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What Do you Think of this video is this how your fast team arrives on a scene ?
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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on
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1 - If the incoming engines can't get any closer, how are you going to get personnel and equipment to the scene?
2 - Looks like the guys pulling the stokes are loaded with tools, were they assigned as RIT?
3 - Pretty narrow between the engine and the parked cars. Short of marching in with bagpipers or arm-in-arm and skipping, how else can you get the guys to come in all together? Probably just me, but I don't see an issue here, I've walked up the road to the scene simply because my engine couldn't go any further. At that point we're a manpower bus with a tool box.
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Permalink Reply by John Crabbe on
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Pretty narrow between the engine and the parked cars. Short of marching in with bagpipers or arm-in-arm and skipping, how else can you get the guys to come in all together? Probably just me, but I don't see an issue here, I've walked up the road to the scene simply because my engine couldn't go any further. At that point we're a manpower bus with a tool box.
Pretty good way of putting it. The clip is so short that such interpretation is left to the viewer and in many cases, the wrong impression can easily be made. We don't know the scenario, we don't know the circumstances, we don't know the operations....all we have is a crew walking with a tool cache in a stokes.
I personally don't see an issue here, nor something that needs to be or should be criticized on the web by people who weren't on the scene and don't know the circumstances involved.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew on
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They are assigned the rit/fast team this is not the first time that these members have done this to me there should be 4 guys carring this and waliking it in to the scene not dragging it like lazy unprofessional "fireman" if you want to play fireman do it to the best of your ability
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Andrew,
As for dragging the stokes, it's up to the officer if it's an issue with him but, dragging it on the street certainly doesn't do the stokes any good. And I will grudgingly admit that it would probably be better to carry the stokes in, reducing the wear and tear and yes, it would look more professional if they were carrying it rather than dragging it.
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Permalink Reply by FETC on
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Well as others have said, it is up to the officer. My concern as an officer is the metal wire basket stokes is not designed to be dragged over the road, therefore it can damage the basket when needed in the future. I certainly wouldn't want to use a damaged basket for a heights or over a ladder/tower that all the welds are ground off. In my company we would be carrying the stokes to the scene, as it is less damaging and looks much more professional. As a training instructor who teaches RIT I have never seen this technique taught before. If we are using webbing to drag our stand by equipment to the scene, we are short staffed and need more help.
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When it comes to the dragging issue, I can agree with the comments made, however, once again such a short clip does leave interpretation to the viewer.
In one way, I could say this was a short distance to clear the front of the engine and the vehicles next to it. With a loaded stokes, one could say that carrying it may damage the personal vehicles on the street, whereas dragging the short distance to the front of the engine reduces the chance of damage. Who is to say the crew didn't pick the stokes up once they cleared the pump?
Just saying, with such short clips and so forth, it is too easy to pass judgement without knowing all circumstances.
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