Ruined Weekend...

I have zero experience fighting fires, but have lots of emergency response experience.
Looked to me like there wasn't much that could be done to save the boat, so cutting loses was the way to go. Sometimes that is the best course of action. Looks like they accomplished that by avoiding any other boats or any houses going up.
So I think the FD guys did a good job. That could have gotten real ugly really fast and they avoided that.
Might have been nice if the response by emergency boats was a little quicker, but that is more an issue of availability than anything else. These day the municipalities can't afford to keep many boats out there.
 
Billy just saying I saw things that were not done correctly , if things went bad they were I'll prepared ! You never approach any fire with out a charged hose ! Ever .

Rob
 
At least they have some video to learn from. The boat was a total loss way before the got there. All they had to do was to make sure nothing else caught fire and to put out the flames of that boat. Seems they had issues getting enough water on the flames.
 
Rob,
You cannot move into position to fight a fire with a charged hose. It is like trying to move a tree once water is moving through it or worse if you close the nozzle. If the hose was charged before it was straight they would never have been able to loosen it up if it got crimped. never mind the damage it could do to door ways, windows and what ever else is in its way, in a close walkway between two houses.

I think I understand your frustration with technique, but if the people who trained the day they trained for this specific fire to fight, were not available the day and hour, the fire occured, because they are volunteers after all, things may not, on a broken video have looked as smooth as you would have wanted them to be, or as correctly.

In a perfect world it would have been different, but then there would not have been a fire at all.

I feel bad for Perry's friend, but really glad no one got hurt.

For the last time give them a break,

Billly 10K.
 
Rob,
In Suffolk County, the "water department" (Suffolk County Water) controls the maintenance of fire hyrdants.

Just saying
 
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