House Fire on Avenue B

Watch as a heroic Fort Pitt/Ladder 18 FDNY fireman pops up to knock out a smoky window, causing more flames to erupt out of a burning building on Avenue B in Manhattan.

Video credit: Jason Huskie
For hi-res stills of this event please email suzanne.schultz@gmail.com

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Manhattan
• Ladder 18 FDNY
• Fort Pitt

[brendan129]

News flash dipshit, breaking the window is SUPPOSED to bring the fire to the window. It vents the flames, heat and smoke to the outside, so the men operating inside have less , *pay attention here* flames smoke and heat to deal with inside the building.

[GermanInvader]

it's called venting a building ;)

[MegaBigboi9999]

@Kevelaerpolizei ksldlwklsjklkfgklnkld djgnklfbkln ddkfkjfklgkljgkljgjklfkljgkjg SPEAK INGRISH

[resqems911]

firefighting is a brotherhood no use of fighting over systems



[ndprepper]

What good is a ladder if you cannot put water on it?

[azul8811]

@pyro999maniac Yes, the police were not doing their job. Kind of like during the riots in England this past August.

[Kevelaerpolizei]

@Crazyfogfighter Ja, aber wir verbinden die beiden, wenn es sicher ist, es zu tun. Zum Beispiel: Wenn das Innere Feuerwehrleute in ihre Atemgeräte immer beginnen wir die Brandbekämpfung von außen. und wenn sie reingehen wir weiterhin außerhalb zu tun, bis sie das Feuer zu erreichen. dann werden wir aufhören, bis das Innere sagen uns, wieder von vorne anfangen. so kann man kombinieren. Natürlich würden wir es nicht tun, wenn es nicht sicher war. das ist dumm! schön mit dir zu reden! :)

[Crazyfogfighter]

@Kevelaerpolizei Ich weiß ja nicht, ob du wirklich in der Feuerwehr bist, aber wenn, dann sollten eure Führungskräfte mal dringend geschult werden, und zwar vor allem in der FWDV 7. Bei einem Wohnungsbrand wird normalerweise NIE Innen- und Außenangriff kombiniert, zum einen weil ein Außenangriff einen Innenangriff unmöglich macht, zum anderen weil der Wasserschaden im Vergleich zum Nutzen gigantisch ist.

Außenangriff nur bei Flammenüberschlag oder wenn kein Innenangriff möglich ist. Sonst nicht

[Kevelaerpolizei]

@Crazyfogfighter we also use the system Germany that pyro999maniac say. very effective. why all the aggrovation? we are firefighting brothers. we do it differently but none is better because we all get job done. some thing you do we would never do ever. like walk on the roof above big fire without roof ladder.

[pyro999maniac]

@Crazyfogfighter his video shows it in action. the first BA team is going in and firefighting from the inside as a team tackles the fire from outside. /watch?v=SXGK5E_Vrf0

it's extremely effective

[pyro999maniac]

@Crazyfogfighter i am a volly medic and an RDS firefighter. our firefighting system is perfectly safe, and we do use this tactic, or we wouldn't be doing it! the health and safety in the UK reli is picky. they even tried to stop us using the pole in stations because it was "too dangerous". just because we do it differently doesn't mean that that we are bad or worse than you. what happened to firefighting being a worldwide family.

[Crazyfogfighter]

@pyro999maniac Judging by your profile information, you're not a firefighter.

Exterior attack on residential buildings is totally outdated, it has mainly disadvantages.

I can't image you really use this tactic very frequently on apartment fires.

But okay, the UK does have a bad (or at least not as good as ours) firefighting-system in general.

Of course you are real fireman!