PRE-ARRIVAL: Full House Fire Response - Thomaston, ME

[@Chris-cd6ry]

As a firefighter, I appreciate the videos that you post. As a fire captain, this is one of the few videos that I have seen where the majority of the people in the equipment actually know how to operate a Q2B siren as well as the air horns. Sirens are cycled well and not drowned out by the air horn. Good job guys!

[@canadianheroes]

Thank You For Your Service!! Stay Safe Out There & God Bless!! 🙏🚒💙

[@maxwellnelson6544]

Agreed as a voulenteer firefighter the videos I've seen theres some places that dont do any of the cycling

[@fitoremaloku3592]

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[@dug2fire]

That is the nerdiest fire video comment ever, commending their siren and horn usage, wow. Nothing about the excessive apparatus or lack of people actually in them?

[@seangoodine7139]

@@dug2fire sounds like you don’t know what a rural fire department is, nowadays with little pay, training requirements and low budgets you’re lucky you are getting this. This is a mutual aid agreement where if there is a structural fire they send all these units to make sure that adequate staffing is met to reduce injury and ensure the public is provided for, E3 had 3 in the truck, Ladder 2 with 1 and E4 with 1, some full time departments run with 2 on each, not a big difference there. I’m from this community and most of these guys can run circles around some of the best departments in the northeast.

[@hav_a_nice_jay]

I saw a kid about two weeks ago outside my house standing on the side of the road filming fire trucks with his phone. Thought it was strange, then this video was suggested on KZbin and I can see my house! Small world

[@alpinkalistus4290]

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[@mogausephewu3442]

Such a beautiful scene 🦍👍🏽💯❤

[@tarence319]

At the 01:26 mark,....I absolutely LOVE how the ladder truck and ambulance stopped at the light after the engine went through,....NOT assuming that other drivers would heed to the sirens and stop for them. Nice work guys!!!!

[@jayasmrmore3687]

Yup. The last thing you want to do while responding to an emergency is create another emergency.

[@andrewcraig3369]

So true, it's always the second truck through that gets t-boned at an intersection. Drivers are so focused on the first truck they hit the gas without even realizing there are other units behind it. You never see that in these response videos.

[@cellobuchanan7538]

Bro like how the hell are you getting all these angles and different spots and timing etc. This is probably the best response video of the decade. Absolute gold this is.

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Thank you very much!! I have multiple cameramen and a scanner so I hear when they get calls. 😉 Thanks for your support!

[@MasonWills-q3m]

As a Maine Volunteer Firefighter i appreciate watching Maine trucks respond. They are very good engineers going through traffic Go Get Em Brothers

[@darrellswander8913]

I’m a retired Firefighter and it really nice to see other Firemen doing such a great job.

[@dayshawn_444]

And women!

[@joegaito702]

Your service is deeply appreciated thanks to everyone who responds keep them safe out there appreciate you guys thanks job well done you should be proud ! Joe

[@carlsoleii9540]

That is so awesome. Congratulations to all the firefighters out there. Keep it up

[@TheSuperbird43]

I am a former EMT/ PARAMEDIC with the City of Portland Maine Medical Crisis Unit. My heart goes out to my brothers in Thomaston Maine!!! We all Love you!!! STAY SAFE!!!🥰🥰❤❤

[@n150cz9]

I love the older engines and the light packages. As well as the POVs responding great catch!

[@geraldmurphy1428]

I a volunteer for the Yakinville North Carolina Fire Department. We always were on the go. Thank you all men and women for all you're help fighting the Fire s and helping the people in need, the resuse squad. 🚒🚒🔥I'm retire from the Fire Department Now.

[@negansstuntdouble1777]

Now there's something i have actually never seen where i live (N.Y) such a respectable community of people that know how to drive! And when u see lights n sirens u pull over yield or move.. There are common sense people in this world! Great town!

[@TheFalconJetDriver]

There is your answer it is NY were so many have no respect for others, all they think of are themselves!

[@elizabethcartwright4954]

Bad

[@markbickelhaupt4414]

I am a retired Firefighter, rural NY. City people just don't care. Rural people move over. Great video work!!!

[@jeromedarrell4153]

❤

[@emankcin8]

They're not as good as you think around here, but that was exceptional on the video. You would think people would do better. They always claim on facebook they want to.

[@TheSuperbird43]

As a Former EMT/ PARAMEDIC!! these guys DESERVE all the CREDIT in the WORLD!!!!❤❤❤

[@joegaito702]

Great job great catches as usual the paramedics and firemen deserve a lot of credit your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks don't work to hard love and appreciate you guys you guys rock keep them safe out there way to go ! Joe

[@adriana2548]

Grew up in this area! Cool to see this in my suggested! Stay safe, first responders!

[@thomasfletcher4765]

Quite the response . Great catch of all those toys ( apparatus ) especially the older ford tanker/tender

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Thanks!

[@richardjaneway5518]

That was a pretty LN Ford

[@tgreen603]

Work on Allenstown Fire in Allenstown New Hampshire and I actually heard about this fire through a buddy of mine. Was actually wild! Love the content and I appreciate the videos you post. Much love bro!

[@joegaito702]

They deserve alot of credit tons of it let's honor and appreciate the paramedics and firemen and police who proudly serve us your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks great job great team work and great and sweet catches as usual great team efforts are deeply appreciated thanks stay safe and warm out there its a service we can't live without right much love to everyone who responds and is involved thanks !!! Joe

[@murielsmith8922]

I don't know what was on fire,but the response was amazing. Great job guys!!!

[@nkt1]

An oil refinery, judging by the response.

[@canadianheroes]

Amazing Catches! Fantastic Video! Keep Up The Great Work & Stay Safe Out There!!!

[@robertwolfiii8711]

Thanks for the new working withs

[@JohnDoe-es5xh]

I'm always impressed, how big and heavy these firetrucks in the US are. In Europe we have smaller ones, who also serving the jobs very well.

[@KPaul77]

That’s cool the fire chief must also be the township salt truck. Smart!

[@mr.wilson8340]

Gotta love multi tasking.

[@treesixtyeight]

It's probably his personal vehicle. Maine may allow RL&S for volunteers.

[@keithaxelsontitterud3943]

It is beautiful to see these Hero’s comin in hot to help people I get a adrenaline rush watching them comin like a BOSS!!! God Bless them😎😎💪💪😇😇

[@killahjeep]

Lol, thought this looked familiar... can see me driving the opposite way in my orange tacoma @3:35.... good job my hometown FD!

[@davidmichael6239]

Wasses. Those chili dogs are amazing !!!

[@jjb8740]

In response to the people who believe it is staged: Thomaston Engine 3 and South Thomaston Engine 53 both have at least a crew of 3, Rockland always goes with a crew of 2 or 3 (I know from previous conversations), and Warren routinely go with one man per truck and the rest go POV. Plus how do you account for the scanner traffic that is in the video?

[@gabea.5711]

They're just jealous, lol.

[@alwhalen3488]

@@deanvanluven6813 This is a very common response in volunteer fire districts. Call in everything you might need, send them back if you don't. Better to have and not need than need and not have. Great response and an awesome video. I miss those days but got too old and retired from volunteer fire service.

[@landon2050]

To the people who think is staged Him: Calls 911 911: Hello Him: yo can you connect me to the Fire Department i wanna ask them if they will help me make a video responding to a fake house fire 911: i mean its a total waste of resources and gas aswell as a real call might come through and we are gonna need them but sure why not like no this wouldnt happen they would just hang up

[@taliethepuppy4645]

@@landon2050 you literally just made me laugh out loud! Love it!

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@deanvanluven6813 we'd send that amount of apparatus (and way beyond that) to large scale drills, but if absolutely necessary they can always leave for real incidents (at least the special operations apparatus); Normal apparatus are covered by other stations in the area then

[@DrDre-ps4sd]

I used to live in thomaston. It’s cool to see this

[@jaketumath3371]

Great video!

[@Edward-bi8mk]

👍👍 good too see Maine on here again.

[@CoolFireTrucks]

All of my videos are Maine.

[@Edward-bi8mk]

@@CoolFireTrucks Bradley fire,were a pretty quiet department.

[@deathvalley1592]

GOOD PHOTOGRAPHY!!!!!!

[@mogausephewu3442]

WOw both response were cool and great but Those two beautiful last Thomaston response were majestic 😭🤗🤗🤗

[@pamhofmeister2531]

Awesome...🎄🤗🤗

[@elwardimouhamed7124]

Nice catch

[@BMorse99]

Great Catch!

[@officersmittyjr]

Man, I love seeing Maine emergency services out doing their thing. Not very many videos, I've been able to find, that include Maine emergency service folks. Wicked nice to see.

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Thank you! I have over 400 Maine videos on my channel! 😄

[@MasonWills-q3m]

As a maine volunteer firefighter i know what you mean i get excited to see a video that says maine on it

[@paulsheehan8185]

HATS OFF TO ALL FIRST RESPONDERS!

[@MasonWills-q3m]

Thank you

[@Futuristic_Ruby]

great catch

[@207firephotography]

Awesome catches!!

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Thanks!

[@mikemuppet3807]

lols i had a lolsalot moment, loved in one scene all the big trucks were in front followed by the tiny ambulance in the rear roaring his siren with all its might...

[@johnbratley6926]

Here in the UK all pumps whether whole time or retained must have a minimum crew of 4, 5 preferably. Aerials just have a driver as a support pump is always despatched to crew it. Specialist rigs such as incident command, foam, hose layer ect will usually just have a driver also. These vehicles are mainly the demountable pod type.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

interesting to hear about that; Over here in Germany Aerials have a crew of 2, sometimes 3, and an Engine / pump usually has a crew of 9 at volunteer departments and 6 at career departments; Special operations apparatus like Tankers, Heavy Rescues etc come with a crew of 3 as well

[@daveadler6112]

Does that include call fire departments in the UK, or only the full-time career departments? The fire department seen in this picture is not a full-time career department, they are paid per call volunteers (which is uncommon, most volunteers in the US receive no pay), so they may not have more than a couple people to respond with the engine at first.

[@johnbratley6926]

@@daveadler6112 In the UK the statutory minimum crew on a pump is 4 for both wholetime (career) and retained (paid volunteers). We only have county (state) fire services and all firefighters are trained to a national standard. The retained firefighters are paid the standard hourly rate for their mandated training sessions and a call out fee plus the hourly rate every time they are paged to a job. Unless at least 4 retained firefighters respond to the station within a certain number of minutes that appliance is not mobilised.

[@dalegarcia7637]

Awesome footage

[@ottis4518]

Ironic stumbling into this. Born and raised in Rockland Maine. My thumbnail is my uncle Charlie who we lost in 2018 for years he was known as code1 Kurr.

[@Shadow20011]

as a probationary firefighter I been to my first big structure fire and it was good and I worked my ass off on that big structure fire call in my town

[@milesbrown8016]

Well done chaps……..🔥🚒

[@robmonkey]

Everybody bring a firetruck! That quint looks almost dark in comparison to how brightly lit the engine in front of it is

[@hitlercat7341]

And a sand truck in case they run out of water. Hahaa

[@flairball]

Does this area have hydrant coverage, or are the fire companies operating solely on the tank and tankers?

[@michaelpoyntz774]

Man, that is a lot of equipment and manpower rolling to one event!

[@kevinhumphrey3931]

Good catch. This reminds me of how much I hate strobe lights.

[@Hasselhoff25816]

Are you sure the entire neighborhood wasn't on fire?

[@pooletrainboy]

0:37 Is that the Marine unit :) In all seriousness it that a wood chipper in the bed of that pick up?

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Sand spreader

[@johnhayes8962]

Just curious, Does Maine have fire police members with their stations?

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Some do but not all

[@markl1942]

Many of the departments here in Maine that are volunteer have fire police.

[@usernameavailable6434]

So did like. You record them through the intersection and then run through the woods to catch them arrive on scene or did you have two people recording 👀 🚒

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Haha I had two people recording about a mile apart.

[@markt538]

We’ll bring the whole city. No fire has a chance!

[@John_Montefalco]

My town does the same thing, it’s sick

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

Very good video.

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Thank you!

[@freddielemonheadsimmons]

Great job 👏

[@freddykagin]

A Great team ❤

[@malcolmgardner5292]

I totally support all da fire department and that is straight facts 💯

[@justsayingopinion6730]

What ki d of crash airline?

[@westsparks6844]

Damn, how many fire trucks does that town have?

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Thomaston has 3 Engines, 1 Ladder, 1 Utility and an Ambulance which is a separate department but kept in the same building.

[@molliesdad4702]

Damn, that was quite a response.

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Yeah 8 fire apparatus (and two Chief’s) is pretty good! I have gotten some bigger ones before though.

[@firstrespondersqueensland1501]

Nice video I subscribed

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Thank you!

[@johnsobaski3478]

Love the ford. Any details on it?

[@CoolFireTrucks]

For what?

[@johnsobaski3478]

@@CoolFireTrucks Warren Engine 4. Age of the truck? Pump and tank size? Would guess an 80's to early 90's with 1,000 gal tank and 1,000 gpm pump.

[@CoolFireTrucks]

1995 Ford L-8000/E-One. Not sure about the GPM or tank size.

[@johnsobaski3478]

@@CoolFireTrucks Thank you !

[@TrainsOnGoPro]

Nice Video! 04:30 I like these 2!

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Thanks!

[@curtismass5243]

So, what happended tha required so much aparatus?

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Possible structure fire.

[@jamesvanscoy7717]

Is rockland and warren far from thomaston fd

[@CoolFireTrucks]

No they are the neighboring towns and Warren is volly and Rockland is a combination department.

[@alexandermakrianis]

@@CoolFireTrucks is Thomaston full time?

[@CoolFireTrucks]

@@alexandermakrianis no paid on call

[@alexandermakrianis]

@@CoolFireTrucks oh ok, great video by the way. You guys have nice equipment.

[@CoolFireTrucks]

@@alexandermakrianis thank you very much! Engine 3 is the best in the fleet in my opinion.

[@jaybwilliams7859]

With that many trucks you'd think there'd be an actual fire haha

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Haha yeah they didn’t know what it was yet. Came in as a possible structure fire with smoke in the building.

[@robertjones1730]

@@CoolFireTrucks I live 10 minutes from there. It is a well maintained trailer park with good spacing between units and a narrow road but I am pretty surprised they were calling in so many trucks from other towns. The winter's are kind of boring so I guess it's a good excuse to go drive the big trucks fast!

[@master582]

@@robertjones1730 In Maine you would rather have it on the way and not need it than need it and not have it. when a structure fire is called especially when you have unknown needs and a unknown total response you get the mutual aid moving quickly IDK if these towns have auto responses set up for events at dispatch but when I worked at a dispatch center several towns we worked with had Auto response for all structural fire calls so just to be clear on what that is the dispatcher takes the call of reported structure fire or Smoke in a building or similar the Dispatcher has a plan already in place to get units moving to the scene the chief or Incident commander or First arriving unit can call it off but if you are at home and it is a 2 minute drive to the station and a 10 minute drive out of town you want to be moving from the earliest moment possible. Especially if you are going to have to set up water shuttles or other labor/time intensive incidents. In Maine it is not uncommon to be without fire hydrants so you want water moving toward the fire as soon as possible as well.

[@markviereck4547]

Where’s the fire?????

[@Opiemus]

Holy hell! How many attack pumpers and ladders do they send to one structure fire? I think this was a bit of Overkill.

[@nigelft]

Maybe ... ... if there was a report of 'Persons Trapped', then you need as much resources as you can commit ... ... especially depending on how large the structure is, and colour of smoke ...

[@Thewhistleblows]

More alarms [bigger fire] more units. Or spread

[@zacharyhudek2726]

Or they need more personnel

[@seantyler1269]

Well seeing as most those units were tankers im going to go out on a limb an say no organic water source.

[@BW12149]

In my city, a structure fire response is usually 4 engines, 1 ladder, and a Chief. If it’s a larger structure, it’s, 6 engines, 2 ladders, 2 chiefs, and sometimes haz mat and rescue. It’s mostly for manpower, and it’s better to have too many at once, then not enough and play catch up, which never works out well.

[@Scrappymoney2]

Where this happen at tell me the state 😯

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Maine

[@Francesc2000]

Cool video. :D

[@donnamst.perrier5526]

Hard to watch ever since September 11th I cry every time I see fire trucks.However I thank all those drivers who yielded,not something you see everyday.Hope everyone was ok

[@carvdecarv]

It’s like being in the year 2004 with all those strobe bars!

[@JazzyChef]

this reminds me of the small town where I grew up. You would cut your finger and have four fire trucks show up ;)

[@jeremymia4949]

Nice response...

[@gregcosta6965]

I miss those sounds of the sirens and horns. I live in Europe now but when i lived in Toronto, Canada i used to hear these all the time. To be honest they kind of creep me out.

[@adamhenderly1602]

Was mutual aid canceled? Beautiful rigs and great video. Where was your mutual aid from?

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Yes mutual aid was canceled pretty quickly. They were Rockland, Warren, Cushing, South Thomaston, and Waldoboro but most of them were canceled before they got on the road.

[@milkdud8464]

There’s nothing like running code 3 with smoke showing!!!

[@jessicaglendadelcarmenpena7315]

Zxx'

[@SharonMcNutt-i3y]

❤❤Much loved

[@douglaswallace7680]

I do not usually look at the video channel's name . all I read of the title was "Full House Fire" . Expecting , oh , I don't know . Flames ? My Bad .

[@sparkthefirebuff4]

GO GETTEM BROTHERS!!!!

[@FST_BUFF]

1:42 into the vidio their was an ABULANCE and it sounded exactly like the watch dogs 2 siren for EMS

[@marksweeney3777]

This was a first alarm??

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Yes

[@christophermichaelfuller5448]

" Mathah, must be a bad fiah somewhah..."

[@John_Montefalco]

Ladder 2 and engine 4 need new lights, sick catches though!!

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Thanks!

[@seangoodine7139]

The lights look just fine off camera, the camera doesn’t catch the strobes light frequency

[@John_Montefalco]

@@seangoodine7139 that’s what I figured tbh, but idk to me it looks poor lighting, 2 lights on the back and 2 in the front, needs more in my opinion

[@jb6712]

Good on the driver of that red pickup who was in the left turn lane, but moved well over to the right to get out of the way. That is a class act, sir, and one that all of us need to emulate if we can do so safely.

[@thomasjsanford4369]

The 2nd vehicle in the video didn't look like any kind of Fire Truck to me. It was a 4 wheel drive pickup truck with a sander in the back, like snow plowing companies and lawn care businesses would use.

[@benditobendito976]

Most likely one of the chiefs from a department, or another Volunteer in there POV.

[@danlaurie275]

my gawd...how big is the house...so many toys

[@elshpen]

How much equipment could they possibly have needed for a house fire? Was it a house or a mansion?

[@CoolFireTrucks]

7 fire apparatus, an ambulance and a couple chiefs isn’t very many to me.

[@elshpen]

@@CoolFireTrucks I guess out in rural areas they send more. In my (old) home area, for a box they'd dispatch 4 engines, a truck, and a battalion chief, with a heavy rescue at night.

[@CoolFireTrucks]

@@elshpen yeah most of the departments around here are volunteer paid on call.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@elshpen we send a convoy of 5 units to every fire call which isn't a trash bin or vehicle fire. Even if it's nothing more than an automatic fire alarm, with no-one reporting smoke showing, it will still be at least 5 units responding

[@master582]

@@EnjoyFirefighting Have it and not need it than need it and not have it simple as that.

[@BeytekinConstructionMachinery]

Two men two cameras or one man who can beam? 😄

[@CoolFireTrucks]

Haha, two people and two cameras 😉

[@BeytekinConstructionMachinery]

@@CoolFireTrucks Thx god! 😄

[@terrynagle7410]

Some of these trucks need new lights. I love seeing old trucks

[@lostinlox]

Was there even a fire?!?

[@susandallessandro2905]

Did I miss something? What fire? I only saw emergency vehicles driving!

[@CoolFireTrucks]

It is a structure fire response. Turned out there wasn't an actual fire.

[@peterblack1639]

I like in America how volunteers have like salt spreaders on the back of their trucks but have full flashing lights going on.....

[@jacobschwertfeger6514]

Sounds to me like the town i live in all volunteer exept for 4 full time ciunting chiefs as rigs get maned there sent out untill called off by onscene commander

[@tomcrawford5860]

The Ol' Boys from Warren were haulin ass

[@melissajanico5826]

Lmao I agree with Chris. What’s 🔥 burning. 🤷‍♂️ the entire neighborhood I don’t even see fire or smoke. They must get 1 structure a yr n one call a week. Wow overkill 🤷‍♂️😂😂😂

[@Roxburysfinest]

4:00 big boys coming through

[@Ryanrock2]

all those trucks, where was the fire?

[@crykiller09]

I LOVE these US Trucks. So fucking Iconic. In Germany we have just shit ^^