Fleet Friday - Reserve Engine 33

hey my name is Dave this is engine 33 right now and this is Fleet Friday [Music] this is engine 33 it's our Reserve engine right now it's a 2003 E1 Cyclone 2 with the M11 Cummins diesel engine in it we're on this right now as our front lines getting some work done to the body so we go into reserves when Fleet takes our engines they do maintenance on them or there's a mechanical issue that needs to be fixed we're very fortunate that we have a pretty robust Fleet of these e1s that we use these were our Frontline rigs a long time ago and now we're using these engines as reserves so when ours goes in we kind of loan this one from Fleet we move over some of our tools our personal equipment and then we use these while our rigs being fixed this one has a really personal story for me as it was actually the first engine I ever rode on with our late engineer Mike Freeman and now I'm fortunate enough that I get a drive it 10 years later as an engineer here at station 33. foreign [Music] [Music] like 470s before a black dark green welcome Jetta evaluated [Music] you saw it down you guys could see used to make sure it's not what do you say black SUV oh I see it down there watch this faster glorious boys [Music] [Applause] [Applause] why don't you follow me and we'll take a look inside [Music] so this is the engineer seat this is where I sit and drive unlike our Frontline Pierce engine this one's a little bit tighter we still have a dog house between the captain and I where the engine sits that M11 Cummins that powers this this one's a little different than our Frontline engine as well as we have a PTO shift so we have to actually take this one out of Road and put it in a pump unlike our Frontline engine where we're just fortunate enough to suppress a button and it puts it in pump this one we actually have to shift it into pump and put it in Drive some of the other things is it has a jake brake like our Frontline engine does it's just a little bit different it's actual exhaust brake this one doesn't have the LED lights like ours does our Frontline engine does so we actually have a generator in the back that powers all of our seam lights so I'm not able just to hit those switches like our front line and immediately turn them on there's a couple extra steps but other than that Driving Experience is a lot like our front lines except it doesn't have independent front suspension it has a solid front axle so it's a little bit rougher especially for the people riding in back as I have an air seat and so does the captain and the people in Bat kind of get bounced around a little bit so right here we have the status center for the kuzma system and what this does is it keeps all the batteries topped off as well as the computers and everything that's currently running in the engine topped off so it's not draining down the batteries we have a large Bank of batteries that power this engine but if we were just to leave all those computer systems and everything running all the time the problem would be is they would drain the battery down and we'd have a starting problem so we have this uh charge system that tells us how much voltage we're pulling in and amps we're currently pulling and if there was a issue we can kind of tell with the battery condition and this is awesome because these are just like our front lines the auto eject so as soon as I push it on there's a little pin in here that pushes out that plug and it shoots it out so we can take off with it plugged in and it starts on the shore power so we'll take a quick look here in the back so we're riding four we've been pretty fortunate to ride for these last couple sets as you can tell this is not as big as our Frontline engines you guys have seen on some of the other Fleet Fridays that the Pierce engines have a lot of room they've been specced out for our current EMS compartments and current EMS storage we're a little bit tighter in this one but we've moved over a lot of the very important things to make sure that we're able to function just like we would if we were in our front line we have a compartment that we keep some of our EMS kits over here and then some of our stuff we would use for like good intent calls like fire alarms lockouts all that kind of stuff we keep in the in the doghouse compartment and when we get to the other side we'll show you where we keep our EMS stuff right now so as you can tell today we're in the bay it's because it's about seven degrees outside it's the end of February and if you look up there we have our dry suit it's a Mustang suit and the plan for that today is the Charlie seat firefighter sitting behind Josh Schmidt our captain is going to put that suit on up to their knees as they're buckled in the fire engine we'll get over to the call where it's either like a person through the ice or a dog through the ice they'll jump out and finish suiting up and zipping it up as we go try to do a rescue from the shore we'll try to reach them with a hook or we'll throw a rope bag to them and if we can't get them out that way the plan is for the firefighter to go into the water with a rope attached to them and a big Carabiner and they'll go behind them and clip it around the victim and then we will pull them up onto the ice shelf and pull them into the shore we also have pfds back here and I can show you where those are at so we keep that up there during the winter months especially as we have ice and cold water rescue possibilities so here's our pump panel and our hose complement is very similar to the hose complement that's on our front line except for our trash line the trash line in this is over on the other side kind of in a small compartment that's one of the big takeaways from this to our front line but other than that the hoses are loaded exactly the same as they are on our front line with the yellow line coming out the driver's side and the red line and the two and a half line coming out the passenger side our pump panel on this one's a little bit different it's not in an enclosed compartment like it is on our front line the pump's actually a little different this is a two-stage pump a post to a single stage pump so there's a couple different things you would have to do as well as on our Frontline engine you've seen it has a dial to set your pressure this one's a little bit different because it has a button so you increase and decrease it has the same preset mode where it'll ramp it up to the predetermined PSI but it's not as accurate as being able to turn that dial right to our predetermined discharge pressures for all of our pre-connects so it takes a little bit more finessing but other than that everything's laid out very similar all of our discharges are all color coded we're very fortunate in that aspect the intakes are similar but there's a couple small differences this one is a manual intake opposed to on our front line they're all automatic so this one has a crank wheel that you would actually turn to open up this discharge the front and passenger side intakes have these little switches right here the ones kind of hidden underneath here and you can you will toggle this switch and it'll open up on our front line there's three intake gauges and they're very clean and laid out this one's just a little bit differently you can also see that we have rubber wheel chocks here so we would chalk the rear wheels you've probably seen on some of the other Fleet Fridays that we have aluminum wheel chocks that are housed underneath the rear wheel these ones will use we don't have those compartments so we'll use these rubber ones that kind of hang over the transfer valve so starting on the rest of the side you can see that we have two sections of our hard suction hose we have a hard suction hose on our Frontline engine but it's kind of hidden behind the ladder compartment so not a lot of people think or know we have that hard suction hose my engine company here at engine 33 we're in the middle of the district we're very fortunate that we have lots of fire hydrants around us there's not a lot of opportunity for us to draft but a couple districts over like down in District 17. we have a lot of unhydrated areas that we could possibly be that drafting engine and supplying the firefighting effort down a driveway or down a dirt road so we're all set up to start that Drafting and get that process moving so this is a reserve it has everything that we'd have on our front line but just a little bit different layout than we would prefer to have I think our Frontline engines laid out very cleanly and I would love to show you guys around that someday but we'll go compartment of my compartment and show you what this one has so this is the engineer compartment we have some other nozzles if we needed them we have a couple of different adapters road flares and like I said we have a generator so you'll see over here it's a Square D box just like you would have at your house the generator goes through that breaker box and then all the power will be sent to the other lights and outlets around the fire engine this is also the engineer compartment as you can tell it's kind of tight we got to keep our stuff kind of small this is where I'll keep my bunker gear when we're going on calls we have a toolbox just like in our front line we have those Pony sections of five inch and everything else the same as we would have on the front line just a little bit smaller more compact I have my set of irons that I would take on a fire as well as my hand light and my through the lock tool bag that's about it it's pretty tight we have our pump chart this pump chart gives us all the predetermined pump pressures for our current hose lines that we have as well as some of our horizontal standpip lines in the back so if we go more than the norm if you will and the math doesn't happen quick enough in my head I can go check and double check myself on this pump chart just like on our front line we have a couple we call them torpedo tubes at least we do here that's where we keep our spare bottles if we're going to recycle out of fire or some sort of call that we need to recycle our bottles to get some fresh air bottles we'll come pull them off here and then we can go to another firehouse and fill up some air bottles because we don't have a compressor here at station 33. but this is also my compartment where I keep my pack and then right now like we talked about a little while ago it's super cold outside it's real icy so we keep some ice melting here during the winter as well as some absorbent we have a lot of Highway around station 33 we have sections of I-25 and 470 so we're constantly on the highway running car accidents so we keep some of this absorbent there and then we have our rope bag for if we were going to go do a slippery slope like we can do a simple three to one with this rope bag as well as it's set up right now that we can do ice rescue has a big Carabiner a carabiner that would attach to The Rescuer and a big Carabiner that would go around the victim and we would clip it around the victim and pull them up onto the ice shelf this is a diesel engine it only runs on diesel there's no def like in some of the Frontline engines we have a def system here for when our front line comes back this is pre-death so it only takes diesel fuel there's not another filler like there is on some of the other newer engines this compartment is set up for Wildland up here these are called our web gear packs so these web gears are what we would take if we were on a Wildland fire and what it is is it's a set of webbing gear that you clip on and it has a shelter on the back it has a mask has a helmet a couple bottles of water in there so there's one for each riding position as well as pfds so these are the pfds that we use anytime we're near any water we're going to put these on so right here's our rope bag that we would use for throwing we would take this rope bag out we'll take a little rope out of it and dunk it in the water and we'll throw it to the victim as The Rescuers going in in the Mustang suit to rescue that victim so this compartment has our donut roll for our Blitz fire on our Frontline engine this is in this same compartment but it's standing up compartment space is a little bit tighter in this engine so we had to lay it down on its side and we can't really connect it how it is right now we also have some overhaul tarps some power cords as well as our fan the one cool thing about this engine opposed to our Frontline engine is we don't have a generator on our Frontline engine most of the tools that are in the fire service anymore are battery powered we still have some stuff that's getting phased out that is Shore power or plug power so having being able to plug into this fire engine with the generator is super helpful for some of those calls so like we talked about on our front line we have led scene lights everywhere well this engine has scene lights as well but I have to turn on the generator to get these four scene lights to work it's not as easy as just pressing that button like it is in our front line but it works great and it's nice to have them especially when you're on those dark Highway calls here's the back of the fire engine it's set up very similar to our Frontline engine we have our five inch or 800 foot of five inch up here and on this side we have our horizontal standpipe it's set up exactly the same with our 400 feet on the bottom or 400 feet of two and a half on the top and our 150 foot horizontal standpipe bundle connected up on top it's set up very similar to our Frontline engine we have a couple tools we have a Colorado hook as well as a New York roof hook up here some more absorbent backboard and up on top we have some Wildland Progressive packs where if we need to do a progressive hose lay off this engine we'll take them off the top and we can tie into the engine and start a progressive Wildland attack from here so the back of the engine's set up kind of for rescue for car accidents as well as for some long two and a half stretches my engine company we practice a lot on hose deployment and hose positioning one of the things we've realized is when we're doing an extended two and a half attack the 200 foot pre-connect is not long enough all the time and it's a lot faster than me trying to get into my engineer compartment to get a nozzle bring back here we've decided that we're going to keep an extra nozzle back here so we call this our little sneaky nozzle so we have an extra two and a half nozzle back here and what we'll do is we'll take the bundle off lay it on the bumper and then we can stretch three four five hundred feet of two and a half and do in a two and a half attack very quickly and very efficiently so a couple other cool things we have is some battery powered Tools in here so we have a hamotro Combi tool that's battery powered we have a DeWalt saws all that's battery powered as well as we have a small Dewalt rotary saw that we use quite a bit for cutting small locks Gates stuff like that quick egress for us to get into places and then the truck company to bring in some big saws to do some real big forcible entry if we need it needed it but this has been a lifesaver getting into some of our small gated communities as well as forcing some small doors and window bars stuff like that that we've been able to use it on a couple cool calls so coming over to the passenger side this is where the generator's stored so like we've been talking about this engine has an onboard generator a lot like our Tower trucks do a little bit difference between this one and that one is you have to come out and actually start this one so we would pull our hydrant bag here out of the way and this is on a on a slider so we can pull this out and we will pull it all the way out and it's actually hooked up to a Shore power line that's hooked up to that breaker box that's over on my side so as soon as you start it and it's running it's going to start these scene lights up as well as it's going to put power to the outlets that are on the back of the fire engine so if we needed to use that fan to blow off smoke or anything like that we can use those Outlets if utilities have been controlled at the house so this is our high rise compartment we're first or second due engine to the DTC where we have some of our mid-rises and high rises so here's our high-rise packs so this would be placed on the firefighter's shoulder or on their bottle we also have this bag here where we have all the connections that we would need to hook into the stairwell standpipe system we have our sertral bag it's a 200 foot rope that we have so if we are searching a large building or something like that we can tie off to a known location and it's marked with knots in it so we can figure out our way in and our way out using this rope bag so a lot like our Frontline engine we have a ladder rack that comes down this ladder rack comes down on Hydraulics and it comes down we have our roof ladder as well as our 28 foot ladder and a little attic ladder up there another hook and a pike pole up there over here we have our firefighter compartment this is where we keep all of our hand tools we have a pig a halogen you know a couple sets of irons we have a sledgehammer some bolt cutters all the standard firefighting equipment and then unfortunately in this engine we can't keep our Med equipment inside there's just not enough room unfortunately with four of us in here so we keep our Med equipment in this compartment here it actually works out really well um the Delta C firefighter and the Charlie C firefighter can run over here and start getting things out and then Captain Schmidt myself will come meet him over here and we'll kind of split up especially when it's on one of those really high Acuity calls like a cardiac arrest we all have predetermined roles on my engine company so I know exactly what I'm going to be doing when we get on one of those calls I get handed the Monitor and I know that that's my job so it works out really well that everything can kind of get set down over here you grab your tool you know you're getting started with first and then we can go inside and get to work we have some water cans we generally don't pull those all too often because our fire engine is a giant water can we have 750 gallons on this engine so if we need to we'll just stretch a hose it's no big deal it's great training if we don't use it so we love stretching hose and just practicing our craft when we get to outside all of our engines are on these Niederman systems so there's a magnet that holds it to the engine and it'll ride along this track that gets a vacuum pulled onto it and it gets exhausted out and then once it hits that stop at the end there it actually pops off and it keeps the bay a little bit cleaner we don't have a drive-through Bay here at station 33 so we have to back in So as somebody's backing me in what Captain Schmidt or the Charlie C firefighter will do is just clip it on right as I pull into the bay so it starts sucking that exhaust out so we don't fill up our Bay with exhaust here's the passenger side hose load compartment or two and a half hose loaded it's a 200 foot pre-connect just like on all of our front lines as well as our 200 foot inch and three quarter these are laid out exactly the same as they would be on our front lines the only difference is is this is not behind that closed door that roll-up door like you've seen on some of the other Fleet Fridays and the trash line so like I was talking about this trash line is a little bit different it's loaded in this little dunnage area with this strap right here and what you would do is you would pull this strap out and then you would go to either side of the fire engine depending on if we pulled past it or the fire was in front of us there's about 10 to 15 feet of Hose flaked in there that's not in the strap and then you would unstrap it you would grab a flake or two in the nozzle and you would walk out to where your Fires at so this compartment here is not really a compartment what it is is it's a way for us to get to our pump panel from behind as well as some of our levers on our Frontline engine you pull a lever down and that's how it kind of opens up that valve on this one it's a Long Rod that actually pulls that lever open so we can get in here we can work on our foam system our foam induction system we can see the backs of our tanks as well as some of the valves and the levers that are back there especially this time of year they get kind of gunked up with Road Grime so we try to get in there with a power washer every once in a while and clean some of that road grime off and then get some white lithium grease in there because it doesn't collect as much dirt and try to spray some of those joints so they operate a little bit smoother like they would in the summer when they're clean so here's our Charlie seat this is where our Charlie seat firefighter sits they have a couple tools that are at their disposal they have our four gas meter here that's always plugged in so it's ready to go and we go on that Co call or some weird smells and bells call we'll fire that up and bring it with us we have two seats in here they can sit in this small jump seat and sit forward and see where we're going and then when we're going to a call that requires them to have their pack on they'll ride backwards and put their pack on just like you would on our front line as well as some of their medical equipment like those gloves the Pediatric kit we keep in there some of our other small items that we don't use all the time like elevator lockout keys and things like that are kept in between the Delta and Charlie C firefighter here on this side moving on up this is Captain Schmidt's seat right now where he's sitting today Captain Schmidt uses that MDT he's the one that's going to map me into the calls if I don't know where we're going he gets all of our notes on there that tell us what kind of call we're going to uh where we're going pre-plans priors all those kinds of things he'll give me all the information I need about turns where we're going and then kind of fill us all in on what kind of call we're going to he's the one that talks to dispatch and he's the one that keeps us in line coming around front this is our front intake and then all the equipment that we would need to use that front intake to catch a hydrant we have here in the front bumper it's all the same stuff that we would keep in the hydrant bag for the most part but it just kind of kept Loosely in here this is my go-to for most of our hydrants here at least in station 33s first do I like to park real tight up against the hydro net of all possible leave room for the truck companies where we're at we have a truck company to the south of us to the north of us and one that's very close to the east of us so I really try to position so the truck company can get in and use their aerial device if necessary [Music] so this engine's super special to me like I said this was the first engine I ever got to ride on here at South Metro 10 years ago and my engineer my first days here at South Metro was Mike Freeman uh Freeman was badge number one and Freeman passed away from occupational cancer this was actually the engine that he was laid to rest in actually on top of it it has a 74-1 on top of it even though this is rig 3335 we've kind of denoted this Freeman's rig and that's kind of how it's known around the fire department because of this sticker and the 74-1 on top well thanks for coming by for this Fleet Friday I'm glad you guys came over here to station 33. I'm glad you guys spent a little time with me and let me show you guys around 3335 known as Freeman's rig come by anytime we're always open good

Channel: South Metro Fire Rescue Centennial, Colorado

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Id: X1ibCzpS69s

Length: 26min 46sec (1606 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 04 2023