Working Car Fire – Easton Ave. Franklin Twp. – 02/08/09
At around 4:09AM during the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 8, 2009, Stations 26, 27, and 56 were dispatched to the Quality Inn parking lot on Easton Ave. for the reported motor vehicle fire. Crews arrived to find a motor vehicle well involved in fire. Extinguishment was completed by the crews of Engine 26-3 and Engine 27-8.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
because 27 was covering for 56
I heard about this, why was 27 there?
=O Awesome. New video! As always, good job guys.
Come on guys … things must be painfully slow for you if you classify a car on fire in an outside parking space to be a “Working Fire”. And to send three stations to deal with it really approaches overkill. Generally a single engine company can easily extinguish the fire in short order using a 1 3/4″ line and tank water. And a single truck company can provide scene safety (traffic blocking if needed) as well as access and overhaul. If the car fire was on a highway, then it would be wise to dispatch and engine and truck company from each direction to insure that units are able to get to the scene from the other direction if one direction is blocked with stopped traffic.