Most of the tree made it but much of it ended up in pieces up to 500ft away. The inner eye came directly over this camera which is 0.7 miles inland from south Siesta Key. The back side of the eye brought the highest winds off the Gulf of Mexico straight towards this camera. Many pieces of the pine tree, including pine cones were at the base of the camera as well as behind the house that sits behind the camera.

@@BLCStreams Oh no! That is wild! Hope everyone made it out ok! From downtown Chicago and absolutely love Sarasota, Siesta Key, and the entire area down there.

You're aware firefighters don't know there's a fire the instant one starts, yeah? And that they can be busy doing other stuff too?

The fireboat is equipped with a pump that can deliver several master streams.of 12,000 gpm ... which is capable of reaching that fire. The primary reason they didn't use water is because that was a liquid fuel fire that would spread burning fuel and they would have no way to contain the runoff of fuel that could make its way into the bay and killed the wildlife. Security is not a impending problem for fire personnel and they don't need special clearance. A hazmat team would be needed to clean up and contain the runoff.and you can't do it from a boat. You're speaking from no experience in firefighting ..I have 38 years worth. Your speculation on time could vert will be that there wasn't a engine company close by..they could have been on a call elsewhere

Stay in your lane. If you're not in the fire service you don't have a clue of what you're saying. As a standard 6 min on the scence can be longer if a company has to come to that territory further from another station. There are other calls and they are dispatched as they cine in. And they come from other locations in the city... that's standard protocol.

They couldn't see over the wall. Quite obvious in the video.

Also, consider if the boat just lobbed water in there blindly, what other damage could that water stream cause. Could it injure bystanders, operator, or other arriving firefighters? It is likely that whatever was burning was toxic by the color of the smoke. Where would the run off water go and carrying the toxic product where? It would likely go into the storm drains and then the waterways. Now you have an uncontrolled hazardous materials incident with potential environmental damage to the waterways. Likely, containment was established before extinguishment. That would have been done by boots on the ground. There was minimum exposure risk as the machine was out in the open. The biggest hazard appeared to be the material burning and the environment. I watched from the same vantage you did. I saw a fairly common incident handled in an efficient manner with ample resources. I'm sure that the boat is assigned to all fires in the port, mainly as a water supply. To pump additional water to the apparatus on land. A jet boat, like the one seen, can likely supply in the area 5000 gallons per minute to the on shore apparatus. Depending on the agency's protocols, the boat maybe the primary water supply, and the hydrants be a secondary. The boat may be able to supply more gpm than the hydrant system (if there is one).

How are they supposed to know the situation until they get there? They know what they are doing.

They can make big waves in the harbor while we are fueling ships.

Those are the island ferries.

@@blake_edwards Thank you!

Please read comments from those with firefighting experience. There was nothing they could have done that wouldn't have made this situation worse.

Large tires and plenty of fuel and hydraulic oil.

Late 2024 finish, assuming no further delays.

April 2025.

You can't just run in and put water on it. You have to know what is on fire and what is surrounding the fire. Does it require foam or can they use water? Those are vital questions to ask when coming into a fire situation, especially a port with millions of unknown products, like sodium metal and lithium, which explode when they come into contact with water.

@@Beth11271 correct I'm assuming it busted an oil or hydraulic line

@@tsaffran Same

We have raw captures 24/7 of all cameras with time-stamped recordings. Fire started at 5:34pm. Fireboat arrived on scene at 5:44pm. Firetruck arrived at 5:46pm.

Seems it's something like that. The lift truck just starts burning when it makes the turn.

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I enjoyed that camera.