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What's the coolest "thing" you have saved on a structure fire? Can you ID the example photo vehicles & motorcycles?
Saving lives is the mantra we always follow. But what about things? Think back to all the structure fires you have been on or have heard about. During overhaul and salvage phases of the fire we all remove things to prevent damage or to minimize what already has been affected. This is not the phase of property salvage that I am referring too. What I am talking about focuses on things that you removed from a structure, while the structure was burning, to prevent things from burning or being damaged from radiant heat, falling debris, etc.
Here's an example... Late night single story family dwelling structure fire with the fire contained to the garage. You arrive on scene, flames are blowing out the back door of the garage, lots of smoke, and the property owner tells you what's in the garage.. and asks, can you save them? And the answer was... yes, of course! Here's what we found... anyone else ever find surprises like this behind door number one?
CBz
Question: Can anyone successfully identify the vehicles and motorcycles in this photo?
Hint: Ka-Ching!
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Permalink Reply by Doug on
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I believe it was three years ago, maybe 4, dead of Winter, we pulled up to a 2 story sfd, fire was in the kitchen and extending into the dining room. Flames had already broken through the windows onto the back porch, which was level with the ground, where the homeowner parked his beautiful Harley Davidson Softail. We had a good, full, 6 man crew that day, someone was on the plug, two guys were already pulling the attack line. So, myself and another guy put up the kick stand, just as flames were starting to impinge upon it, and walked it out from underneath the awning out into the yard. Then we noticed the 3 full plastic gas cans sitting up on a pick-nick table on that porch, right next to the window, flames licking all around them. So we ran back and started chucking those out into the yard. How that plastic never melted, and everything bursting into flames, really engulfing that place, I'll never know. That was one of the easiest jobs, the two that pulled the initial line did a number on that fire. The guy that was with me, and I, just ended up doing a little overhaul after that :)
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Permalink Reply by Norm Tindell on
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Can't beat that, but will take shot at the cars: foreground = Cobra; on right: Shelby GT. The guy has some toys!
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Permalink Reply by Dustin J. Millis on
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We responded mutual aid to a fire in a nicer subdivision a few miles out of our district. The house was something like 20,000 sq. feet. We ended up saving approx. 5 million dollars worth of art off the walls. The owner of the house was also the owner of a gas-station chain out in my area, Family Express. After saving all the art, he opened up one of his stores (this was at 4 am) and told us, take what you want lol.
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Permalink Reply by larry jenkins on
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This wasn't during a fire but during Hurricane Katrina. Our county sent 4 engines to Mississippi to handle their fire calls while they tried to regroup. We were there over 4 months. We were driving by a totally destroyed area by the Gulf of mexico. As we drove by a lot there was a woman crying standing in her yard that was completly destroyed. I stopped and asked if there was anything we could do. She explained that her home was totally blown away, her cars destroyed, and all she wanted was her bicycle. She explained that she and her best friend went riding each day and all she wanted to do was ride that bike, right now. The bike was no where to be found but we started walking through all the debis. About a 1/2 hour later we found it under a hugh tree several hundred yards from her home. We took our chain saws and cut the tree. We pulled the bike out, it was not damaged. She gave us all a hug, gave me an American flag that was flying in her front yard (we hung it on the rear of the engine). She got on her bike and rode off.
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Permalink Reply by CAPNCRNCH on
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The second signature in the cobra looks to be Linda Vaughn, the original Hurst girl.
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Permalink Reply by Firefighter Walther on
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cant be to sure about the silver car, the red one is a 1963? Ford Mustang GT 350, which on the way to Fire training yesterday, i saw one of these!!! and not to sure of the model of bikes, one looks like a honda, and the other one says Ducati.
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Awesome! That's a memory of a lifetime!
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Ralph & Norm,
I been doing this since 1968 and the weeks I spent down in Mississippi were the best of my career. We worked 24 on 24 off. Our days off were spend combing the area helping citizens with what ever they needed. We put roofs on houses, stripped mold covered drywall from homes, it was so humbling to help these people. We stopped one day where a man was standing in his yard trying to dig a hole. I asked him what he was doing and he was trying to bury his dog. He explained that the dog's name was ugly and it fit. The dog went everywhere with him. The dog surived Katrina but when Hurricane Rita came thru the dog drowned. He said the dog was was his best friend. I took the guy to the other side of his house while my guys dug a large hole and found a box big enough to bury the dog. This guy lost everything and it was the least we could do.
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Permalink Reply by Fireyladd - Retired Chief Sharp on
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A few years ago we were dispatched to a structure fire at a house 8 miles outside of our area. This residence had no fire protection. We responded to see what we could do to help them. Upon arrival I found a U shaped house with fire burning in the left portion of the house. Because of the location an distance to a water supply (5 miles) I decided that we would go into the un-burnt side of the house and stop the fire at that point allowing the burning portion to free burn. There were two other houses (both owned by the same owner of the house on fire) that would have been threatened had we not put the fire out. So with the water we had on our units and two water tenders we knocked the fire down at the un-burnt point and kept it from moving forward. Also the portion of the house that we saved had very expensive antiques in it. Anyhow, when the fire was out we were in the saved portion doing salvage and over-haul and I knoticed this black fluffy ball on the floor that was wet and covered in ash. The owner was picking stuff up that was damaged and tossing it out in the yard. I saw him pick up that ball and toss it out in the yard. My wife was there as some of our wives had come to the scene to provide refreshments and assist with re-hab. My wife saw the small object tossed out in the yard and picked it up. Later when we were about to leave she asked me to come over and look at something with her. She showed me the fluffy black ball and asked if we could keep it. When you looked at it closely it was obvious that it was a "Curious George" monkey stuffed toy. I told her it was ok since they threw it out. She took it home and washed it several times. It turned out looking just like new. We contacted the owner and asked it they wanted it back and they said no they wanted us to have it. It had been a keepsake of thiers but they wanted us to keep it. That Monkey remained on our bed after that as a memory of the job we did that night to save their prized possions an subsequently the other two houses. I was proud of our people for the job they did that night with minimal water. Iteresting! years later that house burned down because of a fast running wildland fire that took it out. They now have fire protection from us as they have a 10 thousand gallon water tank siting on a hill above the new house and the house is fully sprinkled. The owner put in a 4" line from the tank down to the driveway with a standpipe with a 2- 2 1/2 conections on it. I will always remember that fire because of "Curious George"
By the way, that fire started in the garage. Squirrels had been steeling wood pellets and had made them into a nest under the upright freezer. They had packed the chewed up wood pellets around the compressor unit under the freezer. The wood material didnt allow the compressor to run cool and soon it overheated to cause the fire. I will always remember Curious George.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on
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I can't take credit for this save. We were on scene after the initial attack engine knocked the fire down. This was an awesome save.
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Would have never known that without your response. Thanks for the post. CBz
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Would have never known that without your response. Thanks for the post. CBz
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