Totally Involved House Fire

A totally involved house fire around lunch time on April 7, 2009 was handled by Shreveport Firefighters. 1st and 2nd due engine companies were out on other calls. Usual procedure is for 1st engine to start fire attack and 2nd to lay LDH and in this part of town the 500 gals on the pumping engine is enough until the line re-supplies the 1st engine. The 1st engine still had water, but the engineer decided not to take a chance and started laying the LDH because the special called engines were coming from from a long distance. Never the less the fire was extingurished in 9 minutes.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Fire
• totally
• involved
• house
• engine
• ladder
• chief
• rescue

[peakster753]

LDH...what's that?

[zaffdoc]

@peakster753 >>>---> LDH stands for Large Diameter Hose. LDH hoses are used to transport large volumes of water to fight a fire. Some of the LDHs are 5, 6, or 8 inch diameter. In this video they are using LDH with 5 inch diameter.

[Jbealexx13]

I just have one question... How come that guy that's first on the hoseline doesn't have an scba on but the guy behind him does?

[johnnykATL]

Great video Doc and great job by those boys! I don't know how you deal with all these dumbass comments Doc! It's amazing what some of these people write and how fast they are to criticize what they don't know! I didn't have to read all these comments to see why they handjacked the LDH, it's just simply a solid Engineer on top of his game that's working a few steps ahead to expedite a water supply and take care of his boys on the line! Once again, great work and great video!! Take care Sir!!

[turnpiketrucker]

@zaffdoc The volunteer dept I was with called this hose highvol 

[Lieutenant7b]

@arffII I don't usually try too correct anyone, unless I feel the need to defend myself, but I feel the Fire Service Is built on a GREAT TRADITION and deserves its integrity. Its been almost 400 years, since the first Fire Co's in Jamestown Va.

[Lieutenant7b]

@PopppaBlue59 Its the inherent mentality most young Firefighters go through early in their career as they try to focus on Firefighting techniques that don't go along with what they've learned in the Academy or Fire Essentials.They try too disprove others tactics and decisions, there by making themselves feel superior and adequate.Fortunately, experience and maturity soon takes over, and your left with a competent FF with a type A personality..

[zaffdoc]

@sgilman91 >>>---> By being more efficient I suppose your company would have gotten the fire out in less than 9 minutes. Suppose (where your are located) the first two engine companies due on this fire are not available because they were out on other calls. You are carrying 500 gals of water and even with the next engine further away than normal it should arrive in time to lay in the LDH to resupply your water.but it is delayed in traffic - What would your company do to be more efficient.

[sgilman91]

@zaffdoc well theres a lot of things that coulda made it a little more efficent but im not going into this because different companys do different things in different ways so if this is what they do then they did it right but from what we do it looks wrong and dangerous

[NewAgeVideos]

Wow, that thing is really going.. Nice catch..