Those hoses can’t be bent because of the water flow.
Just like everything else in America. Performative, over the top and slow.
That hose would have been straighter going over the car.
Wouldn’t the glass cut up the hose, too?
He wasn’t the only one doing things and in no way slowed down the whole procedure. There are many steps involved in getting water going and connecting the hose is merely one step. They also don’t need the hose from a hydrant hooked up to spray what’s already in the tank unless they showed up empty.
The amount of water in a tank is a fraction of what is needed to tackle a major fire. You’ve got about 3 minutes worth with a branch open at full flow.
Because of that limitation, you also aren’t going to start an internal attack until you have a reticulated supply established, since running out of water while inside a building is a potential death sentence.
If I were in the same position I would have simply run my feeder run around or over the car rather than messing about like this guy.
Can confirm. We had 2500 liters of water, which lasts for about three minutes on full blast. In case of fire, it’s the first priority, and sometimes the hydrant is quite some distance away.
And can also confirm, the actions in the video are unnecessary.
This looked like more work than just running the hose over the car. Seems like “everyone here sucks” type of situation.
They do this all the time just to be dicks… It would’ve been safer and faster to just run it over the car … And this video should prove these specific individuals as liable for the damages.
Lmao, tell us you’re one of the dicks that park wherever you want without telling us
Dude, I’m with them. I clicked this for a justice boner, people that park in front of hydrants are selfish pricks, but the whole time I’m thinking “it would have been easier and faster to just go over the hood, or even under the front.” Every second counts and he wasted time breaking the windows and putting the hose through. It even looks like the hose has to bend more this way, I don’t know it that is enough to affect the flow rate, but it can’t help. And in the absence of a red curb (at least I don’t see one) it’s not unreasonable to think the area between the posts is the no parking area, and it looks like they’re outside of it. If they’re in it they’re barely in it. If I had to park that close, I would find another spot, but if I saw someone doing this I wouldn’t think as poorly of them as I would your average selfish parker.
The car isn’t even parked in front of the hydrant and smashing the windows out accomplished absolutely nothing here as you can see the outlet they connected to is pointing toward the hood and bumper of the car and not the windows. You sound like the type of person who calls people “criminals” if they ever criticize the police for misconduct.
I park legally but that firefighter used the illegal parking as an excuse to deliberately delay aid to an emergency. The firefighter and the driver are both shitheads.
It kind of looks like they bent the hose more to bring it through the window…
I wonder why the video cut off just before they turned it on…
Yeah, definitely seems like that took more effort than the problem.
They should have done the right thing and gone around to get it set up asap… The beat the shit out of his car.
Yeah, it definitely would’ve been a more direct route draped across the hood.
Are those laminated side windows?
Oof.
I guess in a situation where you need to break your side window to get out, you’re just fucked then, huh?
They’re pretty common in high end cars and even well equipped midrange cars, AFAIK not that hard to break if you know what you’re doing
As passengers usually do?
this happens all the time. I saw it in the 90s doing ride-alongs with med-star (ambulance company). it’s gonna dump a lot of water into the vehicle, too, because hoses get use, worn and leak. And every time I see it I feel a little bit of joy in my heart because fuck you, stop blocking hydrants you ghouls.
yea, totally blocked this hydrant. like… not at all as evident in the video.
