Firefighters rushed to a pre-dawn blaze, a fire at a vacant house was extinguished and nobody was injured. Overall, the response by Pennsauken crews could be considered a success.
There’s just one thing: Did they have to break two windows on an illegally-parked car to douse the fire?
“This person made the conscious decision to park in front of the fire hydrant. Windows can be replaced; people cannot,” Pennsauken fire Chief Jospeh Palumbo said.
Firefighters rushed to a pre-dawn blaze, a fire at a vacant house was extinguished and nobody was injured. Overall, the response by Pennsauken crews could be considered a success.
There’s just one thing: Did they have to break two windows on an illegally-parked car to douse the fire?
“This person made the conscious decision to park in front of the fire hydrant. Windows can be replaced; people cannot,” Pennsauken fire Chief Jospeh Palumbo said.
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I am a firefighter and. Our policie is. To hit the closest hydrant. Wd can’t wast time to go to the next hydrant it could be 500 ft or more down the road he knew better but was stupped enough then sorry asshole. I would have done the same thing and not lost any sleep over it
I have been a Firefighter since 1984.
If you are lazy or stupid enough to park in front of a Fire Hydrant you deserve to have your car windows broken out.
Absolutely
Water supply is important for fire apparatus and the supply line has to be straight / no links. Hydrants should be cleared of all obstructions for a radius of 15′. Do I agree, yes. No water supply, no entry firefighter and occupants lives are important.
The person knew it was illegal to park in front of a fire hydrant. The Firefighters did what they had to do. You park in front of a fire hydrant, you will pay the price.
Driver intends to sue! Must be a LIBERAL!
PHAT CHANCE of winning!
What a stupid thing to say. It was a jerk that parked a car and that is about all you can say about it.
More likely a conservative. And they absolutely hate paying the penalty for their crap.
I look at it this way they wanna be ignorant and park in front of a fire hydrant then they deserve everything that was done to there car or truck to get the hose to the hydrant people don’t think. In order to get the most effective flow with the max amount of water to a fire from a fire hydrant that hose needs to be pretty straight with no kinks or or sharp bends to accomplish this
True that a hose works better if not kinked, HOWEVER, this hose is thru the windows and then goes to the left. If someone’s life was actually in danger shame on them for taking the time to break the Windows and drag the hose thru the car. It would be different if the fire was directly across from the hydrant and not down the street. Excessive for no reason
I am a firefighter i will tell you this. When a hose is kinked it does NOT work its not as simple as pushing it around the vehicle. It also doesnt matter if someone’s life is in danger. There are other threats such as extension to another house or property. For you to say EXCESSIVE and for NO REASON is stupid. When you comes to a fire you ate given orders to come in a specific way and connest to a certain hydrant. Its not as simple as finding another becuase other companies are coming in. ” Chief, cars in front of the hydrant”
“Take the windows” thats what happens thats what will happen!
Clearly you have no idea on how fire service work. They have an engine with an engineer that does that not go in the but the rest of the engines crew normally 3 to 5 men. The truck will do the search therefore no time was last.
What qualifies you to judge this as excessive? First off there’s no difference if the hydrant was across the street or down the street. We take the closest operating hydrant. Do you know for certain this is the first hydrant they tried? Quite often water problems are encountered and we need to find another hydrant. As far as you comment on someone’s life being in danger, just because the time was taken to do this has no affect on whether or not other firefighters would have been going after anyone needing rescue. In any department there are procedures at a fire. First arriving crews are usually tasked with finding the fire and starting to attack it and/or search for and rescue any potential victims. The firefighters who would do such a heinous act as this to someone’s vehicle who obviously cares about nobody and nothing more than themselves are the firefighters tasked with establishing a continuous water supply for fighting the fire. If you want to talk about “wasting time” it would be realizing this asshole blocked a hydrant and then backing up or driving around the block or walking around looking for the next closest hydrant. THAT is a colossal waste of fucking time when if some asshole isn’t blocking the hydrant they can get a water supply quicker and more efficiently and then move on to the scene to fight the fire and rescue the hypothetical victims. This entire thing could have all been avoided SOLELY by this asshole doing the right thing and not blocking the hydrant. If the firefighters found a small amount of vindication in making this moron pay a price for making an already stressful and difficult task that much harder than I’m all for it!!
Your an idiot. If they hooked up the hose to the hydrant then made a left turn it would have kinked and reduced water flow. Don’t try the they could have put it under the car bullshit either. That would be a waste of time and the hose could be damaged. This is what is wrong with America today. Idiots and liberals.
I too am a firefighter and that situation, as shown, just smacks of sheer vandalism. The hose is probably even more linked than if it had been laid around the car and certainly took more time. Brainless at best. The car driver should be prosecuted of course but the actions by the fire service seem to be rather vicious and bloody minded in this case.
YES
The fire department did exactly the right thing. The suv owner should know better.
And if they did not have to do it, they’re just making up an excuse to be pissy. It looks like they simply did it intentionally, because they could get away with it. If that is the case, then definitely not.
Pissy? They did it because the hydrant is supposed to be open and accessible with no asshole parked in front of it. So they’re supposed to simply just go looking for another hydrant, further away, taking more time? The asshole blocking the hydrant is in the wrong, PERIOD! When we are the second due engine to show up at a fire we are the one charged with getting the water supply to the scene. We are given hydrant locations on the way. If we pull up and find the closest one blocked, what….are we simply supposed to back up or drive around the block looking for the next closest one that’s open??? No, they’re not supposed to be blocked. If these firefighters got a small amount of vindication out of doing this to an asshole who couldn’t have cared less about making an already tough job more stressful, difficult and time consuming than it needed to be I say fuck it!! Good for them!
As a retired firefighter, o van say that they made the job so much more difficult for themselves, it would have been so much easier to run the hose around the car, they were being deliberately malevolent. In the U.K. It is not illegal to park next to s hydrant , although they are underground.