Tim76 my thinking was a whole lot better than you and my friend because I know every time they make them turns I know that was in the house 👉🏿🚑🚒🚒🚒🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🔥🔥🔥🔥🏡🏡 they are way out in the country my friend there's nowhere in the hell I live way out there what if you have a massive heart attack ain't no hospitals around what if you get bit by the snake ain't no hospital close around where the helicopter your ass just as good as dead no my friend he's got a fire department got a long ways to go ain't no way I won't live with something like that that far away from a hospital fire department store grocery store hell naw every time the fire department turn he wasn't no closer to the house it's too far out there that's like an hour or two hour drive man good God almighty 🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🚒🚨🚨🔥🔥🏡🏡 I feel sorry for the people stay way out in the country like that good God man ain't no way in the hell I'll stay close to the hospital fire department I get sick or anything good God man hell naw that is too damn far
I admire your ability to find your way to where you are needed. Even if you have GPS. Its beautiful countryside you are surrounded by and it amazes me how far you have to travel to get to where you need to be.
Im a firefighter and I have everything pump, tanks of water, hoses, ppe because you cant rely solely on the brigade, we need to be pro-active even in towns and suburbs
For real. That's ridiculous how far a fire station is. Even funded volunteer fire with a tanker or Hose and pump closer would be better than this. I'd just let it burn and put out hot spots as they come. Fully involved because it took 3 days for the fire truck to reach it's destination.
No offense intended, and thanks for your efforts, but personally I'd rather watch the next 30 minutes after you pull into the driveway to see how the attack goes and what's left when you're done.
I agree. Many videos of this type now only show up until the arrival. Often I have read they don't show more for "privacy" concerns. Seems better if we see the fire knocked down and someone could edit out the homeowners or bystanders. IMHO
I Love watching These Ride Along Videos! They Bring Back Great Memories of Responding to Calls and Living in the Mountains of Virginia! Thanks for Posting These Videos!
In the winter we sometimes have go let people know that because they dont plow it for a fire truck we may not be able to save their house. We don't mention that the drive time alone already plays a factor to that just like this video.
I was in the Stony Creek Volunteer Rescue Squad in Sussex county Virginia. Got dispatched to a structure fire at 3:10 am and when we got there it was only chimneys standing. No one saw it for that long to call it in.
Great job of chauffeuring, that Pierce Velocity chassis is great for handling. My last engine was a 2010 Velocity, 1500/500 w/ 515 hp 60 Series Detroit. I absolutely loved that truck. Sure hope that those folks had good insurance...☹️
Just now seeing this, some great driving on those narrow roads, I used to live up I-81 in Luray in Page County about 100 yards from Luray Caverns. Miss the mountains but living on a lake now isn't bad either.
Talk about a loooong response time! They need another station out there in the boonies! By the time they get there the fire is out, the structure is ashes and the bodies are being hauled off to the ME.
R. S. Andrews it still would be the same with valenteer departments your still going to have the time it takes to get to the station if you place a station out in the country most smaller towns in my area have a valenteer department however if mutual aid is requested it can take 20-30 mins for supporting departments to arrive on site due to locations and being valenteer departments
Nice drive in the country you know you are long ways out when even with a working fire you cannot see the smoke from the station or during the long response to the fire. Yes a video of the actual attack on the fire would have been nice, but you do what you can.
Hats off to the EO for getting that custom cab wide frame down those narrow roads and tight spaces. Definitely a road trip to get there but for the distance seemed like great response time
Correct me if I am wrong, but this is a house fire, in which, you are making sure the fire doesn't spread. Because that house appears to be a lost cause! Sorry, my late dad was a fireman, and he would have known all the correct terminology. I normally sat in the car while he did his thing.
Correct... in the service it's called a defensive fire or (surround and drown) .put water on the fire and protect any exposures i.e. buildings sheds vehicles etc.. send no manpower inside the building.. basically soak it down and babysit it till the fires out
@@kartracer5g229 That is about what I recall it being called when my late dad was a fireman. The fact is I just couldn't recall what they termed it as, and didn't want to make a statement that I wasn't sure of, so I posed as more of a question vs a full on statement. Because I just couldn't recall the proper term.
If they are considered first due that is very sad. They need an annex station to cut response times. At that distance every fire can be 3rd alarm on initial arrival. They have their work cut out for them. Good luck guys.
It seems when these houses are so far away from any Fire Service that if their house catches on fire for any reason by the time the fire department gets there it’s destroyed
Cripes! I admire the drivers skill driving at speed on narrow metal roads, hopefully without the GPS going in/ out through the area. Good use of siren on narrow roads and hidden driveways, don't need to meet a unaware driving coming along. Is there another video of the attack?
I understand. But I have to edit audio and video out in some parts of my videos because a few members don't want to be seen or heard in the videos. That, and I can't violate HIPAA regulations and leave other sensitive information in the video.
After a nice drive in the country, we get to see the fire, with 20 seconds left. To improve videos like this one are: need the sound to work all the time, and let us see the fire for a longer time.
I live in victory Vermont 55 minutes from the close fire station so I know how theses poor people feel so sad they lost their house but I guess I'm lucky because we have a pound and a big pump ready to go just in case
Red Reaper y’all are great fire dept I’m from Madison Heights Amherst county and the only other good dept besides y’all for responding time is Monelison vfd as well as y’all keep up the good work and vedieo s
This is EXACTLY why RURAL volunteer departments NEVER need to buy custom chassis trucks! It's hard enough to get a big farm truck in these lanes and driveways with little clearance, let alone something as big as a cement mixer. You don't have to look like the big city to fight like the big city. Use your heads, not your nuts. Your driver did one hell of a job!
That's a long way to park from the house! You need to get close for a few reasons. 1. Even though the wind is blowing from the left, at close range, the Deck Gun could have laid 15 seconds of water on this to slow it down. From where they stopped, the wind would have blown a lot of that water away. 2. You need short meaning quick deployment of hoses. 3. On that narrow road you need to make room for tankers to pull up close and maneuver back out. The first arriving piece of equipment should always be an engine with onboard water, a Deck Gun and Booster lines on reels. A rescue vehicle should be the Last in. You need to eliminate the threat to Protect victims! Then you rescue them. That parking maneuver had to be edited which meant how many seconds or minutes before the engine could get moving again?
We always arrive with several units at the same time; However it's not really "Engine first, Rescue last" ... thus e.g. most departments here run Rescue Engines
I am a firefighter paramedic, I know how it is driving those. Really your not suppose to go as fast as that, the truck can but... if you do go that fast it is hard to control just a bit, due to all the weight. Very nice video thanks for uploading!
How did people even begin to settle there. I would love to early retire there and spend the rest of my days in that beautiful country-side. The audio cut-outs sucked, but I imagine that is because client data being passed on the radio or the driver say "MOVE THE F, OVER!" ;)
You think houses next door to a firehouse don't burn?? Or that the fire crews are there ALL day just waiting to respond to YOUR emergency? EVERY kind of building can burn, not just wood frame houses. Just because you have masonry building, it doesn't mean you can't have a devastating fire. You'll just be left with a burned out shell.
Of course they might burn, but the response time would be shorter. Of course other buildings can burn as well, but usually they don't burn to the ground here. It's usually just one room or two, maybe the roof, but not the entire building on fire. I really like living in a solid building made out of stone And concernign the crews waiting there all day ... of course they respond to other calls as well, but with some fire stations here having more than 40 or 50 units I guess they still have some few left when they respond to a normal alarm. I lived in a city, in a village and currently in a town and I never was really far away from the fire station. The furthest was when I lived in the city, the one and only station from the career FD was 3.1 km / 1.9 miles away so they have a 3 minute long drive to my house. In the village the stations from the volunteet FD were much smaller, but I lived between two stations, 700 m from the one and 2.5km from the other station. And now in the town I am right now, it's also just a volunteer FD but a relatively large one, just 1 km (0.6 mile) from my house ... bottom line: I'm not really worried about long response times until the FD would arrive at my house. The only problem might be some idiot blocking the narrow roads right around our house
FFJSB, to add to your comment, have you ever seen the volunteer fire dept building burn down, with all of their rolling stock and gear go up with it? It happens more than you would think. The reasons are always the same, there was no one available, as happens with real rural departments.
You are pretty nieve bud. You are saying because your perfect house should be built out of stone, blocks or metal? It's just like all those politicians saying the high rises in their cities are 'fireproof'. There is no such thing.as fire proof. It isn't the wall that will burn but all of the combustibles you put inside them. Look around your house. Unless you have couches made of bricks and no carpets, and drapes made of aluminum foil, your place will burn just like those stick built houses all around you.
Charles Rudish while I have never seen a station from a VFD being on fire, I know reports from such cases. I guess naive? I don't say that the buildings would be fireproof, of course all the stuff inside can burn, but the fire for sure spreads slower into another room or apartment, giving the FD some extra minutes to safe the house, instead of having a controlled burn just to protect other surrounding houses. Please, don't get me wrong ... I'm not bashing the American way of how they build houses. I used to live in Norway for one year and we had exactly the same problem there: once a fire started inside a house it usually burned to the ground The youngest town I lived in was less than 800 years old, the oldest city where I lived was close to 2000 years old. Guess how the historic city centers survived until today... even though most houses are built with no space in between, it's not like the entire house or even block would burn down once an apartment fire has started. I'm on scene of fires every then and now ... yes I did see some buildings which burned to the ground like farms or industrial buildings, but never when I was on scene of an apartment fire. While the actual fire-fighting part lasted only a minute or two, the FD usually left the scene after 30 minutes
I feel for the people being that far away from a station. We have a big country & and we are never more than 6 to 7 min at most away from one our stations. Think your fire dept's needs have closer station's because if someone is trapped & needs rescue they are in trouble.
Seatbelts on, maybe? That is what that annoying beep is every few seconds. Helmet off while inside the rig maybe? Sitting in the right seat you should be telling whoever isn't buckled to buckle up...
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Most people in average-size cars can't handle these roads at this speed. This dude is doing it with a full size fire engine.
You, sir, are a badass.
Just doesn't leave much room for error...Great job.
Yall that is the camera. That Engine is going as fast as it looks lol
Every time you turned onto a less-improved road I thought "ah, this must be the driveway." Repeat every 2 miles for 10 minutes.
Tim76 omg ditto.
Tim76 my thinking was a whole lot better than you and my friend because I know every time they make them turns I know that was in the house 👉🏿🚑🚒🚒🚒🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🔥🔥🔥🔥🏡🏡 they are way out in the country my friend there's nowhere in the hell I live way out there what if you have a massive heart attack ain't no hospitals around what if you get bit by the snake ain't no hospital close around where the helicopter your ass just as good as dead no my friend he's got a fire department got a long ways to go ain't no way I won't live with something like that that far away from a hospital fire department store grocery store hell naw every time the fire department turn he wasn't no closer to the house it's too far out there that's like an hour or two hour drive man good God almighty 🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🚒🚨🚨🔥🔥🏡🏡 I feel sorry for the people stay way out in the country like that good God man ain't no way in the hell I'll stay close to the hospital fire department I get sick or anything good God man hell naw that is too damn far
I’ve driven theses roads following the rail line up the valley, I admire you all for your ability to navigate them running hot.
I admire your ability to find your way to where you are needed. Even if you have GPS. Its beautiful countryside you are surrounded by and it amazes me how far you have to travel to get to where you need to be.
If you live this far away from a fire station, you should have your own water tank and fire fighting water pump generator.
Im a firefighter and I have everything pump, tanks of water, hoses, ppe because you cant rely solely on the brigade, we need to be pro-active even in towns and suburbs
sounds like a really good idea
For real. That's ridiculous how far a fire station is. Even funded volunteer fire with a tanker or Hose and pump closer would be better than this. I'd just let it burn and put out hot spots as they come. Fully involved because it took 3 days for the fire truck to reach it's destination.
Your right. Travel times are insane.
I didn't realize the quality of the video until I kept wanting to check my mirrors and cross-traffic. Ya gotta go where ya gotta go. Kudos.
No offense intended, and thanks for your efforts, but personally I'd rather watch the next 30 minutes after you pull into the driveway to see how the attack goes and what's left when you're done.
D J agreed
DJ I'm with you on that
I agree. Many videos of this type now only show up until the arrival. Often I have read they don't show more for "privacy" concerns. Seems better if we see the fire knocked down and someone could edit out the homeowners or bystanders. IMHO
Holy shit that's a long way. We cry when we have more than a 4 min eta
Right. In my city and county the distance would be like passing 20 fire stations if ya know what I mean
@@thejourney.within3 yea that's crazy bro. I work in Detroit. Were always 4-6 mons eta. Stay safe my brother
@@SittingWithDogs if we run mutual aid to county next to us it can be anywhere from a 3 min to 30 eta
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That wasn't a ride along that was a road trip.
It was so far they had to stop for lunch!
Haha a “road trip along”
And I forgot to bring snacks
City Boy. Not every village can have multiple fire houses, close to major roads! I was in a small town VFD in my twenties!
More like trail riding in the woods,wow...
Welcome to rural Virginia..... 10 minute drive to the scene.
Nicely done RR303
I Love watching These Ride Along Videos! They Bring Back Great Memories of Responding to Calls and Living in the Mountains of Virginia! Thanks for Posting These Videos!
I'm going to guess that house is older than my parents. Sad for the folks who lost their home.
I'm impressed with the driver, can you say hammer down
Talk about middle of nowhere
Yeah. My thoughts exactly.
12 minutes to get there tells you how far away it truly was
Looks like the back roads here in NC.
In the winter we sometimes have go let people know that because they dont plow it for a fire truck we may not be able to save their house. We don't mention that the drive time alone already plays a factor to that just like this video.
Matt Taylor where at in Western NC? I'm in Franklin.
I was in the Stony Creek Volunteer Rescue Squad in Sussex county Virginia. Got dispatched to a structure fire at 3:10 am and when we got there it was only chimneys standing. No one saw it for that long to call it in.
And the roads kept getting narrower and narrower! The driver sure new his district! Great video!
Great job of chauffeuring, that Pierce Velocity chassis is great for handling. My last engine was a 2010 Velocity, 1500/500 w/ 515 hp 60 Series Detroit. I absolutely loved that truck. Sure hope that those folks had good insurance...☹️
Just now seeing this, some great driving on those narrow roads, I used to live up I-81 in Luray in Page County about 100 yards from Luray Caverns. Miss the mountains but living on a lake now isn't bad either.
Talk about a loooong response time! They need another station out there in the boonies! By the time they get there the fire is out, the structure is ashes and the bodies are being hauled off to the ME.
R. S. Andrews it still would be the same with valenteer departments your still going to have the time it takes to get to the station if you place a station out in the country most smaller towns in my area have a valenteer department however if mutual aid is requested it can take 20-30 mins for supporting departments to arrive on site due to locations and being valenteer departments
That's not bad, from our station to the far Southwest corner of our district is almost 20 miles.
1:23 why did the sound come to a complete stop?!?
Nice drive in the country you know you are long ways out when even with a working fire you cannot see the smoke from the station or during the long response to the fire. Yes a video of the actual attack on the fire would have been nice, but you do what you can.
Hats off to the EO for getting that custom cab wide frame down those narrow roads and tight spaces. Definitely a road trip to get there but for the distance seemed like great response time
VFD guys are awesome. Remember the trucks being yellow where I grew up and always looked up to the volunteers as a kid.
The driver did a great job, lots of tight and curvy roads!
Correct me if I am wrong, but this is a house fire, in which, you are making sure the fire doesn't spread. Because that house appears to be a lost cause! Sorry, my late dad was a fireman, and he would have known all the correct terminology. I normally sat in the car while he did his thing.
Correct... in the service it's called a defensive fire or (surround and drown) .put water on the fire and protect any exposures i.e. buildings sheds vehicles etc.. send no manpower inside the building.. basically soak it down and babysit it till the fires out
@@kartracer5g229 That is about what I recall it being called when my late dad was a fireman.
The fact is I just couldn't recall what they termed it as, and didn't want to make a statement that I wasn't sure of, so I posed as more of a question vs a full on statement. Because I just couldn't recall the proper term.
can you guys please do something about the sound cutting in and out?
Why does this video keep muting itself all the time? It takes the fun out of the whole thing.
I fully relax at their ride along vids.
Kind of a close call at 4:30 but still a good video. Very impressed with the navigation skills in the absolute middle of nowhere
Idk why, but I love how the horse looks back and forth at the house and truck.
This is a very difficult and amazing ride.
Why does it take so long and so far away for them to get to a fire?
Great video , nice scenery and thanks for your service in the fire department . Makes me think back when i was a volunteer . Subbed
If they are considered first due that is very sad. They need an annex station to cut response times. At that distance every fire can be 3rd alarm on initial arrival. They have their work cut out for them. Good luck guys.
Is BVFD Buchanan? I belonged to Blue Ridge (VA) VFD 40 yrs ago on other end of county. Proper safe response. Everybody goes home.
Yes.
It seems when these houses are so far away from any Fire Service that if their house catches on fire for any reason by the time the fire department gets there it’s destroyed
Jesus. Did yalls hear any banjos playing during any of this?
billy bob bobbie jo and little jimmy made it out alive..
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They silenced the Banjos so people would stay tune...
That rig must be a top heavy boat on those winding country roads
Why does the Audio cut out a couple times
Cripes! I admire the drivers skill driving at speed on narrow metal roads, hopefully without the GPS going in/ out through the area. Good use of siren on narrow roads and hidden driveways, don't need to meet a unaware driving coming along. Is there another video of the attack?
How large is your district? That was a long ass ride.
Great video but this volumn cutting in and out sucks,very very annoying.
I understand. But I have to edit audio and video out in some parts of my videos because a few members don't want to be seen or heard in the videos. That, and I can't violate HIPAA regulations and leave other sensitive information in the video.
@@RedReaper303 10-4 understood,thanks.
@@RedReaper303 HIPAA.
Why does the audio keep cutting off.
This house is back in the country that’s why it took you a long time to get there
Where is this? It's beautiful countryside.
why does the sound keep cutting out repeatedly on the video?can someone tell me?
@Red Reaper who got there before you guys did?
Medic 3.
What block are we on
Time they get there fire will be out , any closer stations for mutual aid ?
After a nice drive in the country, we get to see the fire, with 20 seconds left. To improve videos like this one are: need the sound to work all the time, and let us see the fire for a longer time.
why did the sound keep cutting out on the gopro?its not supposed to do that is it?
I live in victory Vermont 55 minutes from the close fire station so I know how theses poor people feel so sad they lost their house but I guess I'm lucky because we have a pound and a big pump ready to go just in case
I don't care where you are, stretch that Q out regardless......best sound EVER
We always do
With a 12 minute response time of course the house is going to be fully involved.
Ever hear of building more fire houses "out in the sticks"? Might save a house or building doing that.
All you guys talking about this being a long response, you guys should go to the upper peninsula in michigan
These people had a nice quiet home in the country and now it's all gone. I feel so bad for them. I hope they can rebuild.
Where ever this house is? It’s gone by now
This was the Rock bridge county mutual aid call right
No. First due in Buchanan.
This is in Virginia right
Yes.
Red Reaper y’all are great fire dept I’m from Madison Heights Amherst county and the only other good dept besides y’all for responding time is Monelison vfd as well as y’all keep up the good work and vedieo s
Thanks.
This is EXACTLY why RURAL volunteer departments NEVER need to buy custom chassis trucks! It's hard enough to get a big farm truck in these lanes and driveways with little clearance, let alone something as big as a cement mixer. You don't have to look like the big city to fight like the big city. Use your heads, not your nuts. Your driver did one hell of a job!
Geez reminds me of our 280 square miles radius district., alot of side roads!!
No insurance company would cover this house, ISOok rating of 10
That's a long way to park from the house! You need to get close for a few reasons.
1. Even though the wind is blowing from the left, at close range, the Deck Gun could have laid 15 seconds of water on this to slow it down. From where they stopped, the wind would have blown a lot of that water away.
2. You need short meaning quick deployment of hoses.
3. On that narrow road you need to make room for tankers to pull up close and maneuver back out.
The first arriving piece of equipment should always be an engine with onboard water, a Deck Gun and Booster lines on reels. A rescue vehicle should be the Last in. You need to eliminate the threat to Protect victims! Then you rescue them. That parking maneuver had to be edited which meant how many seconds or minutes before the engine could get moving again?
We always arrive with several units at the same time; However it's not really "Engine first, Rescue last" ... thus e.g. most departments here run Rescue Engines
1. Nobody uses deck guns.
2. A little running won't kill anybody.
3. They have big tires and a perfectly good forest.
If you think this is remote...try spots in Wyoming state that are not on maps!
"take the left dirt road at the 3 hills . . . "
Wow that fire is massive
Why the silence in spots?
No sure who made the roads but were they drunk at the time?
Beautiful scenery what state are you in?
Virginia.
It would be nice if if the video dudes put the city and state info in the description. It's likely that there are several "BVFDs" in the US and Canada
the audio cut out on part of it.
Country living has it's advantages. But don't expect a quick emergency response when the excrement hits the oscillator.
WTH??? Sound cuts out after 1:21
Relax, there was sensitive info broadcast over the radio, that you don't need to know.
They any closer
Beautiful country there! Was that at your station area boundary ?
How long from the time you rolled to arrival, it semed a long way
Why the sound keep going out??????
Wow they had to drive so far man
Do they have internet there???
What's thete house insurance
Ok, just where are ya'll? troutville?
Buchanan.
Oh, West Georgia from Atlanta!
Funny how so many people have never been to the Appalachians to see this is where people really live.
Im just upset that we only saw for 10 seconds and then the video ended.
why does the audio keep cutting out on this video?its cut out at least 6 times man.
So much audio cut out
Those siren boxes do have off buttons
Or you could plead the Fifth and not be an armchair quarterback.
I am a Fire Geek I love the Siren.
@@RedReaper303 burn! Lol. Apparently jbbart didnt read the description
must have one hell of a gps … to find a house out there .. my couldn't even find its way home
Where is this ? Love the landscape
Dennis D , I’m guessing VA.
I’m from Colorado, I was looking on Zillow in that area just now and it looks awesome
No lol it’s an app that has listings of homes for sale. I’m from Pueblo, which isn’t the nicest part of Colorado
Willie, it's in Buchanan, Virginia.
Red Reaper looks like a great place to live
That siren with the federal Q drives me nuts! So annoying!
pretty secenery
Good gps
who ever drove the medic, needs to learn to stage a wee bit better hehehe... Great vid and thanks for uploading
Thank you and you're welcome.
I am a firefighter paramedic, I know how it is driving those. Really your not suppose to go as fast as that, the truck can but... if you do go that fast it is hard to control just a bit, due to all the weight. Very nice video thanks for uploading!
How did people even begin to settle there. I would love to early retire there and spend the rest of my days in that beautiful country-side. The audio cut-outs sucked, but I imagine that is because client data being passed on the radio or the driver say "MOVE THE F, OVER!" ;)
where is this fire? in New York?
And they're responding from Ohio LOL
I wouldn't like to live so far from the next fire or EMS station and then have a wooden house or light-weight construction ^^
You think houses next door to a firehouse don't burn?? Or that the fire crews are there ALL day just waiting to respond to YOUR emergency? EVERY kind of building can burn, not just wood frame houses. Just because you have masonry building, it doesn't mean you can't have a devastating fire. You'll just be left with a burned out shell.
Of course they might burn, but the response time would be shorter. Of course other buildings can burn as well, but usually they don't burn to the ground here. It's usually just one room or two, maybe the roof, but not the entire building on fire. I really like living in a solid building made out of stone
And concernign the crews waiting there all day ... of course they respond to other calls as well, but with some fire stations here having more than 40 or 50 units I guess they still have some few left when they respond to a normal alarm.
I lived in a city, in a village and currently in a town and I never was really far away from the fire station. The furthest was when I lived in the city, the one and only station from the career FD was 3.1 km / 1.9 miles away so they have a 3 minute long drive to my house. In the village the stations from the volunteet FD were much smaller, but I lived between two stations, 700 m from the one and 2.5km from the other station. And now in the town I am right now, it's also just a volunteer FD but a relatively large one, just 1 km (0.6 mile) from my house ... bottom line: I'm not really worried about long response times until the FD would arrive at my house. The only problem might be some idiot blocking the narrow roads right around our house
FFJSB, to add to your comment, have you ever seen the volunteer fire dept building burn down, with all of their rolling stock and gear go up with it? It happens more than you would think. The reasons are always the same, there was no one available, as happens with real rural departments.
You are pretty nieve bud. You are saying because your perfect house should be built out of stone, blocks or metal? It's just like all those politicians saying the high rises in their cities are 'fireproof'. There is no such thing.as fire proof. It isn't the wall that will burn but all of the combustibles you put inside them. Look around your house. Unless you have couches made of bricks and no carpets, and drapes made of aluminum foil, your place will burn just like those stick built houses all around you.
Charles Rudish while I have never seen a station from a VFD being on fire, I know reports from such cases.
I guess naive? I don't say that the buildings would be fireproof, of course all the stuff inside can burn, but the fire for sure spreads slower into another room or apartment, giving the FD some extra minutes to safe the house, instead of having a controlled burn just to protect other surrounding houses. Please, don't get me wrong ... I'm not bashing the American way of how they build houses. I used to live in Norway for one year and we had exactly the same problem there: once a fire started inside a house it usually burned to the ground
The youngest town I lived in was less than 800 years old, the oldest city where I lived was close to 2000 years old. Guess how the historic city centers survived until today... even though most houses are built with no space in between, it's not like the entire house or even block would burn down once an apartment fire has started.
I'm on scene of fires every then and now ... yes I did see some buildings which burned to the ground like farms or industrial buildings, but never when I was on scene of an apartment fire. While the actual fire-fighting part lasted only a minute or two, the FD usually left the scene after 30 minutes
I shall call this video “a drive through the countryside”.
That suuuuuuuucks. That being said, fully involved heading my way haha.
I like the use of the 2 sirens and air horns while responding. That is why the things are on the apparatus, to be used during responses.
I feel for the people being that far away from a station. We have a big country & and we are never more than 6 to 7 min at most away from one our stations. Think your fire dept's needs have closer station's because if someone is trapped & needs rescue they are in trouble.
Seatbelts on, maybe? That is what that annoying beep is every few seconds. Helmet off while inside the rig maybe? Sitting in the right seat you should be telling whoever isn't buckled to buckle up...
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Cool video. But the in and out audio really ruins it.