Oh good you are here!
I was gonna say thanx to
argarita25 thanx for the hookup but then decided to thank you for the LINK UP!!
Hi Fox
Ha! I am going to do this like it is 1950 and I am on my psycotherapsits couch and doing stream of concsinious verbiliaztions as I was watching. I became fascianted and watched the whole thing!
It was incrdible to see all aerial it gave such a different perspective of the job. At first it looked like just aiming and letting the water flow. But then it started to seem much more strategic than that.
Random questions :
Are there different terms that you guys/gals (guys from here on just being PC) use as it relates to spraying patterns?
Is there a lot of talking to one another while doing one this big. Obviously I know nothing so just gonna make it up. Are you talking to the truck near you and saying I am going to start the zig spray and the other one says ok so I will start saturation spraying?
Is there like coordination where everyone is aiming at all times- or in something this big does it start out everyone on their own>
I noticed when on guy started doing what actually like a regular sprinkler movement move a little at time that seemed super effective, so I wondered why that would not have been done along - in hte beginning it was pretty stationary spraying by all units.
But then it did seem as time went by there was a lot more movement of all the guys in terms of spraying patterns
That hose on top of the ladder was unreal and he too seemed to doing a totally different thing - it was like "tossing" water.
There were unburning crates piled up - then it seemed like it reminded me of the games in a carnival where you take a water gun and aim it into the clown mouth and the balloon blows up!
They aimed the hose right on one big pile of crates for a long time and then the crates all fell over - kinda cool. I was wondering if that was planned? Made sense let a huge heap of drenched crates falling over into the inferno would seem like a good idea.But what I noticed then was when the crates fell it created an opening and sure enough he went in lower with the hose to get more at the base of the fire and it made a big differnce.
So then I wondered why aren't more of them doing that same thing - like all the time?
It also seemed like fire was ignoring you guys for a while but when you started "winning" (!) that happened reasonably quickly compared to the initial battle.
I only counted like 6 trucks which at the beginning I kept waiting for more to come - but that did not happen?
What determines how many go? I thought if I was the fire chief and seeing what was happening I would w want more right away!
Were they using good (latest) trucks?
Can a truck just go and-and go as long as there is water - do they overheat?
Do different members of each truck have a specific role - or is it like anyone can do anything required
How hot do you think it was directly around them.
How much "backpressure" on your arms , legs and back - just watching my arms started getting sore!!
With what you watched would you give them an A?
There was one guy one roof of a building, I thought gosh how long would it take to get that setup in action?
There was a long period of time where the railroad ties were ignored- that surprised me - but thought maybe cause of the smoke they could not see , then wondered if you guys are constantly rearranging yourselves with one another the whole time
What determines truck placement? Would there ever be a reason why that would all have to be "redone"? It would seem doing that with all the hoses etc would give the fire time to intensify.
I had always thought it was just pointing at flames!!
Was it an extraordinary fire in your opinion
It was amazing........................................... ...............
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