Wheeling Fire Department: Whippletree Village Mobile Home Fire

http://arlingtoncardinal.com/2010/02/20/house-trailer-destroyed-by-fire-on-ph...

Notice the Fire Engine Air Horn blasts at just after 0:49 ... the signal for all firefighters to evacuate the building. NOW! It's a little hard to hear because I am closer to a second fire engine running that was not sounding its air horn.

At about 5:15 and later Fireground command is communicating with an interior attack crew (can't see them in the video). An exterior line attack crew comes to the back and they are told not hit the fire in the ceiling because there is a crew inside. If the hose is turned on that ceiling fire while the crew is inside those firefighters can be burned by the water that turns to steam as it hits the fire. They can also be hit by falling burning debris from the force of the water pressure. As soon as the interior attack crew exits, the firefighter in the backyard hits the ceiling fire and knocks it down.

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• Wheeling Fire Department
• Arlington Heights
• Buffalo Grove
• Whippletree Village
• firefighter
• evacuation
• defensive mode
• fireground
• trailer fire
• house trailer
• mobile home

[iknowyou93]

ok listen up this was my neighbors house it was not done intentionally it was a damn electrical fire that started in the garage and spread pretty quickly and to the car in the drive way. they did lose everything but they got most if it back through insurance

[chadergeist]

I found the trailer on Bings Maps!

[doofallday]

heard this was set intentionally...

[melevy]

The van at 2:15 appears to be located far from the trailer, how did it burn?

[ollintzin]

It's horrible to lose everything you got.

[markis8441]

oh just let it burn y not

[MrVoltaHead]

UHHH! I live ther i just found about this fire i live like a block away, This is the second house thats got on fire in this village kinda scary but how did this fire star, Thats what i wanna know?

[plowtruckdriver]

it takes seven minuts to completly gut a mobile home by fire. SMOKE DETECTORS SAVE LIVES