Grass fire from a burn barrel 3-4-20

[@fremountstsongsrich2453]

Iam a Retired Fire Cpt. Best Grass fire attract Ive seen here on utube! perfect truck speed and perfect hose work wish others could learn great mop up too!!! great team work Great Job guys!!!!!!

[@VassilliHD]

I'm a firefighter in eastern kansas, my last grass fire was a 6 foot line in a ditch where someone threw out a cigarette butt. We put it out with a shovel xD

[@paulforth8234]

Nice work! Always excited for your videos

[@p0thead]

Nice hose work, I wish you mopped up that good at home 🔥

[@PaulieMac77]

😂😂😂

[@bruscifer]

Don't be fooled, this kind of grass fire can get out of hand faster than you can believe. My Son and I were going to burn some junk furniture a few years ago. No big deal. I had a clearing bordered by some grass about the size in this video. I noticed he had placed some of the furniture closer to the tall grass than I would have liked, but I thought oh, this is nothing we can't get on top off with our shovels and some monitoring. Started the fire, the taller grass caught, and we were in TROUBLE fast. Racing against the fire we could not keep up. Finally in a panic I called 911 and the local FD shows up. The FD shows up and acted like this was no big deal. We were panicked but they took their time setting up, and checking equipment and getting ready. Chilling, smoking cigarettes ( I am kidding here of course). Finally they started spraying, and the fire we had fought so hard to stop was over. Litarily in minutes. Kudos to the local FD, and a hard lesson for us. We were covered in soot and sweat. The FD was clean and ready to go to a dance.🤣

[@paulgoodrich9926]

Great job men stay safe u all

[@alexbee4905]

I love your videos can u make more

[@remp5529]

If you guys are having wind like we are up here in NEK than I can definitely see how this could have gotten REALLY bad really quick. Good work!

[@jrockyhill]

We are getting real bad wind today fingers crossed nothing happens

[@codyzent6471]

Saw this same thing but in Indiana.

[@Chakkuiyap]

From this video I see the amount of patience, quick thinking a firefighter has to have. Not sure how they manage to breathe in midst of the smoke. Unknown heroes. When I see a fire engine, I try to visualise the power of rain.

[@tzq33tdq]

How much water do those appliances carry? What flow rates and pressure do y'all use for grass fires?

[@jrockyhill]

350 gallon im pretty sure and we run 30 gpm and down when we can to save water

[@tzq33tdq]

@@jrockyhill oh nice! The lowest flow rate I've used on a slow grass fire was a out 10gpm, but our tanker has around 800 gallons usable

[@jrockyhill]

@@tzq33tdq yeah I have been on a few fires where we are the only ones there for a while and trying to stop it fast before it gets real bad running 10gpm to stretch the tank as long as you can

[@connorlafleur5224]

What Fire Department do you work for

[@jrockyhill]

Saline county rural fire district number 3

[@dirkdiggler2507]

Just a question, why drive on the hot side?

[@jrockyhill]

traditionally speaking you're supposed to run in the black because there's no fuel there I personally on a lot of fires don't like doing that because you can't see what you're doing and because we're mobile we can shoot right across the line and in the black if we get in trouble

[@dirkdiggler2507]

I see. It just seemed like it would eventually heat those tires up after a while. Thanks

[@emilolsson777]

First

[@jrockyhill]

Ha thanks for watching

[@emilolsson777]

@@jrockyhill NO problems