**RARE** FDNY Fireboat Extinguishes Car Fire on FDR Drive Highway in Manhattan [ Box 1077 ]

[@gtoger]

Rare? Rare?! Looked WELL DONE to me!

[@Scottwasnthere]

comment of the week

[@DaleDix]

Won't be towing that away!

[@c165vin]

WHAT A JOB!!! Who would have thought the fire boat was 1st due on a car fire. Nice catch, and to see someone still works outside the box

[@DByers-ci5kr]

Excellent pun!

[@robertborchert932]

I love the sound of that fireboat. Six cylinder diesels. Sweet.

[@diorynovis]

Common: Firetruck extinguishes boat fire

[@Virre737]

FDNY might as well sell all their respiratory equipment, seldom seem to use them...

[@BROOKLYN1977]

I noticed that as well

[@NashBen]

And they wonder why so many are getting lung cancer.. The equipment protects but only if you actively use it!

[@Epicgye]

Probably has to do with the old tough guy mentality seen in the FDNY. I saw videos of guys in New York coming out of buildings that are literally POURING with smoke near 0 visibility wearing absolutely no respiratory protection. The departments around me require the firefighters to wear full protection if they are putting out a car fire, never mind entering a Smokey building. It’s really sad to see they are cutting their lives short.

[@tinderbox218]

I think it was mostly steam by the time they walked up to it.

[@bigtuna4037]

At least they don't have cigarettes in their mouths.

[@johnharris6655]

The city of San Francisco had one fire boat in 1989, the almost sold it in 1987. That fire boat saved the Marina District buy pumping water out of the bay to emergency hydrants during the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989. They now have three fire boats.

[@midwestfire]

SCBA was made for a reason.

[@SirPeasant]

Wait, we don't wear it for fun? 😑 I was thinking the same thing

[@midwestfire]

@@SirPeasant Yeah, on my Department if you come within 150 feet of fire or any smoke you are required to have your SCBA on.

[@joker432]

Yes, you are suppose to wear them to look cool. Everybody knows that lol

[@chuckbronco6485]

🤣😂 Where do you work?

[@midwestfire]

@@chuckbronco6485 Arkansas.

[@megaweld7018]

Tremendous Work by the FDNY Marine Unit and Ground Members . First time that I have ever seen this done. The Big Gun on the Marine Unit definitely did the job and helped big time in preventing major damage from being done to the overhead bridge which could have shut down the FDR for quite a while . Thanks for bringing us this excellent and rare pic .

[@davehollick3646]

A few years ago a fire broke out on a major highway bridge in Pittsburgh that was under going renovations. The post fire investigation revealed that if the fire burned 30 more min the bridge would have collapsed into the river.

[@seanamona6387]

Was in the tunnel when this happened, so weird seeing it from a different perspective

[@FDNYResponseVideos]

Was the smoke banked down throughout the tunnel?

[@sampointau]

Mind you, the hose could've been connected to the hydrant output on the bow of the fireboat when they ran out of water on "5". Then there's the question of why no hydrants in the tunnel or along the road there, it's pretty standard requirement over here and in Europe, 1 hydrant at least every 100' even if the pipe and hydrants are run along the outside of the carriageway facing the river.

[@therealdudemitch]

Freezing.

[@sampointau]

@@therealdudemitch forgot about the he weather there, we don't have the same cold problems here. But down south they have lagged pipes where exposed and sometimes circulation pumps which switch over to feed through when a hydrant is opened.

[@JimmyMcneil]

Charger looks great, obese highway guys in a really tight uniform, not so much.

[@roycejernigan9681]

ikr, there's no way that you can do your job safely in that condition. I'm surprised NYPD doesn't have more regulations for physical fitness.

[@ColtonBlumhagen]

@@roycejernigan9681 They do when they're hired, clearly the standards fall off after that.

[@harold21693]

Another troll moron heard from.

[@LUFE190]

The smoke isn't very healthy … are the respirators for decoration on the backs of the firefighters?

[@DByers-ci5kr]

Steam

[@OklahomaEmergency]

How do you get so close without any pushback? You get some awesome shots that I wouldn’t think any ol photographer could get without some sort of pass or something.

[@josephbennett3482]

Not sure if you have seen any other FDNY videos but they generally don't care about bystanders or anything same for the NYPD, none of them care unless it's a call involving a deceased individual..

[@ffjsb]

@@josephbennett3482 They don't care about getting cancer or respiratory diseases, so why would they care about civilians?....

[@eesti919]

@@josephbennett3482 In most other countries they would shoo away bystanders to make sure they stay safe...

[@Superintendent_Chalmers]

@@eesti919 New York isn’t most other countries~ lol. They go through so much shit every day, they’ve got their own jobs to do, shooing you away would be a waste of their time, esp. in New York where “the occasional bystander” is roughly 200,300 people thick. Now, if this camera man got in their way at all, I guarantee they would have kicked his ass out of the perimeter. Wearing a safety vest, and holding a camera will get you just about anywhere

[@eesti919]

@@Superintendent_Chalmers Makes sense. Thanks!

[@robertdombrowski7312]

Guess you will never run out of water.

[@matthewpayne42]

God bless all who serve with the FDNY.

[@jasondelaney6849]

What are the vertical lights on the cruiser at 1:56?

[@Adelaide_Transit]

I believe they are called risers

[@kylerabend7]

Risers/hi-risers. All red in the front, red+blue in thr back. Helps traffic see the hazard ahead, especially through smoke or heavy traffic

[@jasondelaney6849]

Cool never seen them before

[@waynep343]

So does FDNY have adapters to allow the refilling of fire trucks from fire boats? might be an easy connection to make and keep on the fireboats so no do many would be needed. . yes.. i know its salt water.. but its not hard to wash that out of the trucks when the incident is done.. look at how san francisco has portable fire mains that connect to fireboats.. allow fire protection of the city when the water pressure is lost in the mains.

[@Species1571]

Without doubt one of the coolest things that was happening at that time. I've never seen this before. There was one a couple of years ago where they used the boats to help with a large warehouse fire.

[@chrisc2683]

Talk about poaching jobs hahahahahaha.

[@FALCON21301]

The Fireboat guys were bored! lol

[@Sam-px5yn]

That’s awesome I’ve never seen that before!

[@22LR.addict]

After reading through the comments I see the handline was being supplied by E5 and not the marine unit. Where was E5 located, roadway underneath? Never been to NYC so completely unfamiliar with this area.

[@FDNYResponseVideos]

This part of the FDR Drive is narrow and so they stack the two highways. Northbound goes under and southbound goes over so engine 5 was underneath on the northbound lanes and took a portable up to reach the fire

[@22LR.addict]

@@FDNYResponseVideos Thanks for the reply!

[@davidmrohde]

@@FDNYResponseVideos "Narrow" is a kind way to describe it.

[@donb4301]

Excellent. Great Camera work and very interesting video of the fireboat!

[@RestorationRanchHealing]

Wow great video. That car fires was crazy stubborn. Also insane the driver went MIA I’m curious if this a stolen car that was hot wired and literally went hot ! Thank God no one was injured. I was also curious if they every sprayed the ceiling of the tunnel the way it was smoking ? Thank you great videos as always.

[@carabiner7999]

Think that may just have been smoke that was trapped by ceiling.

[@squeezegenny]

Its a Mercedes cant hot wire it, but it was a amg so I assume he was driving reckless

[@trob0914]

Fire boat ” WILLIAM M. FEEHAN”( RIP Deputy Commish ,FDNY 1959-2001), supposedly knew every hydrant location in the city!! FYI, regarding the use of SCBAs, it’s usually left to the discretion of an officer at the scene, however when there’s mostly steam not smoke, SCBA “air” is saved. Departments and policies vary, but it’s No way near to the “early” years with not wearing hoods nor SCBAs! I witnessed some of these changes first-hand!!

[@austinpace5071]

Speaking from experience it’s always fun to poach a fire call from land units. Nice outside the box thinking.

[@justanotheraviator2357]

Lol

[@crewsk11]

Do they ever use the fdr truck anymore? Suprised they didn't send that

[@ScottRothsroth0616]

At timestamp 4:28 is that a temp tag (temporary tag)?

[@hyperfluff_folf]

What are those extra 2 lightbars on top of the cop car, is that some thing you mount on top temporarily or what even is it in general

[@mic7265]

They fold and help display an emergency so people in line can see what’s happening

[@lukaskleemaier3529]

Whats this fluid he put on the floor? At 08:05.

[@c165vin]

That's foam in a can

[@retiredvolly8682]

the fluid was foam concentrate not the usual way to apply it but the splash of water would spread it and prevent flare up of fuel fed fire.

[@lukaskleemaier3529]

In Austria we use an original foam pipe. It is much more efficent.

[@almerindaromeira8352]

@@lukaskleemaier3529 you mean a Schaumstrahlrohr or a kombi? I don't think they have those in America. I think they only know CAFS or Druckluftschaum for us.

[@treysteinberger1457]

It’s AFFF foam

[@Ducknell]

Why did it keep reigniting with all that water?

[@DeltaFoxtrotWhiskey3]

Why didn't they just disconnect the hose from the engine and attach it to that standpipe on the bow of the boat for unlimited water?

[@Bernie0481USMC]

Great shot of the highway unit with the risers

[@darylprescott8130]

FDNY got all the cool toys

[@Samanthareneeheart1]

Only wondering could they have used Marine 3 as a supply or even as the main engine company? I'm sure they made the initial attack from their monitor. Great job btw, I am just curious if M-3 could supply the water needed to hand lines.

[@FDNYResponseVideos]

They were about to set that up after engine 5 ran out of booster tank water. The marine units can supply multiple handlines and supply lines.

[@Samanthareneeheart1]

@@FDNYResponseVideos what I thought

[@fa3556]

Marine 3? Maybe next spring they can help out. A little far for them anyway.

[@FDNYResponseVideos]

@@fa3556 she’s going off a typo from the description. Has since been corrected.

[@fa3556]

@@FDNYResponseVideos 10-4

[@AliceOConnor851]

How do these guys feel about you filming? Just because you get real up close to the action. Good catch though?

[@jaydak99]

Was that an electric vehicle? Even if it wasn't, what is protocol on EV fire? Does the battery having lithium matter?

[@homeappliancescience4366]

I also thought about if they fire from the fond was due to a Lithium-ion battery. Might it have been an hybrid electric vehicle?

[@GBraidi78]

Nope, I think it's a Mercedes GLE 53 or 63 AMG!

[@bcfd2011]

why didnt fdny just pull in up there or is the rig too big to fit?

[@eastcoastrailproductions5559]

probably because of traffic

[@forzer456]

Nice catch!

[@karagregory69]

I'm surprised the water tanks on the boat don't sink it. I don't see any hose to a hydrant, so all the water must be stored in tanks on board the fireboat.

[@FDNYResponseVideos]

The boat is floating on its tank! ;) The boat drafts water from the river and has an unlimited supply of water.

[@xheralt]

Even if it had onboard tankage, it wouldn't matter. Once it's in a storage tank, water is just...weight. As long as the boat hull can displace ("float with") the weight, it makes no difference whatsoever what _form_ that weight takes.

[@photone]

Please please PLEASE tell me you are joking...the boat is floating on it's water supply.

[@rspearsonyt]

was that another Tesla with a battery issue ? was the fireboat on the original dispatch, or just so happened to be in the area ? not an everyday experience, thanks for sharing....Scott

[@timothybarney7257]

Wheel center cap on the rear looks like a Mercedes logo.

[@soundestmonk]

Was one of those ugly Mercedes SUV coupes. Looks like an AMG GLC43 Coupe based off the exhaust tips.

[@virginiaboucher2049]

At first I thought you were hanging off the bridge! Amazing video!

[@KG-yn9qi]

Was that one of the new all electric cars we all are suppose to have in the new green deal shit. Batteries short and burn down the car?

[@frstrspndr1478]

No actually. Seems most comments are calling it a gas powered Mercedes. Who knew gas powered vehicles could be so dangerous :)

[@hngbones]

Insane... What a good catch!!!

[@mfd78]

Soooo, no foam eductors on the fire boat?

[@1582len]

They probably do have them, but why would foam be used for an average car fire?

[@mfd78]

@@1582len Well, that's kinda what it's designed for. I used a 1% foam mix every time I pumped a car fire. Water penetrates better with foam, you use less water, fire goes out faster, it extinguishes any class B fires, and can even work on Mg fires! Did you see they were having problems getting the fuel fire extinguished? They ended up just splashing undiluted foam on the ground and whipping it up by spraying water on it. They had a hand line right there usually you just push a button and foam comes out mixed with the water.

[@GRosa250]

New Mercedes with a New Jersey temporary registration. Either someone was having second thoughts about their new car or it was defective.

[@nayefhowar6624]

How much water does that little boat hold?

[@FDNYResponseVideos]

They’re sitting on an unlimited supply. No tanks, just draft from the river.

[@wendy833]

@@FDNYResponseVideos wow, I thought it was obvious where the water comes from. But I guess a few aren't thinking that way.

[@hammers1518]

@@wendy833 lol

[@tjlovesrachel]

As much as it’s sitting in

[@mikegaskin5542]

Hope you had your SCBA on bud

[@BROOKLYN1977]

Is it a macho thing not to wear masks at a fire even during an overhaul where there's still smoke

[@johnharris6655]

That boat has keep the engines going full throttle to account from the force of the water being sprayed in the other direction.

[@davidmrohde]

Moreso keeping the boat in place against the river current. Look at the wake behind it.

[@desertfox4921]

What kind of car was that ?

[@carabiner7999]

Mercedes.

[@GBraidi78]

I think it was the GLE 53 or 63 AMG!

[@my92yj]

What's the point of wearing an SCBA on your back if you're not going to use it? Just adds weight. Is the air in those bottle so precious that they can't ever use it?

[@leesmythe344]

aren't life jacket s meant to be worn on boats.....just a thought

[@jebj1]

1st 20 pound dry chem was a waste. He laid it on it's side which let all the pressure out but not the chemical. 2nd 20 pound dry chem he was pumping the handles- lol why ?? Plus it had so much rust on it I'm surprised it didn't explode.

[@evanlandis1816]

anyone know what kind of car was on fire.?

[@robertandrews3259]

Was anyone hurt? I saw a guy pull over to maybe assist just before it exploded.

[@FDNYResponseVideos]

Nobody hurt, driver is MIA. Guy who pulled over was an off duty cop, no injuries to him.

[@stevebailey6403]

Why have a set on your back and not start up ?? Still very smokey.

[@SalesTaxin]

@4:25 license plate is still good .😁

[@sanddabz5635]

Maybe the back rims were saved?

[@SocialistDistancing]

What a stubborn car fire. LoL..I thought maybe they'd run a handling from the boat. I guess that wasn't possible.

[@the_socompsp]

i would be more worried about the stability of the bridge above the fire..

[@XHollisWood]

FDNY Nice 👍 Job Brothers 🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒

[@b3j8]

Pretty damn cool! Thanks!!

[@jacobkeppler1984]

Nice work by fdny keep it up 🧑‍🚒🚒🇺🇸

[@xXTR4IRSOF7]

Get a nice wiff of that smoke guys! Good stuff!

[@LightsandSirens]

wowwww ! great video !

[@nicholaswiant]

Love ❤️ you’re videos

[@shfaasho]

Is it my imagination or are some of those cops on the hefty side of the table??

[@wendy833]

@shfaasho, that's part of the job description I think. Very seldom do I see a fit officer that could actually run after a suspect.

[@shfaasho]

@@wendy833 LMFAO

[@kyleglennon5336]

Well done!

[@OnTheSceneJax]

Cool video and nice catch!

[@spacemilk-c8d]

Wow! Very nice catch!! Stay safe everyone!

[@lukebushorr6632]

When you can’t get a fire truck, use a boat!

[@garybooska296]

Good job getting all of last year’s road salt off !

[@dinkchow]

I think it was a Lincoln Hybrid.

[@santajerry]

looks like a mercedes lmao

[@Tubberggo0014]

Good job by fdny and marine 6

[@robertbrady9597]

great job on the car fire on the fdr drive stay safe to the fdny an all the brother to an you guys to

[@SimplyCali619]

Wearing SCBA why not use it....

[@max1umattack]

No one talks about the mercedes

[@ArtStoneUS]

I remember a time when cars did not melt

[@JS-zb1vv]

Radio traffic. You guys got a hydrant. Guys on boat look over the side . We got a river But no hydrant

[@dannycortada7721]

That smoke is toxic bro

[@rogergoodell1874]

❤️ You FDNY

[@A.Matt7]

i like the diesel boat engine sound

[@pumpkineater32]

Nice FDNY 😃👨‍🚒🥳👌🏼

[@JakeW26]

That was pretty sweet

[@master582]

Hey do you think this is what they meant when they say big fire big water? lol

[@desertfox4921]

Here comes the wora

[@captainkidd1234]

Why ? Because we can !

[@LadyTarasque]

talk about a stubborn fire o-o

[@KD0LRG]

Should have let the boat dump more water on it and cool it down

[@TheJttv]

Need a drone to aim the thing

[@drabberjewel7108]

NJ Plate. Figures. :)

[@carabiner7999]

LMFAO. Right?!

[@HelloHello-tf7nz]

Mercedes AMG on fire

[@Shekdawg]

Thats smart as fuck

[@ericcarlson8648]

When u need to justify buying something

[@erickaegi629]

Unbelievable! Next they will be doing the truckies job.

[@grandwaha]

Just have the boat spin that car like a top from down below. Unlimited water supply

[@ivtones]

Jesus Loves You

[@yankeefist9146]

Bring hand line to car fire or bring ocean to car fire, hmmmmm...

[@njfinests]

50-75 Firefighters on the scene & not 1 black one. FDNY is shameful & disgusting!!!!

[@FDNYResponseVideos]

There were 15 firemen on scene. Why does race matter?

[@scottallen8329]

OMG 🤦‍♂️

[@ageraccx1931]

dont know why anyone would spend money a GLE 63 any way (the burnt mercedes)

[@Afrayd]

Wow 😳

[@tompleas8160]

used car. Fixer. Low miles. Heat stuck on high...