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I agree, definitely not perfect but pretty damn good. Especially for a volley dept that dosnt have the funding, time, or call volume to practice this every other day like OKC

@@MillerStark1116 yeah, most of the depts around here SS, Sapulpa, Berryhill, Tulsa, ect. Roll an engine or quint with their grass rigs. My dept is volly so we'll roll 1 or 2 brush trucks then a high-capacity engine or tanker.

Formerly with a rural California combination FD. We would roll several Patrols (T6 engine single staffed) along with a couple heavy engines (T1s - ours carried at least 1500 gals). Patrols would go off-road and direct with pump & roll while heavies hung out on the farm roads to hold the road and serve as water tenders when the T6s run dry.

@@MarkGTLLC if we are really low on manpower we'll take a T6 out with a 1 man crew, we don't like to though, it's rare. We roll an Engine or Tanker out with one man all the time for a brush fire.

@soonerstatefirephotography Tankers are great for wildland fire, SEATs can make some hay in light flashy fuels! BUT they're a lot more effective flying than rolling. 😉

Thanks, and cool I happened to be heading west from Tulsa when they toned out.

Thanks! Yeah, I like their setup, they have chairs on the platform. We have to stand and get thrown around on our Blanchart at my dept. lol

@@HenryProductionsYT yeah I bet. One of the guys told me it caught fire and the engine burnt and everything. Rescue 4 still kickin' tho.

@@soonerstatefirephotography Hazmat captain told me the same thing. Good to see the Rescue still at it. Can't wait to see what the new one will look like even though it's like 2-3 years out :/

@@Oppstompa yeah, we've been wanting to put more on, but it's more expensive then you'd think.

It is a tactic called "backburning". Wildland firefighters use it to ensure a wildfire cannot rekindle and start up again, and sometimes we even use it to stop the progression of a fire that cannot be reached or stopped with water. We set a controlled fire ahead of or around the wildfire, which burns up the vegetation, stopping the original fire because it cannot burn what has already been burnt.

@@grumpyg9350 good thing we carry Tylenol in the rigs

What's even more painful is reading comments like the one you left. Most of the time these guys are unpaid volunteers donating large amounts of their time & they're ready to go 24/7 to help their communities in bad times. These people have jobs & a life other than firefighting. It's totally unreasonable to expect volunteer firefighters to have the same skills as career firefighters. So what if every single move isn't textbook perfect, they're getting it done & in the end that's all that matters & without them we'd be in serious trouble. I don't care if they're just standing there drinking water & pissing on the fire! At least they're doing more than most people do.

@@planbirrigation hold tf on. I’m a volunteer. Been one 30 years. We don’t make excuses. We do donate our time, doesn’t mean we don’t train, don’t educate, don’t do things safely and correctly. Some of this was let’s say less then stellar, some was decent but never use volunteer as an excuse for under preforming

@@jmWhyMe how so? The got a quick knock on a deep seated fire, and started verticle ventilation on a multi-layered homeowner modified roof. You can go to OKC and they'll have some trouble with the same situation.

@@soonerstatefirephotography the chain saw wouldn't start - didn't have daily maintenance. One officer on the roof not using SCBA, and using Halligan rather than pike or rake. Neither officer sounding the roof before stepping on it. First officer on roof grabbing chainsaw by blade, should I go on?

@@soonerstatefirephotography I will grant you that many paid big city departments are very bad. FDNY, LAFD come to mind, but that doesn't excuse everything I saw here...

@@soonerstatefirephotography I was a volunteer for many years, Lt., Captain and Assistant Chief for several for several of them. There are so many things done incorrectly. No mask on, one with no helmet, some with no gear on at all, grabbing the chainsaw by the blade, not sounding the roof, putting water in a ventilation hole. I'm sure I missed others.

​​@@jmWhyMewell claiming that LAFD and FDNY are very bad just absolutely demolished any credibility you might have had, but otherwise, chainsaws and other tools, (k saws, blowers, ect) all have problems they almost never start perfectly, like in a TV show. They sounded the roof, I just didn't film that part cause i was talking to a firefighter and got distracted, the use of a hali confused me at first too, but as I stated in the description, it was a multi-Layered roof, with add ons done by the home owner, meaning it had to be pulled vertically, poking it with a pole wouldn't have helped. They sprayed water in the vent hole becouse for the now third time, multi Layered roof with an insulated void space on fire. Just becouse you see a particular way of doing things, on a TV show or training video, dosnt mean that's the only way to do it, any real firefighter knows you have to adapt and improvise in this service. Your only real complaint is the guy not wearing a mask for 30 seconds becouse he was out of air. Also, these aren't officers Drumright ffs wear red helmets.

Was out of air, he came down a few seconds later and switched out

@@soonerstatefirephotography How could he have run out of air when he didn't even have his mask on him.

@@cheeks7 he was on air before, used the air up, and took the mask off.

@@soonerstatefirephotography did he throw the mask off the roof ?

No

No idea, I just know it was hard to pull off and there was somewhere in the realm of 5,000 feet of it.

@@soonerstatefirephotography it looked like the hose got wrapped under the roller for some reason. Just something I noticed. Stay safe out there!!

This reserve is a 2002 I believe. There are also four 2016s, four 2018s, and four 2022/23s

They were pulling hose, one at the rear of the truck, one at the fence, as any firefighter should know, yanking a hose across a barbwire fence isn't going to do anything but tear a hole in it, which is what would be accomplished if someone pulled line on my side of the fence. "The female" was pulling her weight the same as anyone else and was driving the truck in the initial attack. The footage shows one small angle of the fire, but in reality, we had 4 brush trucks and 2 tankers there, attacking fire on three fronts at once, all coordinated by one fire chief initially, and then split into two commands as the incident progressed. Clearly, great coordination took place, I'm sure the USFS would be proud. And, as this was one of 45 grass fires we fought in the span of 2 months, I'd say we got a lot of training in that time period. =)

So glad you can see and hear the entire fire scene from your keyboard 🤣

​@@soonerstatefirephotographyok, I'll be the one to say the USFS would not be proud or impressed.

@@brettwhitten2046we got this keyboard firefighter over here, graduated top of his class in knowing everything about firefighting even though he has never done the job.

This is the most disillusioned comment I have ever seen on CZcams

Thanks! Yeah they have some cool rigs, been on a couple fires with them.

@@Mr.Brushy thanks, and yes it was delivered in early '23. There's about to be another bunch put in service very soon.

@@soonerstatefirephotography Yuh I heard, I wonder why bc they are all new

@@jpope537 thanks!

Thanks man, and yeah barb wire causes us trouble fo sho. Especially having to cut through it trying to catch a running field fire in the truck🤣 Stay safe brother.

Thanks! I don't know about the horn unfortunately.

Probably a Grover. But the newer pumpers have the Buells.

Thanks!

@@BobMueller yes that was when they added foam in.

Thanks! What's a shore line? Also, not sure what shift it is but I like them. The E7 crew on that shift always hits the siren or horn, even if it's a non-emerg run.

@@soonerstatefirephotography It's that cord that was hanging off the side behind the driver's door lol. Keeps the batter charged and is supposed to auto-eject when they turn the rig on. Definitely some good guys at 7s

@@cm8779 fed sig smart siren with unitrol tones and powercall. czcams.com/video/nw_f_qYE3LY/video.htmlfeature=shared

Thanks! I think Tulsa is supposed to get a tanker at 33 eventually, along with some new grass rigs. We're looking for a new tanker at my dept

Silver City VFD

Between Sand Springs and Mannford. Creek/Tulsa Co. line.

@@Jakoblenehan719 It is a tactic called "backburning". Wildland firefighters use it to ensure a wildfire cannot rekindle and start up again, and sometimes we even use it to stop the progression of a fire that cannot be reached or stopped with water. We set a controlled fire ahead of or around the wildfire, which burns up the vegetation, stopping the original fire because it cannot burn what has already been burnt.