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Comment by 55 TRUCK on September 3, 2010 at 10:22pm

Here's a news Flash..Leonard is Right 100%.

Comment by 55 TRUCK on September 3, 2010 at 10:18pm

I'd like to know why this guy bailed out in the first place? The smoke was whispy and it was white.. Also why is water being thrown from the outside when you have interior operations going on. 1 it doesn't help the guys on the inside & 2. Any victims who may have been alive, you just steamed to death.

Comment by Kathy Williams on February 26, 2010 at 10:39pm

I'm sure no one meant their comments to apply personally to any other person replying on this video. I'm sure no one intended that anything they wrote might be taken as any type of negative comment against any one else replying regarding this video. I think we're all brothers and sisters and the video was posted as firstly a record of a fire and secondly as a record of things that could have been done better. I'm sure no one intended for any one else's "feathers" to be ruffled.

Comment by lutan1 on February 26, 2010 at 9:41pm

Take a chill pill Leonard.... ;-)

Comment by Leonard Friedlander on February 26, 2010 at 5:43am

TO LUTAN1 IN RESPONSE TO YOUR COMMENT ABOUT MY OPINION ON VIDEO TAKEN OF SINGLE DWELLING FIRE WHERE FIREFIGHTER FALLS DOWN LADDER HEAD FIRST . IT IS NOT ABOUT BEING MACHO . I COULDN'T CARELESS ABOUT SUCH NONSENSE AS MACHO. IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT FIGHTING FIRES IN A SAFE MANNER DICTATED BY CONDITIONS OF THE FIRE , AND ALWAYS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY IS SAVING LIVES OF VICTIMS , AND SAVING LIVES OF FIREFIGHTING PERSONNEL IN AN INTELLIGENT MANNER , AND SECOND SAVING PROPERTY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE . IF FIREFIGHTING IS CONDUCTED IN AN INTELLIGENT WELL EDUCATED , WELL TRAINED MANNER , LIVES AND PROPERTY CAN USUALLY BE SAVED WITH ENORMOUS SUCCESS. THE INTERRIOR ATTACK WHILE NOT USED BY SOME FIRE DEPARTMENTS WITH MUCH FREQUENCY IS CONSIDERED A VERY GREAT MISTAKE BY SOME HIGHLY EXPERIENCED FIRE DEPARTMENTS WHEN FIRE IS NOT THAT SERIOUS . IF AN INTERRIOR ATTACK IS NOT USED DURING A NOT SO SERIOUS FIRE, THE FIRE WILL ONLY RAPIDLY SPREAD THREATENING LIFE AND PROPERTY AS APPARENTLY WITNESSED IN THE VIDEO THAT IS UP FOR DISCUSSION. IF AN INTERRIOR ATTACK IS USED PROPERLY BY THOSE TRAINED TO DO SO EVEN A SERIOUS FIRE CAN BE REDUCED AS IT IS PUT DOWN AND THE COMPANY ADVANCES SAVING LIFE AND PROPERTY . THE FIREFIGHTERS AND FIRE OFFICERS MUST DURING SUCH INTERRIOR ATTACKS CONSTANTLY BE AWARE OF POSSIBLE RISK TO LIFE OF CIVILIANS AS WELL AS FIRE PERSONNEL AND ACT ACCORDINGLY . I WAS NOT PRESENT IN REAL LIFE AT THIS FIRE . I ONLY WITNESSED AS OTHERS ON THIS SIGHT DID A VIDEO OF THE FIRE, AND CAN ONLY PASS AN OPINION ON THIS FIRE AS HONESTLY AS POSSIBLE AS REQUESTED BASED ON THAT VIDEO. MY NUMBER ONE CONCERN IS TO ALWAYS SAVE LIVES AS IT SHOULD BE FOR ALL FIREFIGHTING PERSONNEL . MY OPINION WAS MEANT NOT TO CREATE DEFENSIVE REACTION , BUT RATHER CONSTRUCTIVE ADVICE BASED ON MY MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN BOTH NON SERIOUS FIRES , AND VERY SERIOUS FIRES WHERE HUMAN LIFE AND VERY VALUABLE PROPERTY WAS AN ISSUE. IN MOST OF THESE FIRES WE DID AN INTERRIOR ATTACK , AND HAD WE NOT DONE AN INTERRIOR ATTACK THE FIRE WOULD HAVE GONE OUT OF CONTROL RAPIDLY AS WITNESSED APPARENTLY IN THIS VIDEO FURTHER RISKING BOTH LIFE AND PROPERTY. I AM ALMOST SIXTY YEARS OF AGE NOW AND RETIRED ON A DISABILITY FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SINCE I AM FIFTY ONE YEARS OF AGE . I WAS FIGHTING FIRES WELL PAST MY 50TH BIRTHDAY AND KEEPING UP WITH MEN 1/2 MY AGE . I WAS DECORATED 4 TIMES FOR SAVING LIFE AND PROPERTY, AND WAS ALMOST KILLED ATLEAST 5 TIMES . THE SKILL OF MYSELF AND MY FELLOW FIREFIGHTERS WHO ARE SOME OF THE MOST HIGHLY TRAINED AND MOST HIGHLY SKILLED AND EXPERIENCED FIRE FIGHTERS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD , AND TRAINED BY ONE OF THE MOST SKILLED AND EXPERIENCED FIRE DEPARTMENTS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD IS WHAT I BASED MY OPINION ON AND NOT THAT OF CHILD LIKE NONSENSE OF MACHO......... IN MY OPINION THERE WERE A NUMBER OF THINGS APPARENTLY GOING ON AT THAT FIRE THAT WERE WRONG BASED ON THE VIDEO SINCE I WAS NOT ACTUALLY THERE . I CAN NOT CHANGE MY HONEST OPINION BASED ON THAT VIDEO . MY INTEREST IS IN TRAINING , AND SAVING LIVES THROUGH INTELLIGENT INFORMED AND EXPERIENCED ADVICE. YOUR DEFENSIVE ATTEMPTS AT INSULTING ME WITH NONSENSE OF MACHO ONLY DISPLAY IGNORANCE AND IMMATURITY .

Comment by Guido Knieling on February 18, 2010 at 8:06am

I am still pretty new at this. So all I can say. That looks pretty intense, especially seeing it in a real fire situation, since we just covered the head-first ladder exit during the last search and rescue training session.

Comment by lutan1 on February 18, 2010 at 5:33am

Leonard Friedlander says, " ALL OF THE FIREFIGHTING PROCEDURES WERE AN OUTSIDE OPERATION WHICH WILL NEVER SAVE THE HOUSE IN AN EFFICIENT EFFECTIVE WAY . THESE OUTSIDE OPERATIONS ARE USUALLY USELESS AND ONLY USED IN NEW YORK CITY UNDER THE MOST SEVERE AND DANGEROUS OF CONDITIONS, AND THIS WAS CERTAINLY NOT THE MOST SEVERE , OR DANGEROUS OF CONDITIONS . GET YOUR MASKS ON AND GET INTO THE STRUCTURE AND PUT THE WATER ON THE FIRE ."
You're kidding me right Leonard? The tactics MUST be dictated by the conditions and with the #1 priority to protect mine and my crew's life first. It's not a macho thing not to go interior on every fire....

Comment by richard wolfersteig on February 17, 2010 at 10:28pm

hopefully hes ok people dont understand the chases we take for everyone

Comment by richard wolfersteig on February 17, 2010 at 10:26pm

was he out of air i didnt catch that

Comment by Jim C on February 17, 2010 at 9:38pm

It appears as though there was no continuity of command by the way the operations and communications were proceeding. While we do not want to "monday morning quarterback" this effort, it at least appeared as though the left hand did not know what the right hand was doing.

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