Inside the lives of firefighters in Atlanta's Squad 4 | AJC Docs

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  • Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025

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  • @ArnoldSherrill
    @ArnoldSherrill 19 дней назад +1

    I'm a retired security officer and worked with Atlanta Fire Rescue when they had to respond to Medical response and alarm calls at a medical office building off of Howell Mill Road. These guys were always professional caring about the patients and the building staff. I had one incident where I had to be medically treated and these guys made me feel like treating me was the most important thing they did all day even though I realized I was just a service call one of many that day. Ever since that day years later every time I see a Atlanta Fire Rescue Unit pass by I give a wave or a nod of respect believe me they earned it. And a special thank you to AFR stations 5,25,26 for everything you've you have done not just for me but for everyone else

  • @Paramedic772
    @Paramedic772 Год назад +2

    That was amazing….and by the way you ARE a brother….brother…

  • @FalconsFanForever
    @FalconsFanForever Год назад +1

    Hats off to the brave men and women who work hard to keep our fire men safe I want to become a fire fighter very badly and im 33 years old.

  • @dennishohl1067
    @dennishohl1067 Месяц назад

    Retired after 35 years on the job. Best job in the world. I really miss it. These videos really bring it all back.

  • @ceobigspoon
    @ceobigspoon Год назад +7

    I just put my resume in for Atlanta fire and I literally can’t wait to help out the community and create a bond with the brothers and sisters around me!

    • @romellomadrid7730
      @romellomadrid7730 Год назад +1

      What county are you in I'm also trying to get into the fire business

    • @FalconsFanForever
      @FalconsFanForever Год назад +1

      Awesome good luck brother

    • @thekiabshow
      @thekiabshow 4 месяца назад

      Any update? did you every get into AFD?

  • @Burritosarebetterthantacos
    @Burritosarebetterthantacos Год назад +3

    Not a single ambulance in this entire video😂

  • @AzPoolguy
    @AzPoolguy 3 месяца назад

    Cancer is the leading cause of firefighters deaths. I was a little dismayed that the crews sat in the bays on couches to relax. The stations had exhaust extraction systems but it looked like they weren’t used. Sad, diesel smoke has a high concentration of carcinogenic products. I was a FF for 36 years. I’m a cancer survivor, prostate cancer which was considered a presumptive cancer in my state, Wa. Thankfully. Atlanta Fire looks like a kick ass department. Nice report.

  • @cpo87
    @cpo87 2 года назад +3

    This guy is legendary 🔥🔥

  • @owensweetland342
    @owensweetland342 2 месяца назад +1

    I've been photographing firefighters and fire apparatus since the age of 21. Started with a Brownie camera, then a 110 Instamatic. 😂 lol. Great video here. 👍👍

  • @fcriii
    @fcriii Год назад +3

    Outstanding! Well done documentary. My mother used to attend church across from AFD Station 19. Met those guys. Great bunch. We all have a lot in common. It is a brotherhood! Remember the fallen. Work as a Captain for a large dept. in TN.

  • @markieschofieldjr9076
    @markieschofieldjr9076 2 года назад +63

    Police, firefighters, teachers should be the highest paid career

    • @Predkite
      @Predkite 2 года назад +6

      yeah and childcare imo, protectors or the public or children should be a high paid honourable role in society

    • @schoolbus6028
      @schoolbus6028 2 года назад +20

      Forgot the paramedics 💀😭

    • @bdanielcal4608
      @bdanielcal4608 2 года назад

      Teachers lol kids these days are dumb as a stump so teachers no way

    • @truckingoperator
      @truckingoperator 2 года назад

      Agreed

    • @waynevanluven9447
      @waynevanluven9447 2 года назад +4

      It's not about the dollar it about helping people

  • @johnnytoppside
    @johnnytoppside Год назад

    Thank you boys. Hope to be there soon!

  • @leftystrat62
    @leftystrat62 2 года назад +4

    "...I said yup, these boys go in and get it" That's how we were trained, 28 years in the 2nd oldest paid fire dept. in the country -Providence E10

  • @electricsurge7435
    @electricsurge7435 11 месяцев назад +2

    firefighters are the "special forces" of first responders. Everything that police and paramedics dont do, they will do it

  • @robertsmith470
    @robertsmith470 2 года назад +42

    Strangely enough, inside a house fire is the most relaxed my brain has ever been. Something about the chaos, and knowing your brothers have your back as you're doing something good.

    • @goodolslippyfist7339
      @goodolslippyfist7339 2 года назад +3

      Funny you say that because that's how I've described it to my parents and my girlfriend, something about the warmth, the roar of the fire, the excitement. It's all very exhilarating. It's all scary chaotic and fun all in the same swoop. But as soon as the line is in my hand or I'm backing someone up on the line, that's all I gotta worry about is that fire and it going out.

    • @robertsmith470
      @robertsmith470 2 года назад +2

      @Good'ol slippyfist things are much simpler in a fire...The wet stuff goes on the red stuff, and everybody goes out the same way they came in. There's no worry about bills, or drama, or politics, or BS. It's just stay alive, make sure your team stays alive, and put out the fire.

  • @djlouyang98
    @djlouyang98 2 года назад +6

    best job i ever had. i would never replace the brothers and sisters i work with. shout out from Spartanburg, SC

  • @JohnPaul-ii
    @JohnPaul-ii 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for your service Frank, RIP.

  • @firefightergotoguy
    @firefightergotoguy 2 года назад +16

    Outstanding. I love this guy. He understands his subject matter to a level rarely seen. Class act!

  • @tnzayatz6579
    @tnzayatz6579 2 года назад

    Thank you Mr. Spink, you done good.

  • @scottl3789
    @scottl3789 2 года назад +35

    Hats off to the Firefighters! Like the military, most run from the destruction, they run to it! I just started volunteering at the local Fire Station. I'm too old to be a fire fighter, but I can drive, get them there safely and make sure they DON'T run out of water!

    • @waynevanluven9447
      @waynevanluven9447 2 года назад

      Thank you for your support

    • @dougfalstad5227
      @dougfalstad5227 2 года назад

      You sir are awesome!

    • @justinwade9723
      @justinwade9723 11 месяцев назад

      Thank you for doing that man. That’s arguably the most important part of firefighting 😂

  • @ColinEft
    @ColinEft 2 года назад +4

    Interesting I came across this video and found out you worked for the Kansas City Star. I am a third generation FF and my grandfather, great uncle and great grandfather all retired from KCMO Fire Department. I did some research years ago through the Kansas City Star to try and locate publishing's about my predecessors and found a few interesting articles. I cannot thank you enough for what you do, stay safe out there!

  • @michaelcrossman8739
    @michaelcrossman8739 2 года назад +6

    Local high school is currently hiring a janitor. starting pay is more than I make as a FF / Paramedic.

    • @zesolodar
      @zesolodar 10 месяцев назад

      sounds like your in the wrong city. where i live a basic firefighter/emt (not cheif or anything like that) median pay is 65k. if you make captain it jumps to the median pay of 106k

  • @johndavies7180
    @johndavies7180 2 года назад +3

    Brought so many memories back. The brothers will keep er goin!!

  • @catman11o
    @catman11o 2 года назад +9

    Outstanding Photos and well told truth of the Greatest Job Ever. Well done sir

  • @blackice3395
    @blackice3395 7 месяцев назад

    Great fucking video!

  • @drop12341
    @drop12341 10 месяцев назад

    Well done. Very well done. Bravo Zulu!

  • @mr.moostache6740
    @mr.moostache6740 Год назад +1

    This was a good documentary, and the photos of the firefighters at work are worthy of being mounted on a wall.

  • @watchthe1369
    @watchthe1369 Год назад

    With a facade like that how do you forget the 2 eyes and toothless grin look? Amityville fire is what may as well be called.

  • @greigshearer5614
    @greigshearer5614 Месяц назад

    😊

  • @moemcgovern7345
    @moemcgovern7345 2 года назад +4

    Firefighters are worth their weight in Gold.

  • @b.a.d.2086
    @b.a.d.2086 2 года назад

    Well done!

  • @Mark-em5zm
    @Mark-em5zm 2 года назад +10

    Don’t wear dirty gear brothers. I know it’s not sexy but clean those helmets and get those bunkers looking new. Wear your mask and stay on air especially through overhaul. It’s not worth the early death. Keep it aggressive till the end.

    • @douglasiles2024
      @douglasiles2024 2 года назад +1

      It's amazing how the mentality has changed over the years. It used to be that dirty/smokey gear was the sign of a veteran guy who had seen a lot of action. Little did we know what it was doing to us. Trading in your old gear for a new set used to be the last thing a guy wanted to do. Now we know better. But how many brothers and sisters did we lose from this bravado?

  • @chancesGLEC14
    @chancesGLEC14 2 года назад +1

    Name of song ?

    • @ajcvideo
      @ajcvideo  Год назад +1

      Terrible Tommy by Ryan Horne

  • @dadlifeadam
    @dadlifeadam 2 года назад +1

    Wish he would come photo the Georgia Forestry Commission!! We are underpaid, overworked, and exhausted yet no one cares to listen to us!!

  • @johnnybuice1404
    @johnnybuice1404 2 года назад +2

    Great job Spinks GSD#34 @2:25 in

  • @FINfinFINfinFINfin
    @FINfinFINfinFINfin 11 месяцев назад

    Holy crap. You should have rode with Engine 16 to see some good interior attacks. Not the Squad shooting water from the parking lots. I will say nobody can beat them when it comes to roof ventilation and overhauling. I think Hank Williams was the first out gay fire captain as well. Great guy.

  • @jamescampbell1242
    @jamescampbell1242 2 года назад +1

    Maybe in my next life I can work for a real fire department

    • @280StJohnsPl
      @280StJohnsPl 2 года назад

      Which one would you choose from ?

  • @Kzh207
    @Kzh207 2 года назад +3

    American houses are so weird. When they burn, they burn as a whole. Nothing seems concrete. Everything is inflammable.
    Never seen such tactics used in europe but I think these kind of houses are the reason.

    • @lynskeyti9940
      @lynskeyti9940 2 года назад

      Most have no concrete other than the foundation, average flashover time is 3-6 minutes. I have seen a house become fully involved in less than 15 minutes.
      Our minimal flow is 150 GPM or around 560 lpm

    • @SouthernGround
      @SouthernGround 2 года назад +1

      All burning buildings can kill you, American houses as you mentioned can kill you faster, that's why we fight them so aggressively and carry bigger balls in doing so, you have to if you wana make to 8:00am. But in the end firefighters around the world face the same and have one goal, to go home at the end of your shift or event in the case of the volunteer.

    • @280StJohnsPl
      @280StJohnsPl 2 года назад

      @@SouthernGround " carry bigger balls in doing so, " Really...what department are you a FF at ?

  • @280StJohnsPl
    @280StJohnsPl 2 года назад

    Severe kink in the handline at 10:08.....a good Engine Company would have not done that

  • @notthatdonald1385
    @notthatdonald1385 2 года назад

    You can see this video is dated when there's no mention of a 'fast truck'.

    • @douglasiles2024
      @douglasiles2024 2 года назад

      "Fast truck"(s) (or a RIT truck) have been around long before this video was made. Every department uses their own terminology. What really brought that to the forefront nationally was the Worcester 9 fire.

  • @williampell8458
    @williampell8458 2 года назад +2

    Vertical ventilation is just not a good tactic

    • @evanknox2395
      @evanknox2395 2 года назад +5

      It is if you do it right.

    • @williampell8458
      @williampell8458 2 года назад +3

      @@evanknox2395 don’t use it in the uk, and the fires still go out.
      Seems to put firefighters in unnecessary risk. But that seems to be the American way.

    • @tadtanakatsubo6067
      @tadtanakatsubo6067 2 года назад +2

      @@williampell8458 honestly, we could care less about how things are done in the UK. We have our ways, you have yours. Our ways work for us. Simple as that.

    • @williampell8458
      @williampell8458 2 года назад +4

      @@tadtanakatsubo6067 not a great attitude to have if you want to develop and improve your self and the tactics you use you should study the practices of other brigades. Glad I don’t have you on my watch

    • @tadtanakatsubo6067
      @tadtanakatsubo6067 2 года назад +1

      @@williampell8458 we would never agree either way. I’ve seen enough of European tactics that I don’t agree with. High pressure washer attack lines, a lot of operations from the exterior, hose reel attack lines. So again, America has our ways, Europe has their ways and they are very different as are the mentalities.

  • @JohnpaulDejoria666
    @JohnpaulDejoria666 11 дней назад

    What they did to Danny Dwyer was a disgrace

  • @thebronzetoo
    @thebronzetoo 2 года назад

    Great video!! Terrible Tommy is a great song!
    RIP Frank...

  • @suffer247
    @suffer247 2 года назад +2

    13:33 WTF exactly is that roofman doing? The roof is vented, fire is ripping out of it. GTF off that roof.