PIO Vlog - July 2021

i'm eric and this is a pio vlog [Applause] engine 44 [Music] hi everyone welcome back to another vlog i'm going to get right into some of the recent incidents that south metro has responded to over the last couple weeks starting off with a multi-family structure fire that occurred in the city of centennial on independence day we've had a lot of requests from people who want to see more of the incident command process and more helmet cam video so in this video you will see the perspective from district 1's dash cam the windshield view and you'll get to see two different perspectives from tower 34. tower 34 alpha who was the lieutenant on duty that day and tower 34 charlie who was one of the firefighters that day both of those cameras will be labeled at the bottom so you can see who's talking and whose vantage point you're looking through as they get assigned to this incident and do various tasks on scene as you listen to the 911 calls hear the radio traffic and see multiple angles of what's occurring on the fire ground we hope to give you a better understanding of just how challenging it is for our firefighters and our incident commander and safety officer when they arrive on scene of an incident that is complex things are happening very quickly and lots of decisions have to occur within a matter of seconds to ensure that everything goes the way it needs to go a lot of things are happening at the same time and through these different viewpoints you'll get an understanding of that you'll see engine 17 on the rear of the building with a hose line and they are protecting a natural gas meter that had completely melted away and there was free-flowing gas that was involved in fire on the back of this building at the same time there's multiple units in the building that need to be searched not only for people and pets but also for fire extension to try and limit the damage as much as possible all of these things have to be coordinated and the incident commander has to keep accountability of exactly what's happening all over the fire scene one of the things that you may hear is labeling of the building and trying to determine exactly which side will be anchored as the alpha side so at south metro and most fire departments when we're looking at the front or the addressed side of the building we'll call that the alpha side and then going clockwise around the building we'll label bravo charlie is usually the rear and delta is the right side if we're looking at the front there's some initial discrepancy between what is being called alpha and what is being called charlie and the incident commander has to button that up so that everyone understands exactly where they're working at this incident several people were evaluated by our paramedics on scene and one was transported to the hospital for evaluation the cause was related to the barbecue as you heard in the initial everyone to 911 keep barbecues 10 feet or greater distance away from siding windows and doors of their structures and make sure if it's a gas grill that you're checking those connections and gas lines for leaks before igniting a fire in the grill make sure you're not detecting any odors and that everything looks safe before you carry out a grilling operation in many cases when we respond to these barbecue grill fires it's because there's a loose connection on the gas line and that gas leak ends up blowing fire outside of the grill area and causing problems not only for people's property but it can cause injuries south metro fire the address of the emergency hello what is the other flight what is the it is streaming eight one nine two south sylmar way for the house fire hello are you there 81.92 now fill my way my patio is on fire the house is on fire ma'am i have help on the way get out get out of the house ma'am get out of the house now south metro fire what is the average for the emergency gonna be douglas with the transfer for a house fire go ahead caller what is the address of the emergency eight one nine south stillmore way here in centennial and is that the address where the emergency is at yes yes their back deck is on fire 34 engine 17 engine 14 medic 15 district 1 safety 18 on our report structure firearm that's union 25 charlie 8192 south silmore way repeating tower 34 engine 17 engine 14 medic 15 district 1 safety team on a reported residential structure fire map union 25 charlie 8192 south fillmore way it's going to be on off three dispatch clear 1459. have to be quick the house is on fine this house is next down to me everyone's on the way is anyone injured does anybody have any injuries no okay district one discussion centric one see if we're getting overloaded with calls on this you okay yeah that's fine 1500. this will be a multi-family that's happy without a multi-family we have a large two-story multi-family structure we do have a working structure fire will be in the office of strategy investigating we'll be to fill more commands the medic 15 year on scene a large two-story multi-family you do have a working fire offensive that's kidding 17 from district 1 17. hey i'm right behind you i got your jeep we're going to pour [Applause] horizontal stand pipe to this charlie side [Applause] 15 from district one guys here's this one i'm on scene can you give me a cam report chief i'm just walking up we have a heavy fire on the delta side of the structure uh i'll give you further tournaments i'll be 17 an inch and three-quarter pre-connect put water on that fire commandment 17-17 copy engine 17 from district one did you copy just pulling it to three-quarter [Applause] it's just that from district 1 district 1. i'll be assuming command will be the offensive strategy i'm going to be located in my vehicle we're going to call this the alpha cycle [Music] district one i come here on [Music] tower 35 smoke investigation outside math page f 30 d s water walk hotel department 11 450 east peace view avenue tower 35 smoke investigation outside 15 to clear the delta 15 is going to be clearing the structures command power 34 we're on tower 34 for a copyright scene i need you to a bump up in a systemic city with primary searches scott's systematic 15 primary search back season 17. we have a basement [Applause] we have extension into the primary residence you might grab another pre-connection to make entry through the outside we're going to stay on that side exterior for a moment okay yeah if you'll see on that charlie's side get the remainder of that fire you do have extension this one right here let's get on the lawn uh [Music] traffic we have a completely missing gas meter on this charlie side free flowing gas okay you've got a missing gas meter free flowing gas line on the gas meter it's got a callback for someone saying it's not a trash can it's the cigarette collector okay [Music] stairwell we're gonna stay here you guys are setting up the area all right whole building building five clear let me know when you know the primary complaint on building five i'm gonna bump up [Music] oh [Music] probably right in the middle of the structure that heavy brown smoke coming out you want to work on extinguishment [Music] [Music] don't go too far [Music] uh [Applause] offensive strategy charlie [Applause] no fire in the attic here we're good okay okay here this next incident occurred on july 20th and it takes you into the cab of battalion chief 2's pickup truck battalion 2 had just been toned to a brush fire with engine 15 and brush 14 and as he was getting into his vehicle dispatch upgraded the incident to a reported residential structure fire additional 911 callers who had seen bushes on fire were now telling dispatchers that it was spreading to the structure so this will give you an opportunity to see just how fast things play out for the battalion chief and how he sets up the scene for the units that are responding saint in reporting presidential structure fire [Music] wow just protect [Music] residential structure buyers i'm on scene i've got a small single story single family dwelling i have multiple bushes on fire on the alpha side of the house this is extending into the house we're gonna be in the offensive strategy and i'll have downing circle command looks like all occupants are out of the house but i'll get that confirmed happy here on scene single story family house with multiple bushes extending to the house we'll be investigating offensive in command and the parallel occupancy that are out tonight said [Music] mv [Music] medic 12 i want you to position out of the way and uh gear up to assist with the first clothesline [Music] good when you get your gear on i want you to complete a 360. [Music] command engine 15 engine 15 a copy you're on scene alpha side of the house stretch pre-connect let's start cooling down the alpha side and then we need hooks in the soffit engine 15 coffees stretch in an inch and three quarter alpha side cool down make sure it hits the up confirmed residential structure [Music] the world you want to shut down rapport or come in from the south come in from the south and uh lay into 15 we'll use their front intake copy that we'll take down in circle east swing all the way around command engine 14 19 you want us to reverse out to the hydrant to the that's negative i'm gonna bring uh uh yeah actually 14 so let's go ahead and reverse out to that hydrant and 38 you'll come in and position out of the way straight 38 copies will continue in the second engine command medic 12. 360 complete there appears to be no extension into the house that we can see now possible extension into the attic space on the gable end on the bravo side we're going to take the distance on the bravo side for access and there is the basement where you find it okay a copy we do have a basement no changes to iap potentially extension into the bravo side gable land matic 12 is ready for reassignment and i'm going to assign you primary search first floor prime minister's first one it's magnetic there's somewhere level [Music] last unit calling command 37 i copy your level one i want you to position for egress you'll be our medical we do have water on the exterior fire we're going to check for extension into the attic where you want me brother hey get on that screen over here yeah floor one and i'm worried about this bravo side i can't yeah let's get some hooks in there inside yeah and i'm going to send 38s down to actually let's start on the eaves chief the texture yeah and then uh why don't you use 38s to do that engine 38 dispatch yeah america's on feed mbt you're on scene 2012 engine 38 command thankfully no one was injured in this incident and that's due largely in part to a person driving by on arapahoe road who saw smoke went to investigate it and realized that the homeowner was still inside the house unaware that a fire was burning outside they alerted the resident to the fact that there was a fire helped them outside over to the neighbor's yard and kept them out of harm's way so that was certainly a positive action that occurred and of course all of the people who called 9-1-1 to provide us the best information that they possibly could to get the right response there as fast as possible the cause of this incident is still under investigation if you've followed south metro for a while you're probably no stranger to our animal rescue calls and on july 6th engine 33 responded to ducklings in a storm drain and helped them out got them reunited with the rest of their family and they're safe and uninjured and some questions have come up about that one of the main reasons why south metro responds to incidents like that is because sometimes animal control isn't on duty or they don't have the tools that they need to safely rescue animals south metro would much rather send a group of firefighters out to try and do a rescue safely than ignore the call and inevitably neighbors or bystanders may start taking action that is unsafe to do rescues on their own the same thing will apply in the wintertime when we have animals out on the ice we would much rather send our firefighters with dry suits equipped to get animals off the ice than to just ignore it and let people do whatever they want to do to try and make a rescue happen one of the main goals of our organization is life safety so if we can do a positive thing like rescuing animals and at the same time make sure that our community members are staying safe and not putting themselves in harm's way that is certainly a benefit for everyone [Music] oh there's one any others close let me see hey everybody there you go did that be the last one or is there still another one in there here's a flashlight do you see him to yep all right i have a few patches to share with you all the first one comes to us from a firefighter in montreal canada this is a patch from penryn fire district and here is a patch from blissfield michigan fire department and the rest of these were sent by matt matt thank you so much these are various fdny patches that i'll share the first one is staten island communications the next one is the official fdny patch the next one that i have is engine 157 and ladder 80. the next one is engine 166 and ladder 86 this one is engine 167 and tower ladder 87. the next one is brooklyn fire dispatch this is a version that i have not seen until now and excited to add this one to our collection we've got engine 227 engine 249 on ladder 113 engine 282 and ladder 148 so thank you so much for sending these to us these company patches of course are some of my favorites because of their creativity and they're so unique so i will be adding these to the patch wall thank you so much to everyone who's watching south metro from literally around the globe it is so awesome if you haven't already subscribed to our channel please do so so you will be notified as soon as we have new videos up the next one is going to be station 32 station saturday it's taken a little bit of extra scheduling to get that but i plan on shooting it next week so that i can bring it to you more day in the life episodes are in the works and our next merchandise store is also being worked on right now we will share that information as soon as it's open across all of our platforms hope you're staying happy and healthy and i will see you on the next video

Channel: South Metro Fire Rescue Centennial, Colorado

Views: 356,786

Keywords: SMFR, South Metro Fire Rescue, PIO, Public Information Officer, Eric Hurst, Incident Command, First due, dash cam, helmet cam, tower ladder, truck company, primary search, battalion, chief, structure fire, house fire, fire showing, centennial, denver, aurora, colorado, greenwood village, littleton, parker, lone tree, cherry hills village, castle pines, firefighters, working fire, job town, what's inside, how it's made, behind the scenes, career, job

Id: bkC9vS0F140

Length: 30min 43sec (1843 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 23 2021