Fire Engine: Rural Water Supply Response and Operations

Elizabethville, Pennsylvania Fire department responds with Engine 21 to act as a water supply engine for a structure fire.

[MikeHermo]

Having an intake connection on the front bumper is amazing. The ability to draft that way looks like it makes positioning so much simpler when necessary.

[brettamelia]

5:10 Why isnt anyone talking about the guy trying to outrun the fire truck?

[capitolabill]

11 Years VFD, Pump Operator Trainer, Driver Trainer, Head of Maintenance. Driver put it in Pump, but did not put it in Drive.

[a.c.]

Funny this is one of the first vids in my feed today, just practiced porta-tank deployment and jet syphoning last night.

[kennyt]

Typical rural water supply operation. Engine unable to prime for an extended period of time; the 2nd tanker almost backs over ppl trying to get into position; dumping water onto the street out the wrong Shute (and goes unnoticed for 100 gallons), but, it’s a pretty normal operation in real-world rural water supply ops. Lack of quality training is the only issue here. It’s hard to stay current in a rural volunteer setting. It’s like “50 first dates” on many of these calls. Like crews have never seen the stuff before, but it’s the system that’s at fault typically, not necessarily the individual players. It was a defensive fire thankfully. These mistakes are much more tolerable in a defensive posture. When crews are working inside, these mistakes are costly. I wish I could help these folks get better. They just need a little help.

[Wruff]

Im suprised that Tanker 21 even made it to the fire!

[LargeFarva]

who is letting grandpa run the tender pump

[abipey]

I must say. I've been at firefighter paramedic since 98 in a large city. Where there were 50 stations. Not much rural area.. we've never had a call from mutual aid. I've only seen tanker ops twice. One in the Australia woods fires. The other was in Indonesia during USAR ops. Neither was as well rehearsed as this.

[ruralmaineresponders]

Water supply still needs to have their basic PPE on and the white t-shirt dude needs to remain calm and not push people out of the way.

[fhp]

I laughed so hard at the part where tanker 21 started almost running people over and then the guys couldn’t get the water to work and started dumping water in the street. Most hihfty shit i ever seen 😂

[azschalter]

What's gramps doing there and where is his gear? At the dry cleaner?

[KenMeyer-zk]

Seems like that one red tanker had a little bit of problem maneuvering into the porta pond and then they ran out of water cause the same

[larrylasich]

If you have a Jet Syphon on your Low Flow, please use it.

[macofire]

the more smoke you see...step harder on siren...it seems to help ?

[DeputyChief]

This is poor at best, there is no reason to block the side road. Truck 20 was blocked out, even though they really did not appear to try and get in. And a front suction should not be used as a primary intake when drafting a the longer pipe and the bending in that pipe reduce overall flow

[gregggoss]

The old folks are still useful. That's the problem with the younger folks, always quick to dispose of the older things.

[watchthe]

Guy in the plaid is diminished function. Make him the safety observer, he ran the dump tank dry and had engine 20 calling for water. SAFTEY HAZARD. He was wandering aimlessly and when he did jump in he delayed everything.

[Skiddols]

My sump pump is quicker than that truck. What are they using WW1 tech.