Sep 19, 2026 · 1 hr 53 min · 15 segments
In September 2025, Dekalb Cnty. GA Firefighters responded to a local warehouse for reports of a fire from neighbours. Upon arrival, crews found a working fire in a warehouse converted to a film…
Oh, I'm sorry, are we talking about fire departments today? Right, fire departments.
But before we get into it here, 105 episodes, isn't that amazing? We have a few current events, some stuff that I've just thought of here the last couple of days.
One, a couple of days ago, Los Angeles City Fire Department tiller had a motor vehicle accident and crashed into a building, injuring several firefighters and civilians and catching fire.
So these things can happen, a tragic incident for LA City.
Not unsimilar to episode 42 of season three, where a Boston fire truck, ladder truck, lost its brakes going down a grade and crashed into a building and the lieutenant in the officer's seat died.
That was quite a crash.
You could just imagine looking at this thing coming at you in the
windshield.
Yeah, no kidding.
An engine, a pumper was going to a fire and the operator, the engineer, had a medical episode.
and lost control and drove off the road and into a yard, and the officer had to reach over, unbelt his seatbelt while they're careening across a yard into a house, reach across to pull a park brake to stop the truck.
That's why I always like to put the park brake on the engine cowl in the middle so that the engineer could grab it.
But anyway, these things happen, so it's something to think about, right? Mm-hmm.
You radical.
I know.
I know.
Why
do you want to park break there? Because then the officer can grab the park break if there's an emergency.
Exactly.
They're fairly popular on the West Coast, 48-hour shifts, primarily due to commute times for firefighters to go to work so they can live a little further away and go and work a 48-hour shift and then have a few days off and then go back again.
Oh, I'm sorry, are we talking about fire departments today? Right, fire departments.
But before we get into it here, 105 episodes, isn't that amazing? We have a few current events, some stuff that I've just thought of here the last couple of days.
One, a couple of days ago, Los Angeles City Fire Department tiller had a motor vehicle accident and crashed into a building, injuring several firefighters and civilians and catching fire.
So these things can happen, a tragic incident for LA City.
Not unsimilar to episode 42 of season three, where a Boston fire truck, ladder truck, lost its brakes going down a grade and crashed into a building and the lieutenant in the officer's seat died.
That was quite a crash.
You could just imagine looking at this thing coming at you in the
windshield.
Yeah, no kidding.
An engine, a pumper was going to a fire and the operator, the engineer, had a medical episode.
and lost control and drove off the road and into a yard, and the officer had to reach over, unbelt his seatbelt while they're careening across a yard into a house, reach across to pull a park brake to stop the truck.
That's why I always like to put the park brake on the engine cowl in the middle so that the engineer could grab it.
But anyway, these things happen, so it's something to think about, right? Mm-hmm.
You radical.
I know.
I know.
Why
do you want to park break there? Because then the officer can grab the park break if there's an emergency.
Exactly.
They're fairly popular on the West Coast, 48-hour shifts, primarily due to commute times for firefighters to go to work so they can live a little further away and go and work a 48-hour shift and then have a few days off and then go back again.
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