Major Response To Tinicum Township Brush fire

[@FD-E-St-Fire]

Gotta love the two or three open cabs with the real fire truck sound coming out of the Detroit diesels. Bring back the deep growl of the Detroit diesel

[@jsmith198095]

My dept still runs and uses a 87 pierce engine/tanker our 1st out truck ♥️ it’s a bad boy!!

[@harrypedeson3845]

i agree

[@Tower_15_Ladder]

​@jsmith198095 what station?

[@jmille1666]

Many of the rural township and village fire departments have a high percentage of volunteers. Line officers such as chief, deputy chief and captains in Pennsylvania are permitted to have red lights and sirens on their personal vehicles as they may be responding from home or their work place. When fighting brush fires and forest fires adjacent to occupied dwellings and industrial areas it is common practice to use the ladder trucks and snorkels to set up a water curtain to protect the roofs and a water screen down wind to protect against airborne embers spreading the fire.

[@Redman147]

Old school Federal Q will forever be the gold standard sound of a fire engine. Just a beautiful sound and it's recognizable no matter where you're from.

[@wubbzyeas615]

RIP TAC 8 😢 One of my favorite rigs ever other than Hecktown Engine 5311

[@socaltransitproductions]

What ended up happening to tac 8 after it got retired

[@jaxprodplays]

isnt that the 4 guys rig?

[@TC.Thompson5544]

The 4 runner and the Chevy blazer I believe that’s what it is. Those are pretty sharp vehicles Ngl. And the pov response with the tan ford fire police van. Great catch. Much love to all firefighters. My dad was a volunteer firefighter for 23 years he had a 2000’s impala he would fly in that car. I’m surprised the suspension didn’t give out from how many times he would go airborne crossing the railroad tracks responding to a call or the station

[@puestodecomando2]

wagon 70 and the last engine... literally killing it!! love it

[@mastojiratkach7761]

Agreed!

[@dawolf7784]

As a Lt in A rural fire department when you have a large brush fire your going to need help , not only man power but water resources . A lot of people don’t realize rural areas don’t have fire hydrants , you have to pull water from rivers or streams or ponds . A lot of these fire trucks are coming to bring water. People don’t realize but brushfires can spread extremely rapidly and are extremely hard to put out. A few years ago in North Carolina we had a large brushfire involved nine different fire departments and I would guess around 30 to 40 different fire apparatus and probably around 3 to 400 firefighters. Most of them were volunteers. In rural areas you have to run water shuttles code 3 back and forth to water supply points . During this massive brush fire we even had a large fuel tanker truck brought out to the scene to keep the fire trucks running and to supply fuel to the trucks shuttling water . It took several days of constant fire suppression and then having to overhaul all the burned brush to find hot spots . We had firefighters so tired that groups of us literally laid down on a tarp to catch some sleep while others kept battling the blaze . People just doing realize how physically exhausting fighting brush fires are .

[@davidcox3076]

Living in the country we were very aware of this. No water lines = no hydrants. Once a field catches and the slightest breeze and fire is everywhere. The one time we did have to call the rural volunteers, they got there in time to kill it with one tanker and a couple of brush trucks. Really did a great job.

[@soonerstatefirephotography]

My Dept. has Brush Trucks with platforms and cages, so a smallish grass fire in the field is pretty easy. Once it spreads to the trees, it's a real pain tho.

[@American-pl8fo]

or tankers

[@philipmason2435]

I agree as a past assit chief in a rural community brush fires spread so fast,you need manpower pumpers for dry hydrants to fill tankers and equipment for the brushfire 4 by 4 s all terrane vehical.alot more then ppl realize.

[@viacheslavglukhov8188]

They never been at a fire. As one man said put you into my shoes and you will know. Don't assume because you have no idea

[@jrv5567]

WOW! That must have been some event! It almost looked like all of Tuesday was burning down!!! You're the best for staying out there to catch all those awesome pieces responding!

[@foxtrotzulu4605]

Incredible response... One of the best FD response videos I've ever seen!

[@temjr09170]

Thank you so much! Really means a lot

[@Tbird1549]

Thanks for staying out there so long to catch all of these!

[@Rummeltobi]

How long have you stayed there Michael?

[@thepubliceye]

Only in PA are the weeds tall enough to require an aerial ladder grass fire truck.

[@emailaccount7240]

😂. Some of the nasty crap around here also has so many thorns I'd probably let it burn

[@josephbennett3482]

Here in Pennsylvania a brush fire is the worst thing anyone could want to appear because we have such dense vegetation and 99% of PA is full of thick wooded areas with a lot of wildlife that would get displaced or killed so it's best to not let fires get out of control like what happens in California constantly. A wildfire would be very disastrous because our state isn't equipped with aerial firefighting vehicles , the forestry department has a few helicopters but they're not all over PA.

[@thepubliceye]

@@josephbennett3482 I live in rural Ohio, we have brush fires also, we have 4wd trucks just for brush.

[@tomwheeler3264]

@@josephbennett3482 I can assure you, california doesn't "let" these fires get out of control. It's a completely different climate, different terrain, different fuels and so on than Pennsylvania.

[@Jimmythefish577]

@@josephbennett3482 if brush fires are the worst anyone would want, why do none of these depts have brush rigs?

[@snowowl4019]

That last one is just pure badassery!

[@flexmann2148]

What a powerhouse of a fire engine at the end. @ 12:05. Roaring Detroit Diesel 8v-71.

[@widowmaker4008]

At the beginning of this video that black Chevy Trail Blazer light set up was VERY NICE!!!! It is the best pov response I've seen EVER!!!! LOVED IT!!!

[@ckevinreyes]

It’s always mesmerizing to see emergency responders from other countries. Great video brother!

[@billyjackbuzzard]

Old ladies sometimes yell!

[@BahamasEmergencyResponse]

It was amazing to see different Units Responding especially those Unmarked Unit...🤩👍

[@AHomelessDorito]

Pretty sure they were all mostly volunteer firefighters

[@NPGxMOD]

@@AHomelessDorito Yea most if not all were volly. Normally the unmarked units with red/white lights and sirens are High Ranking members allowed to use em in their POVs, The blue lights (I only saw the one, are regular FFs

[@AHomelessDorito]

@@NPGxMOD really only high ranking out near you? I know a lot of volunteer FD’s in the Midwest that let their firefighters put on red/amber lights after a predetermined amount of service.

[@HooksHalligans]

Awesome! These are some of the best rigs I've seen in a while!

[@centralnewyorkresponses7887]

Wagon 46 Jesus! They were leaning and blowing black smoke!!

[@Brisoup1]

Something wrong with the injection system on that engine. It obviously shouldn't be doing that.

[@jwills22]

You mean wagon 70

[@johnwick6088]

@@Brisoup1 nothings wrong with wagon 70. She runs great and faster than99% of the other trucks around there.

[@hagerstownredline1327]

@@Brisoup1nothing wrong, Mabye they just turned her up a little

[@geoffg8840]

​@@johnwick6088is she still in service now? 3 years later? Beautiful wagon and my fav color too

[@thekiwicanuck]

That last one really charged through like a boss! Good video!

[@md_randoms2429]

That’s prospect park

[@frankies6770]

That was the last call for that truck sadly she has seen some big jobs in her day

[@md_randoms2429]

@@frankies6770 oh rip

[@ReidDiRocco]

Quite the action you got there for 12 minutes there were a lot of units responding for a brush fire

[@chuckman231]

Love how the smoke gets worse each time you pan towards it.

[@bobrehak5075]

If rocky run came why not Media fire co or garden city of rose tree they are all 15 minutes from rocky run!

[@OnThe23rd]

The amount of pov's to the scene it's amazing they even get actual apparatus there...

[@temjr09170]

The POVs are fire police

[@jack.stawasz]

Love the Pierce arrow ladder!

[@hisaddle]

Here in the Colorado Springs, CO region, depts have lots of Brush Trucks, google it, a 4x4 one ton flat bed with water tank, small engine to run the water pump and some hoses. they hit the fire and keep going back to nearby water tanker for refills. We have lots of dry windy weather so grass fires are not rare.

[@HighOnLife1985]

Above all apparatus that responded, I have to say, that Sutphen, whew............man that thing can roll

[@temjr09170]

Yup! That was its last ever call!

[@seangoodine7139]

Flying the Army colors too! Hooah!

[@snowowl4019]

@@temjr09170 How come? What became of it?

[@FireRescue80]

@@snowowl4019 it was replaced by a Seagrave.

[@justindavis4962]

I'm amazed at all the people that kept on driving while the units were trying to get through the intersection. I guess they are blind and deaf.

[@woodstockenvy4666]

Great catch .. ah, the sound of a finely tuned "Q" .. that siren, it makes the ground shake. thanks!

[@icebaby2821]

Hayti 🇭🇹

[@icebaby2821]

Tuvalu 🇹🇻

[@icebaby2821]

Trinidad at Tobago 🇹🇹

[@socalfirebuff91377]

6:50 when your department can’t get a powercall so you gotta get creative

[@pandyjohnson8980]

You think these. Fire trucks. Cool you are to see Jackson Tennessee. Awesome

[@pandyjohnson8980]

But then they all. Are the big number one. Thank you God

[@GlitchManPlayyz]

That makes no sense if there all responding to the brush fire in tinicum then why is the tinicum engine 48 rate there and not at the fire already 10:02

[@schlp7566]

Amazing how many of these trucks don't either slow down or stop at a red light just to make sure everyone sees them. But a major response great video.

[@Homercomm]

Gonna miss seeing Tac8 vids ! Also. The dark color 4 runner, the first responding POV, any other video of it? We have a 4 runner looking for ideas on lighting placement & it looks sharp.

[@johnbratley6926]

Is there a prize for which FD can mount the most flashing lights on a rig ?

[@bigman10239]

Lol, don't encourage em.

[@andrewhb531]

In PA, yes

[@TJP773]

Yes, dumb ass people still don’t get out of the way. Someday it just might be their trailer on fire.

[@fbm314]

@Johnny’s Bricks every....square...inch

[@herotrueblue5704]

At least no Karen can’t say they didn’t see the emergency vehicle. If you can’t see the glorified Macies Christmas parade running like a bat out of hell screaming like a banshee you should not have a drivers license.

[@ericthesoldier]

Lmaoooo 6:51 playing with the EQ making it the powercall

[@DesiredDemo]

5:23 That old truck almost tilted. They must have been in a huge hurry!

[@trob0914]

Nice rigs, All, but wow @5:11 “Wagon 70” drive it like you stole it!!

[@skunklover5725]

I like the one at 1:44 including the sirens.

[@tlabadie289]

I'm at 3:56 but man do PA300s sound good. It's also one of those with a phaser instead of Hi-Lo

[@Rummeltobi]

1:18 did anyone else notice the driver of the Subaru turning on its blue lights? 3:30 lovely old Dodge! 4:30 very interesting rig! 4:50 is a gorgeous truck, love it!! 5:21 looks so damn cool too! 6:34 also looks really cool with those 3 units coming in at the same time! 7:19 that older blue E-series with the red lightbar looks quite unusual. Do you know what that is? 8:05 old school beauty! 9:38 that's an interesting HME(?), followed by a wonderful looking Seagrave with a beautiful light setup! 12:05 wow! Those are some amazing catches Mike! Absolutely awesome video! 😊

[@stevyn9276]

1:29 Same Subaru from back

[@HeavyIronsProduction]

8:05 is an 06 KME Squrt, 7:19 is a fire po lease unit

[@worldrenowned]

7:19 That’s Goodwill Fire Company Traffic 77

[@DivinityzBeAsT]

5:03... Boy that truck wasn't playing hot dayummmmmmmmmmmmmn!!!!

[@robertgildea2841]

I am watching from Elmira NY it must've been a pretty big brush fire to have that many units of emergency personal respond to the schene

[@Average_Joe87]

Nice black exhaust coming out of Wagon 70.

[@Aviationgeek21]

Had some nice black rims on it to

[@bigwatt2136]

Delco's finest....a plethora of wacker mobiles

[@mattkeller2466]

A literal parade of whackers.

[@larrystultz7545]

Superb video thank you for posting

[@k.s.333]

Love the Squrt 43 clip...

[@temjr09170]

Thank you!!

[@michaelsalvatoresicilian]

Outstanding video, what was the time frame from the first unit to the last. It's a 12 min video, I'd say you were probably standing there an hour. Great job! God Bless!

[@temjr09170]

Thank you! I was there at least an hour

[@eastpa8741]

Was this @ the industrial park in Essington pa?

[@jimclaytor9834]

Being in Southern California these guys are bad ass.👍👍🔥🔥

[@veggiepowered]

I'am Your Newest Subscriber Great Videos I Have Lots Of Police Fire And Ambulance Videos That Very Few Watch I will Be Lucky If I Get Paid This Month

[@trainboy1979]

Oh man..saved the best for last! That tac 8 sounded some good!

[@ReidDiRocco]

3:44 Horn blew out

[@Francesc2000]

So many fire departments responding... awesome video

[@20truck]

Hey I've got a question how come some of those pickup trucks that went through the intersection had yellow lights on their light bars, but they had sirens as well. And just about every state in the United States Amber or yellow lights mean caution not emergency vehicle that's generally reserved for red and blue lights with a combination of white, so how do trucks up there respond to emergencies with Amber or yellow light bars with sirens that's strange?

[@emvvehicles_8]

What a great way for Tac 8 to celebrate retirement!

[@temjr09170]

Yup!!!

[@enricomiguelgeron6419]

Old and new apparatus and engines, nice one

[@ЕвгенийКоркин-ц3т]

Молодцы быстро оперативно❤

[@Keaton0801]

5:16 that fire truck done rolled coal on everybody XD.

[@nabiloxyer2832]

I love engine 12-1

[@mitch1348]

Powercall siren gets me every time.

[@julioguzman6898]

3:19 that engine looks better than all the rest!! I didnt see a single type 3 brush fire engine!! All of them were structure engines!! Those states in the east are not prepared at sll for fires. Unlike california, arizona, oregon, nevada, colorado texas in my opinion have rhe best including new york and florida,

[@justinslater8047]

Over on the east coast it’s not as common and as severe to have brush fires like on the west coast, so a type 3 brush apparatus would not be needed. There are plenty of type 5 brush vehicles as well as some of the tac units that were caught responding are brush trucks. Engine were needed for manpower as well as water but there were brush units responding

[@julioguzman6898]

@@justinslater8047 they need more type 3, and crew carriers to carry man power!!

[@wyattmarshall7026]

@@julioguzman6898 we dont need type 3s. our trucks got the job done.

[@cja9070]

This is delco. Just outside Philadelphia, urban/suburban area. Not much need for many WFF vehicles

[@jimdevilbiss9125]

I am as many others have said surprised that there a new brush trucks. Here in Maryland almost every company has at least one if not more brush trucks. I have to assume that the aerials are mostly for manpower.

[@eastpa8741]

While you look up the road from the sunoco, you will see a dennys,red roof inn. Back in 2005 a major fire that started in the kitchen of a Diner while people were eating were told to leave. I watched as a normal restaurant setting went from food on tables,lights on as normal to flickering light's to smoke to watching the roof cave in and the diner went to the ground. That was nuts! Tinicum-Essington merged,prospect park, Ridley,Norwood,Glenolden etc,,always have been good companies, but hands down Norwood has the best latter truck. Just think for a moment, These are volunteers going towards the smoke. Well done..

[@RetroCat969]

Nice little view of the RSH-10 Thumderbeam down the street at the end

[@billyjackbuzzard]

Gramma's bush is on fire

[@user-kl7tg3fu4d]

6:07 love that old ladder truck

[@temjr09170]

One of my favorite trucks

[@athompso99]

I don't see this asked, maybe I've missed it... for such a large fire RIGHT outside Philadelphia, why was *all* the mutual aid coming from rural counties (some a decent distance away), and nothing at all from the city? Does the big city dept not participate in mutual aid?

[@temjr09170]

The fire was in Delaware county. Philly very rarely does mutual aid, how ever E78 responded to this

[@Thomas1980]

Awesome captures my friend 👍 Thumbs Up & Big LIKE 1338

[@Unmarkedemergencyvehicles]

0:54 sounds exactly like the ambulance we get in the UK

[@FiregroundAudio]

That's also the farthest geographical responding unit I've seen in the video. Complete opposite end of the county

[@truegameplay8740]

don't be making fun of Edgmont

[@worldrenowned]

@@truegameplay8740 They weren’t???

[@truegameplay8740]

@@worldrenowned It was a joke

[@FiregroundAudio]

uhh...I'm not

[@bmbro1k_titties]

0:44 (-~Guy looks at the trooper~-) 1:28 I like how they have many undercover cars like that subaru

[@NPGxMOD]

That one specifically was a Volunteers POV either enroute to station or to the call it self. So it was not an actual emergency vehicle

[@joshuaknight311]

Is the gray and white van police or firefighters

[@RandomTrinidadian]

Okay... that Ford Van with the lights? Police?

[@amazonbox5551]

3:56 What siren is this, it sounds pretty good

[@ReidDiRocco]

Pa300

[@binky8501]

aerials for a brush fire?? did they have exposure buildings or something?. I cant for the life of me figure what the heavy rescue and special ops trucks would be doing there either

[@temjr09170]

The fire was so large And there was exposure to buildings.

[@timcowan5528]

Basic everyone with flashing lights and a noisy horn gets to go…the equivalent of half of England’s fire service went on that shout😂😂👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@dragonsong1023]

It's Tinicum Township , Delaware County, Pennsylvania and where is the fire, that they are going to extinguish?

[@StreetGang2017]

That must have been one doozy of a brush fire.You would have thought a nuke went off by the response.Each twig had it`s own engine :)

[@TheHonarable1]

Lmao...I didn't want to say anything but looked a little excessive (but hey I wasn't there). After all of that I REALLY wanted to see this BRUSH fire!!

[@johnwick6088]

It was roughly 90 acres and was threatening either going into a densely housed area or shifting onto the Philadelphia airport grounds. @@TheHonarable1

[@chriscole6075]

Dam for all those Responding that Brush Fire Must of been Huge

[@medicineman360]

I'm curious. I read the fire was at the Philadelphia Airport. How big was it (in estimated acreage)? I'm asking, because I find it odd that so many engines and aerials responded, but very few brush trucks and (if I'm not mistaken) zero tankers. Are there just no out-of-the-way places, up there, with inadequate public water supply?

[@temjr09170]

The fire was massive. No idea about acreage. That county does not have many brush trucks. They had one tanker, Squrt 67 is a tanker. I’m not exactly sure of the last question

[@medicineman360]

@@temjr09170 lol. It took me a bit to figure out what I was trying to say with that last question, myself. I THINK I was asking, do they just not have any need for tankers up there? Are all/most areas adequately covered with good water supply?

[@johnwick6088]

The area this was at was in Delaware County Pa directly next to the back end of the Philadelphia Airport. There wasn't any tankers aside from Squirt 67 for 2 reasons. One was because there was hydrants close by and a lot of engines to relay, and two because tankers are really uncommon around there because there is almost a hydrant on every block almost. As for brush trucks, the main reason why there were so many engines and not a lot of brush trucks is because large brush fires are rare in that area. Usually the biggest brush fire is some mulch in front of a store catching fire due to a cig or high heat. Also it's a really rough calculation but the area of the fire was roughly 90 Acres and was close to either shifting towards a residential area or jumping the road and spreading onto the Airport property. I know it's 2 years late but if you still use this account, I hope the answers clear your prior confusion. @@medicineman360

[@thetimeisnowtaine84]

To what I think, these are one of the most biggest PA fires in history. Living here in PA is very tough, and I understand..

[@kaidenfiregamer2500]

4:35 ngl that special operations unit looks fire

[@cpo87]

Wagon 70 movin‼️😂💪🏾💯💪🏾

[@greigward5833]

Great job u are really keeping mt baby brother enertained

[@firepoliceresponses3375]

Love those little personal cars correct me if they're not but they make the video the best like at 0:11

[@badtoast291]

3:58 the Vic 👀 🥵

[@Pourmeup00]

I love that

[@aidaningramm]

Fuckin mint

[@Double.J]

Wow, that last truck was really freaking old. I’m 35 and it’s probably older than me.

[@F1chittynoah]

Wagon 70 was definitely the best one!

[@crockett616]

0:20 are there actually ights on those rims?

[@buzman1985]

Are there any engines that aren’t 40 years old and have awful flash patterns that are ineffective?

[@1291ffemt]

A lot of engines, but not many brush units.

[@temjr09170]

They don’t have many down there

[@Sabin-Sinister]

So all of them EMS responded to a brush fire. Wow

[@truegameplay8740]

Cool to see someone catch Edgmont its a rare occasion

[@krazykurt8836]

man so many engines and so little brush trucks lol

[@choprox01]

no shit...I'm thinking it's raining for crying out loud.....

[@josephbennett3482]

Engines can do so much more than what a brush truck can do , they're used mostly because of their onboard water tender and capability of high pressure attack lines and the deck gun on top which can spray out large amounts of water over a long distance and the engines can pump water from a drop tank from a tanker.

[@seanvogt221]

I wonder if any of the fire trucks were from Philadelphia.

[@emc3337]

Best one is the old mid 80’s open cab sutphen with that screamin detroit!

[@albertcyphers1532]

This is Pennsylvania.. the drivers there won't get out of the way for a tornado. Heaven forbid they might lose their place in line

[@robsalisbury2550]

2:40 finally an actual fire engine

[@bobbysanghera4951]

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[@NeilM01989]

Liked and shared, nice one 🧑🏻👍🏻🔥🚒

[@Fireguys235]

That was awesome!

[@davebones6120]

Very nice. Great catch