Incredible Fire Conditions At A Gary Indiana House And Attached Garage Fire
While checking out a fire in Lake Station that I had missed a dark header was visible just south of Ridge Rd and I-65 then Gary toned out for a reported still alarm at 1331 East 50th Place. It was quite evident there was a working fire from where I was. Engine 5 being first on scene advised of a working fire in an attached garage to a 2 story frame dwelling. Thankfully there was a hydrant right by the fire and a water source was established. Multiple lines were stretched and the fire was brought under control without injuries. One exposure suffered damage and nobody was in the original fire building.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
how that fire start that fire was crazy i have been on the elmore vermont fire dept for two and I have never seen a fire like that i hope every body made out of the house
Does Gary not like to use Stang guns or 2.5″ defensive streams ? It seems like a lot of these fires that I have seen seem to be defensive fires, why use an 1 3/4″ line on a defensive fire ?
@allsteer40 as a lt. i agree that single 1-3/4″ is definatly not going to be effective on a fire of that magnitude. However good save on the adjacent structure, Your first due wasnt that effective on surpressing the fire that well but the other units that arrived on scene later realized the need for larger amounts of water and reacted correctly and efficiently. Stay safe its easy for others outside of the situation to criticize.
No intent to slam anybody or department, as a Company Officer I would have layed a 2-1/2″ attack line simply based on the amount of fire showing. But the structure looks like it was a lost cause anyway. Stay safe Brothers!
Boy, Eddie, as many fires as I see posted on your site, it must really SUCK to live in Gary!!! (Unless you are a fire chaser, or course). Was this one occupied? I hate seeing people lose their homes.
That sucks for the owners of the house! But great film job! Very nice
it’s burning more then the bigest “drug factory” in the world. damn
Where is this? Why would you do this? What were you all thinking?
The real question is where are all the armchair QBs? oh wait they are watching this video.
Easy to talk, hard to do.
Great job brothers, stay safe and keep doin’ the job. (The way you do it)
while I love blitz fires, and wish more departments used them…there’s no way Gary could. They don’t have the money to invest in portable radios, and they’re lucky to even have decent bunker gear and fire apparatus. If they had the money, I’m sure they would.
GFD gets very little funding. They are lucky to have working gear. Sad, but true. GFD are some of the bravest, hardest working public servants in this country.
GOT WATER????
They need to invest in a Blitz Fire, it works just like a deck gun puts out just as much water and PSI. The blitz fire you can set up have water flowing threw it and you dont have to watch it it can opperate by itself the only thing you have to do is move the nozzel where you want it!
I hate the crackling sound, A year ago i was waken up by that comming from my neighbors house, still haunts me to this day
Nice vid , if the had an engine there , why didnt they use a deck gun to help contain/ supress the fire?
why in the world would you pull a 1 3/4 handline for a fire that large and that far advanced? this is one of those jobs that id go straight to deck gun upon arival to knock down the fire then use a handline to mop up.
a good blitz attack to the garage and handline after fire is knocked down would of been a good idea. yaull could of maybe made interior on it. We do this all the time in my department on heavy fire conditions and it works great
dame kids and there fire i wasn’t there to help start it and yet it wasn’t a school i go to i dont burn schools <.< or do i may b i did dame teacher and the books didn’t help!!
where was the 2.5 attack line
OUTSTANDING !!!
horrific fire
I got really lucky with this one, thank God it had such a well defined header, otherwise I would have taken my time getting there. Stay safe out there Steve.
wow!!!! That was a good catch..early arrival can’t be beat
awesome vid! I think a couple of those firefighters are nuts for not wearing the SCBA’s but they know what they are doing…great job!!!
wow, nice fire!! Great video! thats one of the nicer homes sadly
That’s one way to keep warm!
The thing that’s really incredible is that it seems that the Gary Indiana Fire Department responds to many structure fires and yet they operate like a three ring circus at everyone that shows up on youtube … Really bad news … no knowledgeable firefighter would stretch a 1 3/4″ line with a fog nozzle as the primary attack on that much fire. Then to make matters worse, the nozzle firefighter only has the bale open 1/2 way and isn’t hitting the main body of fire. What was with the guy who climbed the aerial ladder to nowhere? Unbelievably embarrassing … they fight fire the way I would expect cops to fight fire …