| Author | Message | ||
| Chuck Newman (Chuck_newman)
Registered Member Username: Chuck_newman Post Number: 259 Registered: 1-2005 Posted From: 76.220.195.63 Rating: N/A |
I helped fight a neighbors fire a couple weeks ago. Today while visiting a full timer site, I came across this video of an engine fire. Their are several videos on the wed of RV fires, but most are short and jerky video. The one in the link below has pretty good camera stability and few edits. It graphically shows how fast a fire, from any source, can destroy a coach, long before the fire trucks get there. It's a disturbing video to watch. And much more so when you're up close and trying to do somthing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHvsn7LWSt0 | ||
| Chuck Newman (Chuck_newman)
Registered Member Username: Chuck_newman Post Number: 260 Registered: 1-2005 Posted From: 76.220.195.63 Rating: N/A |
Forgot to mention, turn off the sound. Someone dubbed rock music to this video which, I feel, isn't appropriate for the material, and is distracting. | ||
| joe padberg (Joemc7ab)
Registered Member Username: Joemc7ab Post Number: 243 Registered: 6-2004 Posted From: 66.38.159.33 Rating: N/A |
Very disturbing But what is more disturbing is the traffic continuing on without even slowing down. Have people become that callous? | ||
| Douglas Wotring (Tekebird)
Registered Member Username: Tekebird Post Number: 324 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 71.59.75.212 Rating: N/A |
nothing wrong with driving past...better than rubbernecking and possibly causing additional accidents. what is disturbing is the people who stopped to watch and video...... and the Lil type 6 Brush rig that was the first Fire on scene | ||
| Jack Conrad (Jackconrad)
Registered Member Username: Jackconrad Post Number: 751 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 68.26.28.70  Rating: N/A |
Doug, I agree they should not stop, but they should slow down to insure the safety of those on scene. I have had people fly past us on Interstate accidents at 70-80 MPH and no further than 10-15 feet from us in heavy fog conditions. It seems everyone is always in a hurry. Don't have any facts, but the the brush truck was probably the closest fire apparatus and others were probably on the way (at least that is how our department operated). Jack (Message edited by JackConrad on April 28, 2008) (Message edited by JackConrad on April 28, 2008) | ||
| Austin Scott Davis (Zimtok)
Registered Member Username: Zimtok Post Number: 249 Registered: 9-2006 Posted From: 216.37.73.226 Rating: N/A |
If police/firefighters have already arrived you should just continue on about your buisness. If you are one of the first to come upon the scene I believe it is a personal choice to stop or pass by an accident/incedent along the highway. If you can help someway then I see no problem in stopping, if you are just going to be a gauker then just get on your way. As for taking video, well you have to ask yourself - what are my intensions of taking the video. | ||
| Jim Shepherd (Rv_safetyman)
Registered Member Username: Rv_safetyman Post Number: 263 Registered: 1-2004 Posted From: 67.142.130.12 Rating: N/A |
For obvious reasons, I collect photos of RV fires. I have not seen anything as graphic as this video. I will probably find a way to show it in the booth and maybe in my seminar. Might even show it on the website. Even though the video has been placed in "fast forward" in a couple of places, it still shows how quickly a fire can engulf an RV. Thanks for the link Chuck | ||
| JR Lynch (Njt5047)
Registered Member Username: Njt5047 Post Number: 238 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 69.132.233.230 Rating: N/A |
The brush truck was probably first on the scene because other apparatus required a contingent of 4 firefighters (of which one must be an engineer) before it rolls. What good is an engine at a scene with only an engineer...or even and engineer and FF? A paid department would have handled it as a working structure fire....or the dispatcher screwed up? S&S RVs are like manufactured homes (more like manufactured kindling)...any fire will likely destroy them. I watched a gasoline powered Class A burn at Bass Mtn, NC. Might as well hold a video camera, because nothing available was going to stop the fire. It was totally consumed in just a couple of minutes. By the time the Bass Mtn VFD arrived on the scene, all they had to suppress was a "working" grass fire. No slight intended to the BMVFD..they had a reasonable response time and plenty of equipment. The whole scene was pretty sad. The owners were on their first trip. They had just bought the MH. Luckily no one was injured, but nothing was salvaged from the RV. The best insurance against RV fires is a professionally installed onboard fire suppression gizmo...like Jim S offers. JR | ||
| Frank Allen (Frank66)
Registered Member Username: Frank66 Post Number: 74 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 205.188.117.73 Rating: N/A |
i had a generator fire 3000 miles from home, a truck driver stopped and helped, had he not done it i would have lost the whole rig, it was a deisel gen set, onan Frank allen 4106 |