r/Firefighting • u/The_Road_is_Calling NH FF • Nov 25 '24

News Ohio fire department confronted about response to double fatal fire

https://chroniclet.com/news/411559/wakeman-fire-board-meeting-ends-in-shouting-match-over-fatal-fire/
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u/4Bigdaddy73 Nov 25 '24

This happened not too far from us. I saw a picture of prearrival conditions. There’s simply not too much could have been done. Seriously am I fortunate event. I don’t believe responding units could have done much different to change the outcome.

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u/RaptorTraumaShears Firefighter/Paramedic Nov 25 '24

Have you seen the pictures of the bedroom they were located in? There’s little if any thermal damage to the room the victims were found in. I don’t want to jump the gun but based on all of the facts I know from the articles I’ve read and eyewitness accounts I’ve heard, it sounds like a simple VES would’ve located the victims in the bedroom.

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u/4Bigdaddy73 Nov 26 '24

I’m not that guy. Im a decent QB on the scene, but don’t like playing one from my armchair.

The good people of Wakeman have decided that a full time professional Department is not right for them. Maybe they’re right. However, It seems as if the impacted family now sees it differently.

My full time City department is really good. We train constantly, but we honestly don’t work too much on VES. I’m sure we could pull it off if need be, but I wouldn’t expect a farm community of volunteers to be very comfortable with the situation.

Honestly, I’ve only lived out here for a little over 3 yrs. I can only recall a handful of fires that the responding communities have responded to. Thats just not enough action to be proficient at certain high risk evolutions.

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u/thisissparta789789 Dec 07 '24

This is not a career-volunteer thing. My own 100% volunteer department is more aggressive than these cowards, and so are pretty much all the other ones around me. The family who was affected by this fire has ties to the fire department, as their grandfather was in Wakeman Fire for over 40 years before his death about 8 years ago.

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u/4Bigdaddy73 Dec 07 '24

Risk a lot to save a lot. Risk little for the unsavable.