(6-30-14) [HD] 4-Alarm Brushfire Scorches Santa Teresa Foothills

(Watch in HD) San Jose Fire Department has received multiple calls regarding a fast moving brushfire in the Santa Teresa Foothills nearly reaching a home 50 ft away but crews were able to prevent that. Due to the number of calls received, the call was upgraded to a TIER 1. During response, Battalion 13 has declared this to be a CalFire incident. There were 2-3 Air Tankers, 1 Helicopter (CDF Chopper 106), H106, many Type 3 Engines, and a Dozer on scene. The first unit to arrive on scene, that being Engine Company 18 requested a TIER 2 due to fast winds and the fire continuing to rapidly move at a high rate of speed. After Battalion 13 (Curie IC) arrived on scene, the fire kept moving at a rapid rate of speed, so a TIER 3 and eventually a TIER 4 was requested with mutual aid from Morgan Hill Fire, Santa Clara County Fire, Palo Alto Fire, and Santa Clara Fire. Fire was consumed up to 125 acres. Enjoy exclusive on scene footage of rigs responding and on scene, a Calfire Helicopter flying around and making water drops, and a Calfire Air Tanker dropping fire retardant!

[CobraEmergencyNorthAmerica]

That is aweeesome! I love all the CAL FIRE trucks, especially the Dozer!

[nosstang]

great video. calfire, santa clara county and sjfd all did a great job!

[AndrewSmith-xdmz]

You know it's serious when the dozer transport is rolling code 3!!

[jamesfraser]

I dont get the difference between Engine Types. Where can I find the differences at?

[watchthe]

I always dreaded seeing this Brush trucks when I was growing up. That meant the fire was way to close, dad would go out and set the lawn sprinklers to the fire cycle where they would spray for 15 minutes every hour.

[djapollo]

@ 1:10 what is that siren called does anyone know

[mikesmith-pjfy]

This is home work for Saratoga fire and moffett Field fire love to see everything moving forward

[djapollo]

at 1:24 what the siren called does anyone know

[thesunsetreptiles]

my 15 years of cal fire ive never seen a truck like that. 0:58

[FreemanWithrow]

More prescribed burns would stop a lot of these large fires but the California epa won’t allow forestry to do their jobs

[mikeholmstrom]

The Santa Teresa Foothills have had fires all the time, for decades. I wish that would do more brush clearing there.

[pizzasubs]

when I saw that truck from the San Jose area,  that really shows me that when there is a large fire like this one was,  they will have units come from wherever they can,  From San Jose to here where the fire was,  thats almost 300 Miles,  thats a long haul to drive a truck to a fire like this,  but really do give these guys a ton of credit for actually driving that far just to help out with a fire like they have to drive the 300 miles or so back,  but thats ok,  if correct,  the city pretty much pays for the fuel for these kinds of

[dillonmcannnell]

when you see a tanker or pumper coming code three with air horns pull the hell over damn..

[ksmon]

How much water do the small CalFire pumpers carry?

[Coasterrider]

Californians- just cant figure out how to pull over

[rickw]

looked like one up behind my house last summer  my house and my neighbors the fire was in are back yard  CDF was there with a fast response  had  1 helicopter  putting water down real fast and 5 engines  there in no time they respond fast  thanks

[bradjames]

The water bombers are cooler than the fire trucks, you've seen one fire truck you've seen them all, imagine your eating your morning bowl of cocoa krispies and that huey descends into your pool and starts drinking it up???

[abatalyvaladez]

If I was ever to be a apparatus engineer I would call my unit ‘toro’ bull’ when they press the horn and release the air brake it sounds like an angry bull

[TheCgrules]

Wtf is the fd gonna do with bulldozers?