Lincoln Fire & Rescue Captain Bob Borer from Station 5 came across this video from the San Bernadino, CA Fire Department. It's an excellent and quite realistic view of a residential fire and rescue operation, taken from a helmet camera with a little footage from a news crew mixed in.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
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Not exactly "hollywood" but a good video none the less. I hope the man rescued surived.
This is no way intended to be a criticism but just a question. I'm wondering why they don't get all their gear on while enroute to the fire. They know it's a working fire but it seems like a lot of wasted time putting on gloves, helmet etc after you arrive, especially in a life and death situation. Is this the LFR does it?
Great video. Did the resident survive?
That's way cooler than my You Tube video.
ARRRRG! OMG--LOL, LOL,LOL!!!
Arrrrrg. Another great one. The first thing I thought when I saw the video was hundreds of inmates at the State Pen practicing their skills during lockdown. I wonder if the warden would grant a furlough to appear on American Idol?
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Great video Tom, thanks for posting it. This gives a great idea of what our Firefighters might encounter any given day. There is nobody who could watch this without saying they are all true heroes. Thank you LFR for all you do.
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Watch that again. I think what you have here is the company officer (captain) on a second or third arriving unit--whose job is to get his resources properly deployed. He is manipulating his radio to give assignments and coordinate the attack--not easily done with gloved hands. When it becomes evident that he is needed for an immediate rescue, though not his primary responsibility, he gloves up, snaps his SCBA in, and moves--responding to the contingency at hand. I survived a fire like this personally, at age 10.
The actions, terminology, and tactics are textbook, as far as my limited experience discerns. I think this is a very realistic example of a working residential fire. One of the comments on the YouTube video indicates that this victim did not survive, but that is clearly not through any lack of heroic effort by these firefighters.
Thankfully, these types of fires are relatively rare events--there have been only a few in Lincoln this year. But I think you can plainly see in this video why we hire, train, and equip a firefighting force prepared to save lives--like my own in1964--in the critical moments where it hangs in the balance. We may not need this capability daily or even weekly, but sometimes it is needed several times in the same day, and in every working fire, I am darned glad we have it.
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