Friday night got toned out for a working structure fire in the city. My roommate who was off duty came with me anyways.. can never have to much manpower. 4 of us on the first engine in, I was engineering along with DT as officer and DA and SB in the back. JB and the rook took the 2nd engine right behind us. We were a good 1/3 of a mile away and could see it was already fully involved. Could see by the way it was cooking that mutual aid was in order. Quite nicely the house had a plug in its front yard... which was nice until we had a couple of lines laid and the other companies pulling off the plugs upline. Wind was blowing against us about 20mph, zero visability of the structure... which after hollering at the rook to keep on air he looked at me and said what about you? LOL.. well.. I guess. Roof collapsed with 7-10 min of being on scene. Heard a few reports of some Nitros Ox tanks being the garage. Homeowner did confirm there were dragster funny cars in the garage but no NOX tanks. About 4-5 min into the operation, my supply line looked like a piece of spaghetti. Had a whopping 10psi of residual on the intake. Good times trying to keep from cavitating the pump. Not a hard job, just cant get a lot of other things done when you're trying to listen to the pump while running around to hear if its winding up.
Mind you.. I'm not complaining... who doesnt like to have a job? Temp was about mid-40's when we got on scene.. dropped to the low 30's after being there for 4 hours and snowing. But we had it good compared to CSVFD. Those guys laid 2k feet of supply and relay pumping to the scene. Walking out 2k feet of supply would have sucked. Thanx guys for the help. There was no loss of human life, but the family did loose the family dog. And everything they owned. We really did feel so badly for them. Cause was still undetermined last I heard.
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