Fireboat in Action on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco

SFFD fireboat St. Francis helps extinguish a fire on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco.
There's no sound so I added some classical music. Seemed appropriate. Hit mute if you don't like it. Or leave it on, then get annoyed and leave an exasperated comment for everyone to enjoy :)

[@UncleFred100]

Chief here...we paid a lot of money for that boat, and this is the first time it was ever used for fighting wildfires! It was used to fight a massive pier fire a few months ago, and saved the Liberty Ship Jeremiah O’Brian. Fire boats are not used nearly as often as a regular fire vehicle is, but when you need them, you need them. Money well spent indeed!😉👍

[@AdamEllisonC]

Indeed! Thanks for commenting. It was great to watch it in action.

[@TheLittlered1961]

@@AdamEllisonC So agreed. Here in Tacoma they decommissioned one and the other, I think, is only manned for a few hours a day. I have had the privileged to see them in action 3 times. Two for wildfires and once for a steel scrape yard fire. Made the fire engines look like someone was trying to piss on the fire.

[@alexkitner5356]

And they thought I was crazy when I said I wanted a pair of aerials to a brush fire to make a 4,000 gpm rain storm...

[@skaterflip88]

@@AdamEllisonC I'm sorry Adam! Thats my uncle. Unfortunately he was kicked in the head by a mule a few years ago and tends to comment online. Usually he sticks to Facebook but this is a good reminder to not believe everyone who comments.

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

Wow! That fireboat must have a massive water tank! It was endless. As you can clearly hear, it also has the capacity for a 50 piece orchestra, plus a whole opera company, as well as over 120lbs of their sheet music. Very impressive!

[@yourtravelswithbruce]

Impressive the boat can play ode to joy

[@maxmarrano5143]

Infatti il mare e difficile che si svuota come serbatoio

[@johmsparks9708]

They draft from the water they float in.

[@MommyKhaos]

​@@johmsparks9708I do believe the original comment was a joke

[@terrystephens1102]

The SFD did a great job on this very difficult to get to fire, well done fire boat crew 😃👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

SFFD.

[@kirknitz3794]

The music gave me great joy.

[@therealmrbill]

Ode to Joy ...... great music selection ! Ludvic Von B. would be so happy ! ...... Cheers

[@bigchungusdriplord2301]

Who's Ludvic von B.?

[@aaronedberg7588]

I was SO irritated by the music. Until the climactic ending when you realize this thing at full power was just beutiful. It could cover that whole mountain/ cliff and beyond with water. The music really was in sync at the end. Oddly beutiful.

[@bebajoro77]

Well done. A very good job. One of the few fireboat crews I've seen who clearly know what they're doing.

[@0524cami]

The boat contained it all on its own... That's awesome

[@MrKenny2798]

The water pump of this fire boat is so powerful, nice…😊

[@akelindberg816]

i agree i love that watercannon

[@patricksterling7389]

Glorious!!!! Nice music too. Very fitting and first rate!!

[@TheLittlered1961]

I am sorry, the music stinks. Music is very personal and should not be used in videos like this.

[@patricksterling7389]

@@TheLittlered1961 you are quite wrong I'm afraid. Now go back to your disco ball and Wang chung. leave comments to the grown ups.

[@TheLittlered1961]

@@patricksterling7389 I am wrong? The music you listed I would complain about too. I would complain about rap and rage music as well, and I have. I do like a lot of classical music but the opera stuff is over board. If that is your thing, so be it. It is not mine nor a lot of other people's thing. So your opinion is I am wrong and my opinion is you are wrong. That is why I stated that music is personal. Do you not get that?

[@bebajoro77]

An impressive job by the fireboat - sometimes they're worse than useless. This one though produced a powerful jet, well aimed. Very nice.

[@tanitocruz]

Gloria a Dios por su iniciativa felicidades y un fraterno abrazo desde Yabucoa Puerto Rico.

[@RASPOUTINE7]

Good job!!!

[@someguydino6770]

whoa...a floating Bellagio? best part is when the fireboat sprays a curious boat to drive it away @ 8:15

[@jimwattenburger4545]

As IC, I used their fire boat on Angel Island in 2008 !

[@normansilver905]

It took a bit of time o arrive on scene but once on scene and pumping what an impressive display of a rapid fire knock down.

[@tuffy3211]

Great video thankyou

[@ROCKY-in2mg]

WHAT A LIFE SAVER THIS SHIP WAS.... FANTASTIC JOB

[@w9awx1]

As long as there is enough water for the draft, hard to beat the firefighting firepower of a fireboat.

[@shaofuchang515]

Reminds me of a film shot through a telescope in a house, this is the sort of music that I play in the house as well.

[@MargaretCampbell-wv7eg]

The fire boat saved the day😊

[@harrisontiemann3276]

Excellent job.

[@kazoosc]

nice control at times it is directed at a hot spot .. even cuts loose part of the cliff side at 14:46 !! .. and other times is used for area effect, drenching a general area and the foliage

[@aaronreese900]

OUTSTANDING JOB BROTHERS!!

[@jeremiahkerry]

That is more like a peat fire, deep seated underground.

[@nabilteknik4974]

I like music

[@Milutin958]

"Ода Радости"😊

[@Medionxtr]

Powerfull ! Well done !

[@jimwhitsett4736]

Great job.

[@wilfridteina3823]

Very impressive fireboat.

[@royhowardjenkins7378]

Magnificent Music!

[@onlyone4750]

good job👍 from 🇲🇾

[@lencycler1]

the gulls certainly had a great time flying through the mist...

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

‘Gullrillas in the Mist,’ starting Seagullney Weaver.

[@lencycler1]

good one

[@aboriani]

With that kind of pressure, they don't just extinguish the fire, they rip it off whatever it's burning...

[@TheLittlered1961]

It is not the pressure, it is the volume of water that does that. Do not quote me on this but I bet it is about 100 psi. About the same as most fire engines run.

[@yank-tc8bz]

They need a drone to see what the water is doing.

[@prowordsmith]

Man! Never really thought classic opera to be a back sound (in this case) FOREGROUND audio track for firefighting! I had to mute pretty quick.

[@girirajpatel3565]

good work

[@eddielane9569]

I am a retired Paramedic /Firefighter from the state of Florida and in the area I worked we were an hour north of the coast so we didn't see any fire boats but I was really impressed with the fireboat but after about halfway through this video I begin to wonder how much more water they were going to spray on that Hillside. Already saw a big chunk of soil fall off the side and if that's saltwater and I assume it is all the trees and other foliage will probably die from oversaturation which will cause more of the soil to come off the side overtime from heavy rainfall. I realize originally he was trying to get behind that front wall but I saw what looked like a landline being used on the back side which was helping in that respect too. You can do two little and you can do too much and this in my opinion was way over the top. You can cause good and cause harm but when you soak a hillside in what was probably saltwater you can be rest assured it's going to kill off everything that's growing. Even though it gets salt spray it doesn't get anything like it got in this video.

[@BillyLndn]

trees will die anyway if they get burned 🤣

[@scottsasser7607]

You noticed that right there he's putting that out nobody has to go down there and check for hotspots no one would shovels and rakes he's done put it all out on that side

[@tedmitchell226]

good job fireboat ! The opera is un-neccessary though

[@scottsasser7607]

Just think if they had the water cannons like that inland in the San Bernardino mountains or Riverside mountains or Phoenix you know a constant flow like that to where I can shoot that far well I got a little suggestion for you I grew up in California I know how them fires are I've been through and a town called lake Elsinore Riverside county I don't know what county it is now but I left there in 87 I went back there in 97 for 6 months so the first thing you need to do is get more water trucks with cannons on them any fire if it's a house fire Walmart fire whatever structural fires you need these water cannons they should be the first ones on site control them from the inside just like at a airport water cannons are the best way to do it but like with house fires I noticed was firemen they overshoot I don't know if they're getting excited or what but they overshoot the houses the water is going over the house and into the neighbor's yard in the back or on the sides don't have a steady stream have it flared out to where you get more area covered but out in the in the woods in the forest in the prairie water cannons are the best way to go that's my opinion oh another thing have you ever seen where they hook from the fire hydrant to the truck the hose is always leaked all the fittings leak all the hoses going from the truck to the fire leak it's nice if you keep these trucks and it's shiny as they are why are the hoses leaking the fittings leak all that water you're losing onto the ground underneath the fire truck to be going on a fire that's my opinion

[@0524cami]

Love the music

[@user-jx4ht6mq8u]

最讚的滅火消防。

[@jtpenman]

Professional

[@clay.willoughby]

Can we get a new, 1 year (and a few months) video of that spot. I'm curious as to the impact of the salt water (brackish being in the bay) and the ability of the soil to support plant regrowth, or killing plants/bushes that were not consumed in the fire. Great vid too btw.

[@kosalplengkhmer]

👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

[@telosfd]

Nice job. I don't understand how Beethoven involved in this!

[@sergioribeiro9400]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏♥️♥️

[@thenussbaum44]

WOW that boat hold a lot of water.

[@sammyn9345]

I didn’t hold any it takes it from the ocean

[@thenussbaum44]

@@sammyn9345 what about the poor fish it sucks in

[@sammyn9345]

@@thenussbaum44 there’s something called mesh grates

[@angelcastro3714]

I wonder if they have enough water on the boat to stop the fire

[@thomasmccardle725]

I liked the video and loved the music 🎼 too! Great job!

[@zelkokrznaric1488]

👍👍👍✌️✌️✌️🇭🇷

[@Milutin958]

*деси бре Жељко😊, гледаш амере како гасе пожар!!! Лако је њима, опељешили планету па имају!!! Негооооо, одакле онолика вода за гашење противпожарном чамцу😂 (???), да питам оне дебиле неће разумети, овако, наше горе лист😊, ...и пиши им по нашки, да схвате како има још неких поред њих!!! Поздрав од Србијуууу😊

[@aaronerskine3401]

they should put the fire boat on a trailer and take it to the mountains for fires -- it has a much stronger and endless stream than the trucks

[@amandahudson431]

That music though....

[@etienneleroux1435]

How much water flowed through that deck gun?

[@bostonrailfan2427]

that’s an ingenious use of the monitors but it looks like they’re not even trying to hit the hot spots directly or stop the spread

[@amandahudson431]

You go show them how it is done🙄

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@amandahudson431 right after you

[@ricbarker4829]

Very impressive, now, wait until it's prostate starts to enlarge....it happens to all of us.

[@user-mv3bm4qm6q]

👨‍🚒😍❤️🇴🇲

[@jeremiahkerry]

As I suspected. The Island encourages the growth of turf (peat) which needs no irrigation, so obviously tinder dry and deep. I can only presume that it is to prevent the wind carrying the soil away.. I would not be buying a home nearby.

[@mgoo5713]

👍

[@lottnio8207]

Fire boats don’t need to worry if there is enough water.

[@A.W.62]

???? Na was hat den Beethoven mit San Francisco zu tun. Anstelle eines Wasserspiegel an einem Brunnen die US Nummer nur etwas größer im Pazifik.

[@outhouse9451]

Infinite water glitch

[@kenjimaurerfromdisneyland2001]

13:12

[@eddie120225]

Please we want without music:(

[@charmingdevil84]

Great job but after sometime seemed overkill lol

[@drissdisco3139]

Sd

[@BuckOwens-eo6ie]

So why didn't Hawaiian s have boats they not American too?

[@nanettebarling1222]

The music is a bit over board. Had to turn it because the music was just too much. Nice boat and good firefighting and cannon work! Thank you SFFD!

[@salsuper4605]

Good video. Wrong music.!!!!!!!

[@michaeldownes4110]

It was great to see these guys at work and to keep them on the job VOTE Republican !!!

[@deimos2k6]

rather interesting video, but pls cut out with that silly music.

[@wallochdm1]

Why do people ruin otherwise interesting videos with insipid music? Just wondering.

[@AdamEllisonC]

Thanks for bringing the word insipid to my attention again. Lovely word. The neat thing about music on a soundless video is that you can mute it and still watch the video. There was no original sound so nothing is lost, and the people who enjoyed the music have gained something. That's why! Thanks for your insipid comment.

[@joshuarichardson8174]

Waste of resources let it burn to the sea

[@20truck]

Good video of the fire boat, but cut the terrible music down

[@latiprahim936]

Bad background song. Not relevant at all. This is not in the opera theatre guys.

[@jillsmcfarland2001]

Its all theater

[@franklauriekranitsky2782]

Why Why Why on the cr--py music!

[@brushrescue1701]

Cracking video but the music sucks big time

[@dreamcruzer4743]

this music has got to go.

[@dedrikkzchnnl7703]

Thank god for the MUTE button!! Wtf

[@hswing11]

THE MUSIC MAKE THIS VIDEO LAUGHABLE' WHER E IS THE POPCORN COLD DRINKS

[@douglasmilligrock4151]

That's how to put a fire out and keep it from spreading out!

[@lionzilla2173]

Music 🙉