I see allot of FD's doing next to nothing in allot of videos.

I just don't get the idea of less then half the ff's doing work, while the rest watch.

Take in mind that when I joined my fd, we sent 2 Engines, 1 Ladder and Battalion on Working Fires, 9 People total.

So we all had to bust our butts on the fire ground.

I do see this is a large structure which may or may not get more ff's on the first alarm.

But I also see fd's sending 20-30 ff's on the first alarm for fires that one good placed hand line can handle.

I know that people are going to start looking at these videos and using them against us by asking,

"Why are all the ff's just standing there?"

Then they will use that to lay off or cut back more ff's.

Ive learned if your on the fire ground, look busy, do something.

Allot of fd's across America would love to have the type of staffing some of these fd's have.

PS: And I know some of you guys will get on here and talk about how hard it is to fight fires in the big city, big-tall structures. But most of those guys don't do a working fire every day, or have ever rolled up on 4-5 houses going at once.

We here in our dilapidated cities are putting in allot of work with much less and more often.

Feedback appreciated...