College Park Volunteer Fire Department - 2020 Banquet Video
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- A year in review (2019 - 2020) with the College Park Volunteer Fire Department (CPVFD - Co. 12)
Prince George's County, Maryland
Music:
"Shakin' My Cage" by Black Stone Cherry
"Be Cowboy" by Black Stone Cherry
is it only me the intro is the best part "all units going to work"
It’s pretty good
Time for us smoke eaters to play
Awesome job man 🧍♂️
Fireman going to work ❤️
Fireman going to work
Why don't you guys post anymore. I would always look forward to a video from you guys but you haven't posted in years.
amazing 5 min of of salty jobs such a kick ass department
go get em brothers
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Awesome video. Which software do you use to create these videos?
Ok so funny story when I was a bit younger even like last year I would watch these videos and get so hyped I always wanted to be a local volunteer and seeing these videos made me want to do it even more however it’s not exactly like that I guess you have to read the fine print the other day we all got excited when we got a automatic alarm activation we jump in the truck with all our gear put on our radios get our lights and get a position on what to carry in when we get their I jump out and grab a can and start fast walking toward the door when I get to the door all the people were just sitting down still eating dinner and did not care at all, about 3 min later we took up that was last week but that’s the life of a volunteer firefighter and I love it😂 by the way we average about 1300 calls a year just a bit slow right now I guess lol
Squad 801 still looks good
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there nice guys
0:15 Best become a quote
Needs more shaggy
Nice video.
But I have a few questions/observations.
I know the PG area has a lot of fire activity,and I’ve watched some PG videos over the years but one thing is pretty evident by both what we see and what is posted in the descriptions, and that is many of these fires are in another department’s response area.
I understand box alarms, automatic aid, etc. but just how many fires are in your actual first alarm district?
For example: 200 total fires per year
But 150 are in another departments district, and only 50 were ACTUALLY in your first alarm area.
Why does it seem that just about everyone in PG find it necessary to run on the fire ground?
What’s with stretching the 300’ and 400’ pre connects from a block away?
Is there some form of protocol or is it because everyone wants to say they had a line off at the fire?
My department has 400’ pre connects as well however they’re used for complexes where a 200’ or 250’ won’t reach the fire location from the street.
And why is it that everyone literally hits the ground running and goes directly to the fire building ?
Some guys get off the rig, run across the yard, and straight in the front door.
Its like the true definition of “moths to the flame”.
I know that most of us get our directions while responding or know our job according to our riding assignment but what happens when those duties need to change or if you’re reassigned? Does anyone from the crew report to command?
How is accountability handled if everyone goes directly to the fire building?
Or does it just appear that way because you choose the best helmet cam footage and we don’t see what the rest of the crew is doing?
It is common practice in certain areas of PG to secure 2 water supplies for working fires if there are 2 hydrants that are in close proximity. Might explain why you see some longer than usual stretches from crosslays.
JR:FIT, thanks for the answer.
I suspected it must be secondary supply or something similar
PG doesn't run by the book. That's why I love PG fire departments
Late reply, but PG is a county department, not a municiple one, so a dispatch from the county goes to all of the volunteer departments in the area. Depending on the locating, you could get a truck from College Park, an Engine from Branchville, a engine from Riverdale, and a squad from Berwyn Heights, rather than just the whole College Park FD or just the Riverdale FD.
As for the sprinting at the fire building, PG is a very agressive place when it comes to firefighting. A lot of companies try to beat one another into a building, to the point that they'll kick your helmet or gloves around when you're masking up at a door, so they can steal your line and go interior first. There's also a pretty regimented probationary period with a lot of the live in houses. Every company gets assigned a role as they're en route, and these roles are pretty much trained on the same at all the houses, so when a CP truck gets assigned first due truck company, every seat in the back already has a role assigned to it and that firefighter knows it's their job to be on the search, or throw all the ladders on the truck to get all the windows covered, or being the OV man, or forcible entry. It eliminates the down time between reporting to command to get an assignment.
And for the banquet videos, they're made to be like highlight reels of the year, so a lot of the times anything that isn't particularly interesting, like talking to command to get instructions or packing hose, is cut out just to save time and let more of the action be shown.
Arty, thanks that clears up a lots few more questions then:
Given your example of a truck from CP and engines/rescue squads from various other departments, is CP then free to respond with another piece (say an engine) as long as the primary piece responds?
And also, are there career companies dispatched as well, or do the career units have their own specific locals and the volunteers have theirs?
Essentially do career and volunteer units respond together on all calls?
Can there be incident that would have a career engine and a volunteer truck?
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Good job
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Classic cat stuck in the tree
Helmets on in a moving peice of aparatus?
110% someone at your fire house does it so stop being a comment chief.
Stay ready you ain’t gotta get ready