Garage fire in Williamsburg

[BlazingPuppies]

lol the 911 dispatch is telling her to spell her name out? shouldn't they be dispatching the fire department?

[upstatefire]

Thanks for posting this video. I would like to point out, to everyone that made comments about this particular volunteer agency, that 71% of all firefighters in the US are volunteer (according to the NFPA statistics from 2009). This means that you have a high likelihood of living in a district where volunteers are used (even if they supplement career personnel).

[trophybird]

@upstatefire Volunteers like to point this fact out, but I would like to point out the fact that 80% of the runs made are by career departments.

[joek0617]

@trophybird bullshit, voluteer and paid-on-call depts make up at least 80% of depts in the US

[29649ron]

Why did the idiot filming this not move the torch, then there would be no fire to film.

[callofdutyb]

@29649ron probably because they didn't know that it was the cause of the fire

[slats44215]

This area is covered by an all volunteer fire dept. All of the guys that you see had to go from their home to the station and then respond to the scene. We save a lot more then we lose.

[XnoubX]

took long enough for the first due truck to get there lmao

[nate482]

Glad i dont live there cuz i like my stuff safe not bruning to the ground... why even have a fire dept they didnt save much

[pyroman6000]

@nate482 Don't light your stuff on fire if you don't want it to burn.

[buncombenotifier]

lol 3:27 Finley a fire truck .... gezzzz say fire around at most departments they reach a point where there sending units back to the station here your hoping enough show up

[firewacker432]

at 1:58 i hear the fire depts house siren

[Ciccothe]

@firewacker432 you hear the tornado siren test at 1:58

[darksyde3278]

i remember this it was just up the road from where i live thought all of trailer town was on fire lol

[doom112112]

Nice video!!

[fireford13]

wow, as a firefighter i can name so many things wrong with this. Anything from the time it took to dispatch the call to layin in a supply line and still only useing a 1" 3/4 attack line instead of a 2" 1/2 common sence more fire more water

[dug2fire]

@fireford13 It's obviously in a rural area so useing a 2.5 would run through all there water and it was already gone so why work harder than you have to and common sence comes with age.

[Dthorn912]

@fireford13 exactly tell that to the guys around my FD they dont get it. we had a fully envolved garage fire with flames shooting out of the roof and they attacked it with 2 1" 3/4 lines from 2 different sides idk how we saved the structure from colapsing.

[jjinvirginia2008]

Honestly, it took WAY TOO long for the response !! Not sure if this is an all volunteer area or not, but heard the "volunteer" fire siren wailing quite a while after the kid made the call. And the goal of any fire department is to save property..... Not in this case, the garage burned to the ground !!!!

[Stealthguy06]

I've called 911 for a fire before, i had my scanner on in the car, and as i was still talking to the dispatcher it was already dispatched within 30 seconds or so. took 2 minutes for the engine to go 10-97. So we were looking at only 3 minutes from call to when water went on it

[nate482]

@Stealthguy06 Actually you can tell that they cut several minutes out cuz at one point they are in the yard another across the street in that red truck, then the truck parked in a drive way so id say at least 10 min. was cut out of this vid cuz that is also on the ground when they get there and things dont burn that fast

[Ridoli]

Seriously...the kid is on the phone with 911 at the begining of the video...1:55 and fire whistle is blowing. 2 minutes to dispatch a working fire is WAY TOO LONG

[PepsiPope]

Damn I thought that was going to go everywhere good thing they got there before it spread all over the place

[mikeUSMC0311]

kudos to the kids staying calm on the phone with the dispatcher... im a good ol jolly volly back home and ive called in a few wrecks and a structure fire maybe its just bc im a firefighter but i know i get a little worked up when im on the phone with them

[GreenBlaze75]

Hmm. This video was filmed from a very interesting perspective. I love how you're calling 911 at the beginning.

Good job. Try filming another one like this(J/K, unless your lucky)

[squrt29batt12]

at 4:32, Chief thinks he's a firebreather walking around the structure without scba

[SpacemanFan1988]

If that were me I would have done something stupid like grab a garden hose and try to put it out

[SkeptixLogik]

So join a Dept. :D

[protectoroffaith]

@SpacemanFan1988 that actually would of helped a bit

[bailball64]

The owner of the garage was burning weeds and didn't turn off the the flame to his torch, set it up against the door, and that's how it started

[mathiastheok]

@bailball64 You need to watch this guy (the one with the torch) he could be a Darwin award candidate.

[imcalled123]

all that in less than 4 minutes :O

[1tate88]

Fire doubles in size every 17 seconds.

[ken145]

Didn't figure Any reason how it started?