Flint City Fire Department - Fully Involved House Fire on Dakota and Minnesota

April 2024, Flint City Firefighters were dispatched to a vacant house fire on the Dakota block between Franklin and Minnesota. Truck 55 arrived and reported the rear of the structure going. Crews attempted entry to the front but were met with heavy fire conditions, and resorted to a defensive stance. Crews work similar to Detroit's Let It Burn policy, meaning if no exposures to adjacent buildings, firefighters will wait until the fire has burned the structure before putting it out.
Engine 11, Engine 61, Truck 55, Squad 1, Squad 2, and Battalion were dispatched.
Copyright 2024 Brad Noyes Photo 39 Fire and Rail Photography

[@ronfreniere8769]

Glad that it was a unoccupied building, and that there were no injuries to anyone related to this incident. Thank you to all firefighters everywhere for protecting the citizens of your coverage area.

[@TheBossJohn]

That's one way of getting urban renewal done.

[@robertcable6348]

That hose on the "B" side is just a bit limp.

[@user-pz9fs4yi2e]

Legend has it, the house is still burning to this day

[@photo39fireandrailphotography]

Hahahahahha! True story here.

[@raysaxton9981]

Flint Strong my ass. I'm glad I left Flint 35 years ago

[@northwoodsmanbybobolink336]

Controlled burn of a vacant house, post fire training.

[@suzylarry1]

sometimes you got to do what you got to LET DO !

[@jamessimmonds3773]

😊I knew Flint had bad water. Guess it affected the pump pressures too. 😕🤔

[@debbiebrowne]

I was born in 1959 . My Grandfather Bulit a lot of home back in 1938 and in 1952 my dad also helps him in remodeling. Home and Business until Jan 20 ,1970 wend my grandpa pass away. I left. back1979 never came back until June 2011 wend my dad die. So sad to see Flint gone bad like this

[@FDGAMERMartin]

As a 24yr. Fire Vet,This Department Sucks!!!!!!!!!!

[@josephcjohnson9966]

Out side of Detroit this is the busiest department in the state of Michigan hard to be aggressive with 11 guys for the whole city.

[@jsmith198095]

Reminds me of certain rural dept 😂

[@shanestamball1886]

WTF? Call for a pressure increase. Or find a new driver

[@deneenpowers3615]

first line on the b side was using tank water from the ladder truck, no supply line but still least get the supply going instead of holding hand tools looking important, house could have been saved though

[@tokencivilian8507]

A sad commentary on Flint, that there are so many vacant, derelict homes that it's better to just let 'em burn when they do catch fire. What this vid has me thinking about are multiple things: 1) When, about 12 years ago, the home across the street and one more back down the way was torched by arson (cluck-head argument between druggies). Anyways, the flames were about as high as this one and from 200 feet away (measured on Google Maps) it felt like a sunny, warm summer day at 2am on my front porch from the radiant heat. Glad it had rained a couple days prior as there were glowing, burning embers showering down all over the neighborhood. The neighbor across the street and directly adjacent had his rear slider and vinyl windows melted to the point of needing replacement. 2) Makes me wonder what it was like in Dresden or Tokyo when they were firebombed in WW2. This, times 10,000 is what I imagine. 3) This place was somebody's pride and joy when it was first built. Who lived here and for how long? What was the story that led to it being abandoned vs being sold at a cheap price? 4) Looking at a satellite view of Flint, there are blocks I see where there are 3 homes left on one side of the street....and at least a dozen driveway's across the sidewalk to nowhere. Truly sad.

[@photo39fireandrailphotography]

Years ago when chasing in a Detroit, I had similar thoughts. What were homes of families were now looked at as simply being an eyesore. It's crazy how things change.

[@buzzmeachum1855]

Who brought the hot dogs?

[@debramiller9892]

What is the purpose of that policy on vacant houses? I don’t quite understsnd

[@lisad1724]

Prob because vacant houses draw vagrants and gangs which leads to firefighters risking going into a potential explosion or being exposed to chemicals used in drug making or worse yet a career or life ending injury trying to confirm there’s no one in it.

[@canman7432]

regardless of their policies on vacants... this is embarrassing

[@stanleysnowmonkey3189]

Is that how flint does urban renewal by just letting house's burn down, while fire department just stands around watching it what waste of taxpayers money and this video should be shown across the country on how a fire department shouldn't respond to a house fire, what a joke

[@BarryDeaton]

U all r just standing watching it burn r u kidding me do u not no how to do u all job prety sad why call u yall if u just stand around my God wow sad

[@terrybaumgarten8099]

This is done so you don't come back 3 or 5 times to the same structure and run the risk of having a career ending injury to one of your firefighters or worst yet a line of duty death.

[@PEB2631]

yankee fire dept

[@sevenmile4921]

Dam man fint Michigan fire department need some better fire hoses because the water pressure is not strong it’s weak water pressure they could’ve been had most of the flames put out