Valentine's Day House Fire In Hobart Indiana

FD crews were dispatched to a report of heavy smoke in the rear of an occupied house, before FD members arrived on scene the residents had escaped. On arrival Engine 3 advised of heavy smoke showing and fire soon engulfed the whole first floor. In a short amount of time the fire had extended to the 2nd floor and through the roof. An offensive attack was made and multiple lines were used to bring the fire under control. Nobody was injured at the scene.

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[FIRESTORM171]

No one should criticize any other department unless you know all the facts. What are the constraints placed on them by city management, does the fire administration have no clue is the town poor. Know this info and maybe you can comment. These guys to the best they can with what is givn to them. as for volunteer no paid guy wants to share job with somoone whod does not get paid whay would you. not that volunteers are bad just against paid guys and unions of any kind

[mabas21]

Well said, and didn't even think of paid vs volly argument. Like a scab on a union job site....

[kmccorkle34]

people really need to stop talk stuff about the fire dept. if you think you can do better go get a job then.

[mabas21]

But it is so much easier to form an opinion from ten minutes of video and chances are the armchair QB's have no clue about Hobart's under staffing or the fact that the city at 26 square miles only has I think 3 engines and a tanker for suppression running at all times.

[kmccorkle34]

is this toward me?? since i think i have a pretty good understanding of Hobart since i am From it. you must not know what you are talking about.

[mabas21]

No, it is in response to all the people who are not from here and want to shoot their mouths off about how the scene should have been run. The people who base an opinion on an entire department from one 10 minute video. I find that incredibly annoying!

[HHFDFirefighter06]

(Happy valintine's day honey, but i have to tell you are house caught fire) that suck!D:

[trophybird]

It has been my experience that most of these armchair QB's are textbook firefighter's and think that everything is done by the book they do not know what real firefighting is all about. We have some guy's like this at our department and they are not worth a shit out there on the scene.

[vandstra]

Why is everyone on YouTube an expert?

[bfatt140]

thats on my street too!!!



[nyay011]

hay that is on my street

[joemac356]

You post a vid on the tube, you take your chances. You're wide open to criticism.

Windows are our friends. Why were they breaking them?

They lend vertical support. They keep needed oxygen from the hungry fire.

You break them to let out the hot, or to allow the ingress of suppressant, usual water. You should knock them out to feed the flames.

This house could have been saved with five guys and two engines.

[firedrex]

I love the video. Does Hobart have a Ladder or access to one via mutual aid or auto aid?

[StLFF34]

I spent 12 years at the HFD before moving on. Ive shared blood, seat, and tears with all those guys. 2 man fire companies, crappy spare rigs, old SCBA, at times the bat. chief had to ride the seat of the quint at station 1..sometimes the chief even had to make the hydrant!

There are some damn good FFs on that job. They only have so much to work with, and do the best job they can.

[ffemtsm3mi]

wyleek09 Your right it did look like it could have flashover. They were right not to put firefighters in this house. It looks to me like the fire had a good headstart before they got there. The only thing I seen wrong was the white hat and the red hat at the front door without scba on. If the fire would have flashed at this point they would have gotten burned. GOOD JOB HOBART FIRE DEPT.

[bunnyluv13]

How rude of you to say that, you shouldn't be so rude.