STATter 911: Video roundup

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Video roundup

One blazing home in Shreveport on one blazing day

Norm "Doc" Zaffater is still at it with this video of a roaring house fire on Monday in Shreveport, LA. Zaffater reports the outside temperature was 106 degrees. Read more about the fire.

Old video of the day

Since we are in the neighborhood, here is another one from "Doc" Zaffater. A three-alarm fire in Shreveport on February 23, 1991 in a row of vacant buildings.

Response video

Ride along with Montgomery County, MD's Engine 705 on a wires down call.

(Update: It has been a while, but it seems STATter 911 has killed another video. Wonder if it was pulled because of the comments below?)

Fire in Manila burns for almost a day

Four firefighters were injured in this motel fire in downtown Manila. It spread to a number of adjacent businesses and burned for 22 hours. Read more here and here. More video here, here and here.

# posted by Dave Statter @ 1:35 PM

Comments:

The video of Montgomery County, MD's Engine 705 responding belongs on FF close calls. Responding code 3, going the wrong way against traffic, not stopping at stop signs...all for a downed wire!

To top it off, the wire appears to be already taped off when the engine arrives.

# posted by

Anonymous : August 6, 2008 3:49 PM

Ahhhhhhh what he said .... why in the world would you drive the wrong way for wires downs? Of course I am sure we were not told that there may have been a rescue. It appears that some emergency service agency was already there.

# posted by

Anonymous : August 6, 2008 5:30 PM

Why in the world would anyone even think about putting a video up on the internet (or Statter 911) so the whole world can see what your doing and things that could put you in the trick bag. It really amazes me how people are so dumb.

# posted by

Anonymous : August 7, 2008 9:24 AM

presonaly i dont know whats the problem with that montgomery county e705 responded to a call which was an emergency so the same way the respond to a medical local they will respond to a wires down call. think about it like this what if those wires had to envolve a rescue then what.

# posted by

Anonymous : August 7, 2008 12:32 PM

LOL

# posted by

Anonymous : August 7, 2008 11:29 PM

What people fail to realize that what you do as a volunteer or as a paid job puts everything at risk when a accident happens the driver,officer,county,the rig manufacture are all at risk. When a person is looking for someone to sue after the fact they look for all aspects to get money so everything you have worked for in life can be taken away from you for a stupid mistake and if you think that the county will support you in that case you are wrong.

# posted by

Anonymous : August 8, 2008 7:24 AM