The un-experienced ones start panicking because scientists such as Dr. Bruce LIpton and Dr. Joe Dispenza explain that the subconscious mind works 95 - 97 percent of the day. which means people are not aware of 97 percent of their thoughts of the day. The subconscious mind is called the habit mind because it works exactly like a computer program, it works very fast. You can reprogram the subconscious mind by training or by mediation or other techniques that these scientists explain. The un-experienced ones operate from a conscious mind when they do the job for the first time. The conscious mind works very slowly 3 - 5 percent of the day. But the conscious mind is very creative. Dr. Bruce LIpton explains when people fall in love with a person, with a hobby or with a job, they become much more conscious because they want to make an impression. He calls it a honeymoon effect. Therefore practicing, love empathy and gratitude makes you more conscious and healthy.
The person named sweetfire is a firefighter and made that video because they were a first responder for their fire station in that instance Also the are a furry lel we are pretty much everywhere at this point but it's nice to see us furries showing how we help our communities around us lel Plus it makes me feel better for taking part in the fandom , even though I'm definitely not doing something as badass as this guy I am trying to get physics studies done so I can build a interplanetary capable ship to terraform mars lel Honestly even though I'm doing a different field there is still a lot of physics that I see that works with being a firefighter lel Good luck to you and anybody else reading and may you find peace in the domain and thank you for doing so in the first place :3 Thnx for your service btw m8
I was the nozzleman (20 years old at the time) my back up was I believe 24-25 at the time . We are a live in house that’s typically staffed 24/7 . Myself and Brian really really appreciate this feedback !
These guys are examples of pillars of the community. They volunteer their time to get trained, go out on calls, and do their very best to protect the community.
2 things people should know. If you have pets, dog or cats, DO NOT USE OPEN CANDLES! One fire , we thought was arson, because almost every room downstairs was on fire. The family cat, walking too close to a lit candle, had its fur catch fire, then ran behind every curtain in every room. The second thing is, SHUT THE DOOR of the room that is on fire. Actually you should shut all the doors of rooms on your way out. It will contain the fire or slow it significantly.
so as much as the job of feeding hose sucks, without that person there, the nozzle person wont be able to advance on the fire, so that makes the feed guy just as or even more important then the nozzle guy. as a member in his 46th year in a "volunteer" dept who is still a class A interior structural firefighter, who has done both nozzle and hose feeder, EVERY JOB IS IMPORTANT ON THE FIREGROUND. there are all volunteer depts who do more runs then some paid depts and remember that even the FDNY was all volunteer at one time. 70% of our nation is protected by volunteers. paid guys get paid to train while they are on duty and therefore have a slight advantage over a volunteer but the risks are the same either way. when you have to go into a firefight, having the nozzle doesnt mean a damn thing, any one can point and shoot water but again, without the guy feeding line, the nozzle is basically useless if it cant reach the fire. thanks for posting these videos, i, we appreciate it very much!
That's why the heeler or "hose feeder" is usually a more experienced guy like a captain. In my academy we call the nozzleman the princess because they get exactly what they want and if not they pout about it until they do. Ideally the nozzleman knows good stream patterns to better cool the environment and repel the enormous steam, smoke, and heat pressure (nozzle forward training), but even without that knowledge most fire conditions aren't at that level of intensity so it really doesn't matter how good or bad your nozzleman is, they'll still put the fire out, just maybe not with as much finesse. Without a good heeler though it doesn't matter how well trained the nozzleman is. So while it may be deemed the "worst" job it's definitely one of the most vital. I myself actually enjoy it tbh.
Need to re title this video. The backup hose kicker is more important. If he's not feeding hose the nozzle man might as well sit and drink from the nozzle in clean air. Because that hose will never get to the seat of the fire
I volunteered for a small department for 4 years where most of the members were older folks who have been in the fire service for life. I am starting my first full time firefighting job next week and I have to say I appreciate your videos and explanations of what to expect of different departments and situations.
First thing, thanks for giving the volunteers some love. I agree with you. These guys did a great job with the hand they were dealt. The only suggestion I’d make is flanking out the hose. The hose was thrown away from the fire. I’m a firm believer that you bring all the “dry” hose you can to the front door and flank it straight out from the door. It feed easier into the building that way when it’s charged and minimizes man power needed .
that’s nice to see a great group of volunteers from right outside of Pittsburgh putting in the work. My goal is to become a career firefighter with Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire
Better start running and hitting the gym then if you're not already. Going to a career fire academy is like going to an old school military bootcamp (at least here in Arizona where I'm at). People come out yoked at the end, but you aren't gonna make it to the end if you aren't already somewhat yoked at the start. All the best and good luck.
OCFA; we just switched to the metro load. Normal preconnect for 100 ft, and gansner style 2nd 100ft. Works well. It can actually be tilted up to the wall, and rolled into the structure with little effort.
I think he realized that at 6:14 when he went "Jesus Christ!" trying to pull the charged hose across the yard 😆 Go to see a sense of urgency off the bat, though.
I appreciate a career professional with something positive to say about volunteers. We're all on the same team, and we all want to get home safe. I appreciate your content, and I learn lots from your video analysis.
As a heavy duty mechanic I could totally be a volunteer watching this. Routine, use your adrenaline, breathe right, and you’re good. Weight of gear isn’t an issue, I pick up semi tires and balance them on my shoulder.
So many times you come up 5 feet short with the hose., and just can't get the water to where you need it, and that delay can cost the house. I always like to keep any extra slack closer to the door and less in the street, just a bit easier to pull. Nice work, fire fighting is definitely a team sport. Stay safe, and hope the RIT is arriving shortly behind the attack team.
Yep, each seat on the fire engine has a role. Knowing the role of each seat and most importantly the seat you fill is the real key to success along with staying calm. These two did it right. Charged lines appropriately staged for entry & fire attack, along with great communication.
Great pick of a video! It portrays the work of that hose dragger - often my job in my 40 years as a volunteer firefighter! I seldom had to pull by myself for more than a minute before help arrived. Kudos to these two on their endurance!
I'm in a pre service course right now, and honestly, i actually quite like going on hose management (or hose humping as the more senior instructors like to call it) mainly because the feedback that I recieve from my classmates is so positive, i'll ask them how they felt on the nozzle when advancing through the burn tower and they had little difficulty progressing. when we switch roles and i find myself constantly fighting the line and shouting for more hose. but with that said, i understand the diffculty, the hose can defintitly get heavy, especially when you're pulling up stairs and around corners. from my small amount of expirience in the world of firefighting i can already tell that as hard as this component of the job can be, it is certainly very important to be great at it.
People don’t realise how many litres of water are inside those charged lines - they are DAMN heavy and they’re STIFF too - like dragging and bending a big, heavy steel rod (that can kink randomly) around corners and up stairs. I loved everything I saw in this video, those boys have clearly trained and worked at least a while and it shows - they are an excellent team. Great job fellas!
Two things: I was on 2 departments during my 30 year career as a volunteer firefighter. 1. I was always taught to not mask up until you’re at the front door and ready to attack. Fogs up your face piece and causes you to use too much air. 2. When I was Captain of the engine, I would pull as much hose into the structure as possible to lessen the number of back and forth or up and down trips. Other than that, a very good text book fire attack. Congrats fellas!
These guys did great! He would pull line and go up and down the stairs to help his partner and check progress. Man I agree with the fitness. I’m a new firefighter one year on the job next week when I’ll get my badge 💯 I’ve stretched a few times. Abandoned houses, garage, attic and basement fires. I’m still new so I get a lot of adrenaline and move fast which wears me down after 30 minutes. But I know with time and experience I’ll amazing as long as I keep this hard work and dedication going. God bless and protect us all in this field.
Such a true fact pulling that hose through the door sucks your arms feel like jelly after the fact. Also thank you for that support for the volunteers I know with mine it’s a struggle we have a total of 6 young guys, so we usually only have about 3 to 4 guys that can go interior on a call
I'm from Lancaster county, PA, closer to Philadelphia than Pittsburgh. Most of the departments here in PA are all volunteer, relying on live-ins to staff the departments 24/7. I attended a Protective Services Academy at my county public safety training center for my senior year of high school. Going into our basic fire academy, I really didn't know what to expect. Firefighting was the unit that made me want to quit. Not because I didn't like it, I loved it actually and it's become a part of my life permanently. But the work, expecially pulling hose was abysmal. I still remember our instructor had us work in threes to get 200 feet of hose into a second story window. The first person up had the nozzle and about 100 feet of hose, once they were up they charged the line and started fire attack. Then the second person went up to help them with fire suppression. The third one up (me) had to get up the ladder, go through a window, and pull 100 feet of hose through the window and watch it to make sure it didn't get caught on anything. Needless to say, it was hard. Pulling hose is an important job, but I can assure you it is one of my least favorite. Respect to these guys.
when I first started in fire service, I had friend in the fire service to... we would challenge each other on how long we make a 30 minute bottle last.. I believe the longest I made it was around 18 minutes.. this was in the days of steel bottles..
We still have double steel bottles at my dept (Germany) I used a composite bottle once and holy shit, it ways like nothing and has air in it in insane amounts 😅
Non fighter fighter but that is a game my SCUBA buddies play, who can stretch their gas the furthest. I usually lose simply because I'm the oldest and least fit. Even if I gain a few pounds over 6 months, I notice my gas consumption goes up.
We ran a fire drill in my sub a few years back and I was able to make it last about 40 min. Granted I was only actively fighting the “fire” for like 5 or so min, but I had to stay at the scene as the reflash watch. About 10 minutes later I realized I had been forgotten about and started conserving as much air as possible, taking short quick breaths and holding as long as I could. The man in charge at the Damage Control assembly area realized after about 30-35 minutes I hadn’t come out yet and sent someone in as my SCBA starting triggering the low air alarms. I came out with about 200 lbs of air left.
I've done everything on a volunteer dept. Last job was driver/engineer. At 67 it was time to hang it up because of the 24/7. I still put on a air pack when needed. Great job of detailing this video.
Man during training I was the 2nd. I fed the line, it kept getting bound out every chance it got. Running back and forth, up and down the stairs etc. definitely showed me how out of shape I was.
Bless that confidence & collaboration with tiny crew 🙏; was a VFF for 15 years & quit when I realized 0% of such safety & resource awareness & coordination was NOT & NEVER be there systemically (I.e., danger ‼️ to all)
I did a total of 48 years in the fire service as a firefighter/Emt. It was during my second year on that department we got sent to a residential house fire, two story job. On arrival we had 3 on the engine, driver, myself and a probie. It was a full volunteer department consisting of 4 engines, truck company and one rescue ambulance. We saw a 2nd floor fire already breached the windows and had significant fire there, so we pulled a pre connect, went inside. I was backing him up and pulling hose. Funny thing was, we couldn’t find the stairway and we knew the house was on fire, but the first floor was clear. Finally we found the door to the upstairs and headed up the stairway and got on a landing between three bedrooms. The room on fire was to our left, and the other rooms hadn’t started burning yet. We had a lot of fire, heat, dense smoke and he opened the nozzle, and right at the moment, his SCBA regulator malfunctioned dumping his cylinder air. He shut off the nozzle, crawled/climbed/ jumped over me headfirst down the stairs leaving me there to deal with the fire. Since it was a daytime fire, and we are volunteers, we didn’t know if a 2nd engine or truck companies were coming. That was way before hand held radios! So I went from hose jockey to nozzle man quickly, and had just enough hose to enter the room on fire. I attacked the fire and because the bedroom windows had self ventilated was able to knock most of the fire down. But because of the heat I found a sliding door to a closet I backed in to for some defense from the heat. Remember, back in the 1960s, our protective gear was a long rubber coat with canvas lining, hip boots, leather helmet, and rubber gloves. We were one of the few departments that had mounted SCBA on each apparatus as we were a very progressive department. They weighed about 30lbs with that awful steel cylinder. Metal frames, canvas straps, rubber facepiece and hose. I weight about 120 lbs and was 5’7” and 19 years old. Being now in the closet pouring water on the fire and getting good extinguishment I started hearing loud popping noises right next to me in that closet so I turned the nozzle on it not knowing what the hell was going on. About the time my low air alarm sounded, two more firefighters crawled in and found me, I handed the first on the nozzle and bailed down the stairs. Afterwords, I was outside taking a break, when our assistant chief who had arrived, ordered us to spread out a salvage cover on the ground, and had a cop go back into the house. They came out carrying multiple firearms and boxes of ammunition and gun powder. They dumped it on the cover and the cop was making notes. I asked the chief where all that came from, and he said “ the room that was on fire had a closet with all this and there’s more ammo remnants there from the ammo that exploded. That was the popping I heard! I told the chief what happened that I was inside that closet and heard the popping sounds and hosed it down. I thought it might be fireworks. That was true excitement for the back up hose jockey turned into nozzle man. So yeah, it can be a horrible job but sometimes things will change and you have to be prepared. Pulling hose is part of the job. Not everyone will be on the nozzle, but eventually you will. A very memorable fire for a young firefighter.
I know this is late, but where I grew up, there were some cops that were also volunteer firefighters. There was even a county sheriff’s deputy that was allowed to keep his bunker gear in his squad car. If a fire call went out for his fire department while he’s on duty, then he would respond to the scene in his squad car and suit up. The county sheriff knew that he could do more good on a fire scene as a firefighter than as a deputy. That’s why it was allowed. He also kept a hydrant key is his trunk, and often would get to a fire before any apparatus would, so he would flush out the hydrant once he got on scene.
I am showing this video to my Captain for an upcoming training session - this is AMAZING!!! i'm 63, been a Class A vollie for 32 years; these guys "GOT IT"!! I have to agree with "Irish Drums 2" and "Alex Kitner" about (1) bringing the hose to the front door, do not leave it behind the engine and (2) flake it out for easier puling into the house. I have to agree with Alex, make a few loops anywhere you can inside the house; perhaps heave the coffee table on top of the far couch or push it down the hall next to it; this will open up a space in the room. Something they are stressing more at the County Fire Academy where I volunteer is to flake outward from the entrance so you only have to pull into the house and not have to pull across the lawn; our homes are closer together and are mostly set back only 25 feet from the curb.
I was always taught the same thing in Texas. Operator is getting the water flowing, FF is catching a hydrant and running back to the nozzle as the officer pulls the line to the entrance and waits for the FF for entry.
6:05 key detail is that team did not need to communicate almost EVER!!!! That is secret sauce core training for first-responders 3-4 floor residential.
Here in Australia, I am a Australia Volunteer Firefighter, the Police here are really good, I have been to plenty of MVA, Where the police have been amazing, we do the same everyone on the truck has a job, we are taught to be quick but safe
Springfield Maine volunteer firefighter here. I'm posting your videos on our message board. We don't get to train much, so these help! Usually only a couple guys respond, so we know what you mean! Thanks again, we'll be watching
It is also nice to pull and coil the dry line at the door so when you charge it you aren't pulling 200' of charged line but flaking off the top of a pile by the door. This doesn't work with all hose load methods obviously (like this one used in the video) but you can still pull some of that line closer to the door before charging the line. Either way, nice work.
Many folks, even some in the fire service, do not appreciate the importance of the number 2 guy. His role is to keep the team safe! Awesome job by those guys...the entire video is well worth watching. As a whole, this is one of the top firefighting vids on the internet. When I learned these guys were volunteers I was stunned.
I teach nozzle and first coupling to the front door. 50' of line at door gives almost complete access inside a residential building. Most of their line was dropped at the lower driveway, Much more effort required
Can confirm being the second guy is alot of hard work. Been that guy on a handful of field and large grass fires. It sucks pulling hose but i love the workout and it only makes me better.
One of the fires I went to when I was on a dept it was a slow start because we had no interiors for a little while. it was the driver, myself who was in training, and another exterior. I was so busy stretching handlines to get them ready for the interiors and other stuff set up that I didn't even notice when interiors arrives.
I’m almost done with firefighter 1 but I can already confirm that pulling hose sucks. That said I still love being involved no matter what role I’ve gotta do.
I agree with you 100% about volunteers. In the UK we have the RDS Retained Duty System who are people who have full time jobs but make themselves available for often over 100 hours per week. My son was retained on my old station before joining full-time. I was Watch Commander on that station which had one full time and one retained pump. That was fortunate for the retained as we as full timers took their training sessions which doesn't happen on normal RDS stations. It also meant we worked together on the fireground and had good relations with them. I never treated them an different to my full time crew and I am pleased to say a good many of them took so well to the job they gave up their own careers to become full time firefighters. There are many, many excellent RDS crews up and the UK and we really couldn't manage without them.
I liked the Collier's Mansion montage!😂 Before those pics popped up I was already thinking, "Well at least that place is clean." I'm in a volunteer dept on Long Island in NY. Thank you for the kind words towards volly departments. Can confirm that charged line is very heavy, and humping that hose in full gear is a lot harder than it looks.
8:30 is also a pretty accurate representation of visibility in a typical fire. I've humped hose a few times (over a couple decades) and yeah, I'll take the nozzle any day. Brass loves to catch on corners.
80% of Career Firefighters started out on a volunteer department either in a Non-Resident position where they would come into the station and actually do shift work for 12 or 24 hours a week They would train a minimum of 3 hours during their shift and build on their skill level. If you were a Resident, you probably went through a department academy, were issued a pager and would respond to the station and await an Officer to assign you to an Engine. Some of my best memories were in the beginning of my career.
Great job, but usually the conditions are a bit worse i.e. zero visibility and having to stay low most of the time, still good work though. On some of the fires I've been on you feel like you just finished a full 8 hour, heavy duty day at the fire academy and it's only been 20 minutes on scene. So physical fitness is definitely a must if you plan on going into the fire service. Just turning on a hydrant usually takes more strength than you would think and that's easy compared to a lot of the other stuff.
I am a forefighter in the netherlands. Lately we got a new hoze system calde O-bundels. Its a 75mm line with 2 connectionpoints for 32mm hozes. The line can immidiatly be made live by the pumper, than you connect 2 bundles you take intoo the building, connect them fill them up. Within 60 seconds we have about 90 meters of water delivering 450liters a minute. Also 3000 liters water in the engine. That way we foght extremely fast. Als we have 2 small hozes about 125L minute wich ar always live. We can run in and have the fire out in 1 or 2 minutes. Great tech!! Firefighter the Hague
Pro tip from a good past instructor I had is to bring as much slack as you can with you before the hose is charged so your not pulling the hole length of hose
Volunteer are great when we'll trained like these firefighters. I enjoyed your break down of the video. Continue the good work to further firefighter training and education.
I'm a Volunteer in Australia, we are taught to "S" the hose at the front door, so that you don't need to drag the entire line back to the appliance when you want to advance the line inside.
I’m a doorman and I can confirm it’s one of the hardest and most dangerous jobs on the fire ground. Constantly working up and down the line looking for kinks or pinch points by yourself takes a toll and puts you in just as much danger as the nozzle man (officer should be right behind him). In our dept. once enough hose is in the door I work my way up the line with a 6’ New York hook to assist in pulling ceiling and looking for extension. All foreground jobs can dangerous but I personally find a doorman to be the most physically and mentally taxing as well as most dangerous job. Stay safe brothers and sisters.
Solid work there. Another great video and commentary. In addition to the physical fitness part, in my mind is to have good, nutrional eating habits and avoid stress eating.
Good hustle and great coordination. Many of the videos you see it is as if the crew has been trained to stand around and wait to be given task's to perform. When I was in the Fire Service we all understood the task's that needed to be performed and it was very little need for direction at least on initial arrival.
My critic is the way they laid out their hose originally. I don't know why they faked it out down the road in front of the truck. The second in, should have as much as the hose as he could at the front door to alleviate having to drag that hose a hundred feet.
As you mention that everyone knew what to do:The way we were trained in Europe (as volunteers) is that everyone on an engine has a pre-assigned job. Usually you have a squad consisting of the chauffeur (as they are called by FDNY) whose job is to drive the truck and once on the scene ready the engine to put pressure on the hoses. You have the officer and a gopher. And then you have three assigned teams, one being the "attack team" carrying the nozzle to the fire and being responsible for any rescue, the "hose team" responsible for bringing the lines to the attack team and the "water team" responsible for connecting the water supply (hydrants etc.) to the engine. Even the seats on the engine are set up in this pattern. So the moment the apparatus stops, everyone knows exactly what his/her job is and they manage to bring water to the fire as fast as possible. No confusion on scene, everyone knows already what he/she will be doing before they arrive. On more modern engines you will see the attack team grab the pre-charged "fast attack" hose which will use the on-board water supply while the hose and water teams are setting up additional lines and the external water supply from a hydrant etc.
I agree these guys did a great job...very quick...great communication...and seem well trained for volunteers...I didn't see one but I think a TIC would have helped locate the seat of the fire & use less water. We just had a 2 car attached garage fire...soon as we opened man door we used our TIC to locate the seat to aim water at it right away...moved further in with shutting down the nozzle...looked again with the camera...hosed down more...I think we may have used 350 gallons of water in total.
this is Penn hills fire company near Pittsburgh PA, they run a large amount of working fires, if you know the area then its suprising that it took so long for anybody else to get on scene.
We teach going to the door with the nozzle and the first coupling, when you go in you have an easy 50ft advance, charge the line to 50-60 psi, pump man ups the pressure once flow is detected. 50ft should nearly cover most single floor dwellings.
I am a medically retired Volunteer Firefighter. You are correct most dont give Volunteers respect. I faught fires with great firefighters and with guys that after getting out I told the cheif never again. That is both paid and Volunteers.
I have no problem pulling hose if that's what needs to be done. It sucks, but it's a great workout, and you are still a part of saving someone's possessions or life. I'm a pretty big guy so either job is made easier because of my size and ability to use my weight properly to control the hose.
That does look like a tough job. I'm not a firefighter but I've been in plenty of places where you'd have a hard time pulling a garden hose inside & up the stairs.
You need rigid house pipes like we have in the UK, our lads have water on the fire usually within 30 seconds using a high pressure hosepipe fed by water from the engine. As it’s smaller it’s easier to pull it into position.
They did great job with only two FF's. Let me give a tip for small manpower dept's. The first FF went to the door and the second FF assisted in pulling hose out of bumper well. If the second FF would have grabbed a coupling and brought it to the door with him the pull up the stairs would be much easier. Not a big gripe it will just help make it easier to pull hose in the house. All that extra line does no good out by the apparatus.
I haven't worked in the fire field at all but I do work in concrete and I imagine that water hose has gotta be similar in weight to a concrete pump hose. I can say being the guy who's job it is the hustle heavy hoses around for hours is exhausting. Now to do it in full gear running on o2, that's gotta be a whole different level. Props to the hose guys out there.
When I was much younger. I was on the camp ground spring burn crew for the tent sites by the lake. We used a converted pickup with two small hoses. I think 1 inch hoses that was connected to the tank. Anyways we all had to know how to run the pump and we always went in pairs. The line guys had to yell back to tell the pump operator when to charge the line so they where set before getting water.. I am glad they had the hose next to the rail, so it wasn't a run away whipping hose. Like what could have happened at 2:54... Like I said we did a grass field controlled burn, so we didn't need any radios as we could see everyone... First person worked the hose, the second was there for safety with there head on the swivel watching what was going on around them. I think we had a pair of 50 foot hoses on the reals... Very short distance anyways from the truck... LOL main tool on the truck was shovels and pick-axe for the grass fire containment preburn...
Agreed it is the hardest job on the fireground but one thing that helps, and I'm not trying to knock on these guys, but stretch/flake all the hose you can towards the fire. At the beginning when he is pulling the second section out of the bumper he is pulling it in the opposite direction which means that hose has to get pulled back towards the door. If he either pulls that section towards the house or after emptying the bin pulls that last section around towards the house and pulls slack to the door as he walks up then you aren't pulling as far, the nozzleman can also help by pulling some slack once he gets to the door to help himself and make it easier on the backup guy . If the slack hose you are pulling is back in the street you're fighting the weight and friction of 150 feet cause you're moving the whole line, if that 'slack' is in the front yard closer to the door then you're only fighting a fraction of that weight and friction so getting that slack as close to the entry point as possible makes everything easier. This is solid work for sure and the guys are sharp, I'm not knocking them, but you can always find little things to learn from that make you that much sharper.
Tip for loading hose. As you make entry, instead of coming in empty handed and pulling hose once you’re inside, walk in while holding about 10 or more feet of hose. By the time you are inside you already have slack. Then pull more hose and load that first room with some more slack so you can manage that second pinch point at the stairs without having to worry about the pinch front door. By the time you run out of that you should hopefully have a second in who can start managing the front door and stairs as you advance.
i like that the guy is trying to advance the line without destroying the furniture in the room.. he easily could of dragged it over that table but instead he picked it up
I really enjoy your videos and your evaluations. I must say you may be a little too hard on "civilians". I was about 15 years old at the time, when I looked out the bedroom window as I closed the curtains. My next door neighbor was lifting his garage door, when flames blew it open. I ran downstairs told my parents to call the fire department. I went outside and got our garden hose, not to fight the fire. I used it to spray my neighbor who was trying to extinguish the fire with his garden hose. I saw that he was out of control and was being burned by the fire. When the first fire truck arrived there were two fire fighters on the truck. One pulled an 1-1/2" hose from the truck to the garage. The engineer started to connect the hoses to the truck and the hydrant. The engineer handed be the end of a hose and a wrench. He told me to connect the hose to the hydrant and to open the valve when he told me. My only mistake was to try and remove a kink in the hose when he started the pump. That hose filled in a hurry and the kink vanished in an instant, without my help. A second truck arrived shortly after. The engineer took advantage of the "civilian" audience and used it to his advantage. We lived in a suburb that was growing faster than the infrastructure could support. The firemen knew to draft needed labor. I'm confident that if I did something wrong he would have intervened. I believe this "civilian" was a help.
This really is the worst job. From experience, we had a fire on the third floor of a commercial building. Chief was a psycho and pulled a 2 1/2 and said "March!". We humped that hose up all three floors while chief effortlessly sprinted up to the seat of that fire. The 2 1/2 was a nightmare, but the right call as there was big fire up there. Because he didn't have to struggle he coordinated the second due units and we got it. Volunteers train just as hard as career and the ones that are really good, like these guys make a good show of it. PA strong lads!
Also, how they fall through floors. There needs to be a good 360 before entry as the plan may change. You have to read the fire conditions and location and the size up is ongoing for the entire incident. The slack in the hose needs to be at the porch. Easier to advance. Multi-level house fire may be in basement and weakened the floor. Things to consider. Back up lines and vent plan need to be established. 35 years on the job in a busy department is my background.
Great work overall…thee only recommendation I would make would have been to pull and flake more line near the front door prior to charging the line. Less to pull is ideal. It’s appeared that all of the extra line was I front of the truck I. The street. Also, another tactic could be to grab, make, and pull loops of line into the front door. Nice effort overall.
Kinda crazy to see with how few firefighter they respond in the US. In Europe, most our trucks carry at least 6 people (engineer/driver, officer, attack team, water team) if not 9 people (engineer/driver, officer, officers assistant/utility guy, attack team, water team, hose team) and it's rarely just one engine responding. Like, in rural areas, you'll only be alone for the first couple of minutes of a fire like this. More urban areas you'll never be alone. We have two truck which fit 9 FF each so that alone is 15-18 FF on scene 5-7 minutes after the first truck leaves the station. Add to that the neighboring department with their two truck (15 FFs max.) and you have quite the formidable force at your disposal if you're in command.
I am a Lieutenant in a volunteer company. I send my nozzle guy in to get water on the fire while I get hose in the door. It is very hard work. The more you train, the better you get at it. It does not get easy, you get better at it. Also, it is a bad idea to enter a structure with a hose line that is not charged.
Now that is how to stow and use your rapid deployment line. Why more departments in the US don't do that eats the hell out of me. We use very similar methods which vary slightly but all our pumping appliances have two high pressure hose reels which are more capable of dealing with the average house fire. Water is generally on the fire within seconds of arrival using hose reels as they are already charged and pressurised as soon as the driver engages the PTO. The nearest person will drop tank to pump and set the throttle before the driver even gets to the pump bay to take over. Then it's just a case of getting the fog gun to the fire or entry point for the BA team. Poetry in motion.
In Europe its normal to have 4 firefighters. 2 diving and 2 outside. Plus we use double hoses water liability for diving incase one hose breaks, then we still have water. I dont see that in States tho.
As a person who drove a water truck for 4 years, doing sod watering on huge residential sites, yeah i concor, draging around 2 inch is a pain, cant even think of the stuggle that is to drag it thru a burning house
You could tell how hard pulling the hose was because of how hard he was breathing while he did it, but went back down when he returned to the other firefighter.
Our county fire rescue department is hardcore. We're an all hazards department and they train their volunteers to be above average and put them in good position to transition to career. I'm thankful for it as a volunteer and hope to land a career spot when our new station opens.
What I dont like the spar hose was not placed close to the front door. So it is really difficult feeding the hose which lays stright in the garden! BEVORE you enter a house you need to have "spare hose" long enough to reach any part in the building, laying in front of the entrance. This is how we work (volount Fire Brigade).
Dry line is a huge no no. Yes it is much easier to pull dry line but it also gets tangled up easier not to mention now you are waiting for that water to reach the nozzle which it may not do immediately due to some unforeseen event. Always go in prepared.
This is a perfect example why you need to bring your nozzle and a fighting 50 to the door. That’s my Dept SOP works really well and saves guys from doing this. Good job on the hustle!
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The un-experienced ones start panicking because
scientists such as Dr. Bruce LIpton and Dr. Joe Dispenza explain that
the subconscious mind works 95 - 97 percent of the day.
which means people are not aware of 97 percent of their thoughts of the day.
The subconscious mind is called the habit mind because it works exactly like a computer program, it works very fast.
You can reprogram the subconscious mind by training or by mediation or other techniques that these scientists explain.
The un-experienced ones operate from a conscious mind when they do the job for the first time.
The conscious mind works very slowly 3 - 5 percent of the day. But the conscious mind is very creative.
Dr. Bruce LIpton explains when people fall in love with a person, with a hobby or with a job, they become much more conscious
because they want to make an impression.
He calls it a honeymoon effect.
Therefore practicing, love empathy and gratitude makes you more conscious and healthy.
The person named sweetfire is a firefighter and made that video because they were a first responder for their fire station in that instance
Also the are a furry lel we are pretty much everywhere at this point but it's nice to see us furries showing how we help our communities around us lel
Plus it makes me feel better for taking part in the fandom , even though I'm definitely not doing something as badass as this guy I am trying to get physics studies done so I can build a interplanetary capable ship to terraform mars lel
Honestly even though I'm doing a different field there is still a lot of physics that I see that works with being a firefighter lel
Good luck to you and anybody else reading and may you find peace in the domain and thank you for doing so in the first place :3
Thnx for your service btw m8
I was the nozzleman (20 years old at the time) my back up was I believe 24-25 at the time . We are a live in house that’s typically staffed 24/7 . Myself and Brian really really appreciate this feedback !
You guys did a great job!
Beautiful stretch and hustle gentlemen! Professionals!
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Respect. This is very fast for USA
Well done guys, from a seventy year old volunteer.
These guys are examples of pillars of the community. They volunteer their time to get trained, go out on calls, and do their very best to protect the community.
2 things people should know. If you have pets, dog or cats, DO NOT USE OPEN CANDLES! One fire , we thought was arson, because almost every room downstairs was on fire. The family cat, walking too close to a lit candle, had its fur catch fire, then ran behind every curtain in every room. The second thing is, SHUT THE DOOR of the room that is on fire. Actually you should shut all the doors of rooms on your way out. It will contain the fire or slow it significantly.
My dog lit my house on fire. He jumped up on the gas stove it was terrible
I agree, but one question did the cat survive?
so as much as the job of feeding hose sucks, without that person there, the nozzle person wont be able to advance on the fire, so that makes the feed guy just as or even more important then the nozzle guy. as a member in his 46th year in a "volunteer" dept who is still a class A interior structural firefighter, who has done both nozzle and hose feeder, EVERY JOB IS IMPORTANT ON THE FIREGROUND. there are all volunteer depts who do more runs then some paid depts and remember that even the FDNY was all volunteer at one time. 70% of our nation is protected by volunteers. paid guys get paid to train while they are on duty and therefore have a slight advantage over a volunteer but the risks are the same either way. when you have to go into a firefight, having the nozzle doesnt mean a damn thing, any one can point and shoot water but again, without the guy feeding line, the nozzle is basically useless if it cant reach the fire.
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Very true, the guy feeding the hose is vital!
That's why the heeler or "hose feeder" is usually a more experienced guy like a captain. In my academy we call the nozzleman the princess because they get exactly what they want and if not they pout about it until they do. Ideally the nozzleman knows good stream patterns to better cool the environment and repel the enormous steam, smoke, and heat pressure (nozzle forward training), but even without that knowledge most fire conditions aren't at that level of intensity so it really doesn't matter how good or bad your nozzleman is, they'll still put the fire out, just maybe not with as much finesse. Without a good heeler though it doesn't matter how well trained the nozzleman is. So while it may be deemed the "worst" job it's definitely one of the most vital. I myself actually enjoy it tbh.
Need to re title this video. The backup hose kicker is more important. If he's not feeding hose the nozzle man might as well sit and drink from the nozzle in clean air. Because that hose will never get to the seat of the fire
@@mike_pertz But, the job still sucks! 😄
I'm glad that it's not just me who huffs and puffs when feeding line for the nozzleman! Thanks for your kind words about these volunteers!
I volunteered for a small department for 4 years where most of the members were older folks who have been in the fire service for life. I am starting my first full time firefighting job next week and I have to say I appreciate your videos and explanations of what to expect of different departments and situations.
Good luck 👍
First thing, thanks for giving the volunteers some love.
I agree with you. These guys did a great job with the hand they were dealt.
The only suggestion I’d make is flanking out the hose. The hose was thrown away from the fire. I’m a firm believer that you bring all the “dry” hose you can to the front door and flank it straight out from the door. It feed easier into the building that way when it’s charged and minimizes man power needed .
that’s nice to see a great group of volunteers from right outside of Pittsburgh putting in the work. My goal is to become a career firefighter with Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire
Awesome department
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Better start running and hitting the gym then if you're not already. Going to a career fire academy is like going to an old school military bootcamp (at least here in Arizona where I'm at). People come out yoked at the end, but you aren't gonna make it to the end if you aren't already somewhat yoked at the start. All the best and good luck.
Same here, currently put of lawrence county
Should’ve brought the 50’coupling to the door with the nozzle. That’s what LAFD teaches. It saves a lot of energy.
Glad someone mentioned it. It gets you 50 feet in with minimal effort
That's the way we are trained also.
Same, move all the hose to the door before charging
OCFA; we just switched to the metro load. Normal preconnect for 100 ft, and gansner style 2nd 100ft. Works well. It can actually be tilted up to the wall, and rolled into the structure with little effort.
I think he realized that at 6:14 when he went "Jesus Christ!" trying to pull the charged hose across the yard 😆 Go to see a sense of urgency off the bat, though.
I appreciate a career professional with something positive to say about volunteers. We're all on the same team, and we all want to get home safe.
I appreciate your content, and I learn lots from your video analysis.
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As a heavy duty mechanic I could totally be a volunteer watching this.
Routine, use your adrenaline, breathe right, and you’re good. Weight of gear isn’t an issue, I pick up semi tires and balance them on my shoulder.
So many times you come up 5 feet short with the hose., and just can't get the water to where you need it, and that delay can cost the house. I always like to keep any extra slack closer to the door and less in the street, just a bit easier to pull. Nice work, fire fighting is definitely a team sport. Stay safe, and hope the RIT is arriving shortly behind the attack team.
Yep, each seat on the fire engine has a role. Knowing the role of each seat and most importantly the seat you fill is the real key to success along with staying calm. These two did it right. Charged lines appropriately staged for entry & fire attack, along with great communication.
They are well trained! I was a Volunteer for 30 years. And yes, I have watched "Professional" Firemen here on TH-cam many are in NO hurry!!
‘Professionals’ should absolutely love volunteers. They are there to help as best as possible (and do it for free). Full respect to them!
Great pick of a video! It portrays the work of that hose dragger - often my job in my 40 years as a volunteer firefighter! I seldom had to pull by myself for more than a minute before help arrived. Kudos to these two on their endurance!
I'm in a pre service course right now, and honestly, i actually quite like going on hose management (or hose humping as the more senior instructors like to call it) mainly because the feedback that I recieve from my classmates is so positive, i'll ask them how they felt on the nozzle when advancing through the burn tower and they had little difficulty progressing. when we switch roles and i find myself constantly fighting the line and shouting for more hose. but with that said, i understand the diffculty, the hose can defintitly get heavy, especially when you're pulling up stairs and around corners. from my small amount of expirience in the world of firefighting i can already tell that as hard as this component of the job can be, it is certainly very important to be great at it.
People don’t realise how many litres of water are inside those charged lines - they are DAMN heavy and they’re STIFF too - like dragging and bending a big, heavy steel rod (that can kink randomly) around corners and up stairs. I loved everything I saw in this video, those boys have clearly trained and worked at least a while and it shows - they are an excellent team. Great job fellas!
I have never been a firefighter but used to test hoses (usually 4 at once ) at twice working pressure. they are stubborn bastards to move !
I am happy to see a fire department that trains for response.
Two things: I was on 2 departments during my 30 year career as a volunteer firefighter. 1. I was always taught to not mask up until you’re at the front door and ready to attack. Fogs up your face piece and causes you to use too much air. 2. When I was Captain of the engine, I would pull as much hose into the structure as possible to lessen the number of back and forth or up and down trips. Other than that, a very good text book fire attack. Congrats fellas!
These guys did great! He would pull line and go up and down the stairs to help his partner and check progress. Man I agree with the fitness. I’m a new firefighter one year on the job next week when I’ll get my badge 💯 I’ve stretched a few times. Abandoned houses, garage, attic and basement fires. I’m still new so I get a lot of adrenaline and move fast which wears me down after 30 minutes. But I know with time and experience I’ll amazing as long as I keep this hard work and dedication going. God bless and protect us all in this field.
Such a true fact pulling that hose through the door sucks your arms feel like jelly after the fact. Also thank you for that support for the volunteers I know with mine it’s a struggle we have a total of 6 young guys, so we usually only have about 3 to 4 guys that can go interior on a call
I'm from Lancaster county, PA, closer to Philadelphia than Pittsburgh. Most of the departments here in PA are all volunteer, relying on live-ins to staff the departments 24/7. I attended a Protective Services Academy at my county public safety training center for my senior year of high school. Going into our basic fire academy, I really didn't know what to expect. Firefighting was the unit that made me want to quit. Not because I didn't like it, I loved it actually and it's become a part of my life permanently. But the work, expecially pulling hose was abysmal. I still remember our instructor had us work in threes to get 200 feet of hose into a second story window. The first person up had the nozzle and about 100 feet of hose, once they were up they charged the line and started fire attack. Then the second person went up to help them with fire suppression. The third one up (me) had to get up the ladder, go through a window, and pull 100 feet of hose through the window and watch it to make sure it didn't get caught on anything. Needless to say, it was hard. Pulling hose is an important job, but I can assure you it is one of my least favorite. Respect to these guys.
when I first started in fire service, I had friend in the fire service to... we would challenge each other on how long we make a 30 minute bottle last.. I believe the longest I made it was around 18 minutes.. this was in the days of steel bottles..
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We still have double steel bottles at my dept (Germany)
I used a composite bottle once and holy shit, it ways like nothing and has air in it in insane amounts 😅
That’s great in theory if you’re sitting in a room meditating but you should be practicing your breathing during strenuous work such as this.
Non fighter fighter but that is a game my SCUBA buddies play, who can stretch their gas the furthest. I usually lose simply because I'm the oldest and least fit. Even if I gain a few pounds over 6 months, I notice my gas consumption goes up.
We ran a fire drill in my sub a few years back and I was able to make it last about 40 min. Granted I was only actively fighting the “fire” for like 5 or so min, but I had to stay at the scene as the reflash watch. About 10 minutes later I realized I had been forgotten about and started conserving as much air as possible, taking short quick breaths and holding as long as I could. The man in charge at the Damage Control assembly area realized after about 30-35 minutes I hadn’t come out yet and sent someone in as my SCBA starting triggering the low air alarms. I came out with about 200 lbs of air left.
I've done everything on a volunteer dept. Last job was driver/engineer. At 67 it was time to hang it up because of the 24/7. I still put on a air pack when needed. Great job of detailing this video.
Man during training I was the 2nd. I fed the line, it kept getting bound out every chance it got. Running back and forth, up and down the stairs etc. definitely showed me how out of shape I was.
Bless that confidence & collaboration with tiny crew 🙏; was a VFF for 15 years & quit when I realized 0% of such safety & resource awareness & coordination was NOT & NEVER be there systemically (I.e., danger ‼️ to all)
I did a total of 48 years in the fire service as a firefighter/Emt. It was during my second year on that department we got sent to a residential house fire, two story job. On arrival we had 3 on the engine, driver, myself and a probie. It was a full volunteer department consisting of 4 engines, truck company and one rescue ambulance.
We saw a 2nd floor fire already breached the windows and had significant fire there, so we pulled a pre connect, went inside. I was backing him up and pulling hose. Funny thing was, we couldn’t find the stairway and we knew the house was on fire, but the first floor was clear. Finally we found the door to the upstairs and headed up the stairway and got on a landing between three bedrooms. The room on fire was to our left, and the other rooms hadn’t started burning yet. We had a lot of fire, heat, dense smoke and he opened the nozzle, and right at the moment, his SCBA regulator malfunctioned dumping his cylinder air. He shut off the nozzle, crawled/climbed/ jumped over me headfirst down the stairs leaving me there to deal with the fire. Since it was a daytime fire, and we are volunteers, we didn’t know if a 2nd engine or truck companies were coming. That was way before hand held radios! So I went from hose jockey to nozzle man quickly, and had just enough hose to enter the room on fire. I attacked the fire and because the bedroom windows had self ventilated was able to knock most of the fire down. But because of the heat I found a sliding door to a closet I backed in to for some defense from the heat. Remember, back in the 1960s, our protective gear was a long rubber coat with canvas lining, hip boots, leather helmet, and rubber gloves. We were one of the few departments that had mounted SCBA on each apparatus as we were a very progressive department. They weighed about 30lbs with that awful steel cylinder. Metal frames, canvas straps, rubber facepiece and hose. I weight about 120 lbs and was 5’7” and 19 years old.
Being now in the closet pouring water on the fire and getting good extinguishment I started hearing loud popping noises right next to me in that closet so I turned the nozzle on it not knowing what the hell was going on. About the time my low air alarm sounded, two more firefighters crawled in and found me, I handed the first on the nozzle and bailed down the stairs.
Afterwords, I was outside taking a break, when our assistant chief who had arrived, ordered us to spread out a salvage cover on the ground, and had a cop go back into the house. They came out carrying multiple firearms and boxes of ammunition and gun powder. They dumped it on the cover and the cop was making notes. I asked the chief where all that came from, and he said “ the room that was on fire had a closet with all this and there’s more ammo remnants there from the ammo that exploded. That was the popping I heard! I told the chief what happened that I was inside that closet and heard the popping sounds and hosed it down. I thought it might be fireworks. That was true excitement for the back up hose jockey turned into nozzle man. So yeah, it can be a horrible job but sometimes things will change and you have to be prepared. Pulling hose is part of the job. Not everyone will be on the nozzle, but eventually you will. A very memorable fire for a young firefighter.
I know this is late, but where I grew up, there were some cops that were also volunteer firefighters. There was even a county sheriff’s deputy that was allowed to keep his bunker gear in his squad car. If a fire call went out for his fire department while he’s on duty, then he would respond to the scene in his squad car and suit up. The county sheriff knew that he could do more good on a fire scene as a firefighter than as a deputy. That’s why it was allowed. He also kept a hydrant key is his trunk, and often would get to a fire before any apparatus would, so he would flush out the hydrant once he got on scene.
I am showing this video to my Captain for an upcoming training session - this is AMAZING!!! i'm 63, been a Class A vollie for 32 years; these guys "GOT IT"!!
I have to agree with "Irish Drums 2" and "Alex Kitner" about (1) bringing the hose to the front door, do not leave it behind the engine and (2) flake it out for easier puling into the house. I have to agree with Alex, make a few loops anywhere you can inside the house; perhaps heave the coffee table on top of the far couch or push it down the hall next to it; this will open up a space in the room.
Something they are stressing more at the County Fire Academy where I volunteer is to flake outward from the entrance so you only have to pull into the house and not have to pull across the lawn; our homes are closer together and are mostly set back only 25 feet from the curb.
I was always taught the same thing in Texas. Operator is getting the water flowing, FF is catching a hydrant and running back to the nozzle as the officer pulls the line to the entrance and waits for the FF for entry.
6:05 key detail is that team did not need to communicate almost EVER!!!! That is secret sauce core training for first-responders 3-4 floor residential.
10:49 - nozel guy sounds new. Doorman is a great teacher and being patient with new guy
Here in Australia, I am a Australia Volunteer Firefighter, the Police here are really good, I have been to plenty of MVA, Where the police have been amazing, we do the same everyone on the truck has a job, we are taught to be quick but safe
Springfield Maine volunteer firefighter here. I'm posting your videos on our message board. We don't get to train much, so these help! Usually only a couple guys respond, so we know what you mean! Thanks again, we'll be watching
It is also nice to pull and coil the dry line at the door so when you charge it you aren't pulling 200' of charged line but flaking off the top of a pile by the door. This doesn't work with all hose load methods obviously (like this one used in the video) but you can still pull some of that line closer to the door before charging the line. Either way, nice work.
Great job by what is obviously 2 very well trained and motivated firefighters and a spot on documentary
Many folks, even some in the fire service, do not appreciate the importance of the number 2 guy. His role is to keep the team safe! Awesome job by those guys...the entire video is well worth watching. As a whole, this is one of the top firefighting vids on the internet. When I learned these guys were volunteers I was stunned.
I teach nozzle and first coupling to the front door. 50' of line at door gives almost complete access inside a residential building. Most of their line was dropped at the lower driveway, Much more effort required
Outstanding work for just 2 guys.
Can confirm being the second guy is alot of hard work. Been that guy on a handful of field and large grass fires. It sucks pulling hose but i love the workout and it only makes me better.
One of the fires I went to when I was on a dept it was a slow start because we had no interiors for a little while. it was the driver, myself who was in training, and another exterior. I was so busy stretching handlines to get them ready for the interiors and other stuff set up that I didn't even notice when interiors arrives.
Thanks for posting these! All an eye-opener to what these people go through.
I’m almost done with firefighter 1 but I can already confirm that pulling hose sucks. That said I still love being involved no matter what role I’ve gotta do.
I agree with you 100% about volunteers. In the UK we have the RDS Retained Duty System who are people who have full time jobs but make themselves available for often over 100 hours per week. My son was retained on my old station before joining full-time. I was Watch Commander on that station which had one full time and one retained pump. That was fortunate for the retained as we as full timers took their training sessions which doesn't happen on normal RDS stations. It also meant we worked together on the fireground and had good relations with them. I never treated them an different to my full time crew and I am pleased to say a good many of them took so well to the job they gave up their own careers to become full time firefighters. There are many, many excellent RDS crews up and the UK and we really couldn't manage without them.
I liked the Collier's Mansion montage!😂 Before those pics popped up I was already thinking, "Well at least that place is clean." I'm in a volunteer dept on Long Island in NY. Thank you for the kind words towards volly departments. Can confirm that charged line is very heavy, and humping that hose in full gear is a lot harder than it looks.
8:30 is also a pretty accurate representation of visibility in a typical fire. I've humped hose a few times (over a couple decades) and yeah, I'll take the nozzle any day. Brass loves to catch on corners.
80% of Career Firefighters started out on a volunteer department either in a Non-Resident position where they would come into the station and actually do shift work for 12 or 24 hours a week They would train a minimum of 3 hours during their shift and build on their skill level. If you were a Resident, you probably went through a department academy, were issued a pager and would respond to the station and await an Officer to assign you to an Engine. Some of my best memories were in the beginning of my career.
You two guys done a super job you knock the fire down and then cool the place down with a fog pattern you two know what you were doing
Great job, but usually the conditions are a bit worse i.e. zero visibility and having to stay low most of the time, still good work though. On some of the fires I've been on you feel like you just finished a full 8 hour, heavy duty day at the fire academy and it's only been 20 minutes on scene. So physical fitness is definitely a must if you plan on going into the fire service. Just turning on a hydrant usually takes more strength than you would think and that's easy compared to a lot of the other stuff.
I am a forefighter in the netherlands.
Lately we got a new hoze system calde O-bundels. Its a 75mm line with 2 connectionpoints for 32mm hozes. The line can immidiatly be made live by the pumper, than you connect 2 bundles you take intoo the building, connect them fill them up. Within 60 seconds we have about 90 meters of water delivering 450liters a minute. Also 3000 liters water in the engine. That way we foght extremely fast.
Als we have 2 small hozes about 125L minute wich ar always live. We can run in and have the fire out in 1 or 2 minutes. Great tech!!
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Pro tip from a good past instructor I had is to bring as much slack as you can with you before the hose is charged so your not pulling the hole length of hose
Volunteer are great when we'll trained like these firefighters. I enjoyed your break down of the video. Continue the good work to further firefighter training and education.
I'm a Volunteer in Australia, we are taught to "S" the hose at the front door, so that you don't need to drag the entire line back to the appliance when you want to advance the line inside.
It's not good practice to generalize, but to some paid firefighters it's just a job while to most volunteers it's a passion.
"not good practice to generalize", but you make pretty generalized statements. The word "most" is generalizing.
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One thing we always train on is the second man grabs the first coupling and brings it to the door. That way you have 50ft of hose at the door
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I’m a doorman and I can confirm it’s one of the hardest and most dangerous jobs on the fire ground. Constantly working up and down the line looking for kinks or pinch points by yourself takes a toll and puts you in just as much danger as the nozzle man (officer should be right behind him). In our dept. once enough hose is in the door I work my way up the line with a 6’ New York hook to assist in pulling ceiling and looking for extension. All foreground jobs can dangerous but I personally find a doorman to be the most physically and mentally taxing as well as most dangerous job. Stay safe brothers and sisters.
Solid work there. Another great video and commentary. In addition to the physical fitness part, in my mind is to have good, nutrional eating habits and avoid stress eating.
I couldn’t agree more. In my opinion, diet is one of the most overlooked aspects of being a firefighter.
Good hustle and great coordination. Many of the videos you see it is as if the crew has been trained to stand around and wait to be given task's to perform. When I was in the Fire Service we all understood the task's that needed to be performed and it was very little need for direction at least on initial arrival.
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My critic is the way they laid out their hose originally. I don't know why they faked it out down the road in front of the truck. The second in, should have as much as the hose as he could at the front door to alleviate having to drag that hose a hundred feet.
As you mention that everyone knew what to do:The way we were trained in Europe (as volunteers) is that everyone on an engine has a pre-assigned job. Usually you have a squad consisting of the chauffeur (as they are called by FDNY) whose job is to drive the truck and once on the scene ready the engine to put pressure on the hoses. You have the officer and a gopher. And then you have three assigned teams, one being the "attack team" carrying the nozzle to the fire and being responsible for any rescue, the "hose team" responsible for bringing the lines to the attack team and the "water team" responsible for connecting the water supply (hydrants etc.) to the engine. Even the seats on the engine are set up in this pattern. So the moment the apparatus stops, everyone knows exactly what his/her job is and they manage to bring water to the fire as fast as possible. No confusion on scene, everyone knows already what he/she will be doing before they arrive. On more modern engines you will see the attack team grab the pre-charged "fast attack" hose which will use the on-board water supply while the hose and water teams are setting up additional lines and the external water supply from a hydrant etc.
I agree these guys did a great job...very quick...great communication...and seem well trained for volunteers...I didn't see one but I think a TIC would have helped locate the seat of the fire & use less water.
We just had a 2 car attached garage fire...soon as we opened man door we used our TIC to locate the seat to aim water at it right away...moved further in with shutting down the nozzle...looked again with the camera...hosed down more...I think we may have used 350 gallons of water in total.
this is Penn hills fire company near Pittsburgh PA, they run a large amount of working fires, if you know the area then its suprising that it took so long for anybody else to get on scene.
We teach going to the door with the nozzle and the first coupling, when you go in you have an easy 50ft advance, charge the line to 50-60 psi, pump man ups the pressure once flow is detected. 50ft should nearly cover most single floor dwellings.
I am a medically retired Volunteer Firefighter. You are correct most dont give Volunteers respect. I faught fires with great firefighters and with guys that after getting out I told the cheif never again. That is both paid and Volunteers.
I have no problem pulling hose if that's what needs to be done. It sucks, but it's a great workout, and you are still a part of saving someone's possessions or life. I'm a pretty big guy so either job is made easier because of my size and ability to use my weight properly to control the hose.
That does look like a tough job. I'm not a firefighter but I've been in plenty of places where you'd have a hard time pulling a garden hose inside & up the stairs.
You need rigid house pipes like we have in the UK, our lads have water on the fire usually within 30 seconds using a high pressure hosepipe fed by water from the engine. As it’s smaller it’s easier to pull it into position.
I just spent my air pack laying in bed watching this video! Great job, Brothers!
Sometimes I question whether paid depts actually move so slow so they will have more “Action”.
They did great job with only two FF's. Let me give a tip for small manpower dept's. The first FF went to the door and the second FF assisted in pulling hose out of bumper well. If the second FF would have grabbed a coupling and brought it to the door with him the pull up the stairs would be much easier. Not a big gripe it will just help make it easier to pull hose in the house. All that extra line does no good out by the apparatus.
I haven't worked in the fire field at all but I do work in concrete and I imagine that water hose has gotta be similar in weight to a concrete pump hose. I can say being the guy who's job it is the hustle heavy hoses around for hours is exhausting. Now to do it in full gear running on o2, that's gotta be a whole different level. Props to the hose guys out there.
When I was much younger. I was on the camp ground spring burn crew for the tent sites by the lake. We used a converted pickup with two small hoses. I think 1 inch hoses that was connected to the tank. Anyways we all had to know how to run the pump and we always went in pairs. The line guys had to yell back to tell the pump operator when to charge the line so they where set before getting water.. I am glad they had the hose next to the rail, so it wasn't a run away whipping hose. Like what could have happened at 2:54... Like I said we did a grass field controlled burn, so we didn't need any radios as we could see everyone... First person worked the hose, the second was there for safety with there head on the swivel watching what was going on around them. I think we had a pair of 50 foot hoses on the reals... Very short distance anyways from the truck... LOL main tool on the truck was shovels and pick-axe for the grass fire containment preburn...
Agreed it is the hardest job on the fireground but one thing that helps, and I'm not trying to knock on these guys, but stretch/flake all the hose you can towards the fire. At the beginning when he is pulling the second section out of the bumper he is pulling it in the opposite direction which means that hose has to get pulled back towards the door. If he either pulls that section towards the house or after emptying the bin pulls that last section around towards the house and pulls slack to the door as he walks up then you aren't pulling as far, the nozzleman can also help by pulling some slack once he gets to the door to help himself and make it easier on the backup guy . If the slack hose you are pulling is back in the street you're fighting the weight and friction of 150 feet cause you're moving the whole line, if that 'slack' is in the front yard closer to the door then you're only fighting a fraction of that weight and friction so getting that slack as close to the entry point as possible makes everything easier. This is solid work for sure and the guys are sharp, I'm not knocking them, but you can always find little things to learn from that make you that much sharper.
Tip for loading hose. As you make entry, instead of coming in empty handed and pulling hose once you’re inside, walk in while holding about 10 or more feet of hose. By the time you are inside you already have slack. Then pull more hose and load that first room with some more slack so you can manage that second pinch point at the stairs without having to worry about the pinch front door. By the time you run out of that you should hopefully have a second in who can start managing the front door and stairs as you advance.
i like that the guy is trying to advance the line without destroying the furniture in the room.. he easily could of dragged it over that table but instead he picked it up
I really enjoy your videos and your evaluations. I must say you may be a little too hard on "civilians". I was about 15 years old at the time, when I looked out the bedroom window as I closed the curtains. My next door neighbor was lifting his garage door, when flames blew it open. I ran downstairs told my parents to call the fire department.
I went outside and got our garden hose, not to fight the fire. I used it to spray my neighbor who was trying to extinguish the fire with his garden hose. I saw that he was out of control and was being burned by the fire.
When the first fire truck arrived there were two fire fighters on the truck. One pulled an 1-1/2" hose from the truck to the garage. The engineer started to connect the hoses to the truck and the hydrant. The engineer handed be the end of a hose and a wrench. He told me to connect the hose to the hydrant and to open the valve when he told me. My only mistake was to try and remove a kink in the hose when he started the pump. That hose filled in a hurry and the kink vanished in an instant, without my help. A second truck arrived shortly after.
The engineer took advantage of the "civilian" audience and used it to his advantage. We lived in a suburb that was growing faster than the infrastructure could support. The firemen knew to draft needed labor. I'm confident that if I did something wrong he would have intervened.
I believe this "civilian" was a help.
I was a volunteer firefighter for on and off for 30 years. And for what I'm saying these guys did a fantastic job.
This really is the worst job. From experience, we had a fire on the third floor of a commercial building. Chief was a psycho and pulled a 2 1/2 and said "March!". We humped that hose up all three floors while chief effortlessly sprinted up to the seat of that fire. The 2 1/2 was a nightmare, but the right call as there was big fire up there.
Because he didn't have to struggle he coordinated the second due units and we got it. Volunteers train just as hard as career and the ones that are really good, like these guys make a good show of it.
PA strong lads!
Also, how they fall through floors. There needs to be a good 360 before entry as the plan may change. You have to read the fire conditions and location and the size up is ongoing for the entire incident. The slack in the hose needs to be at the porch. Easier to advance. Multi-level house fire may be in basement and weakened the floor. Things to consider. Back up lines and vent plan need to be established. 35 years on the job in a busy department is my background.
That’s what I taught my men for years they get off the truck masked up and ready to grab hose or do rescue!
Awesome 2 man team work! 👏
Great work overall…thee only recommendation I would make would have been to pull and flake more line near the front door prior to charging the line. Less to pull is ideal. It’s appeared that all of the extra line was I front of the truck I. The street. Also, another tactic could be to grab, make, and pull loops of line into the front door. Nice effort overall.
Kinda crazy to see with how few firefighter they respond in the US. In Europe, most our trucks carry at least 6 people (engineer/driver, officer, attack team, water team) if not 9 people (engineer/driver, officer, officers assistant/utility guy, attack team, water team, hose team) and it's rarely just one engine responding. Like, in rural areas, you'll only be alone for the first couple of minutes of a fire like this. More urban areas you'll never be alone. We have two truck which fit 9 FF each so that alone is 15-18 FF on scene 5-7 minutes after the first truck leaves the station. Add to that the neighboring department with their two truck (15 FFs max.) and you have quite the formidable force at your disposal if you're in command.
Great work I was a Volunteer Fire Chief for six years. These guys did a great job.
I am a Lieutenant in a volunteer company. I send my nozzle guy in to get water on the fire while I get hose in the door. It is very hard work. The more you train, the better you get at it. It does not get easy, you get better at it. Also, it is a bad idea to enter a structure with a hose line that is not charged.
Now that is how to stow and use your rapid deployment line. Why more departments in the US don't do that eats the hell out of me. We use very similar methods which vary slightly but all our pumping appliances have two high pressure hose reels which are more capable of dealing with the average house fire. Water is generally on the fire within seconds of arrival using hose reels as they are already charged and pressurised as soon as the driver engages the PTO. The nearest person will drop tank to pump and set the throttle before the driver even gets to the pump bay to take over. Then it's just a case of getting the fog gun to the fire or entry point for the BA team. Poetry in motion.
In Europe its normal to have 4 firefighters. 2 diving and 2 outside. Plus we use double hoses water liability for diving incase one hose breaks, then we still have water. I dont see that in States tho.
Amazing training leads up to great work by the crew
As a person who drove a water truck for 4 years, doing sod watering on huge residential sites, yeah i concor, draging around 2 inch is a pain, cant even think of the stuggle that is to drag it thru a burning house
You could tell how hard pulling the hose was because of how hard he was breathing while he did it, but went back down when he returned to the other firefighter.
Our county fire rescue department is hardcore. We're an all hazards department and they train their volunteers to be above average and put them in good position to transition to career. I'm thankful for it as a volunteer and hope to land a career spot when our new station opens.
What county? I know our county has been doing similar, wakulla county fire rescue. Volunteer then transition to career.
What I dont like the spar hose was not placed close to the front door. So it is really difficult feeding the hose which lays stright in the garden!
BEVORE you enter a house you need to have "spare hose" long enough to reach any part in the building, laying in front of the entrance. This is how we work (volount Fire Brigade).
I am watching from Elmira NY from what I can see for a volunteer fire department they are moving quickly to gain control of the fire
Dry line is a huge no no. Yes it is much easier to pull dry line but it also gets tangled up easier not to mention now you are waiting for that water to reach the nozzle which it may not do immediately due to some unforeseen event. Always go in prepared.
Nice work guys! The only thing I didn't see was the 360 walk around upon arrival. Maybe there was a chief there that already did that?
Worst job on the fireground :Traffic Control video over
I was a volunteer firefighter for 9 1/2 years and 6 years as a cadet Clifton volunteer fire department just North of Duluth Minnesota
This is a perfect example why you need to bring your nozzle and a fighting 50 to the door. That’s my Dept SOP works really well and saves guys from doing this. Good job on the hustle!