A video was recently shared with me showing some crazy response tactics from what appeared to be a professional fire department. But if you want to use this video in your training efforts, PLEASE ensure you use it as “How NOT to respond to such an event”.
Engine fire in a Chevy pick-up leads to quite a mess. 21 aluminum forklift cylinders, 50 gal propane autogas relief tank flares. Florida, NY.
There are sound reasons why we put DISTANCE between us and the hazard, based on the POTENTIAL degree of hazard we are responding to.
Granted, this was not a 70,000 gallon LPG Tank – BLEVE risk, but I think most safety and emergency response professionals will agree that what we are witnessing is NOT proper truck staging, people staging, etc. based on the hazard potentials involved.