Pre Arrival Truck Fire into Garage Brielle New Jersey 3/30/22

Btw.. Great job by the policeman and the guy with the garden hose… They saved the garage!!

Absolute boneheaded decision on behalf of the first due engine officer. Your truck has 750 gallons of tank water for a reason, USE IT.With a working fire assignment dispatched your water supply can be designated to the second due or even hand jacked to the hydrant by others already on scene. Poor execution, if this is part of their SOGs then there chief needs to reevaluate how out of the box this response was.

WOW!!! This is absolutely unacceptable. That’s was a bad call sending your engine to the hydrant. Then the embarrassment of the one fireman using the guys hose to put the fire out and seeing the civilian laugh at it is priceless. This department needs to revaluate there SOP’s on this.

I love how they dismiss the guy with the hose like what are going to do with that little thing and then sit there for several minutes with their big limp hoses doing nothing. The garden hose guy saved the day along with the several extinguishers

Wow! Over 3 minutes until they had water flowing! 1 minute is a pretty long time where I come from.

Dump your tank water on it. if necessary, have the 2nd due to lay a supply line. It's not only quicker, but you don't have to rebed a ton of hose = back in service quicker.

3 minutes 21 seconds from arrival to water at the nozzle is simply appalling by any standards.

Home owner did a Great job, You guys need to sign him up !! That garden hose put out alot of fire !!!! I knew something was wrong when the line was stretched, delayed, and the garden hose was still in use ????

Pretty slick paint job on those Ocean rigs.

Nice job! How many people just stand and watch everything go up in flames is insane. This guy had the wherewithal to pick up a water hose. If he waited for the fire department, EVERYTHING would have been lost. Nothing against firefighters. I absolutely have the utmost respect for them. But they can only get there so fast. Nice job! Very proactive!

A Chief/Officer made the scene prior to the Engine’s arrival and still allowed the pumper to go down the street? Why not pull a pre-connect from the cross lay? I timed them & it took 3 min & 24 sec to get water on the fire that wasn’t from the residential pre-connect. If they used more than 150 gal to knock the fire down I’d be surprised. It’s probably a good thing it took as long as it did to get water after they pulled what looked like 400’ of bedded hose & left it in a spaghetti pile. These guys need better training & management.

The firefighter with the garden hose is gold!

Well that was painful to watch, here in the UK we would have a high pressure line out and the whole thing would have been done in two minutes back to the station for a brew..

Good job keeping the fire from extending using a garden hose. Its amazing what a little bit of water in the right place can do. Again this video proves the ineffectiveness of B/C extinguishers. They don't remove the heat source. I have 2 Class A's at my disposal and one in my truck. Good thing the owner took the garden hose to it. Otherwise that garage would have been a total loss .

Let's stop and hope everyone is doing ok let's stop and honor and appreciate the paramedics and firemen who proudly serve us your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks they deserve alot of credit tons of it great job great team work and good catches as usual still going strong stay safe and warm out there way to go !!❤😂😂😅 Joe.

Hose wagons became obsolete perhaps 100 years ago and are found in museums and parades. Now you have shiny trucks with lots of lights, that carry perhaps 500-700 gallons of water, and a big pump to make to make the hose hard. Lots more water than a green line. Like many of the other comments, the attack of this one was bizarre and slow. I never armchair these videos as we only see one perspective, but damn, this was hard to watch. Definitely a training film for the future.

Thank goodness for the homeowner and cops. The garden hose may not be much but every ounce you can put on the fire up front, quickly, will reduce the extent of fire later. You have a pumper truck with water on it, use it. They were so worried they might run out of water they didn't put any water on the fire. At least they didn't run out, they can haul it back to the station for the next run.

How f**cking long does it take to these guys to charge a line?

its a friggin vehicle fire, whatever happened to using tank water???????? The guy riding officer had fire up his ass. Hate to Monday morning quarterback but this job showed lack of experience.

This is why you should have 3/4 run to your water hose with 60 psi. I have 3/4 four corners of my house and they will all reach each other’s location, so I can have two lines going at once.