Highly recommend you share some of this with DFES. the bushfire centre of excellence is always after video footage for training. That wind change was a great for training, showed it at my brigade the other night
Great video!! Reminds me of being in Texas & Oklahoma. I can still taste the ash and smoke. I had to stop the video and go to the fridge and grab a cold one to wash it down. That's the beauty of being retired I guess. Keep up the good work. Don't get hurt!! You'll be doing the same thing; probably in the same place next year!!
Great vid. As a member of a coastal brigade we rarely get to see or fight grass fires, so this gives some awesome footage and commentary. Even listening to the radios helps illustrate a lot. As one of the training officers, I hope you don’t mind me using this with the crew, so when we do get deployed out of area we’ve at least got some idea of what is needed.
100% go for it. One of the reasons for posting it was so that people can see what it is like to fight our fires and see how conditions can change in no time at all!
Hola te sigo desde España en la comunidad autónoma de aragon tengo 74 años y no tengo palabras para expresar el gran trabajo que hacéis por aquí en esta tierra se suele de personas tan valientes como ustedes que tienen más cojones que el caballo de espartero un grandisimo abrazo para todos ustedes ❤❤❤❤
Hey mate ,our fires are a lot different but just dangerous.Your coverage was great and well done to you and the crew in a very serious ,cheers Dicky situation
Love your videos mate. Please keep them coming. Done a harvest for the Stead’s in 2011 and I’m sure I heard Simon on the 2way near the end of this video🤙
JH, can you please tell your audience just how far you had to travel to get down to the highway to fight the fire as I’m sure many people don’t have any idea of the distances our volunteers have to go.
At least you guys get half-decent trucks and gear. Here is QLD, bloody great F...en joke... A tip when you need to fill with a lay-flat, grab a section of suction line and connect (hope you cary selection of fittings) and use that on end into tank, it wont flop/flap around or kink off. Just shows to others what fires can do when weather is against you.
I just felt I wanted to tell y’all something funny. So I was out driving in the country with my family and we stopped at this old town in the middle of nowhere, now there was a VBFB and my brother being my brother decided to try the door handle. It was open. The entirety of the truck was also left open. So, my dad told his mate who’s an Area officer and we don’t know what happened after that but it was pretty cool.
Just a query,at around 8.50mins as the fire was about to go across the road,you commented that it was the “ton”crossing the road.Unsure what you meant,or was I not hearing it right.Replayed it but still not clear on what you meant,Cheers Dicky
The relight issue is because you're driving too fast and you're also driving in the dry side which can be dangerous in itself. You should half your speed and attack it from the burnt side so the nozzle can get in the seat of the fire and really drown the spot instead of just getting the top grass wet and allowing the dry grass underneath to relight. I'm not here as an internet warrior. I just want you guys to be safe. I lost a couple of buddies in the fire service and I don't want that to happen to others.
Brilliant vid mate, showcases what us volunteer firefighters do 👍🌾
Brilliant video, thanks so much for doing what you do, amazing to see that fire move so quickly
Thank you Tom and all your firefighters for what you guys do to save us all.
Highly recommend you share some of this with DFES. the bushfire centre of excellence is always after video footage for training. That wind change was a great for training, showed it at my brigade the other night
Great video!! Reminds me of being in Texas & Oklahoma. I can still taste the ash and smoke. I had to stop the video and go to the fridge and grab a cold one to wash it down. That's the beauty of being retired I guess. Keep up the good work. Don't get hurt!! You'll be doing the same thing; probably in the same place next year!!
Great vid. As a member of a coastal brigade we rarely get to see or fight grass fires, so this gives some awesome footage and commentary. Even listening to the radios helps illustrate a lot. As one of the training officers, I hope you don’t mind me using this with the crew, so when we do get deployed out of area we’ve at least got some idea of what is needed.
100% go for it. One of the reasons for posting it was so that people can see what it is like to fight our fires and see how conditions can change in no time at all!
Hola te sigo desde España en la comunidad autónoma de aragon tengo 74 años y no tengo palabras para expresar el gran trabajo que hacéis por aquí en esta tierra se suele de personas tan valientes como ustedes que tienen más cojones que el caballo de espartero un grandisimo abrazo para todos ustedes ❤❤❤❤
44 degrees that’s nearly freezing lol, great video
Awesome video , community spirit...mate on mate watching each other's back , the Australian landscape. Job well done 👍
Hey mate ,our fires are a lot different but just dangerous.Your coverage was great and well done to you and the crew in a very serious ,cheers Dicky situation
Who is 'our'? A brigade is a bush area? In another country?
@@petephone9353 I suspect the US. Generally slower, but hotter(?) then 'ours' imo
This channel is going to be big! All best from Poland, Europe! :)
Glad you think so! Hope you are enjoying the content!
This was so interesting , never seen anything like this.
Love your videos mate. Please keep them coming. Done a harvest for the Stead’s in 2011 and I’m sure I heard Simon on the 2way near the end of this video🤙
Yer that’s him on the two way 😂
Good work guys . I was secretary of our local brigade for 22 years and 12 years of issuing permits.we had our good days and bad days
That was hectic . Good work🤙
Brilliant vid mate, showcases what us volunteer firefighters do
😮 great work mate!
Top effort guys
JH, can you please tell your audience just how far you had to travel to get down to the highway to fight the fire as I’m sure many people don’t have any idea of the distances our volunteers have to go.
Did that LAT have reds and blues?? Awesome video!
That fire was fairly hooking
At least you guys get half-decent trucks and gear. Here is QLD, bloody great F...en joke...
A tip when you need to fill with a lay-flat, grab a section of suction line and connect (hope you cary selection of fittings) and use that on end into tank, it wont flop/flap around or kink off.
Just shows to others what fires can do when weather is against you.
very good footage
Good human beings meet a bad situation
We all should be happy for firefighters so can go back to home we love firefighters
No cap 🧢 This is lit 🔥 4 real 💀
Stuffed if I know how you filmed that mate! I'm RFS CAT 1 driver and couldn't have recorded that around here!
Solid effort guys
The wind was so crazy
Yer it has some force to it when that southerly change came in!
@tomsbrookfarm it would of been bloody wild mate
Some great footage
What a legend
It's interesting to see an ex CFA tanker. They are popular with farmers in our part of Victoria
What does CFA stand for ?we don't have that in WA we don't need it.
@wtech.4238 Country Fire Authority. You'll have an equivalent when you're a real state.
I've been over to help in 2017. Good people and good fun
@@Wirebanger Do you just let your fires burn? Sorry but if you don't have RFS/CFA not sure youred have much forest left
@@Ricardo_Motothey have DFES (Department of Fire & Emergency Services) which has a Rural fire division
@@Hick25 Thanks mate, new they must have something!
Australia 👍🇦🇺
I just felt I wanted to tell y’all something funny. So I was out driving in the country with my family and we stopped at this old town in the middle of nowhere, now there was a VBFB and my brother being my brother decided to try the door handle.
It was open. The entirety of the truck was also left open. So, my dad told his mate who’s an Area officer and we don’t know what happened after that but it was pretty cool.
Just a query,at around 8.50mins as the fire was about to go across the road,you commented that it was the “ton”crossing the road.Unsure what you meant,or was I not hearing it right.Replayed it but still not clear on what you meant,Cheers Dicky
I say "that there is retardant from the plane" its what the bombers uses to slow down the spread of the fire.
i hear on the radio 'fire on the western side of the highway, quite tame' at 8:50
What area are you in? Looks a bit like Western Australia
Yep, Esperance in Western Australia
He is about 70 km west of Esperance and 30 40 km north of the tar road ,the fire was south of the tar road 80 90 km towards Ravensthorpe (Ravy)
you the CFA
The relight issue is because you're driving too fast and you're also driving in the dry side which can be dangerous in itself. You should half your speed and attack it from the burnt side so the nozzle can get in the seat of the fire and really drown the spot instead of just getting the top grass wet and allowing the dry grass underneath to relight.
I'm not here as an internet warrior. I just want you guys to be safe. I lost a couple of buddies in the fire service and I don't want that to happen to others.
Like he said, hit it then loop back because there is no backup. Your first run slows it then the others black it.