid in?
Looked like 3” to me. Maybe duals?
Loudoun runs 4" LDH for hydrant hookups.
The urgency in these firefighters is good job done not like the normal turn up wonder around & if your lucky get the water flowing if it hasn’t burnt to the ground
First arriving heavy, hats off. Great positioning and great on entry and can work. First due engine, perfect placement, a little slow to get your first line charged. Lines were coming off the engine properly, until random dude starting pulling off drivers side and then further line clutter where ladder should place. Yellow tower ladder, very poor placement, you couldn’t have made the roof of you tried from where you first step up. Need to work on placement. Stick ladder great job for a second due. I love to see the ground ladders placed at every window, whether placed correctly or not doesn’t matter as much to me as the OVM got em in place and made the effort to get it done.
Is that a pd or vol fire dept
From some the other comments, I believe it is a combination of both career and volunteer.
@@EarlWoodJr thanks
@@EarlWoodJr ares is a all vol fire co
Loudoun County is a combination system with County department career staff and 15 different volunteer fire/rescue companies. Volunteers typically run first out 1800-0600, with career staff on day shift running out of the volunteer-owned stations. This call was predominantly career staff as tones dropped around 1100.
@@JoshuaTownsend-1 thanks we have a all vol co to stas get out ok day nite a lot better we have day time mutial aid wrks great for us mon - fri 6 am 6 p in are county
Pd staff wouldnt wrk well her and with arevol firemengald it wrks for u dept np
Damn fine job....proper apparatus placement, ground ladder usage!! Do know how many times I see a million dollar ladder truck directly in the collapse zone. And since there’s a for sale sign out front, save this video for C&O.
Did you just say proper apparatus placement.... when the tower had to get sent twice due to bad placement?
@@AStaticCharacter front line pumper is in proper placement, the tower should have came in behind the front line pumper and not meet it. 30 years of doing the job, retired as Chief so I’ve seen much worse, so this would have been fine in my book.
620 is a beauty!!
Fire sprinklers????
Good point. It is a BBQ restaurant where the fire started. Makes sense they would have sprinklers.
Depends on how old the building is before they made sprinkler system mandatory.
That and if the building was grandfathered in or not
nice push guys awesome
That was a 2nd alarm by the way
Quite the stark contrast when I see men who run into a flaming building as opposed to the masked up,zombie softbrains starring with no emotion.
I try not to be too critical of the volunteer departments after all they are doing for free what I get paid to do. That being said training is training and it could make your job a little easier. This by far isn’t the first department I’ve seen do this but you guys need to learn how to lay in a supply line. It makes absolutely no sense to pass right by a hydrant only to have a firefighter or worse yet your engineer hand-Jack a large diameter supply line back to a hydrant you just shot past. You have two choices; catch the hydrant on the way in and lay the line as you go, or pass the hydrant and go directly to the fire and let the second engine company lay a line from the hydrant to you. The way you guys are doing it is a waste of time and resources. I can understand if the hydrant is close say within 10 or 20 feet but don’t hump a supply line a city block. Work smart not hard. I’m not going even get started on the rocket scientist driving the areal truck.. 🤦♂️.
I've been dealing with fires for decades it depends on how you fight a fire and did you see the trucks behind the building
I thought the first truck was to drop the supply hose at the hydrant and tie the hose around it. The second truck attached and charged the line. Maybe that's too logical??
@@robertnelson432 it depends on which truck is first to arrive. We only see one side
It's not always a time saver to do a forward lay. Speaking from personal experience.
Ron Bradley... I was wondering that myself. First in engine approaching the scene, heavy smoke showing from side A, obviously a working fire, why not stretch in from the hydrant?
NEVER EVER LEAVE THE TRUCK/TOWER OUT OF RANGE. That is a mortal sin in the service. It becomes waisted time which should not happen.
I'm just seeing this for the 1st time. A ton of comments about the Truck placements. The 1st due engine sets everything in motion. If they pulled over more to the right and maybe 20ft forward you leave all the room for 1-2 even 3 Trucks to get in place. All in all, a nice job !!!
Seems like the driver of the ladder might have cataracts or be completely blind. Those are the only logical reasons I can see for parking the first arriving aerial that far away.
Why is the ladder tower parked a block away???
good catch of a bad situation. Right place right time.
Great job, guys!
Lol at the initial bucket placement.
Nice video and very well done! What camera did you use? I wish I could have been there to capture the it on video for my Instagram and TH-cam channel of all types first responders.
Thank you. I used my iPhone 11.
Was the building saved?
The last news paper article I read about it said there was $1,000,000 in damage to the building and it’s contents.
www.theburn.com/2021/01/23/yummy-pig-bbq-could-be-closed-for-six-months-after-devastating-fire/
Excellent attack and positioning of apparatus in such a small space. Great save and awesome teamwork. Best vid so far
Tower did not set up properly on arrival. Should've pulled little closer on side of Eng 620
Usar snorkel.....y monitores.....para actuar al primer minuto....ayudaria a ganar tiempo y detener en parte el avance de foco del fuego y asi evitar propagacion..
I take this comment means that using the fire extinguishers by the first on the scene was a good job while the others worked to connect the hoses.
That tower/ladder should go around the block and position in front of the D exposure. It will be ready there to ladder the roof of the fire bldg or to use its master stream to prevent spread to exposure.
Speaking of preventing spread, the fire did spread to two buildings that were physically attached. During the entire time I was there, which was from before the first firefighters arrived, I never actually saw flames. Just very thick smoke and lots of it. The fire started in the rear of the building where the kitchen is. I think it could have been worse if the fire had spread just a bit more where there are more buildings. Thankfully it didn’t.
@@EarlWoodJr I'm not surprised. The probable reason why you didn't see any fire is the age and construction of the buildings. Wooden buildings with balloon frame construction, which was prevalent in the late 19th Century/early 20th century, allow the fire to work its way into the walls and ceilings and travel unnoticed throughout the structure, hence the lack of visible flame and the huge amount of smoke seeping from every crack and crevice.
The ladder truck would not have to go around the block if the fist in eng didn’t pull all that hose on the street in front of the fire building , they could have pulled the cross lays from the curbside of the rig and stretched either down the side street or on the sidewalk , keeping the street open for the ladder truck. The ladder trucks gets the front of the building !,
@@vinnyb.1314 Yup, you're right.
The Emergency responder was quick
4:53 it was a 2nd alarm
Good Job 🚒
I will always love Leesburg…
Thank you for watching our video.
Well done! Could have gone south quickly!
kinda slow response . 5min and still no water on the fire
How many fire department were you rejected by before becoming so bitter?
I ask because they had not one but two lines advanced inside and up onto the 2nd floor working the fire within 2 minutes
And a 3rd back up line was advanced about a minute later
Thanks for proving yourself another YT 🤡
You have no clue when water was on the fire. Because you can’t see the fire, or the crew inside working
Truck was keeping room for another piece just in case
Leesburg Fire did one hell of a job on this call. The only thing I saw and can't understand is who was the numnut pulling attack lines. If he's a volunteer firefighter,
he need to go back to basic and learn to pull hose. Other than that great video.
I also noticed fire fighters coming from Purceville. And I read that other departments responded. Like Ashburn and others.
ladders are great but you have to place them ready for use and you need to clear out those windows or at least have them in position for egress if they are needed. Other than that good job
This department almost always throws for rescue. However, the first arriving truck (TT620) went OOS mechanical so the chauffer and tillerman dumped the ladder bed as fast as possible so they could then move the truck out of the way for TT606 (the first truck on the RIT assignment) to take their position.
Departments need to learn how to effectively use their ladder truck's because verticle ventilation is vital
Notice how much time is lost by not dropping hose at hydrent.I miss the old days.
Yes and no, you have tank water for a reason, if it's close enough to hand jack it you can have water on the fire while you tag it, it's all situational
That truck definitely could have gotten closer. Smh rookies
What a quick response
And why did they pull the 1 3/4” off the wrong side of the truck??
Did you see the trucks behind the burning building
@@JosephStAmant-vm1cg I don’t understand the question. Why does it matter if there trucks behind the burning building?
@@ronbradley5631 because they might have had the 3 inch hoses out of sight. You can't go by what you see
@@JosephStAmant-vm1cg that makes no sense. I am talking about the first in engine that almost shot past the structure. They pulled the two 1 3/4” cross lays off the side away from the fire.
@@ronbradley5631 how many angles are you seeing
belle vidéo,images impressionnantes merci pour le partage
vous êtes bienvenu et merci d'avoir regardé
Salut cousin👍
Now that is called HUSTLE! Volunteers do love to attack fires. To the naysayers, it is good practice for the first engine to go to the fire, and the second to supply water. And for good measure, they did not try to see how many windows could be broken.
Thank you for the comment. I’ve been trying to get up to speed on the responsibilities of all the truck types. Rescue, Engines, Tillers.
@@EarlWoodJr To simplify the roles of each truck can be done pretty easy. An Engine is mainly tasked with fire attack and securing water supply. The ladder truck is generally in charge of searches and ventilation and the Rescue can be pretty flexible on fire scenes. The rescue tends to have the most experienced and senior people on them so they can be really assigned to anything. But this is a very and i mean very simple way of breaking this down.
Thank you for this. I really appreciate it. It will be helpful as I watch other videos that are similar. I have a much better appreciation for the roles of each truck type now.
@@EarlWoodJr Thanks for posting the video, You have an excellent training video here.
Good hustle! Well done.
Great job, water on the fire shortly after arrival, co-ordinated attacks on multiple premises and a quick knock-down - what’s not to like 😃👌👏👏👏👏👏
Great job firefighters!! Cannot understand why some citizens were laughing. It’s a serious matter for everyone involved.
I do not like to see crew members running at a fireground. Safety is paramount. Injured FFs become liabilities instead of assets. Why did the aerial tower operator stop & set up so short of the building. They were forced to reposition wasting time. Luckily they were not required to rescue citizens or FFs from the roof but the ventilation was not thoroughly performed so the engine crews were exposed to heavy smoke conditions & possible flashover. Please drill on these issues. This could have involved serious loss of life.