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AZhiAZiAM

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just from a market we had this morning figured i'd throw some up, i don't usually take pictures but lately i have been. ill throw some up from out of county assignments too sorry my phone sucks for the picsl.

comanche complex fire 7 days there. 4 fires totaling 29,338 acres @ 100% contained
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4th of july 50 acre fire
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market fire (saved 3/4s of the market) had an attached house in the back and common attic, no spread
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gorillamel

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^Ahahaha, good point!

Well, I'm not allowed to take personal pics on scene of where I work nor am I allowed to post them on the internet (that's instant grounds to fire me). Therefore, I shall enjoy those that are allowed to share pics to do so. :) What kind of truck do you usually drive/ride in?
 

NismoFire

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I'm in the dining room just inside that bay window.





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Good Friday 2009 tornado (same one that totaled DRB's Fronty)




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Second worst wreck I've ever worked. This is was an Isuzu Trooper that rolled, 3 ejected, 15yo boy DOA, flew 2 out. The body separated from the frame/chassis, and the driveline dropped out completely.







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Goofing off during Pump School.
 

AZhiAZiAM

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so we just got pulled from this fire, these are not my pictures but they are pictures of the fire that was in my unit. been on it since sunday.
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these are just some of the pics from the incident. figured i'd share with you guys to show how we do things in the wildland. be safe this summer everyone. And put out your camp fires. This was created from a camp fire left unattended.
 
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AaronsX

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$5 million dollar building housing $100 million dollars worth of art. Valued at the most expensive building in my district (barren river fd) at one point citizens were going in an out of a basement we were using as a vent to get art work stored in the basement. We made them stop an I masked up SCBA with my partner an took over going back an forth taking huge art pieces out to the lawn. Structure fires are a 3 department knock out but at the end of the day we had all 9 departments in my county there. We needed the man power everyone was just too tired to do the overhaul an clean up. I also took command over removing the museums most expensive pieces of art. 200 year old barn doors from france that had been painted. Each door weighing around 400 pounds, we got both out with just a few chips an scratches.
http://www.wbko.com/home/headlines/Art-Museum-Suffers-Fire-213310061.html (At 1:04 that is me on the right side with no jacket name tag holding the hose and my best friend/roommate on the left venting the windows with a pike pole)

The tone dropped around 6:20am yesterday an we didnt start overhaul op until around 2:45. Didnt leave the scene til around 4. Needless to say I went home an slept until this morning haha
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Also if you are wondering why I am taking pictures while the fire is still blazing thru the roof its because we were waiting for interior crews to back out so we didnt steam burn them or cause a roof collapse.
 
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NismoFire

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Your roommate would have much better control of that nozzle if he'd let go of the pistol grip and get that bail out about a foot in front of him.
 

AaronsX

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Worked another structure fire today in my district, had a engine response time of 2 minutes! Lol we were already on air when the page went out. It was a bad one, this house was like something you's see on "hoarders" IMO.
It was kind of sad, she was a lower class women who had lived here forever an built on to this trailer. She lost her little boston terrier in the fire. Poor guy had to of died of smoke inhalation and it brought me to tears when I walked out of the house with him wrapped in a blanket an I saw the home owner start bawling right in front of me. Wasn't a complete loss, its still standing with minor damage to 2 rooms an major to the kitchen an living room.

Emailed the pics an its not working right now, pics to come.
 

AaronsX

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4 structure firs in the past 4 weeks, it my district that only covers 35 square miles. Needless to say we only have about 3-5 structure fires a year. Before this "spree" we had one in april an that was it. Its kind of odd if you ask me. Be safe out there y'all! Be sure an clean out your dryer vent hoses an keep an eye on cooking food at all times!
 

AaronsX

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Arsonist?

1st was lightning strike at the art museum
2nd was lightning strike to a utility box an arked to a dryer vent hose running back into her dryer
3rd was IMO a meth lab, but she let a deep fryer boiled over an burnt her trailer up bad
4th was a detached garage, 87 corvette "backfired" an burned it to the ground in 4 minutes cause I was first on scene an it was just the wall frames standing. That was also fishy from the things we saw.

My district covers the highest point in bg so naturally we have alot of lighting an weather related calls
 

AZhiAZiAM

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aaron if it was a meth lab you would notice. they stick out like sore thumbs.....i've been in one when it blew not a awesome experience.
 

AaronsX

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Hundreds of 5 galling buckets stacked up in the garage. Some of those 50 gallon blue barrels. A shed with 4 pad locks on the same loop, it smelled so strong like mail polish outside that shed too. Every window on this house had been stuffed with insulation an a piece of plywood over that. Now who does that to every window when you still live there? Lol
 

AZhiAZiAM

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little veg fire 30 acres i got more pics ill have to post up after these finally got off the line today. slept good in the dirt for a about a solid 3 hours lol.
couple shots on the way
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if you have never worked with a dozer operator they are crazy. the dozer is like an appendage for them.
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one of our tents at a basecamp.
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AZhiAZiAM

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little news video.
[video]http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/video?id=9202889&pid=9200710[/video]

i tried to snap a pic of copter 404 dropping but the jerk ended up dropping 1k gallons of water on me instead, so no copter pic. next event ill get one
 

AaronsX

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I've always wondered this, what makes that stuff red that the plane drops? Is it some kind of fire aid, dry chem or what?

Our wild land stuff is contained by a brush truck with a booster tank an hand line nothing major like out west.
 

AaronsX

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Semi fire I worked a few days ago, I'm the guy in the middle.
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Also worked the worst accident I've been to yet this past morning at 515am. Extrication on both vehicles.
 

CHUG

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Fire Retardant Spray, for it being red. is the clay used.. For ease in spotting & tracking when deploying.
" Phosphorus based Fertilizer & red clay Mixed with water "

Seen house and car nailed with the stuff.. nasty stuff to wash off. if at all.. sticky stuff. Will see if I can locate the news Reel ;-)
 

Mr_Scott

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Be safe AZ! I'm going to start applying for city jobs this year. Jefferson county/Louisville is looking real good for trying to get a job!
 

AZhiAZiAM

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Be safe AZ! I'm going to start applying for city jobs this year. Jefferson county/Louisville is looking real good for trying to get a job!

should look into becoming a medic, i'm about to start it and ffers/medics get like 150k around here. its crazy. incoming pictures of the #rimfire
 

AZhiAZiAM

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Fresno,CA
so first of all language might be in here so fair warning, we are ffer's. Secondly all the videos pics are roughly about 300 feet or less from us. Yes this fire was huge we hit number 3 on the largest fires in CA history sitting at about 240k acres, We did get rolled up on by fire video's with tankers near us was because we were put into safety zones from the fire running up on us to quickly. Enjoy.

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they said there was about 500 ft flames in this we just did a burn operation on the left of it to meet the fire in the middle so it didn't cross over a ridge.
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AZhiAZiAM

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cont. [video]http://s142.photobucket.com/user/shoob1e/media/VIDEO0025_zps1c21e15d.mp4.html[/video]
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AZhiAZiAM

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twain harte threw a huge FFer bbq, was amazing.
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our strike team
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one of the captains told him he would buy one of these if he ate it in one sitting.
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on top of the fire highest point of the rim
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AZhiAZiAM

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this little (3 1/2ft) rattler tried to sneak up on me,
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so i got him!
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fire making a run.
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fire from our station, its about 2 hours away. we left the same day it did that.
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i have more ill post up later.
 

AaronsX

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should look into becoming a medic, i'm about to start it and ffers/medics get like 150k around here. its crazy. incoming pictures of the #rimfire

When I graduate ill have my EMT so technically I could do ambulance crews. It's a possibility but around here our FD is totally separate from our ambulance service
 
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