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Comment by brenda caldwell on August 24, 2008 at 8:38pm

We were tought to never approach directly from the front. There needs to be more trainning on this subject with all the new vech. out these days.

Comment by Paul Henry on August 24, 2008 at 1:39pm

I saw it happen before a couple of times.The first time was at fire school in 1989 when we were doing car fire training and we had two cars facing each other like a 2 car head on accident and the 1 car had shock bumpers and I just got done throwing some more waste oil on the car and turned around to run and the bumper let loose and it pushed the 1 car and the bumber still had enough force to still come around and embed it self into the side of the vehicle and just missed me and the students got a first hand look at what a shock bumper can do first hand.The other was at a car fire when we pulled in and it let loose when we were streching the attack line.I'll have to show this video to some of the members because we have a bunch that don't listen and stand right in front of the bumpers and maybe this will show them why not to

Comment by Gary L. Zeno on August 23, 2008 at 7:48pm

Unfortunately, that was a mistake that even a rookie shouldn't make.

Comment by David M Ross on August 23, 2008 at 7:15pm

Been in the same predicament. A Cadillac is the worst in my book. Snap your leg like a pencil. We always attack auto fires at a 45 degree angle, and never stand directly in front of, or behind a vehicle. Good video.

Comment by Randy on August 23, 2008 at 2:41pm

I have seen a bumper launch we are all taught not to approach from the front but once you see one go you never will!!!

Comment by mark on August 22, 2008 at 11:17am

this is for sure going into the FF1 FF2 class Video

Comment by Katie Moon on August 22, 2008 at 10:30am

Good to be aware.

Comment by Frederick Pettengill Jr. on August 22, 2008 at 10:17am

This Happened at a car fire our Dept Responded to over 30 years ago when not many people even knew what a gas filled bumper Mount was! No one was injured but from then on we were Very carefull how we approached a car from the front OR Rear !!

Comment by Todd Fetcho on August 22, 2008 at 8:11am

We have always been taught to come at the critical areas of a car where there a pneumatic or hydraulic shock type systems to approach at a 45 degree angle and to stay out of the direct firing line of those systems. That could have been a lot worse.

Comment by lutan1 on August 22, 2008 at 7:23am

PC can't type! Should've said, "I wonder how old it is?"

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