r/Firefighting • u/CrumbGuzzler5000 • Jan 09 '25

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Can someone explain work/rest cycles to this Battalion Chief???

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u/BigWhiteDog Retired Cal Fire FAE (engineer/officer) and local gov Captain Jan 09 '25

I can see it now. Our stations now will have fleets of cement mixers full of wet clay and those concrete boom pump trucks instead of engines! Car on fire, cover it in mud. High rise fire? Mud. Forest fire? Lots more mud for all the trees! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Sissy SpaceX is an idiot

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u/neekogo Beardless Volley Jan 09 '25

Honestly at this point cement trucks might be valid for Tesla/EV fires.

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u/BigWhiteDog Retired Cal Fire FAE (engineer/officer) and local gov Captain Jan 09 '25

🤣 🤣 🤣 You aren't far off. In they use ro-ros (roll on, roll off) with modular units like haz mat, high pressure pumps, trench rescue etc and each station has multiple modules and a couple of the trucks to haul them. They also run code 3 rescue cranes. For EV fires, they now respond engines, a rescue crane, and a large "dumpster" thats plumbed with inlets and discharges. The engines fill the dumpster crame lifts the EV and drops it into the dumpster and drowns the fire! They then drain it into a hazmat tanker and take the car to the junkyard. Easy-Peasy! 🤣

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u/Cold-Acanthaceae8941 Jan 09 '25

Yeah, dude. It’s such a perfect idea because there is dirt everywhere. Like literally we’re standing on it right now. Maybe if we spit on it it’ll make it better mixture for the T111 siding protection.

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u/Shoddy_Pay5822 Jan 09 '25

Don’t forget the skid steers shovels pressure washers and dump trucks for mop up/overhaul. It’s a completely sustainable operation. “On scene, confirmed dumpster fire, it’s gonna require the mud task force.”

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u/BigWhiteDog Retired Cal Fire FAE (engineer/officer) and local gov Captain Jan 09 '25

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

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u/VealOfFortune Jan 09 '25

Thank goodness Ukraine is fully prepared!

Question: How long until California residents, who have spent the past xx months bashing Elon, DEMAND StarLink access??? 🤔

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u/BigWhiteDog Retired Cal Fire FAE (engineer/officer) and local gov Captain Jan 09 '25

Were you born this stupid or are you paid to be? You are the f'cking clowns that vote against fire prevention and suppression. Sit down. You f'cking deplorables are pathetic. Dismissed

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u/VealOfFortune Jan 09 '25

Errmmm, I believe the clowns that "voted against fire prevention and suppression" would be the residents of California....the ones who were totally fine with millions from LAFD diverted to non-profits and homeless? The same ones fine with demolishing 4 dams and letting reservoirs/lakes run drygo save the FUCKING SMELT? The same ones who didn't want to perform routine forest management because it "disrupts the breeding grounds of the 8½-toed Lematurd"...

So... How long until Los Angeles residents, who lost their homes (apparently because of NJ-based FFs like myself), demand StarLink?

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u/BigWhiteDog Retired Cal Fire FAE (engineer/officer) and local gov Captain Jan 09 '25

We didn't vote on the budget cut THAT WENT TO THE COPs and has nothing to do with this. And the 4 dams in NorCal were not part of this water system, were primarily for power generation, were silting up and again had absolutely no effect on this fire. Thanks for proving my point. You garbage deplorables are pathetic.

And WTF is with your fixation with starlink?

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u/VealOfFortune Jan 09 '25 edited Jan 09 '25

"it's the cops!!".... "we didn't vote on that...!" ....mmmm yeah you did, when you elected the current politicians in power. This is a failure through and through...... From Gavin Newsome (and yes, those dams ALLLLL the way up yonder would feed into LA reservoirs/basins, but you can pretend to be ignorant of this fact) to Karen Bass to your current Fire Chief to City Council. The current apparatus has prioritized virtue signaling and inconsequential green regulations over the safety of its residents. I'm sorry that this is an inconvenience truth.

NO WATER IN THE HYDRANTS!?

And StarLink? Guess we'll see here pretty shortly if I'm oBsEsSeD or not 🤷

Not sure how you expect people to communicate when infra is fried but.. sure, I'm a conspiracy theorist right?

Edit:

Your Governor- https://twitter.com/_johnnymaga/status/1877459997761659307?t=ipMN3PRGlmqQRBx7_aGCHw&s=19

Your Mayor- https://twitter.com/Jules31415/status/1877240236947689759?t=MXqR1NDeFMiwi_HpBU8BZg&s=19

Your Chief- https://twitter.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1877011780741792083?t=jmY4IOpNmlLZeVdKNnigiA&s=19

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u/BigWhiteDog Retired Cal Fire FAE (engineer/officer) and local gov Captain Jan 09 '25

No, those dams did not not feed into the state water system. There was absolutely no connections to it. And no one expected to use 3 million gallons of water, which is why the hydrants IN ONLY ONE COMMUNITY (there are 6 fires currently)

And again with the Starlink. He's not going to f'ck you, you know that right?

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u/VealOfFortune Jan 09 '25

You seem hyperfixated on semantics so I'll summarize:

California powers-that-be have mismanaged everything from forest floors to water resources to first responders. Politicians, environmental activists, "non-profits" (😉), and, of course, attorneys have created quite the racket! Couple billion to be exact. So you have shit water policy, coupled with shit city leadership, combined with dogshit leadership in Sacramento (or Napa, depending on where Gavs PJ touches down)...add Santa Ana winds to the equations and a Mayor who's apparently absent even when she's in Los Angeles....

You have the perfect storm.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-issues-new-demand-gavin-newsom-amid-raging-la-fires-2012726

Trump's just lying/confused...AGAIN.