City of Jeannette Fire Department Videos

Just before 2 am on 12-18-2021 the FDCJ responded to a residential fire that was well off upon arrival. Luckily in this case, the residents were able to escape prior to the fire department arrival (or FD even being dispatched) thanks to a working smoke detector. There were two adults and six children inside at the time that the fire broke out and escape would have been impossible after approximately 3 mins from the time that the fire began. This story could have been far more tragic if this property wasn’t just inspected by the FDCJ 11 months prior! During the initial inspection it was found that the front door was screwed shut because of a broken hinge, there was no working emergency exit door out of the basement, the smoke detectors were 19 years old (should be replaced every 10 years), two of the detectors were painted over when the walls were last painted and the most disturbing, the second floor smoke detector (that was in the location of the new detector that alerted the occupants in time to escape) was not only 19 years old and painted over but also DID NOT EMMIT AN AUDIBLE SOUND when it was tested! Fortunately, the property manager corrected the issues found during that inspection and installed 3 new smoke detectors just ten months before this fire occurred. Modern clothing, electronics and furnishings are made of petroleum-based chemicals and they cause todays fires to burn fast and give off blinding and toxic black smoke. 30 years ago, it was estimated that you had between 14-17 minutes to safely escape a home fire and that fire could double in size every minute. Today’s fires give us typically 3 minutes or less to safely escape and can double in size every few seconds once free burning! This makes it now more important than ever to have working smoke detectors. As you can see in this video, the conditions on the second floor of this house were already not survivable without protective equipment upon our arrival approximately 2 minutes from dis

Here are a few videos from the final day of the Firefighter Survival training. These final evolutions are to simulate the stresses of some of the worst case scenarios that firefighters can encounter in a burning building and are all done with the firefighters having zero visibility and being separated from their partner. All of the firefighters today worked very hard under very stressful situations in order to get themselves outside without the assistance of a RIT team. We would like to thank Task Force 1 and the instructors, Jeff and Gabe for a quality trainings weekend as well as the outside firefighters that traveled to Jeannette to train with us! (This video is Junior Firefighter Marcus Wise)

Here is a full length video of one of the live fire training evolutions that we completed this past Sunday. WCCC Instructors accommodated us with realistic scenarios to simulate actual responses as much as possible without instructions to test our members to use their best judgment and decision making skills in real time. Crews were dispatched for fire alarms and other Incidnets and responded from the fire station as we would at home to practice apparatus placement, command decision making and apparatus and equipment operation on top of fire ground operations and fire attack. This particular scenario was dispatched as an automatic fire alarm that escalated to a working fire with entrapment. In less then ten minutes the crews responded and handled all of the fire ground operations from rescue of the trapped occupant to fire attack, set up and vertical ventilation by the two man tower crew the whole way to ventilation and termination. Members rotated through all of the job assignments to practice every role from incident commander to support positions. This annual training as well as monthly trainings in the city play a key part in keeping our skills sharp for when they are needed by our residents and businesses!