Around 1700 hrs, all three salisbury stations along with station 3(Fruitland) were alerted for the report of a house on fire. The deputy chief(Scott) went on scene with a 3 story single family, with smoke showing from the second and third floors. Engine 16 arrived side A and immediately recognized an issue, the closest hydrant was a little over a block away. A split second decision was made to improvise, deploying a line and tactic better known as a "bundle load". The lineman disconnected and pulled the 250' preconnect, while the driver retrieved his gated "Y" connecting it to his 3" supply line and dropped it with his officer in the front yard. The engine then reverse laid to the closest hydrant, approx 350' away. Trucks 2 and 1 arrived simultaneously positioning respectively on opposite sides of the house. Crews gained entry, searched all floors as they went, located a kitchen fire on the second floor and extinguished the same. Call was placed under control in approx 40 minutes. No injuries were reported. Scene turned over to the Maryland state fire inspector for investigation. Additional pictures can be seen by clicking HERE
17 comments:
Great job to our fire department
And Darrin Scott is on the fire ground with no turn out gear on again. At least he is across the street this time. LMAO
What fire? I didn't see any fire.
From the SFD boring webpage:
"Engine 16 arrived side A and immediately recognized an issue, the closest hydrant was a little over a block away."
So Darrin Scott went on scene and established command and he had no idea where the fire hydrant was at? WTH!! His job as the incident commander is to locate "the plug" and do a 360 size up while establishing command.
Engine 16 went on location without locating the fire hydrant? To ranking members of the Salisbury Fire Department FAILED!! And they want to make sure the Volunteers from Station 1 don't start their own separate fire department!! These clowns embarrass themselves more and more every day!
All of a sudden we see all these reports and article of fires around here. Huh. Imagine that. Wonder why. Haven't heard a peep in a decade and now it is a weekly thing.
If salisbury had those blue reflectors in the middle of the street marking hydrants then they would have known where it was instantly.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
All of a sudden we see all these reports and article of fires around here. Huh. Imagine that. Wonder why. Haven't heard a peep in a decade and now it is a weekly thing.
March 24, 2017 at 3:22 PM
LMAO!!
I was thinking the same thing and I will be posting a comment later. Central dispatches Station's 2, 16, 1 and 6 to a reported garage fire on Sharen Drive. Then while they were responding to that call Central dispatches Station's 16, 2, 1 and either 6 or 5 to Booth Street for an automatic alarm then almost instantly upgrades it to a structure fire. Guess what. No structure fire at either location.
I think the employees of Wicomico Central are in collusion with the fire chiefs office because almost daily they are dispatching "fires" and hardly any of them are turning out to be any fire. I think they are working with the chiefs office to justify the paid fire jobs and Bob Culver refuses to do anything about this. I hope that if some one is killed or run over by a fire truck that Bob Culver is sued for allowing this to continue.
Anna W. said...
Great job to our fire department
March 24, 2017 at 2:27 PM
Yeah right! LMAO
Anonymous said...
If salisbury had those blue reflectors in the middle of the street marking hydrants then they would have known where it was instantly.
March 24, 2017 at 3:39 PM
And then what happens when it snows and it is covered. Or if comes up and not replaced. Not spending my tax dollars on that.
Darrin Scott and the office on the engine both should have been looking for it. Doug Jones at Central worked his ass off to put a book together for the closest hydrant. What happened to that? Did Central fail to tell them?
Can only go by what the caller tells Central.
4:14 They have them in more northern cities than Salisbury and they don't get scraped up if properly applied. Since the retarded people around here never do anything the right way because they know better, you are most likely correct.
They work the other 360 days a year that there isn't snow on the street. Try again, skippy.
A real wagon driver would know the hydrant locations in his response area
It took 40 minutes to put out a kitchen fire? Also it the engine drivers responsibility to find the hydrant. You shouldn't need central or anyone else to tell you.
Amazing to think how much greater the former Station 1 volunteers could have been if they put half as much effort into actually showing up and being firefighters as they do playing armchair quarterback to those that do the job.
Anonymous said...
Can only go by what the caller tells Central.
March 24, 2017 at 4:41 PM
Last time I checked a reported house fire requires water, correct? Water on Maryland Avenue comes from a hydrant, correct? DUH!
The SFD did a great job, as usual. Kudos to those guys for getting it done.
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