Country Club Road near Sandhill Structure Fire 4/22/09

4/22/09- At 19:42, Company 15 (West Milford VFD), Engine 71 (Nutter Fort VFD), and Engine 51 (Mt. Clare VFD) were alerted for a Structure Fire on Country Club Road near Sandhill in Clarksburg. Engine 71 (w/6-AC Richards) and Chief 7 (Rohrbough) hit the street seconds later with Tanker 7 (w/2-FF Gross) not far behind. Chief 7 arrived on scene shortly after advising HC911 of an 2-stall auto body garage fully involved with possible exposures to vehicles and a nearby residence. Engine 71s crew arrived on scene and crews stretched an 1 ¾ cross lay and began fire attack. Crews began making their way into the garage while other Co. 7 firefighters stretched a 2nd 1 ¾ cross lay while incoming units were ordered to supply E71 with water and to stretch our 1 ½ trash line to assist in fire suppression. Crews made fast work of the fire knocking most of it down within 25 minutes. After performing salvage and overhaul all units went ready by 22:30. EXCELLENT JOB BY ALL COMPANIES!

Dashcam footage courtesy of Engine 71

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[SpprtAssoc]

Big fire means big water. But it looked like a limited crew, gotta work with ya got. Pretty good hit with only two small lines. Good job guys! Stay safe!

[resqjason2]

take that fog nozzle and throw it in the dumpster next to the building. put a good smoothbore or a vindicator on there and redline the shit out of that 1 3/4. sit on it in the front yard for a couple minutes and knock that mother F-er down. then dial it back to a normal PSI and mop up whats left. that fog nozzle is just piss in the wind

[FFEMTCrowe]

not when them flames are fully envolved you need to surround and drown use that fog nozzle along with a master stream of another truck u use a vindicator you gonna suck all the water out in 20 sec

[2007muggs]

Limited manpower, limited water supply I'm sure......damn nice job. I do agree with bugguy905 that first line should have been directed toward the truck and cars but hell, it's easy for me to say because I wasn't there. I, too, used blitz attacks on almost every working fire. But I had the equipment to do it with. Prepiped deck guns are great. Stay safe gang.

[Shaindl]

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[ffjsb]

@originalcripler No it's not. On that fire 1 firefighter could've laid out the 2 1/2, looped it at the end with the end going under itself and the firefighter could sit there all day and throw water. That's a basic firefighting techinique. Or put a BlitzFire appliance on the end.

[MIKCURIE]

Nice job with limited immediete resources



[originalcripler]

Everybody saying 2-1/2 inch but it sometimes depends on man power and rural areas it's harder.

[Fire28Medic]

Nice work guys, that looks like a good burn.. I'm jealous

[ffjsb]

@jkalscheur GPM's put out the fire. That's the point, you have to put enough water on the fire to overcome the BTU's. 1,000 gallons of water now will put a large dent in the fire. It may not put it out completely, but it will do a lot to control it.