LAFD Fights Fire in Hollywood Hills
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- I typically carry some sort of HD camera with me, regardless of where I am. On this day, while sitting in the office of FS 76 in the Cahuenga Pass, the Captain and I noticed what looked at first like fog drifting through the pass. Stepping outside, we saw the hillside in flames across the freeway. Declaring a still alarm, 76s mounted up along with me and my little HD camera, and we were off. The small grass fire was knocked down quickly, but it provided an excellent opportunity to test various methods of using this small handheld HD camera.
Thanks for recording and showing the cleanup of equipment afterwards. Nice to see the work that has to be done after the fires are out.
I think it's awesome that you guys hand jacked LDH for water supply on a brush fire. Very cool!
Very nice video coverage with your handheld HD camera. The Cahuenga Pass, I did not know they had a FS there, but I use to live in the SFV in Arleta, but moved from LA in 1984 back to Iowa.
WOW! Is that CAFS I'm seeing too? No messing around with wildland fires out there.
It's better to have and not need, than to need and not have. Overkill never lost a house.
im surprised no one called it in first...i would have maybe put a unit on the freeway...good job to the tow driver for creating a sfety zone for the crew(s)
That was probably the standard automatic brush response. I would have used two engines, one to hose from the back of the fire to the front (always keeping one foot in the black) and the second engine to hit the head. I would stage other units available for assignment until the wild fire was out. Never trust that an "insignificant" wildfire won't bite you in the butt.
I did notice that this fire was in Cahuenga Pass by some clues in the video, primarily that as E-76 left is house you can see the fire across the freeway and the engine has Cahuenga Pass lettered on it. The evidence seems to hold up the poster's story rather than General1178's story. The only thing is saw wrong was that one FF wasn't wearing brush pants. All need to wear full PPE. Iv'e had 14 years wildfire and 7 yrs structureexp & retired as BC.
Interesting to see a structure engine that is that well prepared for wildland/brush fires with that much 1" and 1-1/2" hose. These are usually sizes suited for w/b fires. They must respond to a lot of these.
Chief, Mike Decker I think they said 500 feet of 1 inch. That is a lot for a regular engine company to have. They must have a lot of brush fires....
The majority of California fire engines carry 1" to 1-1/2" hose (although much of the 1-1/2 " hose is replaced with 1-3/4" hose) because of the wildland /bush fire potential throughout the state. CALFIRE, with provides urban and rural protection to most of the state's counties, carries 500' on each engine, even if it is in a majority urban area. Often it is in backpacks.
Cool 🚒 Engine 76 Fire 💥🔥Call
you have a fire helmet for being a photographer?? that's pretty cool
@ntpd1 i see where your coming from but LAFD Doesnt screw with forest fire. Just like FDNY doesnt screw with building fires. They don't want to have to go back 4 hours later with the whole hilltop ablaze
Southern California can easily go up it doesn't take much a broken glass bottle can cause a wildfire a cigarette butt & a electric charge can even cause a wildfire & if conditions are right the Santa Ana winds will make things even worse. I grew up in Orange County even though I was Born in FallBrook which is back side of San Diego County
Respect!
its a fire thing... you may not know but we do
it is just procedure to respond a brush assignment. how are they to know where the fire will go.
Compressed Air Foam System
How did you get a ride along with the LAFD??
CAFS?
what video camera did you use?
how many are stationed at 76?
Way to many people on scene....2 engines could have took care of that.
LDH?
AGENTZ100 HUH?
Where are there oxygen tanks and masks.
It would be a rare occasion where SCBA's were used on wildland/brush fires. It is not a piece of equiptment that you would find on a pure wildland apparatus, only on structure engines.
Josiah Winston rarely to firefighters wear scba's for wild land. Partially because it's not hard to stay out of the smoke and even when we are in the smoke, it's generally limited duration exposure. The materials burning don't have the same level of toxicity as the stuff you find in a structure fire also, though no smoke is good for us.