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TheBravestOnline

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Registered: 07/30/07
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San Antonio, Texas Working House Fire

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http://www.thebravestonline.com/news.html?view=1&id=51349
BFD

Registered: 12/28/11
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Abandon does mean it's vacant; vacant doesn't mean it's unoccupied.
NJEngineCo

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Point #1: Lay in. Point #2: Deck Gun.

76Truck

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Originally Posted by NJEngineCo

Point #1: Lay in. Point #2: Deck Gun.


Pretty much, but they don't see a lot of fire out that way. So goes easy on them.

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The woman talking needs to SHUT UP!.

LCFD

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As they say in Detroit..."Dump the gun".

SurendrdSeraph12

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...or, you could put the water where it needs to go and knock it down in 10-15 minutes.  Yes, sometimes quantity matters, but where that quantity goes always matters.

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BeastBeater1030

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I watched this on the local news and according to the news casters these guys were able to knock it out in  10-15 min, and the person who set the house on fire was also injured in the act of doing so.
Shareef

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Registered: 01/10/09
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I don't know what the staffing or response levels are for this department but this  is an ideal argument for the use of a Truck Co with a prepiped waterway in conjunction with an Engine Co with a prepiped deckgun.  With both Co's adequately staffed and responding together, the fire could have been brought under control much faster.  This is also an example of taking in the entire scene when first pulling up and looking for clues while you are mounting your attack.  These members seemed to have a done a fine job.

rjd2051

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Registered: 03/19/08
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These guys did OK. I didn't see anything terribly bad or good.

All in all a pretty vanilla attack.

Seraph, was that you in the background talking to mommy?

Seriously, congrats on your professional growth!

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GFD150

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The crew did a great job.
FREPLUG

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Registered: 03/22/10
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The guy on the first line did well for being alone, made quick work of it.  The officer seemed to do a half as$ed survey but did one none the less.  Now the fat a$$ riding backwards behind the boss....to show up unpacked and not ready is a disgrace and dangerous to his brothers.  FIND A TREADMILL OR QUIT!!  
okstate44

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Registered: 03/25/10
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i grew up in the san antonio area and can vouch that this is not SA.  I had never heard of the D2FR but upon doing research they are the former Geronimo Valley Volunteer fire department which is in the county neighboring SA.  They have a reputation as being reliable, but sometimes lacking in staffing.  They appeared to have a full crew here, but I would bet their delay in response was do to getting a crew to the station. 

 

They seemed to do fine, especially since the building was starting to partially collapse.  This is a typical example of light-wieght truss, complete crap, construction, and the dangers of it.  They just can't handle the fireload that some of the north easterners on the forum see at their fires, mainly as they just don't build stuff the way they used to, and we have a lot of new construction in texas.

firemanlyman

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Registered: 10/22/10
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Snakes are bad this year, beware of the tall grass.

 

Funny, speaking of the tall grass, I immediatly thought "arson" because of the state of the yard.  Don't know if it was the owner (for profit), or the kid who was hired to mow the yard and said awh F- it.


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agates1272

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Registered: 03/06/09
Posts: 502
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It's downright scary how quickly these new homes go up. They're almost like mobile homes...one small fire and you write the whole damn thing off.

WTF ever happened to CODE ENFORCEMENT? Construction has evolved, but code enforcement has not.  Scary.

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