I came to the comments for this. The gas station I worked at had two different levels of emergency shut off depending on the severity of what happened. I had to use it once when a hose ruptured. We also had a bucket of powder to neutralize what had spilled.
"Would the driver of the fuel tank please step forward?!" Yeah, he's gone. He saw the crew that showed up and knew there was no hope. Last time anyone saw him, he was running as fast as possible while shouting expletives and things like "Run for your lives!", "We're all doomed!", and "Why couldn't this happen where the suppose to be trained professionals wouldn't turn this into a major disaster that will make Chernobyl look like a baking soda/vinegar volcano!"
Unless that fuel truck explosion triggers a mantle plume, I doubt a fire that is gone in a flash can compare to nuclear fallout lasting centuries... (Something that those Russian soldiers recently learned when they dug trenches in decades old fallout.. which was safe until they started digging said trenches, stir it all up and carried it with them on their boots and clothing...)
@@SeedlingNL Around 90% of radiation is gone within 48 hours, which it constantly and consistently gets lower and lower as time goes on. So about a week, let alone decades of time would end up with practically nothing more radioactive than a banana. The only place that could still be radioactive is probably the area directly around Chernobyl, not mentioning the nuclear reactor itself where no one would have to worry cause they'd literally melt if they somehow got past the concrete coffin. The "fallout" they dug into would be barely radioactive nowadays assuming they weren't digging that trench near uranium or Chernobyl. (And only an idiot would do the latter)
I apparently got here two years late, thank you RUclips algorithm, as a CDL Class A Fuel tanker driver our training is keep your truck safe, know how to contain a fuel spill and how to shut off the fuel from the pump, if needed. Any actual fuel driver would have hit the big red stop button, and grabbed his spill kit on board their truck or in station and starting mopping and containment long before the 911 call was even made.
I am a gas station clerk and this is driving Me nuts. First of all, there's button to turn ALL pumps off. Ours is inside on our register but we've all seen them outside too. Second of all, modern pumps don't break like that. People drive off with the pump still in their car (it's happened 5 times this year), there's a safety mechanism that breaks off the handle and keeps the rest intact. Lastly, the spot for new fuel is usually more out of the way and I've never had a fuel truck driver park whenever they felt like it. Granted I'm one person at one modern gas station so others might have different experiences but none of this would happen at the one I work at. (And probably almost no others either)
As someone who work in a gas station we have like for five shut off pump button two outside, two inside on one for the till so the only reason I could see no one hitting those button is that someone really hate there job and want to see the place burn down
Last year, I had the 'fun' job of emptying fareboxes off city busses every night into vaults while workers were gassing the busses up and sweeping them out. On occasion, workers forget to detach the nozzles from the busses before moving the busses to the next stage of the nightly cleaning, and the way we didn't have fuel spewing forth in an alarming manner was the hoses at each of the four pumps had a point on them that could pull apart without a fuel leakage happening. Reattachment isn't difficult, which is a good thing, especially on weeknights when there are several hundred busses that need fueling and cleaning.
@@Tyler-es The firefighting is a base for the series to tie in with the medical side of Grey's Anatomy. It's a bit like how the Chicago series has Chicago Fire, Med and PD. However the show does push a huge anti-cop agenda, so I doubt there'll be a "Precinct 25" any time soon
I've worked at a gas station for over seven years now and there are so many safety precautions in place to prevent gas spills that you have to go out of your way to make this happen. Breakaway cables, internal safety shut offs, manuel shut offs, the whole nine yards.. And the fire department has training and very specific procedures to handle this. They would not be lost as to what to do.
Yeah. When a pickup truck crashed into the gas station I used to work at, there was no gas, no explosion, and no town turning into a crater all because of stuff like this.
The writers of this show are so concerned with it being as dramatic as possible that they don't even care how terribly inaccurate it is and how incredibly incompetent they make these "firefighters" seem
Except in Africa (don't remember which shitty country), when the "firefighter" team decided to take a smoke after cleaning a gas station spill. I think they're still in orbit to this day.
@@BacklashMobileGamingChannel what? No. On self-service automatic ones you prepay and it pumps exactly as much petrol as you buy, but regular petrol station is paid for after the fueling
I'm an Industrial Mechanic. We have a fuel depot where I work, one night a fuel hose burst spraying diesel and there weren't any truck mechanics on site. The emergency shutoff didn't work, but I easily popped open the cover on the pump and switch the valves shut inside.
I love how these shows always have to have some ridiculous gimmick plot of something that would never actually happen. There can never be an authentic episode depicting the actual struggles that emergency personnel face daily. As if being in their line of work isn't exciting or dangerous enough.
Of course that is not possible. Otherwise you have every week pretty much the same episode... There was this one scene on Castle (detective series) where Martha explained to Becket what happened to her on hun soap opera period where she was kidnapped, buried alive, trapped in a cave with bears, kidnapped again and held hostage. When becket asked 'How long were you on the show', Martha replies 'two weeks...'
One of the rules that Bob Cinader, the Producer for Emergency! had for his writers is that every rescue had to come from the logs of some fire department somewhere. They could adapt it for the show but it had to be real. First the writers thought that would be boring, then they started to read the logs and could not believe the things fire departments had to respond to. The naked girl with her toe stuck in the faucet, that was a real rescue.
This might be a stupid question, but why aren't there any gas station attendants or customers that the firefighters might have asked what happened or who might have been driving that fuel truck?
Depends on scene security but for the most part considering this would be a hazmat op there would be a mandatory evac distance that would be in place and considering the issue of gas being explosive likely there would be other firetrucks and police ems doing evacuation to ensure peoples safety. And a real hazmat team with the proper equipment to deal with this type of scenario.
@Hellequin Maskharat I hope you know that a gas station explosion wouldn’t be even slightly close to Beirut lol. Like, not even in the same ballpark my guy
If only gas stations had created a contingency plan for this very situation by installing a button or switch that could shut off the pumps incase of an emergency. Oh well.
And IF (as a previous commenter noted could happen) the button is broken, well, shut off the electrical mains. Which would not be a bad idea with all of those fumes... edit: or if you are worried about a spark from tripping the electrical main, get the power company to shut off the neighborhood.
@@MonkeyJedi99 There is always at least two, and sometimes internal ones. In other retreads I've seen people who worked where there were 5 just in case.
I think the most frustrating part is that there should be a button inside to stop all gas pumps, and that there should be a switch outside that does the same thing. I should know, I work at a gas station.
If it were me, and I'm no expert. I'd just walk over to the big red button that says "Emergency fuel shut-off" and press it. I think that may have worked better than a clamp.
There's also next-to-no common sense in that universe in general, so I wouldn't want to live in that universe at all. Wouldn't surprise me if Nuclear power plants had no backup systems in case of some kind of failure.
I kinda want this show to just one day make an extremely accurate depiction of how firefighters actually work so that you need to green screen yourself congratulating their work
Too funny! Also VERY informative. My dad was a fireman in St. Louis in the 60's and I know he would be laughing uncontrollably. Thanks for the memories. He never forgot his training. In 2005 he and I were on a vacation on San Pedro Island, Belize and Pop had to show the fireman how to use the pumper truck to draw water from the ocean to fight a fire. He stayed at the pumper to ensure safe operation. Me? I was a USMC crewman/technician on huey's and cobras, I stood there useless until he told me to manage hoses so the firemen could move into the fire area. Cracks me up even today.
The complete disorder and chaos of the team is what threw me for a loop. They arrive on scene like nobody radioed them to tell them what was happening and then wandered around with "oh gosh oh jeez". That's shit I do when there's an emergency I can't help with
"Hey, how can we make a show about firefighters that has tons of drama?" "Make the most ridiculous and unnecessary decisions and plans in the history of fake firefighting to make the runtime go longer and make everyone look like idiots." "Jimmy, you're getting a raise." This is what I imagine went through the writers heads when they made this show. Edit: Came back a year later to a war lol.
@@Ziggy_Moonglow I could write a better show in my sleep. So definitely has nothing to do with women's writing. For that matter Jane Austen's books were written over two centuries ago and people still read her works or use it to make fan works. Like that Pride and Prejudice zombies movie. Emily Dickinson. The writer for the book series that the TV show Bones is based on. Wanna try that again, bud? Hmm? Bad writing is bad writing gender shouldn't be a factor.
@@Ziggy_Moonglow To be fair, there are basically no good TV writers anymore regardless. But yeah it doesn't help that this show is written by women and pretty much exists to pretend women can be firefighters. That's not to say there have never been good writers who were women. There were, and probably still are a few. But there is a difference between a writer that happens to be a woman, and a 'woman writer'. This show is made by the latter.
This has been my favorite series that I have stumbled upon and I never laughed so many times consistently as I binge through them. The energy, the common sense, and just reactions to the dumb decisions of this show, all perfect. Love this 🤣
I’m not a first responder by any means, but, every gas station I’ve ever seen has a brightly labeled emergency pump cutoff switch. Which, I’m pretty sure, is for situations exactly like this…
Even compressed air lines have got a hose breakage valve which automatically shuts off that line if the counter pressure gets too low. I am sure gas pumps have got a similar safety device. And, of course, every Gas-Station has got a few big red emergency stop buttons.
i used to be in the fire department if the fire reaches the fuel tanker we have a very special protocol that we only use in the most dire of circumstances and it's called...... running for your life. it's advised that any civilians that see a fireman running away from an incident to follow them and if possible run faster
I had to stop watching CSI shows because of their abuses of technology. Inkjet printers that print at page feed speeds, DNA results in under 2 hours in a time when 48 hours was lightning fast, and let's not forget the big holograms floating in air like its Tony Stark's workshop.
Station 19 and Grey's Anatomy are both produced by the same people that are more concerned with identity politics and LGB (haven't seen a trans focused episode yet) than any semblance of reality.
Hear me out: just use the emergency shutoff valve! Is a giant ass red button legally required at every gas station. Then you set up a couple of monitor guns in the tanker and surround and drown with foam to cover and contain the fuel spill. Wild. I know.
The man who said sarcasm is the lowest form of wit was just to thick to understand it, you crack me up Jason, some of your vids have had tears rolling down my face
Apparently it was Oscar Wilde, and what he said was “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence,” so maybe he wasn't that cracked.
HI, I LOVE your videos, entertaining and educational. The best way to learn without pain! As someone who worked for many years at a Garage/Petrol station Forecourt complex (as we call them in England) car sales, repairs and carwash...it ALWAYS amazed me the rediculousness of 1) building one of these in the middle of a residential area! 2) the insanity of people visiting them and 3) the absolute moronicness of TV/Films depicting these disasters
Oh my Gladys! I love your snarky takes on the idiocy of "9/11" the most. Like others say, why isn't anyone hitting the shut off button inside the gas station.
Because the WOMAN in “charge” is not thinking clearly enough to remember that ! But actually it is just a show and it wasn’t written into the script. Honestly as a 24 year veteran firefighter I have come to the educated conclusion that women have absolutely no business whatsoever on the fire ground. They are a liability, and practically useless. No matter what any woman may say, they just don’t have the strength or stamina to do the job when it counts. Sorry liberals, truth hurts and the truth is not what you say it is, it is facts that dictate truth.
@Hellequin Maskharat Far more exciting would be a high speed accident *into* the station causing a fire with potentially trapped victims to rescue. But no, we gotta have this nonsense.
@@sioward2753 Or something where a gas truck crashes and a bunch of gas goes through an open manhole into an electrical tunnel and they have to deal with an underground hazmat. Hell, people in these comments are coming up with better ideas than the producers of the show.
This TV show is basically a story about a fire department that hired every infomercial incompetent they could find. Very ripe ground for the genius that is Jason. Love this series :D
0:12 For this image, I like to imagine he was just standing there and waiting for them to arrive, and they just stop dead in their tracks like, “Oh no, not THIS guy…”
Hey, they used the hose that anti-hot stuff comes out of to contain the hot stuff (kinda). I thought those hoses were just decorative on this show. Are they actually... learning how their equipment works?
'Would the driver of the fuel tank please step forward?' I thought, yeah no I don't want to bathe in fuel thank you. Great stuff, I love these green screens
My pops was the fuel inspector for his Fire Dept towards the end of his service. He was the best inspector and got to have his own vehicle. He almost died watching these two mins, more so than any 12000 gallon fuel spill ever could.
I learned the lesson of "do not top off" the hard way. When I was learning to drive, I didn't know that the pump would shut off when your tank was full. I just kept pumping until it spilled out lol.
In my state we have gas attendings and it's actually illegal to pump your own gas, apparently that's pretty rare and nearly everyone else does it themselves?
@@mia-saraking5479 Yep. Everybody else gets to do it themselves. It scares the crap out of us the first time we go to your state and a gas station attendant just appears at our window without warning.
Makes me appreciate shows and movies that give attention to detail all that more... Nothing says low effort like having a pro call you out for the obvious things that children know.
I REALLY want to know how the fuel delivery fucked up enough to let out THAT much gas without once hitting the shutoff. That stuff is rugged and simple to attach, and regular inspections and cleanings of the ports are a common requirement. Usually the only thing that will break or wear on there is the... nah better not to say more... basically nothing that would fuck with the refueling process.
@@SilverMe2004 Since it wasnt a delivery (making the mere presence of the truck OR their calling out for the driver (either he was on his union break/going to the bathroom, or he would have been GONE right away due to how tighly they run those deliveries) the point is moot. However. They would need to have at least two gas station attendents in on it, and find a way so none of the delivery drivers said shit about how bad things were, AND have none of the delivery drivers DO anything about it.... just for nothing to go wrong on the ports end. On their end there would be SO much shit falling on the responsible peoples heads for a fuckup with their hoses that they wouldnt dare not maintain em.
If only there was a communication center who's job it is to update responders on info pertaining to the scene so they don't have to google what's going on. Also what news story is going to be updated on a scene they're FIRST at!!
I have never been a Fire Fighter, but what I did do as a job for a while was Assault Pioneer. I do love people playing with stuff that can go "boom-shakalaka-BOOM" on these shows where it is obvious the Technical Consultants were a bunch of five year old boys who were asked how they want their next fireworks display to look!
First day of Fire Academy the instructor asked if anyone watched shows like this. He responded with "They are great soap operas set in a fire department. They are not how things actually get done. 'Rescue Me' was a good one tho. Shit gets f$&ked up. Thats accurate. If you see dead people you lost or couldnt save, make sure you get some help. This is a f$&ked up job and you will see f$&ked up things. Heart attacks, cancer, and suicide are how most of us end up. All of us end up with shitty knees and a few burns. Not marrying the hot girl at the station you've waited 2 seasons to kiss. Scared? Good theres the door. Leave now, don't waste our time. No judgement." That was day 1, orientation, 3 people dropped that day after class, 10 total by completion. Stay safe out there.
I can't watch these Fire Department shows anymore and not point out what is wrong from learning the things you have said what not to do in a fire. Thank you for making my life better and safer.
Another episode of "when everyone is a probie, including the chief" Tune in next week for "the cars aren't yielding to our emergency lights, let's drive on the railroad tracks to get there"
Our hoses are break-away hoses. In the coupling there's two conical ends that when pushed together let fuel flow freely, but if the hose breaks away a spring retracts and brings the cones to the ends stopping the fuel. Also absorbent, both in towel and "powder" form(it just looks like cat litter to me), a couple of snakes, and basic PPE. (Tyvek suits are in the kiosks, I work in NJ, a full-service state.)
Gods. Flashing back to Damage Control Training. Even as n00b non-rates, we knew better than this bullshit. Your descriptions and comments are incredibly on-point and hilarious. In a dark, sad way.
being a hollywood firefighter look really fun, like you get to just hang out and do nothing all day and play with foam at fires that don't burn anything.
The commentary on these videos never fail to make me laugh. 🤣the whole bit with Lake Octaine, as you so eloquently put it. "the fact that she's doing morning announcements with what is guaranteed to give the needed spark to give this neighborhood the new chiq look of ✨️ mushroom cloud ✨️" I liked these shows. But since watching this series of yours I'm even more hooked because I can just laugh at the upsurdity of it all 🤣
because it was covered in the Blue sticky fire stuff from another episode. and that blue sticky fire stuff is deadly, because its blue, which means, it is sticky!
The shows Jason parodies are so stupidly and poorly written and produced---by clearly inexperienced writers and directors---that nobody ever thinks about such common sense things as shutoff valves, or walking around behind the pumps, or using the aerial ladder to get across something like slippery foam (just using the various things Jason brought up). Why I won't watch television shows anymore---they're so incredibly stupid and ill-thought out, the so-called "entertainment value" is completely non-existent.
@Fire Department Chronicles. Jason. You have a great way of explaining the absurdity of these action dramas. Thanks for making my day. I needed the great laugh. Wishing you, your station mates, and your families stay safe and well.
Man I love people like you Fire Department Chronicles you make me laugh because the way you explain the most simple things to a bunch of poor firefighter actors apart from the one that owned up to truth about not knowing what they're dealing with.
I love the green screen shadow on the foam. It’s almost like your shadow is being cast on the rippled surface of the foam. Not being sarcastic here, I think it looks neat.
@@colinmerritt7645 There are failsafes for the storage tanks, but none are fool proof, and with the tanker truck there, it still could go VERY BADLY, and still this portrayal makes the rookies I trained look like 30+ year veterans firefighters
"spray some foam on that 30000 pounds rolling bomb thats about to make 5 square blocks wish they called a different fire department" - I was breaking down on this one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
got hooked watching your channel a while back and I can only imagine you sitting at home watching these shows and screaming THATS NOT HOW ITS DONE every 3 minutes
I worked one summer in HS at a Citgo. The owner said first day there he could forgive anything. Late, drunk, smoke weed on break, get robbed, help yourself to the snacks, take a tip from the register, all water under the bridge, but if you didn't use the shutoff, he'd flay you over the course of three days.
I must say these firefighters have some of the cleanest gear and jackets in the world. Not a spec of soot, dirt, grime, nothing. Its like they are dry cleaned everyday.
As a firefighter I'd assume you'd know that cell phones and megaphone will never set off gas. Mythbusters tested this thoroughly with new and old phones. Other than that, I highly agree with everything else you said lol
I don't watch this show so I don't know what happened to the fuel pump hose. But isn't there a safety device that keeps the hose from spraying gasoline when a car pulls away from a pump with the hose still in the car? Also isn't it code that there's an emergency pump shut off button outside near fuel islands that the actors could have pushed to turn off the leaking hose?
what's frustrating is if the writers were not-lazy enough to know this they could still craft their "gas station of doom" storyline but actually have reasons why things aren't working properly.
@@Ashalmawia Yeah, what if someone came and sabotaged them - and it's a mystery! This would also be a great chance to show the public where these buttons are and how they work, except in this case someone destroyed them on purpose, or some shit. Then there's also a crime they have to solve. Shit IDK lol.
Okay we seriously need longer episodes and definitely more of you greenscreening yourself into shows cause you my good sir are fucking hilarious 😂 MAKE MORE GREEN SCREEN VIDEOS!!!
Ive seen fireys in action one time for a fence on fire that the owners and their hose couldnt put out. Nothing serious for the firemen they splurted it once with the canon and done but watching them pull up and file out all knowing exactly what to do was the most beautiful synchronised dance ive ever seen, almost makes me wanna start a fire to see it again :p
I’ve already seen similar commentary here, but I might as well. For context- While in University I’m working as a Gas Station as a Clerk/Attendant. Idk if this is the case everywhere, but we have at least 3 quick methods of shutting down the pumps where I work. 2 emergency shutoffs that turn off all pumps- one under the counter, and one on the outside of the building, and a stop function on our register/till computers. Given context of this scene at least one of these should still be functional. Never-mind the fact that there should be safe guards in case of multiple malfunctions. There should be automatic shut off valves that trigger with different types of damage and/or sensor triggers on the pump, as well as some sort off manual/mechanical shut off away from the pumps. There is no way that all of these would fail simultaneously.
Love the green screens! As far as shutting off the source of fuel to the fire...the pumps are ran by electricity, if there's not a (I think nationally required) emergency shut off, there's a breaker box. If you can't get to the breaker box, pull the meter. Suggestion to producers of the show...hire a real firefighter as an advisor. If you have one either replace them or replace the director for not listening to them.
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I would also like people to know that a lot of modern gas stations have a shutoff button for the pumps on the gas station building itself just saying
Do you mean that big red button that says "Emergency Pump Shutoff"?
more like all. its the most basic required shit to have. a kiosk based gas station will have two, one internal and one external.
I came to the comments for this. The gas station I worked at had two different levels of emergency shut off depending on the severity of what happened. I had to use it once when a hose ruptured. We also had a bucket of powder to neutralize what had spilled.
Hold on, your telling me that its just not the Fire fighting stuff that doesn't make sense on this show...
sorry, couldn't resist.
actually: gas stations are required by law to have an emergency shut off button that’s accessible to employees AND customers
0:47 "Captain, I don't think we know what we're dealing with"
That wasn't even in the script, I think the actress just had a moment of honesty
Pfttt HAHA
This is the best thing i read today
When method goes reality.
"You're here acting. I'm here collecting a paycheck. We are not the same."
I think she was talking to the writers.
"Would the driver of the fuel tank please step forward?!"
Yeah, he's gone. He saw the crew that showed up and knew there was no hope. Last time anyone saw him, he was running as fast as possible while shouting expletives and things like "Run for your lives!", "We're all doomed!", and "Why couldn't this happen where the suppose to be trained professionals wouldn't turn this into a major disaster that will make Chernobyl look like a baking soda/vinegar volcano!"
Unless that fuel truck explosion triggers a mantle plume, I doubt a fire that is gone in a flash can compare to nuclear fallout lasting centuries... (Something that those Russian soldiers recently learned when they dug trenches in decades old fallout.. which was safe until they started digging said trenches, stir it all up and carried it with them on their boots and clothing...)
@@SeedlingNL Around 90% of radiation is gone within 48 hours, which it constantly and consistently gets lower and lower as time goes on. So about a week, let alone decades of time would end up with practically nothing more radioactive than a banana. The only place that could still be radioactive is probably the area directly around Chernobyl, not mentioning the nuclear reactor itself where no one would have to worry cause they'd literally melt if they somehow got past the concrete coffin.
The "fallout" they dug into would be barely radioactive nowadays assuming they weren't digging that trench near uranium or Chernobyl. (And only an idiot would do the latter)
@@okairo im pretty sure they literally dug the trenches in THE red forest...
Fuel truck driver must have been a crew member of the Mont Blanc and having severe flashbacks.
@@jffry890 Probably yelling in french causing everyone to run to see what the excitement was.
This entire series is proof that you shouldn’t take ANYTHING you see on TV seriously.
... and least of all "The news".
Breaking news: The 2nd tower has been hit.
" Dont care, didnt ask."
The dumbing down of Amerika
@@PagePorter Nah
Or....or....and hear me out.....that it's a crap show.
I apparently got here two years late, thank you RUclips algorithm, as a CDL Class A Fuel tanker driver our training is keep your truck safe, know how to contain a fuel spill and how to shut off the fuel from the pump, if needed. Any actual fuel driver would have hit the big red stop button, and grabbed his spill kit on board their truck or in station and starting mopping and containment long before the 911 call was even made.
I am a gas station clerk and this is driving Me nuts. First of all, there's button to turn ALL pumps off. Ours is inside on our register but we've all seen them outside too. Second of all, modern pumps don't break like that. People drive off with the pump still in their car (it's happened 5 times this year), there's a safety mechanism that breaks off the handle and keeps the rest intact.
Lastly, the spot for new fuel is usually more out of the way and I've never had a fuel truck driver park whenever they felt like it.
Granted I'm one person at one modern gas station so others might have different experiences but none of this would happen at the one I work at. (And probably almost no others either)
As someone who work in a gas station we have like for five shut off pump button two outside, two inside on one for the till so the only reason I could see no one hitting those button is that someone really hate there job and want to see the place burn down
in the episode the switch is too damaged
omg, this sooooooooo much
Last year, I had the 'fun' job of emptying fareboxes off city busses every night into vaults while workers were gassing the busses up and sweeping them out. On occasion, workers forget to detach the nozzles from the busses before moving the busses to the next stage of the nightly cleaning, and the way we didn't have fuel spewing forth in an alarming manner was the hoses at each of the four pumps had a point on them that could pull apart without a fuel leakage happening. Reattachment isn't difficult, which is a good thing, especially on weeknights when there are several hundred busses that need fueling and cleaning.
@@ahardworker2154 Some people just want to see the world bun. ;)
The "Green Screening" series will never end and i'm happy about it
Won't end as long as they have a crappy writer 😂
@@Tyler-es They will always have crappy writers and most of all, "producers" asking for more action, more drama, more
@@gafrers yup, at least we get good entertainment
@@Tyler-es The firefighting is a base for the series to tie in with the medical side of Grey's Anatomy. It's a bit like how the Chicago series has Chicago Fire, Med and PD. However the show does push a huge anti-cop agenda, so I doubt there'll be a "Precinct 25" any time soon
It is just great.
I've worked at a gas station for over seven years now and there are so many safety precautions in place to prevent gas spills that you have to go out of your way to make this happen. Breakaway cables, internal safety shut offs, manuel shut offs, the whole nine yards.. And the fire department has training and very specific procedures to handle this. They would not be lost as to what to do.
Yeah. When a pickup truck crashed into the gas station I used to work at, there was no gas, no explosion, and no town turning into a crater all because of stuff like this.
The writers of this show are so concerned with it being as dramatic as possible that they don't even care how terribly inaccurate it is and how incredibly incompetent they make these "firefighters" seem
When redundancy is a good idea.
Except in Africa (don't remember which shitty country), when the "firefighter" team decided to take a smoke after cleaning a gas station spill.
I think they're still in orbit to this day.
@@BacklashMobileGamingChannel what? No. On self-service automatic ones you prepay and it pumps exactly as much petrol as you buy, but regular petrol station is paid for after the fueling
I'm an Industrial Mechanic. We have a fuel depot where I work, one night a fuel hose burst spraying diesel and there weren't any truck mechanics on site. The emergency shutoff didn't work, but I easily popped open the cover on the pump and switch the valves shut inside.
This man needs a Netflix series and a blank check, I'm dying over here
I love how these shows always have to have some ridiculous gimmick plot of something that would never actually happen. There can never be an authentic episode depicting the actual struggles that emergency personnel face daily. As if being in their line of work isn't exciting or dangerous enough.
Of course that is not possible. Otherwise you have every week pretty much the same episode...
There was this one scene on Castle (detective series) where Martha explained to Becket what happened to her on hun soap opera period where she was kidnapped, buried alive, trapped in a cave with bears, kidnapped again and held hostage. When becket asked 'How long were you on the show', Martha replies 'two weeks...'
As a cub I watched Adam-12 and thought, "Nah, can't be."
As an adult I watched COPS, now I feel I owe Jack Webb an apology because, yeah.
@@ninjabearpress2574 Adam-12 is better thought out and more interesting than the goofy fire rescue shows we see ripped apart here.
@@lastswordfighter Oh yeah, and I'd rather binge watch Emergency! than this crap.
Bless you MeTV!
One of the rules that Bob Cinader, the Producer for Emergency! had for his writers is that every rescue had to come from the logs of some fire department somewhere. They could adapt it for the show but it had to be real. First the writers thought that would be boring, then they started to read the logs and could not believe the things fire departments had to respond to. The naked girl with her toe stuck in the faucet, that was a real rescue.
This might be a stupid question, but why aren't there any gas station attendants or customers that the firefighters might have asked what happened or who might have been driving that fuel truck?
There are always gawkers, aren't there?
One of them would know.
Depends on scene security but for the most part considering this would be a hazmat op there would be a mandatory evac distance that would be in place and considering the issue of gas being explosive likely there would be other firetrucks and police ems doing evacuation to ensure peoples safety. And a real hazmat team with the proper equipment to deal with this type of scenario.
@Hellequin Maskharat I hope you know that a gas station explosion wouldn’t be even slightly close to Beirut lol. Like, not even in the same ballpark my guy
thats the police's job
@@hayhay2640 A real hazmat team with the right equipment would be more interesting but hey, drama!
If only gas stations had created a contingency plan for this very situation by installing a button or switch that could shut off the pumps incase of an emergency. Oh well.
And IF (as a previous commenter noted could happen) the button is broken, well, shut off the electrical mains. Which would not be a bad idea with all of those fumes...
edit: or if you are worried about a spark from tripping the electrical main, get the power company to shut off the neighborhood.
@@MonkeyJedi99 There is always at least two, and sometimes internal ones. In other retreads I've seen people who worked where there were 5 just in case.
0:18 shows a firefighter at said button, so I have no idea what they're even doing xD
That would be a good idea. Must be a old one ;)
Chernobyl had a button. They had a few buttons....Didn't work....... Just saying...
As a retired certified firefighter/EMT, I really appreciate his humor.
I think the most frustrating part is that there should be a button inside to stop all gas pumps, and that there should be a switch outside that does the same thing. I should know, I work at a gas station.
If it were me, and I'm no expert. I'd just walk over to the big red button that says "Emergency fuel shut-off" and press it. I think that may have worked better than a clamp.
Looking for this.
So in this universe gas stations don't have a pump shut-off at the building? I'm glad I don't live in the same universe as Station 19.
How fire works in that universe is weird. I know more about how the warp drive works on Star Trek than how fire works on this show.
in the episode they say the switch is Damaged
@@ivanhuang6076 which one?? Everyone in the comments said that at least a gas station has 2 to 3 switch. There is no all the switch broke.
@@orlock20 in that universe, fire evolved to be the more intelligent life form.
There's also next-to-no common sense in that universe in general, so I wouldn't want to live in that universe at all. Wouldn't surprise me if Nuclear power plants had no backup systems in case of some kind of failure.
When satire becomes interpretive dance.
Hahahahahahaah! This might be my favorite comment ever
I kinda want this show to just one day make an extremely accurate depiction of how firefighters actually work so that you need to green screen yourself congratulating their work
Same
Too funny! Also VERY informative. My dad was a fireman in St. Louis in the 60's and I know he would be laughing uncontrollably. Thanks for the memories. He never forgot his training. In 2005 he and I were on a vacation on San Pedro Island, Belize and Pop had to show the fireman how to use the pumper truck to draw water from the ocean to fight a fire. He stayed at the pumper to ensure safe operation. Me? I was a USMC crewman/technician on huey's and cobras, I stood there useless until he told me to manage hoses so the firemen could move into the fire area. Cracks me up even today.
Great story.
Happy belated birthday to you maniacs in the Corps.
The complete disorder and chaos of the team is what threw me for a loop. They arrive on scene like nobody radioed them to tell them what was happening and then wandered around with "oh gosh oh jeez". That's shit I do when there's an emergency I can't help with
So what you are saying is they are staying in their lane?
"Hey, how can we make a show about firefighters that has tons of drama?"
"Make the most ridiculous and unnecessary decisions and plans in the history of fake firefighting to make the runtime go longer and make everyone look like idiots."
"Jimmy, you're getting a raise."
This is what I imagine went through the writers heads when they made this show.
Edit: Came back a year later to a war lol.
It's written by women, which explains why it's illogical, irrational, and full of emotional BS.
@@Ziggy_Moonglow huh have I just found a sexist?
@@Ziggy_Moonglow my dude, that's not how women work
@@Ziggy_Moonglow I could write a better show in my sleep. So definitely has nothing to do with women's writing. For that matter Jane Austen's books were written over two centuries ago and people still read her works or use it to make fan works. Like that Pride and Prejudice zombies movie.
Emily Dickinson. The writer for the book series that the TV show Bones is based on. Wanna try that again, bud? Hmm?
Bad writing is bad writing gender shouldn't be a factor.
@@Ziggy_Moonglow To be fair, there are basically no good TV writers anymore regardless. But yeah it doesn't help that this show is written by women and pretty much exists to pretend women can be firefighters.
That's not to say there have never been good writers who were women. There were, and probably still are a few. But there is a difference between a writer that happens to be a woman, and a 'woman writer'. This show is made by the latter.
This has been my favorite series that I have stumbled upon and I never laughed so many times consistently as I binge through them. The energy, the common sense, and just reactions to the dumb decisions of this show, all perfect. Love this 🤣
That fire department must be as high as a kite. There’s no other explanation.
Jason is roasting them worse than an exploding tanker truck ever could. 😂
😂🤣
Yes, but they make it so...so....EASY....!! :P
Even a nuke would do less damage than the roasting lmao
The MOST accurate thing they have EVER said on that show! 🤣😂
That gal needs a promotion.
@@thechurchofdiscountdan7436 A promotion to a different show. 😋
This girl would be good at Cinema Sins
That literally made me lol
And is true for many others shows as well - proven by Green Screening. 😉
I’m not a first responder by any means, but, every gas station I’ve ever seen has a brightly labeled emergency pump cutoff switch. Which, I’m pretty sure, is for situations exactly like this…
They show someone pressing that button at 18 seconds
a lot of modern fuel pumps have an auto shutoff.
Even compressed air lines have got a hose breakage valve which automatically shuts off that line if the counter pressure gets too low.
I am sure gas pumps have got a similar safety device.
And, of course, every Gas-Station has got a few big red emergency stop buttons.
@@norbertfleck812 Not to mention there is always flipping the breakers for the pumps.. No power no fuel flowing.
I love how even in the show it shows the truck glowing red lmao
That was a FLIR image. Probably around 50C.
i used to be in the fire department if the fire reaches the fuel tanker we have a very special protocol that we only use in the most dire of circumstances and it's called...... running for your life.
it's advised that any civilians that see a fireman running away from an incident to follow them and if possible run faster
Up next, BLEV and then BOOM
It would be painful to actually watch these shows myself. Thank you for doing what you do, Jason!
I don't understand how people can watch these shows and enjoy them. So cringe.
What they don't tell us is that these shows exist to make us appreciate reality TV more....
I had to stop watching CSI shows because of their abuses of technology. Inkjet printers that print at page feed speeds, DNA results in under 2 hours in a time when 48 hours was lightning fast, and let's not forget the big holograms floating in air like its Tony Stark's workshop.
Station 19 and Grey's Anatomy are both produced by the same people that are more concerned with identity politics and LGB (haven't seen a trans focused episode yet) than any semblance of reality.
@@Nareimooncatt When it's been 0.00000000003 seconds since you could complain about LGBT people so you cry about it here... sad.
Hear me out: just use the emergency shutoff valve! Is a giant ass red button legally required at every gas station. Then you set up a couple of monitor guns in the tanker and surround and drown with foam to cover and contain the fuel spill. Wild. I know.
Like there is a shut off for each pump as well.
And if the shutoff doesn’t work, then you shut off the power to the whole station.
They actually show someone pressing it at 18 seconds
@@rookhousestudios3686 which one? Im pretty sure gas pumps arent automatically pumping without this magical stuff called Energy
@@xrefed I'm confused please explain your point
The man who said sarcasm is the lowest form of wit was just to thick to understand it, you crack me up Jason, some of your vids have had tears rolling down my face
Apparently it was Oscar Wilde, and what he said was “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence,” so maybe he wasn't that cracked.
One. its 'too' not 'to'
and three are you sure they weren't being sarcastic?
I haven’t laughed so hard since the “sock puppet” episode!😂
HI, I LOVE your videos, entertaining and educational. The best way to learn without pain!
As someone who worked for many years at a Garage/Petrol station Forecourt complex (as we call them in England) car sales, repairs and carwash...it ALWAYS amazed me the rediculousness of 1) building one of these in the middle of a residential area! 2) the insanity of people visiting them and 3) the absolute moronicness of TV/Films depicting these disasters
When you threw your hands up in the air while saying "mushroom cloud" it had me dying.
Oh my Gladys! I love your snarky takes on the idiocy of "9/11" the most. Like others say, why isn't anyone hitting the shut off button inside the gas station.
right! that was my thought! they have them there for this reason!
@Hellequin Maskharat oh, of course - you are quite right!
And so goes Television
Because the WOMAN in “charge” is not thinking clearly enough to remember that ! But actually it is just a show and it wasn’t written into the script. Honestly as a 24 year veteran firefighter I have come to the educated conclusion that women have absolutely no business whatsoever on the fire ground. They are a liability, and practically useless. No matter what any woman may say, they just don’t have the strength or stamina to do the job when it counts. Sorry liberals, truth hurts and the truth is not what you say it is, it is facts that dictate truth.
@Hellequin Maskharat Far more exciting would be a high speed accident *into* the station causing a fire with potentially trapped victims to rescue. But no, we gotta have this nonsense.
@@sioward2753 Or something where a gas truck crashes and a bunch of gas goes through an open manhole into an electrical tunnel and they have to deal with an underground hazmat. Hell, people in these comments are coming up with better ideas than the producers of the show.
This TV show is basically a story about a fire department that hired every infomercial incompetent they could find.
Very ripe ground for the genius that is Jason. Love this series :D
0:12 For this image, I like to imagine he was just standing there and waiting for them to arrive, and they just stop dead in their tracks like, “Oh no, not THIS guy…”
Lol
Your sarcasm is EXACTLY what I needed right now. You made me laugh when I want to cry...
That roast at 0:38 had me crying 🤣
Hey, they used the hose that anti-hot stuff comes out of to contain the hot stuff (kinda). I thought those hoses were just decorative on this show. Are they actually... learning how their equipment works?
Yeah they can fill those with, uhh. What do they call it? Liquid ice? Dihydrogen monoxide? Something like that?
I bet there an episode were that stuff what on it cases a problem that would take them three episodes to fix
Nah, they just ran out of fire extinguisher budget that week.
'Would the driver of the fuel tank please step forward?' I thought, yeah no I don't want to bathe in fuel thank you.
Great stuff, I love these green screens
I'm willing to bet someone out there will come out with a gasoline based skin conditioner one of these days.
Yeah. Step forward, walk through the gas, then start your truck. ... What could go wrong?
@@bostonrailfan2427 I have never seen petroleum jelly that has an octane rating.
I love how your face turns progressively more red. NO TIME TO BREATHE, I MUST BE A CRITIC FOR THE UNEDUCATED ACTORS!!!
*Writers. The actors have no control over how the scene plays out.
Your dances, poses, sarcastic comments and crazy eyes...
It's beautiful
My pops was the fuel inspector for his Fire Dept towards the end of his service. He was the best inspector and got to have his own vehicle. He almost died watching these two mins, more so than any 12000 gallon fuel spill ever could.
I learned the lesson of "do not top off" the hard way. When I was learning to drive, I didn't know that the pump would shut off when your tank was full. I just kept pumping until it spilled out lol.
I did the same thing my first time
In my state we have gas attendings and it's actually illegal to pump your own gas, apparently that's pretty rare and nearly everyone else does it themselves?
@@mia-saraking5479 Yep. Everybody else gets to do it themselves. It scares the crap out of us the first time we go to your state and a gas station attendant just appears at our window without warning.
😹👍 Which exit? Gotta love the tollbooth state.
@@mia-saraking5479 you must be in nj?
Makes me appreciate shows and movies that give attention to detail all that more... Nothing says low effort like having a pro call you out for the obvious things that children know.
"We don't know what we're dealing with!"
Truth!🤣🤣🤣
"Captain I don't think we know what we're dealing with"
on TV? never would have guessed
I like how him stepping on the loose green screen starting at 1:35 sorta makes it look like he's stepping in the foam.
I REALLY want to know how the fuel delivery fucked up enough to let out THAT much gas without once hitting the shutoff. That stuff is rugged and simple to attach, and regular inspections and cleanings of the ports are a common requirement. Usually the only thing that will break or wear on there is the... nah better not to say more... basically nothing that would fuck with the refueling process.
it wasn't, it was the hose on the pump.
I'm guessing they were paying off the safety inspector
@@SilverMe2004 Since it wasnt a delivery (making the mere presence of the truck OR their calling out for the driver (either he was on his union break/going to the bathroom, or he would have been GONE right away due to how tighly they run those deliveries) the point is moot.
However. They would need to have at least two gas station attendents in on it, and find a way so none of the delivery drivers said shit about how bad things were, AND have none of the delivery drivers DO anything about it.... just for nothing to go wrong on the ports end.
On their end there would be SO much shit falling on the responsible peoples heads for a fuckup with their hoses that they wouldnt dare not maintain em.
This performance 👏 is 👏 fuego 🔥 great job Jason 👏 always entertaining
Y'all do exceptionally well with these
I absolutely freaking love this format!
You're like the modern fire marshal Bill but with intelligence! Love your videos
If only there was a communication center who's job it is to update responders on info pertaining to the scene so they don't have to google what's going on.
Also what news story is going to be updated on a scene they're FIRST at!!
You mean Google doesn't instantaneously know everything about everything that's happening in the world?
@@Zara-Bari shhhh you know to much.
I think I have come back to this at least a dozen times just to see Jason’s face of shock & amazement that something accurate was said on this show.
This guy needs to be at least a Co-Writer on one of these shows
The shows would be either way too short or just never air because he’d fix it too well
Each episode would be like five minutes.
I have never been a Fire Fighter, but what I did do as a job for a while was Assault Pioneer. I do love people playing with stuff that can go "boom-shakalaka-BOOM" on these shows where it is obvious the Technical Consultants were a bunch of five year old boys who were asked how they want their next fireworks display to look!
First day of Fire Academy the instructor asked if anyone watched shows like this.
He responded with "They are great soap operas set in a fire department. They are not how things actually get done. 'Rescue Me' was a good one tho. Shit gets f$&ked up. Thats accurate. If you see dead people you lost or couldnt save, make sure you get some help. This is a f$&ked up job and you will see f$&ked up things. Heart attacks, cancer, and suicide are how most of us end up. All of us end up with shitty knees and a few burns. Not marrying the hot girl at the station you've waited 2 seasons to kiss. Scared? Good theres the door. Leave now, don't waste our time. No judgement."
That was day 1, orientation, 3 people dropped that day after class, 10 total by completion.
Stay safe out there.
I can't watch these Fire Department shows anymore and not point out what is wrong from learning the things you have said what not to do in a fire. Thank you for making my life better and safer.
Another episode of "when everyone is a probie, including the chief"
Tune in next week for "the cars aren't yielding to our emergency lights, let's drive on the railroad tracks to get there"
I want to say that second one is a joke, but seeing this show, probably happened.
No matter how hard I try I can never catch him howlin at tha moon. Well played sir.
Our hoses are break-away hoses. In the coupling there's two conical ends that when pushed together let fuel flow freely, but if the hose breaks away a spring retracts and brings the cones to the ends stopping the fuel. Also absorbent, both in towel and "powder" form(it just looks like cat litter to me), a couple of snakes, and basic PPE. (Tyvek suits are in the kiosks, I work in NJ, a full-service state.)
I'm surprised the gas station didn't spontaneously explode from all that roasting 🤣
Dude! You Sir, are a friggin genius…! ❤️🔥
Gods. Flashing back to Damage Control Training. Even as n00b non-rates, we knew better than this bullshit.
Your descriptions and comments are incredibly on-point and hilarious. In a dark, sad way.
This show needs a technical advisor!
@@ninjabearpress2574 Rumours say he committed suicide.
@@norbertfleck812 I dunno, can you cry to death?
Ahh yes. Another Oscar worthy performance.
I'm sad, they did not strip this time
being a hollywood firefighter look really fun, like you get to just hang out and do nothing all day and play with foam at fires that don't burn anything.
The commentary on these videos never fail to make me laugh. 🤣the whole bit with Lake Octaine, as you so eloquently put it. "the fact that she's doing morning announcements with what is guaranteed to give the needed spark to give this neighborhood the new chiq look of ✨️ mushroom cloud ✨️" I liked these shows. But since watching this series of yours I'm even more hooked because I can just laugh at the upsurdity of it all 🤣
Did they explain in the show why they couldn't just hit the emergency shutoff for the gas station?
because it was covered in the Blue sticky fire stuff from another episode. and that blue sticky fire stuff is deadly, because its blue, which means, it is sticky!
@@19Raschna at least there weren't flying sticky magma balls this time :p
The shows Jason parodies are so stupidly and poorly written and produced---by clearly inexperienced writers and directors---that nobody ever thinks about such common sense things as shutoff valves, or walking around behind the pumps, or using the aerial ladder to get across something like slippery foam (just using the various things Jason brought up).
Why I won't watch television shows anymore---they're so incredibly stupid and ill-thought out, the so-called "entertainment value" is completely non-existent.
@@jb6712 I haven't had a TV since 1988 and you know what? I don't miss it one darn bit. Now, if it played JASON's content, I'd have one!!
@Fire Department Chronicles. Jason. You have a great way of explaining the absurdity of these action dramas. Thanks for making my day. I needed the great laugh.
Wishing you, your station mates, and your families stay safe and well.
Man I love people like you Fire Department Chronicles you make me laugh because the way you explain the most simple things to a bunch of poor firefighter actors apart from the one that owned up to truth about not knowing what they're dealing with.
Please keep doing these. I’ve watched all of them like three times and I’m still laughing my ass off
I absolutely LOVE your green screen series!!! ❤❤❤ They make me laugh out loud and startle my cat. 😂
As a firefighter, this shit had me dying 🤣 like honestly this is amazing
I love the green screen shadow on the foam. It’s almost like your shadow is being cast on the rippled surface of the foam. Not being sarcastic here, I think it looks neat.
0:50 - The sheer disbelief that one bit will cause in every firefighter who sees the show or this is staggering, a show admits they're idiots!
Even this layman has heard of shutoff valves and, I dunno, maybe the underground tanks have some sort of defense so we don't destroy several blocks?
@@colinmerritt7645 There are failsafes for the storage tanks, but none are fool proof, and with the tanker truck there, it still could go VERY BADLY, and still this portrayal makes the rookies I trained look like 30+ year veterans firefighters
"spray some foam on that 30000 pounds rolling bomb thats about to make 5 square blocks wish they called a different fire department" - I was breaking down on this one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
got hooked watching your channel a while back and I can only imagine you sitting at home watching these shows and screaming THATS NOT HOW ITS DONE every 3 minutes
All gas stations have emergency pump cut off switches
Outside and inside
I’m just saying the push of one button will help
🤷🏽♂️
this is my favorite ongoing series on YT
Or, uh, now hear me out… you could hit the emergency pump shutoff that is at every single gas station in America.
I'm curious if emergency shutoffs are required by law
Like the one between 0:18 and 0:19?
@@hoppytoad79 They are! And they are fail-safe which means if they get damaged they always will shut off.
I worked one summer in HS at a Citgo. The owner said first day there he could forgive anything. Late, drunk, smoke weed on break, get robbed, help yourself to the snacks, take a tip from the register, all water under the bridge, but if you didn't use the shutoff, he'd flay you over the course of three days.
if i'm seeing this correctly, it's a gas pump that is actively pumping out gasoline.
usually gas stations have an emergency shutoff switch.
0:18 So there is a "stop fuel" button! Well that takes away all of the drama... WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!
You're Green Screen videos are my favorite!
I wonder how Seattle FD feels about this show 😂
Every station there probably has a hard liquor stash that is ONLY to be accessed whenever a new episode is on. :P
I must say these firefighters have some of the cleanest gear and jackets in the world. Not a spec of soot, dirt, grime, nothing. Its like they are dry cleaned everyday.
Not even a little bit of rogue Chinese food for good measure.
As a firefighter I'd assume you'd know that cell phones and megaphone will never set off gas. Mythbusters tested this thoroughly with new and old phones. Other than that, I highly agree with everything else you said lol
I've seen a few of your videos now & you're a legend in your own lunchtime, to be sure.
I don't watch this show so I don't know what happened to the fuel pump hose. But isn't there a safety device that keeps the hose from spraying gasoline when a car pulls away from a pump with the hose still in the car? Also isn't it code that there's an emergency pump shut off button outside near fuel islands that the actors could have pushed to turn off the leaking hose?
Yup its called a break away, happens all the time. Worse thing that happens is damage to car from the hose.
what's frustrating is if the writers were not-lazy enough to know this they could still craft their "gas station of doom" storyline but actually have reasons why things aren't working properly.
@@Ashalmawia Yeah, what if someone came and sabotaged them - and it's a mystery! This would also be a great chance to show the public where these buttons are and how they work, except in this case someone destroyed them on purpose, or some shit. Then there's also a crime they have to solve. Shit IDK lol.
The hose shown for the scene has been deliberately cut, and recently. You can see the tattered reinforcing fibers in between the walls of the hose.
Yes is the answer to both of those questions. Apparently, nobody in the writing room thought of that.
Okay we seriously need longer episodes and definitely more of you greenscreening yourself into shows cause you my good sir are fucking hilarious 😂 MAKE MORE GREEN SCREEN VIDEOS!!!
The last joke was just perfectly perfect.
Need a like? Done!
Ive seen fireys in action one time for a fence on fire that the owners and their hose couldnt put out. Nothing serious for the firemen they splurted it once with the canon and done but watching them pull up and file out all knowing exactly what to do was the most beautiful synchronised dance ive ever seen, almost makes me wanna start a fire to see it again :p
Former 911 dispatcher here. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Always look forward to these!
You need to make these videos longer man they're hilarious especially when you served as a firefighter haha I'm howling every time good job man 👍👌
I'm guessing he makes them short to avoid copyright claims
I’m never gonna be done with this dude’s content
I’ve already seen similar commentary here, but I might as well. For context- While in University I’m working as a Gas Station as a Clerk/Attendant.
Idk if this is the case everywhere, but we have at least 3 quick methods of shutting down the pumps where I work. 2 emergency shutoffs that turn off all pumps- one under the counter, and one on the outside of the building, and a stop function on our register/till computers. Given context of this scene at least one of these should still be functional. Never-mind the fact that there should be safe guards in case of multiple malfunctions. There should be automatic shut off valves that trigger with different types of damage and/or sensor triggers on the pump, as well as some sort off manual/mechanical shut off away from the pumps. There is no way that all of these would fail simultaneously.
As a volunteer firefighter, I've never seen any suits look this clean.
Love the green screens!
As far as shutting off the source of fuel to the fire...the pumps are ran by electricity, if there's not a (I think nationally required) emergency shut off, there's a breaker box. If you can't get to the breaker box, pull the meter.
Suggestion to producers of the show...hire a real firefighter as an advisor. If you have one either replace them or replace the director for not listening to them.
Maybe they have one and ignore them when it doesn't fit what they want to do with the story? *shrugs*