London bus fire March 12 2015

[@TLBNation]

The 242 had suffered from 3rd degree burns and needed to be taken to Homerton Hospital

[@discombobulatedjadiel]

💀

[@HarryOfficialChannel]

Interesting to see that two buses have had major fires in London, and both have been Volvo B7TLs. Hmmmmmmm.....

[@trainsofbritain3954]

good point there was a fire in croydan on a same model bus

[@stevedewsbury]

i was there that night when it happened, I work at the shopping centre where the bus was. the fire spread very quickly

[@stevenlobel3907]

where is it?

[@justanoldman9762]

On watching this video along with both UK and other country services .WE in the UK Must be thankful that UK appliances carry a supply of water giving time to connect to a hydrent and fight the fire at the same time .My thanks to ALL UK firefighters.

[@greyman686]

Where are you watching videos that they don't carry water?

[@Manc-king]

grey man most American ones I see even a car fire they set up a supply line before a hose

[@greyman686]

mtuey Which videos would these be? Usually, unless it's a large fire, nobody pulls a supply line for a simple car fire.

[@Storfordcountyrailway]

i have seen a lot of vids of a burning g1

[@EyeWatchThemAll]

What size (diameter) hose are they using? It looks like they got a good knock on the fire, but awfully small hose lines. In case anyone asks, I'm in the US, standard size attack line is 1 3/4" diameter.

[@CDB8939]

19mm internal diameter at around 30 bar pressure (450psi)

[@ozzy2426]

it is 1 1/2'' inside diameter

[@kennethsewell4245]

They carry 800 gallon and use that while they connect to the mains

[@NickF14]

Lovely spitting on the floor. Grim. Good video though.

[@GTAEmergencyVideography]

Great video Martin!

[@emsservices6090]

horrid person filming this, spitting.

[@reeceprior2095]

Day before my birthday this happened 😯

[@flykj]

At 2:55 you should have saved your mouth full of spit and gone over and helped with putting the fire out.👍

[@superiorduck2105]

You really had to do that?

[@patsematary]

@graham yogibear ...how you dare...Unions have decreed that “haste is harmful. and irrelevant ” Firefighters are workers like everyone else and aren’t militarised corps or soldiers as happens in the horrible, backward and enemy of individual freedom Europe, blah! 🤢

[@ANDREWWALLFORD123]

My god!!! How start fire on this bus is it???

[@DanielsPolitics1]

+Andrew Wallford I think that the engine on fire. I'm more amazed that so few engines catch fire, given the flammable oils used to lubricate them and how hot they get.

[@user-hw1cr5uq4z]

Where I live, they wouldn't even of had to pull hose off the rig. The firemen are so tough that they could have extinguished the blaze just by pissing on it!

[@ozzy2426]

and where do you live dreamland

[@kennethsewell4245]

You want putting out!!

[@humanexperience2713]

1:11 you get a skype message ;)

[@bobbymckenna955]

you get a Skype message ;) haha comedy =-O

[@craigguild231]

i can't believe that Officer boarded the Bus without a B/A kit on ...!! if that was a firefighter, he'd be sacked on the spot.

[@findthebadger418]

Offers never wear BA they're protected by their white lid... It's a point of great discussion all across the countries fire services ahaha

[@normannicol612]

@@findthebadger418 he's part of the Square of fire heat fuel oxygen white hat take one away the fire goes out

[@WeareLegendsZ]

Looks like im never taking 242 bus again, this isn't the first ive seen on fire!!!

[@NLTransport]

Its not like the route has a higher chance of the bus catching fire lol

[@B7BeastAVMan]

Bus can be found here for scrap www.flickr.com/photos/77011412@N04/18994223496

[@pratt11111]

NO ONE RUSHES ????

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

graham yogibear Shut up you arse! You clearly have no understanding of priorities, tactics nor techniques on the fireground.

[@Storfordcountyrailway]

tfl hates the genimi 1

[@flangerak]

Grey man tell you are from Canada and not North America.

[@greyman686]

Canada is part of North America.....

[@WestLondonTransport]

Poor Gemeni 1

[@pratt11111]

WHY NO B / A SETS WE GOTTA WEAR EM

[@123owenboy]

+graham yogibear Which brigade are you in?

[@CDB8939]

+graham yogibear If you look, the Firefighter on the far side of the bus is wearing BA 1.01 The Initial attack was started from a distance without BA to control the fire whilst keeping out the smoke to allow the BA wearer to don up

[@123owenboy]

I wouldn't bother arguing with him, he's a moron

[@123owenboy]

Finally; someone else that's noticed...

[@roIlercoaster]

graham yogibear lol

[@pratt11111]

Y NO MAIN JETS

[@123owenboy]

+graham yogibear WHY WOULD YOU USE MAIN JETS ON THAT :')

[@ozzy2426]

graham yogibear we don't use the larger diameter hoses on small fire we use the reeled hoses on vehicle fires bin fires and even house fires though with house fires if fully involved (whole house is on fire) we will use the reeled hoses to control the fire and start putting water down while the appliance is connected to the hydrant and main hoses are laid and connected with bigger fires just the main hoses are used as the pass more water and are a lot more powerful and need two men to operate them as for vehicle fires only the reel hoses are use they aren't as powerful and are operated by one man and as the engine has enough water on-board to put out upto 8 cars fully alight there is no need to have a line running to the hydrant at that time and afterwards the tender in refilled back at the station or on rout back to the station

[@rogerramsay5700]

Only in America would they use main jets🥴

[@roIlercoaster]

Bus can be found here for scrap www.flickr.com/photos/77011412@N04/18994223496