I was pulling up in front of my studio late this afternoon when I noticed a fire engine a couple of blocks up, with water spraying everywhere! How exciting! I've never seen firefighters battling a real life fire before, so of course I immediately thought, "This would make a great picture for my blog!" and drove up as close as I dared, zoomed out my little lens to the max and shot through my windshield. It must have been a grass fire because the area they're spraying is the bike path that winds through downtown. There are some nice Victorians and Craftsmen homes across the street, so I'm glad they were able to nip this blaze in the bud. I wonder what started it. My guess is an errant cigarette.
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Being a volunteer Fireman, years ago, it looks to me like they are using the Deluge Gun that is located on top of the pumper. Just why they would use this powerful Hose for a small brush fire, I have no idea. In my years of Volunteering to man the local Fire Company pumpers, I've been to a few structure fires. I've always had respect for those of us who volunteer our time to go risk our Lives to help others. I never got paid for what I did. Now, they do.
While at a Fire scene, on-lookers can sometimes be a pain in the butt. Getting in the way of operations and just wanting to see what's going on can be very annoying. This is why spectators are told to keep back.
Nice Post. Brought back some memories for me.
Les
I can't imagine a grass fire at this time of the year while we here in the "frozen north" are buried under 3 ft of snow. I have so enjoyed visiting Springs through your lovely pictures. Almost makes me feel I am back down there for a visit. I LOVE the Springs!
«Louis» found Corker 2's insight to be interesting.
Sometimes it doesn't take much to start a conflagration, as witnessed by the OaklandHills Fire in 1991. More than 3,300 homes and over 400 apartment and condo units were destroyed; 25 people died. It took 3 days to extinguish the fire.
Thank goodness for those brave firemen! This looks scary.
Corker2, my boyfriend Pat was a volunteer firefighter too, so I know to stay far away! I was probably almost a hundred yards off (that's why the picture quality is so bad). I too wondered why he was using so much water -- hilarious! We figured it was because he was bored and hadn't had an actual fire to put out in some time, so he went a little overboard. It is VERY dry here, so we do get grass fires even in winter, and they spread very quickly because it's so darn windy all the time. So maybe he was just making certain that the fire was truly not going to spread.
Whoa! Exciting and crazy stuff!
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