Fire Critic An Unadulterated View of the Fire Service
Videos by HPZ1442. Highland Park, Michigan Firefighter Scott Ziegler offers these two helmet camera videos. The first being a garage fire off of Portage Street in Highland Park. The second video is a fire on Pilgrim St. that they responded to directly from the Portage Street fire. We responded to this garage fire off of Portage street. Fire was extinguished without incident. The house was set on fire the next night. Video shot with a firecam1080 from firevideo.net
Portage Street Fire
Pilgrim Street Fire (more on the fire below the video)
This video is sure to ruffle some feathers. We are not wearing out SCBAs. Over night our crew responded to a fire in a vacant dwelling on Portage street. They burned through almost all of our air bottles while fighting this fire. During this fire, they are called to THIS fire on Pilgrim st. They arrived to find a well involved dwelling. Using the 4 bottles they had left, they mad an interior attack extinguishing fire in the basement, 1st, and 2nd floors falling short of the attic when they ran out of air. At this point they took a defensive attack, protected the exposures and when the roof was burned off went back in to clean it up. I was called into my shift early that day along with the rest of my unit. We arrived and went to work overhauling the house. Air bottles were picked up by our arson van in the AM and were being filled.
Before you preach, and leave your keyboard chief comments (which I know you still will), remember that this isnt our first fire. Some FDs are not as well equipped as the next.
Video was shot with a firecam 1080 from firevideo.net
Photo at the end is compliments ofhttps://www.facebook.com/313FirePhoto…
