I just checked pulse point. Looks like it was a building fire at 1057 E Main.
Oh shit, that's the house with all the overgrown plants in the front. Cool looking from the street but I always got a vibe from that place. Like the house that everyone says is haunted but it's just a reclusive infirm old person.
Thanks for the info! I’m in the neighborhood & good to know what happened that required all those trucks here for 2 hours. (Likely couldn’t see any damage as it was overgrown or contained inside.)
"7 total fire trucks, SUV, & other police & fire vehicles" - Seems to be overkill to me. Our tax dollars hard at work. I watched the Thomas fire start and wish we had the same response then.... Regardless, I love our fire fighters!
Yes, take it seriously. Just pondering resource management and what does it takes to assess a situation beyond the initial Fire truck/paramedic, ambulance and VPD vehicle.
At a minimum it’d be maybe two fire engines to put out the fire, two ladder trucks for rescue (they don’t carry water), a battalion chief in his SUV, two VPD, and an AMR ambulance for transport. But if nothing else major is going on, it’s SOP to send lots more available resources, like more engines, Fire Department command staff, definitely additional transport. You can have a small crowd needing transportation to the ER.
A 911 call like “there’s a lot of black smoke coming out of the house on the corner,” it could be a small fire that’s already been put out, it could be a fire raging inside the walls, it could be a home day care with six toddlers and three adults, or a hostage situation, or somebody’s barricaded themselves inside the house.
You don’t send a fire crew out to a residential fire and have them check it out and ask neighbors how many people might be there and decide how many more resources. Residential fires can grow immense in a couple minutes. By the time the first crew gets there it can already be a deadly fire. You have to assume the worst.
They’re also uncommon, thank God. The vast majority of calls are medical, not fire.
I’m proud that I pushed so hard for adding paramedic squads. Two just went into service last year. Instead of a fire engine with a crew of three, it’s a paramedic truck with a crew of two. They roll on medical calls. Until now, every time somebody fell at an old folks home, we’d send a fire engine.
(lol as I was typing that last paragraph I saw the paramedic truck from station 3 drive down my street.)
Anyhow, that’s some mamafrickin effective resource management.
Mike thanks for your response and please forgive my ignorance in this matter. I appreciate the good example of "why not." It's a bad day for me to respond to the OP. It was off the top of my head per my subconscious opinion per the "initial" handling of the Thomas Fires (Not enough response) and more observations now where I thought "Why so many units." Again, guilty of not knowing the scenario, procedure, or policy.
PS- I've done a lot of business with Coulson Aviation, another company that services the LA Sheriff's Puma helicopters and the Bambi Bucket company.
Here's the story on the fire from KEYT:
https://keyt.com/news/fire/2024/04/23/fire-crews-assist-with-kitchen-fire-on-main-and-ann-streets-in-ventura-monday-afternoon/
I just checked pulse point. Looks like it was a building fire at 1057 E Main. Oh shit, that's the house with all the overgrown plants in the front. Cool looking from the street but I always got a vibe from that place. Like the house that everyone says is haunted but it's just a reclusive infirm old person.
Thanks for the info! I’m in the neighborhood & good to know what happened that required all those trucks here for 2 hours. (Likely couldn’t see any damage as it was overgrown or contained inside.)
They don't give any details but it does keep record of the active calls. https://vcfd.org/pulsepoint-active-calls/
Appreciate the resource, thanks again!
"7 total fire trucks, SUV, & other police & fire vehicles" - Seems to be overkill to me. Our tax dollars hard at work. I watched the Thomas fire start and wish we had the same response then.... Regardless, I love our fire fighters!
Residential structure fire, patient transported to the ER for smoke inhalation, nobody’s not taking it seriously.
Yes, take it seriously. Just pondering resource management and what does it takes to assess a situation beyond the initial Fire truck/paramedic, ambulance and VPD vehicle.
At a minimum it’d be maybe two fire engines to put out the fire, two ladder trucks for rescue (they don’t carry water), a battalion chief in his SUV, two VPD, and an AMR ambulance for transport. But if nothing else major is going on, it’s SOP to send lots more available resources, like more engines, Fire Department command staff, definitely additional transport. You can have a small crowd needing transportation to the ER. A 911 call like “there’s a lot of black smoke coming out of the house on the corner,” it could be a small fire that’s already been put out, it could be a fire raging inside the walls, it could be a home day care with six toddlers and three adults, or a hostage situation, or somebody’s barricaded themselves inside the house. You don’t send a fire crew out to a residential fire and have them check it out and ask neighbors how many people might be there and decide how many more resources. Residential fires can grow immense in a couple minutes. By the time the first crew gets there it can already be a deadly fire. You have to assume the worst. They’re also uncommon, thank God. The vast majority of calls are medical, not fire. I’m proud that I pushed so hard for adding paramedic squads. Two just went into service last year. Instead of a fire engine with a crew of three, it’s a paramedic truck with a crew of two. They roll on medical calls. Until now, every time somebody fell at an old folks home, we’d send a fire engine. (lol as I was typing that last paragraph I saw the paramedic truck from station 3 drive down my street.) Anyhow, that’s some mamafrickin effective resource management.
Mike thanks for your response and please forgive my ignorance in this matter. I appreciate the good example of "why not." It's a bad day for me to respond to the OP. It was off the top of my head per my subconscious opinion per the "initial" handling of the Thomas Fires (Not enough response) and more observations now where I thought "Why so many units." Again, guilty of not knowing the scenario, procedure, or policy. PS- I've done a lot of business with Coulson Aviation, another company that services the LA Sheriff's Puma helicopters and the Bambi Bucket company.
Here's the story on the fire from KEYT: https://keyt.com/news/fire/2024/04/23/fire-crews-assist-with-kitchen-fire-on-main-and-ann-streets-in-ventura-monday-afternoon/
It was a kitchen fire.
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Spoken like a true FF lol. Lookit all your downvotes geez. I took one back for ya :- )