Honeysuckle Ln House Fire 12/1/09

Around 3:30 hrs on December 1, 2009 Battlefield Fire was dispatched for a reported house fire on Honeysuckle Ln, which is located right behind station 1. Greene county fire stated that neighbors were saying the roof was on fire. Brookline was also dispatched as automatic aid. Battlfield Engine 11 arrived onscene within a minute, established command, stated that they had a working fire with 60% involvement of the roof, and stated they were beganing fire attack. Battlefield Battlation 2 arrived onscene took over command and requested Nixa fire which brought an Engine and a Battalion. Battlefiled Engine 41 was 2nd and did a reverse lay and caught a hydrant. Battlefield Engine 31 was 3rd due. Firefighters onscene encountered water and hydrant problems which delayed fire attack. Due to this problem Battlefield Chief 1 requested tankers from Logan Rogersville and Republic. The problem was eventually fixed and LR and Republic were later both cancelled. Fire attack started off in the deffensive mode and did not switch over to offensive attack mode for quiet sometime. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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• Battlefield
• Logan
• Rogersville
• LR
• Republic
• Springfield
• MO
• Missouri
• House
• structure
• fire
• fully
• envolved
• truck
• firefighter

[harleyman65714]

@tubesteakdynamo shut up

[tubesteakdynamo]

Someone should also let the Men at the door know that, believe it or not, it is in fact possible to advance into the structure and put the fire out. I don't understand why smalltown firemen LOVE the straight line attack. We have fog and semi fog for a reason. Maybe modern firefighting technique just hasn't reached this dept. yet.

[tubesteakdynamo]

Why is it taking so long to get water on the fire? Why would you need tankers in a Residential area? I'm not seeing why so much house is lost when 2 inside lines and a deck gun for the roof would have knocked most of the out in two minutes. The description just says water issues. It's a residential area even in small towns Hydrants are required , so what' was the problem? Why did these men let so much house be lost?