CAR FIRE QUESTION?

I've been flipping through utube videos all night, and i am amazed at how many times departments can be seen at a car fire and not using full structural ppe, to include scba. My question is are there really that many departments tha dont require this? Full ppe should be required to be worn at any car fire, do these people just want to die young? everyones thoughts

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Permalink Reply by Bull on June 1, 2009 at 9:34am

I disagree, I think you can learn alot from them. pick up the mistakes and the good, and use them for training purposes.

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Permalink Reply by Michael C. Harrison on June 2, 2009 at 3:31pm

I apologize, I wasn't very clear with my reply.

If what you see in the videos bothers you so much.....then maybe you shouldn't watch them.

As an example, if I watched a video on how to raise children.....and they showed that filling their drink cups with half vodka and half bourbon was a good way to calm then down for a good nights sleep......I would not watch the video(s) anymore.

I hope that explains things a little better

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Permalink Reply by Fire Capt. 1304 on June 2, 2009 at 8:36pm

We require full PPE for car fires. One night we were dispatched to a car fire, We responded in our tanker. The tanker does not have SCBA inside the cab, So as I was pulling my airpack out of the compartment when a retired member walked up to me and said "put the F**ing airpack down and put some water on that fire" I finished putting on my pack and then attacked the fire. While we were cleaning up before going back in service he walked over and said "you could have saved that car if you wouldnt have wasted time with that F**ing airpack" I told him " we didnt lose the car it was fully involved before we got here, but on the bright side atleast I'm not going to get lung cancer" He did'nt like my response and stormed off. He called the chief the next day but the chief told him that I did nothing wrong.

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Permalink Reply by Kyle on June 2, 2009 at 9:21pm

For me in my paid department an volunteer department it is a requirement to wear full ppe. Its crazy not to.

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Permalink Reply by Anthony on June 12, 2009 at 12:28pm

Again I'm new to my volunteer Dept, but in observation I have noticed that the only fires the BaA's were not used were grass fires. On the ship where I work for a living and am on the Fire Party, only the entry teams require BA's, search parties and boundry cooling do not.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Fink on June 12, 2009 at 2:30pm

Great answers from everyone. Now lets all go get a bowl of ice cream, sit in our la-z-boys and take a nap. We'll go out back for a smoke later.

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Permalink Reply by Asst Chief Tim Cook on June 12, 2009 at 9:45pm

A LITTLE? That was pretty obvious sarcasm

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Permalink Reply by Asst Chief Tim Cook on June 12, 2009 at 9:50pm

You can do dumpsters in clean air with NO Scba.Just gun 'em,hehe

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Fink on June 15, 2009 at 5:55pm

Nice answer. Aren't car fires just dumpster fires on wheels? The engine wouldnt have a "gun" if we weren't supposed to use it.

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Permalink Reply by Marc on June 15, 2009 at 7:59pm

We (in Los Angeles CITY) always wear full Sturcture ppe's to all carfires.
We may not wear our SCBAs but, we wear full PPE!!!!

Explorer Marc Hurwitz
Los Angeles CITY Fire Department
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