SJS Fire Engine 2 responds code 3 - a Lot!
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- Опубликовано: 29 янв 2025
- This week I was at a meeting at San Jose Fire Station 2, which is the busiest Fire station in all of Santa Clara County. While I was only there for 2 hours, San Jose engine 2 responded to three EMS calls from the Station, and another while they were out.
San Jose Engine 2 is the busiest piece of Fire Apparatus in the County (and by that I mean they get more calls than anyone else). It is a 2009 Hi-Tech built pumper.
They seem very busy. I go to school and work right by Fire Station 4 over here in Stockton, CA and I hear/see them at least once in a day and more often than not about 3 times per day.
Well thank you, I'm a medic on an engine and I love it. We do all those things you mentioned. Even with 5-6 people on the scene, there's always something foe everybody to do, most definitely on the arrests or other critical calls. The idea of a smaller unit for medicals has been kicked around where I work too but we're lucky when we even have our 4th man on the engine. Definitely don't have enough to staff another suv or whatever.
The wail of these sirens gets my adrenaline pumping!
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More recent stats reflect closer to 4500-4600 calls per year. When the station was being built, engine 2 peaked and became the busiest station in the department running more calls than the entire city of Mountain View, which has 6 stations providing services to it's community. This is still the case. However, station 1 and 26 have now become busier...due to station 5 closer and reduction in services.
The department is exploring a "Squad" model which uses a smaller rescue ambulance to respond to lower priority calls. This program aims to keep the engines in service for higher priority calls. However, due to staffing issues, 2 of the 5 squads are not in service on a daily basis. So the full benefits of this system will never be known because all of the squads aren't is service.
Wow smart looking station and lovely looking rigs too.
Nice set of clips ;)
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@Zbeeb...first and foremost, I appreciate the fact that you educate yourself with your local fire department and emergency services. I'm sure you have a different perspective than most. Not sure if you've seen the recent article in the paper regarding the inaccuracy of collected data for responses. The current Chief discovered an error in response reporting and the CAD, computer aided dispatch system. The CAD was only recording responses for a company's first due area. This is highly inaccurate.
Beautiful station!
I loooove that traffic bar pattern
Wow, that's a nice firehouse.
Every system is different.
So in rough numbers there are 100 Fire Station in the County not counting a handful of volunteer Stations. That means there are over 100 staffed Fire apparatus all the time, all ALS capable. County EMS uses a contractor to provide ALS Ambulances, their entire fleet is 55 ambulances, not that the entire fleet is ever on the road at the same time.
Essentially the system is set up to use the trained personnel sitting around to get people help quickly when they need it.
@ZBeeb we have a debate like that in my town, our primary engine is an ALS engine and is first due out on any call even medical even when we have a smaller ALS Flycar that would go out, but then "what if there's a fire on scene" and our department doesn't want to take that chance.
very very very nice video well done god bless y and the rigs on every run ! :-) greez Chris FDNY Ladder CO. 4
@ZBeeb That is indeed a lot. SJ is a lot larger city as well.
It doesn't matter the size though, because the go on both EMS calls and fire the only thing diff Is they usually have two paramedics at least here in Phoenix they do
Amazing engine.
Nice fire truck 👍
We have a hummer in our town equipped with 500 tank for water as well as medical.It used to bug me because the ambulance workers would have an attitude with the fire crew cause they feel they should be able to give primary care not fire fighters.To a degree I do to
@SalamiLalami Yes, this is the new Station on Alum Rock.
Beautiful Station, beautiful Apparatus, and this has superb video quality. Would you mind me asking what type of camera you used?
@ECgod77 Station 2 runs about 3600 calls a year, so very busy indeed - in roundish numbers that 10 calls a day/
nice video
@niterider460 Last year I saw stats for was 2008, when it was 2641 - One would think with 10% less companies in San Jose since then it has gone up some.
VERY NICE
@wannabenj There are arguments to be made for smaller EMS response vehicles, wear and tear on a $500K rig is a big factor, it shortens the life of the vehicle, as well as the gas costs you point out. But when determined over the 15 year life of the vehicle it only costs about $35K a year... the fire fighters to staff it are more like $1.5M a year. If they go out in a small vehicle and then get sent to a fire, they have to go back to the station to the get the engine, that doesn't work either.
I see what you're saying about costs, but. First off you said the vehicle has a 15 year life span, if you do VERY favorable math and say it only goes five miles out on every call(10 mile round trip) and say they run 2700 calls a year it would add up to 405 thousand miles. Most services will not run a rig near that long. Hire an engineer(driver/pumper) to stay with the rig, if a fire is toned out the engine can respond from the station while the crew responds from their scene.
tip in the second video if you wanted to get a better shot of the truck coming out of the station stand more by the street and not to close to the fire station its self
thats not bad one closest to me from (07/01/2009 - 06/30/2010):
5,697 calls for service
@quadkid4 San Jose is a full time professional fire department
Please dom't think of this as me being a wise guy but I have to ask.Why does the Fire truck go to call? Why can't the ambulance take care of the problem like in NJ
One thing I noticed is in California all Fire Fighters wear headsets enroute to a call.Here in NY and NJ they don't.Probably when they retire the guys from NY and NJ will need hearing aids.LOL
That is an awesome station.
Dose any one know why there is not a smaller resuce or even utility (personal suv truck) making these EMs calls? I would think that some times E2 has an EMS run when the unit is needed for extercation or fire surpression duties. I hope that this county board and high ranking fire department staff have or are looking in to getting a different vehicle to take the EMs clls Vs. a full size apperatus. This is jsut my 2 cents. I hope most of all that they stay safe and do the most posible good always.
how many calls per year
What little hoses?
All fire trucks should have blue leds and red leds like police cars.
Police cars do not run red and blue everywhere. In the South East it's pretty rare to run anything but blue.
SkylineToTheSeaAndMe to get it
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Beautiful station.But,They need to dedicate a smaller truck to respond to paramedic calls.That truck should be dedicated to fires.That truck uses a tremendous amount of gas responding to medic calls.
What is the tube that is attached to the fire truck for?
So they do breath the bad gases when they start up truck
All day means 24 hours. Do you work 24 hour shifts? Do you know about circadian rhythms and how they contribute to health and the average life span? This station runs 15-20 calls a shift. From start to finish, that's an hour per call, including the patient care reports the firefighter paramedic has to write after each run. BTW, lifting weights is a mandatory requirement for these folks. I wouldn't want an outta shape FF rescuing me from building.
@301whitehall I shoot with a Canon 7D
Hi! Can i have your permission to use clips of this video to make a promo video that will eventually raise money to donate to the SJFD burn foundation?
Not every station is the same. In NY EMS and Fire go out on Medic calls.
Um, I work all day too so what is the big deal.
I think it's just called ' working for a living '.
Nice to see they're not just watching movies and hitting the weights. Or experimenting in the kitchen with new recipes for tonight's dinner for the boyz.
Tremendous amount of GAS? Yeah right... In a perfect world every station would have a smaller vehicle to respond to medical calls. But you can't take guys off the engine to do it. So to do that you would have to hire a minimum 2 personnel per shift for every station. 6 per station x 35 fire stations in San Jose = 210 additional personnel. At a time when they're cutting staff instead of adding it. The city will gladly pay for the extra DIESEL fuel costs of sending engines on medical calls.
In NY we where them.
When we respond to medicals we take our Sutphen Quint
@Andrew! No disrespect sir, but you have no idea what these folks do for a living. I would suggestion a 24 hour ride along so that you can educate yourself before you criticize. Apparently you watch to many television shows depicting fire and police services. I'm pretty sure that unless you're in the emergency business, you're not up for 24 hours a day, working weekends, holidays and all hours of the night. Bet you don't get 4-8 times after midnight in your job. Walk a mile in their shoes 1st.
Actually, Station 1, 2, 3, 8 & 30 are just about Equal to being the Busiest..!
Wolfie Surorov we due have station 8 my bad.
Well for the record, San Jose does have a station 8, and for 2017 Station 26 had the highest call volume followed by Station 2
AllthingsFire 99 now station 26 is in lead with 5 after and 10th place is 2
Wish I could have a sjfd sticker
Keren
Please, for your benefit and theirs....do some research or a ride along with a big city fire company before you insult these selfless people. I think you'll find that your way off on your assessment.