*PRE-ARRIVAL* Dozens Displace, 1 Injured, in Federal Way Apartment Fire

[@lynskeyti9940]

Great nozzle work, amazing what a well placed 1.75 can do when used properly.

[@laurakearney2956]

God bless them all. 🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@jimdavenport8020]

Gotta be miserable standing with a slack line waiting for whatever has to happen on the other end for them to charge the line.

[@amandahudson431]

Excellent video. Nice to see a department show up with a pep in their step. Get water going fast instead of pulling 6 lines none getting charged

[@aday1637]

Back in 1979, I lived in an apartment development with several buildings that had 2 stairways each and each stairway had 12 apts. At around 1am I was awoken by noise outside. I went to my 3rd floor balcony and saw one of the buildings across the parking lot on fire. It burned 24 apartments to the ground fed by natural gas to each. The call went out to maintenance (it was a Friday night, early Saturday morning) to turn off the gas at the main. No one could find the maintenance personnel and when they finally arrived to locate the main, which was in a manhole in the parking lot, they couldn't get it turned off. Meanwhile all apartments were completely leveled by the gas-fueled fire. People were coming home from the bars to find their homes destroyed. Screaming, crying ensued. The red cross set up a truck to aid the families affected. The fire burned most of the night and in daylight there was little left. The did completely rebuild the building while I lived there, though and were able to re-rent all units. Not sure if any of the previous tenants came back.

[@sarahbrunton2693]

Oh no hope they’re okay

[@chronically.advocating]

Just a couple questions. Was there live lines down? I swear I hear arcing of a faulted line. Also who was that screaming in the beginning? They sounded like they were being burned alive.

[@jsk1818]

The main electrical box was arching floor 1 at the main stairs to every apartment unit. Not sure who was screaming, tend to tone out the screamers on a scene.

[@chronically.advocating]

@@jsk1818 I'll have to watch that again then. Usually you can see arcing even through flame so I must've missed it. The only reason I asked about the screaming is it sounded like someone was actually still in one of the fire apartments, but I guess some people scream like that regardless of the situation. I perfectly understand tuning out things kind of what I do with some of the audible notifications we have in the skilled nursing facility kitchen I work in (don't worry nothing serious just the dumbwaiter return and call bells, and sometimes the phone is I don't have time to catch it).

[@tomkakos351]

Put out the fire ????

[@Rich-dw9ii]

Didn’t see the ladder until end of the video. My bad

[@blueindigo7690]

City & State?

[@patrickkelly5009]

Hmmm, if only that info was in the title? 🤔

[@ronbradley5631]

Kinda surprised they pulled an 1” 3/4 on this and not a 2”1/2. And no master streams…

[@amydavis4945]

...And yet, they had it down pretty fast using what the on-scene command told them to use. Amazing that they might have known better what to use than you do from your comfy couch. So how long have you been, or how long were you, a firefighter?

[@ronbradley5631]

@@amydavis4945 16 years thank you. I would put my knowledge of fire ground tactics, incident command, firefighting up against your any day of the week.

[@kjack61]

BS! 150 gpm did nothing for that fire. 2.5 all day long. Basic tactics

[@michaelmonaghan2717]

No excuse for them not to have water! And yes that was a deck gun/2.5 " line fire from the get go!

[@trvman1]

IN New York City, this would have had at least 50 fireman respond :) Funny how so many companies can do the same work with so much less manpower.

[@jamessimmonds3773]

wow.... a pretty decent knock down only to be foiled by running out of water. unacceptable...

[@Rich-dw9ii]

Where were the aerials? No room?

[@ronbradley5631]

Exactly what I was thinking… they had plenty of room…

[@ctbowhunter7497]

No expert but a deck gun or ladder truck to knock down fire in the cockloft I would of thought

[@robertwiggler4193]

you cant just start dumping water from the deck gun or tower until you VES (vent, enter & search) otherwise you will just push the fire back into the rest of the structure, thats why it's usually an interior attack until it becomes unsafe and then it goes to a defensive operation

[@chronically.advocating]

​@@robertwiggler4193I agree. The only time I have a serious problem with tactics is when they (not in this case) keep switching back and forth between interior and exterior attacks. That switch takes time to evac all the members and any time without water on the fire is seconds lost, and could possibly allow the fire to get the upper hand. Once you go exterior you stay exterior until either MBF KD, or AVF KD. Then you can go back in and complete your primaries and secondaries.

[@michaelmcnee3638]

was this in 2's first due

[@jsk1818]

Yup

[@roberthughes35]

Where’s the deck gun

[@laineybugger]

Yikes

[@johanrebel]

They couldn't get their diving rod to work, had a hard time digging a well, or did they have to send a truck to the nearest convenience store to buy some water?

[@richarddragin2262]

Very very poor management of resources

[@kjack61]

Not Monday morning quarterbacking but as a boss with that much fire presenting obviously running multiple buildings, why would a 1.75 be the first Line off the truck? That fire screams 2.5

[@willbob8532]

Getting paid to watch the fire burn priceless.