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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Couldn’t find the poll, but I grew the firefighters did the right thing by smashing the window
Yes.. If they didn’t the end closest to the hydrant would kink if they tried to go up over the roof or left or right around the vehicle. It’s already borderline kinked as it is..
Especially since they had to drag it down the street!
And that is BS and you know it. Had they stayed on the ground, and gone under the car, they would have NO kinks at all. Just a juvenile and immature response to another persons juvenile and irresponsible behavior. Just making crap up to excuse wanton vandalism.
Yep
Yes and no…as a fire fighter for over 36 years that’s what we have always wanted to do….break a window in a vehicle to get to the hydrant to try a prove a point …but..nowadays departments should have enough LDH to go around our attache two 3 in lines from the hydrant to the pumper..
An intelligent response among the ignorant. I’m impressed with your levelheaded and reasonable reply.
As a so called firefighter, u should now what the extra 3+ minutes can amount to when redirecting a hose, running back to the truck to get more hose and routing around a car, I’ll have some other hero respond to my house if it was on fire, thanks
Do you know a fire doubles in size every minute, when no firefighting happens. So a 3.5 minutes delay, the fire would be 350% larger..
So you think it took them less than 3 minutes to bust those windows out and run 5 inch through that car? You could have had 2 50 sections of 3 inch hose from the hydrant to the pump panel in the amount of time it took them to bust out those windows and get the 5 inch through there.
IT IS ILLEGAL TO BLOCK FIRE HYDRANTS! SO YES THEY HAD THE RIGHT TO SMASH THE WINDOWS!