Firefighters rushed to a pre-dawn blaze, a fire at a vacant house was extinguished and nobody was injured. Overall, the response by Pennsauken crews could be considered a success.
There’s just one thing: Did they have to break two windows on an illegally-parked car to douse the fire?
“This person made the conscious decision to park in front of the fire hydrant. Windows can be replaced; people cannot,” Pennsauken fire Chief Jospeh Palumbo said.
Firefighters rushed to a pre-dawn blaze, a fire at a vacant house was extinguished and nobody was injured. Overall, the response by Pennsauken crews could be considered a success.
There’s just one thing: Did they have to break two windows on an illegally-parked car to douse the fire?
“This person made the conscious decision to park in front of the fire hydrant. Windows can be replaced; people cannot,” Pennsauken fire Chief Jospeh Palumbo said.
What do you think? Take our poll and sound off in the comments section below.
Mike says
LDH is a large hose and needs to be placed obstruction free and cannot be placed under vehicles
Tom says
Any time you bend a fire hose you restrict the flow of water by pinching it off. Hope it was towed after the fire was out.
Randy says
Yes but it took as much time as if they pulled or pushed it out of their also good for them
Bobby says
and how exactly do you come up with that? a car in PARK? automatic transmission all wheels are locked, manual transmission it’s in gear ( usually reverse) with emergency brakes engaged…..you think it’s faster to move the vehicle? 1-2 seconds to smash the windows out with a hammer than go through all that trouble
AJ says
It’s the only way. The LDH (large diameter house) is an important water supply line to the engine crew fighting the fire. Any kinks or bends in the hose results in loss of GPM’s (gallons per minute) that the engine desperately needs to fight fire. Going through the windows instead of under the car ensures that the owner won’t come out and try and move the car. If the hose line is run over, it would burst and put interior fire fighting crews at a HUGE risk of injury or death.
Dave says
There’s a reason it’s illegal to park in front of hydrants. You can’t just go under or over the car. If you go over the car you’ll actually do more damage, and in any case you can’t have a sharp bend in a fire hose. Go put a kink next to the spicket in your garden hose and see how much water comes out the business end of the hose. Now multiply that by 25 or more. Don’t want your window broken out? Don’t park in front of the @$#% hydrant, you entitled $#$(). They ought to pass a law like in California where the fire department isn’t responsible for the cost of the window.