We were by ourselves for about 5 minutes (maybe). And at this department, we only have a paid guy on during business hours and the rest is all volunteer. So one paid guy on and when something like this comes in, we just hope that the volunteers come to assist. We have a county fire station that responds mutual aid with us on fires and serious calls. So, in a sense, no...we do not wait for a "full" crew simply because as volunteers, they may or may not be coming. Can't stick around to wait and see who shows up.
Lol, No. These pictures were from the local newspaper.
Same thing with our dept paid driver gets truck out and volunteers go to scene.
Ya, we only have about 11 volunteers on the roster...and we're lucky if 3 or 4 of them show up to fires. A lot of them are just on our roster to keep their standards good. It's a pretty slow department but when the shi* does hit the fan, luckily we have 2 paid departments close by that can be there within 5-7 minutes to assist us.
It definitely sucked. I was trying to cool the gas tank on the car and get a stop on it on the house...I just kept going back and forth lol. The house is a total loss though despite our efforts.
Don't feel bad. I'll post some pics of the fire we had a couple weeks ago. We have a roster of 20 or so, we had 9 ppl show up. 3 or 4 showed up with another dept.
I think I was moving the stream from the car back to the house when the picture was taken.
