WEBVTT - Fire twucks! Fire twucks! (sic) 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.560 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from how Stuff Works 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:14.360 dot Com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. Beep beep. 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.799 I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w Fire Chief Bryant, and 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:24.400 there's Jerry Fired Commissioner Rolling. I'm just a Class one firefighter. 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:27.960 But that's okay, because this is stuff you should know. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.600 The fire Truck Edition, I should say, I think every 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.879 time we say fire truck, we should say fire twalk 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.360 okay for the whole episode, because that's about the level 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.320 of engagement that everyone can expect from us this episode, 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:48.440 because I love fire trucks, Like my inner three year 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:50.919 role is like, yes, let's do this and give me 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.080 like a Fisher Price drum to bang on while we're 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.600 talking about it could be one of those xylophones. And 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.480 if you hear me sighing repeatedly, just to give you context, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:04.120 it's elect and day and I'm just in a bad movie. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:08.960 Don't get political, Chuck, I'm not. I'm just oh hard. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.000 What was it I said? I said, I'm already dreading 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.360 my hangover that I'm gonna have tomorrow and I haven't. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:15.959 I was like, I'm not going to drink for a 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:20.160 few days. Proceeding Tuesday. Oh you're saving your liver up. Yeah, 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.679 just because man, let's do let's talk about fire trucks. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:29.080 They're happy. Let's have you been on our our fire truck. Yeah, 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.520 our company fire truck. It's the way back machine is 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:37.200 now he tricked out fire truck. Uh. Yes. And you 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.240 know what's funny to bring this full circle, we have 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:43.520 in one of our little quiet rooms. We have little 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:49.120 quiet rooms you can go like take a phone call sometimes. Um. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.360 And we have one of our old school illustrations that 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.160 we used to blow those up and frame them a truck. Yeah, 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:59.720 the old house stuff works website, Dempsey and it looks great. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.080 And so I was on the phone this morning. I 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:08.800 got up early to go vote Emily. Emily texted me, um, which, 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:10.880 by the way, is I mean, I got it out 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.600 of the way, but I waited in a longer line 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.760 than you know, that first rush. It's a longer line 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:22.040 than at like nine fifteen. Emily was like, yeah, so 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.440 I guess I kind of had to I go vote. 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.840 Emily calls me and says that my daughter is upset 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:33.200 because she thinks I went to vote, and she's upset 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:37.920 because I didn't take her sailing, so she's crying. Emily's like, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:39.200 I don't know what to do. Can you get on 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:40.880 FaceTime at least and show her that your work. I 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.960 was like, yeah, and not sailing, and they're like, let 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.040 me put on my captain's head just a message. I 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.400 thought about that. So I go in the quiet room, 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.960 get on FaceTime, and in the background of FaceTime, is 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:56.600 that fire twuck? And that immediately took over the conversation 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.800 because she was like fire truck and all kids love 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.280 fire trucks. Jerry's just talking about her her daughter loves 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.760 fire trucks, and so in a weird way, Uh, it 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.200 all just sort of came around. I want to get 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.600 in on this too. Mama loves fire trucks as well. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.720 Most dogs hate fire trucks. Oh she loves them. Man, 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:20.200 My dogs howl at the moon. Oh yeah, doesn't do that. Really. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:25.280 Sirens don't. Yeah. I does not big on thunder. Yeah, 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:29.679 my dogs don't mind thunder, but they hate their sirens. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.120 Let's just hit there. Their hearing just right, I guess, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.240 or maybe they're singing songs of love. Yeah, They're like 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:39.240 I didn't I've never asked, to be honest, but they 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.000 howl at sirens. So I want to settle something right 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.920 out of the gate that I never understood. You've heard 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.920 of a fire truck, you've heard of a fire engine. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.280 You've probably heard somebody point to a fire truck and go, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.360 there's a fire truck, and then somebody else points to 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.040 that same fire truck and says, there's a fire engine. Yes, 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.119 it's interchange bowl. That's actually wrong. There is a difference 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.720 between a fire truck and a fire engine. And the 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:12.360 difference is yeah, but still in the practical world of 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:16.400 just people and kids, largely semantical, but yeah, there is 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.440 a difference. So people and kids who are wrong, Well, 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.600 let me let me say this. We will explain to 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.440 you the difference, and then it's up to you if 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.839 you want to go around to people and say that's 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.760 a fire truck not a fire engine. Actually, we should 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.120 advise you now not to do that. Don't do it, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.000 but just hold that knowledge in your in your brain. Sure, 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.279 So what's the deaf uh just saying it to yourself 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.840 is if that's a big difference, Well, one actually holds 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.000 water and that the main diff Yeah, if you take 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:47.320 away the word fire right from fire truck and fire engine. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.200 You've got an engine and a truck, and if you 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:54.520 understand the origin of fire engines, it will make total sense. 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.760 Fire engines were originally just a water pump used to 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.360 douse water on a fire. Wasn't on a truck, wasn't 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.920 on wheels. It was on a sled that people dragged 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.440 from one place to another in the seventeenth and eighteen 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.800 centuries in Europe. In America, it was an engine for 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.960 pumping water. Right, yes, and if today, if you are 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.159 appropriately using the word fire engine, what you're talking about 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.159 is a vehicle with four wheels. That is basically the 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.479 point wheels. It's to five wheels, four and a half. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.760 You got a one in the center. Is to is 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.279 to move a giant amount of water and pump and 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.640 some hoses to a fire to douse water on the fire. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.400 Same thing as it was in the sixteen eighties, it 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.039 is today. It's just updated to make it a lot 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.720 more easy to get it from point A to point B. Right, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.520 that's a fire engine. What's a fire truck. Well, a 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:52.000 fire truck doesn't have that water tank full of water, right, 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:56.320 it has like ladders firefighters. Um. It can even be 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.240 hooked up to a hydrant. Yeah, but it's it doesn't 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.440 like if you live that out in the sticks and 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.479 you're your little farmhouses on fire, which is super sad. 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:07.680 But in other words, if you don't live near a 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.159 fire hydrant, you can still get that fire put out 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.960 if you have a fire engine nearby. Right, And usually 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.039 if there's like a structure fire something, the first truck 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.400 that shows up is going to be the fire engine. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.679 They're they're gonna say, we need to get the water 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.200 and usually the foam out there and start spraying this 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:28.320 thing down. And a fire truck may not even show up, 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.599 depending on how the fire engine does controlling the fire 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.840 with the water or but they show because they're kind 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.800 of just poured any right, they are born. They're like, 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:41.839 we've cooked chili five times today. I'm so tired of chili. Um. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.800 But the fire truck, if it does show up, it'll 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.280 show up with a bunch of firefighters who probably aren't 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.560 gonna mess with any hoses. They're gonna run in there 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.640 and rescue people. They're going to collapse holes into the 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.880 roof to get the water, and they're they're they're like 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.240 assisting the people with the hoses and we'll get much 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.280 more into depth of out this, but let's let's talk 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.280 about the history of fire engines a little bit. You're 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.640 ready for that, yeah, because, like you said, they were 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.000 pulled by people, uh, and that you know the downside 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.920 of that. There are many downsides of that, but one 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.960 of the biggest ones is once they get to the 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.280 actual place where they need it, they're tired, Yeah, pulling 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.880 like a giant metal tank of water with a pump 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:20.760 attached to it. So they're like, we're here, but we 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.200 can we're not very good uh for work right now 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:31.200 we're here, We're tired. Eventually they started to use horses, 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.560 but again, you know, these things were heavy, so even 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.880 horses wore out, you know, after you know, six or 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:43.400 seven blocks. These horses were like, now I'm tired. The 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.360 people would be like, are you tired, horse, and the 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.559 horse would just stomp once. Yeah, you know, so that 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.560 that helps all problems. But it was really the advent 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.680 of the you know, not the fire engine, but the 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:59.720 car motor. Well yeah, first it was the steam truck 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.200 exely um. But the early firefighters are like, those things 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.320 blow up and they're not very reliable, so it actually 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.160 didn't catch on very Well, it wasn't until like the 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.880 motor powered vehicle, like a diesel powered motor engine, a 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.440 combustion engine. That's what I'm looking for. Yeah, and I 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.840 think about the nineteen tens when fire engine started carrying 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.960 those or being moved around on those, that's when it 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.240 really started. And then for a little while until like 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:29.640 the twenties or thirties, steam and horse drawn firefighting equipment 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.920 to the fire trucks, whereas like the fire engine moving 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.079 this heavy, huge amount of water, that was a combustion 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.680 engine that did that. Yeah, and then uh, it says 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.720 here in nineteen eleven, those mac trucks started pumping out 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:49.839 engines and motorized vehicles. That really changed things. Uh. And then, 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.880 of course, if you listen to our Skyscraper's podcast the 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.640 nirties building building started getting taller and taller, and or 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.319 our Hotel fires podcasts, and then that became a problem. 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.920 They're like, we just figured out how to get here quickly, 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.319 and now you're building these tall buildings that catch on fire. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.480 So that's when these ladder ladder technology started. You know, 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.120 they were kind of forced to ramp up their their 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.920 game in terms of getting people higher and higher up. Yeah. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:23.120 So when you when you had like horses finally pulling stuff, um, 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.280 you still had tired firefighters who had to run to 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.920 the fire. So they put on sideboards, and then that 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.120 just made it harder for the horses. So finally somebody said, 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.880 let's just separate these two things. Let's come up with 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.440 fire trucks and fire engines, and the fire trucks are 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.560 going to move the firefighters to the fire so they 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.680 won't be tired. And then somebody said, well, now we 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.120 have skyscrapers, so now we need a different kind of truck, 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:48.440 the ladder truck. So technically, and from what I can tell, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.320 you're going to find components of all these and I 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.720 think all of the different kinds of fire. Let's just 0:09:55.760 --> 0:10:01.760 calm fire trucks, okay, Um, but there are also specialized chucks, 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.559 Chucks that specialize in delivering water, chuck that specialized in 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:11.760 delivering equipment, and and then chucks that specialize in ladders. Yes, okay, yes, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.440 so that's kind of you can have it all in 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.240 one truck, or you can have it broken out into 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.800 three specialized trucks. Yeah, and in what kind of trucks 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:25.040 you have in your local municipality or county depends on 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.160 a lot of things, how well funded, how many people 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.000 live there, how rural it is, or how jam packed 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.480 it is. UM And it's really, I mean, it's a 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.679 science in itself in a city like New York to 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.960 make sure you're covered fully, you know, like every nook 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.560 and cranny of New York City is covered. What was 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:49.959 that UM early like computer civilization simulation called I think 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.400 it was called like civilization or something like that. That 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.679 was it a game? Yeah? I don't know, but there 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.960 was a thing where like fires would break out in 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.040 your town and if you didn't think about that, did you? 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.000 If you write so, you had to send out the 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.240 fire brigade, and if you just neglected it, then all 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.439 of a sudden, the area around it would fall into 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.960 ruin and then they'd be like discontent among the population. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.440 And like, man, I was having fun building a shopping mall, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.040 and now I have to deal with this burned out building. Right. UM. 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.000 I can't remember it was called I'm sure we're going 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.559 to hear it wasn't the SIMS, was it. It was? 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.280 It was much less sophisticated than the SIMS, but very 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.680 engrossing for sure. I've never played one of those. I 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.560 think that was actually the slogan the quote on the box. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:33.000 Much less sophisticated than SIMS, but very engrossing. Nonetheless, Uh 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.720 so with World War two or post World War two 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.120 is when you got these buckets? Um, I don't think 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.120 we mentioned the bucket brigade. You know, you've heard that term. 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.320 That was pre fire engine and that's when they, you know, 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.880 had long lines of men filling up buckets of water 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.920 and handing them to the guy next to you. That's 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.240 how they fall fire. Pretty amazing that I saw. I 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:54.719 just want to say, real quick, I saw, I think 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.559 on Twitter there was a bookstore and I believe the 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:02.480 UK that moved locas down like down the road thanks 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.280 to basically a bucket brigade of volunteers who just handed 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:11.640 it book by book. Then they charged the guy a 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.520 book burning brigade. I think I thought you were a 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:17.000 volunteering So post World War two is when we got 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.800 what we know as cherry pickers. Um, if you've ever 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.920 seen these buckets on an extended arm, like maybe someone 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.360 repairing the phone line or the cable guy or whatever, 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.880 it's the same thing. It's um a much safer way 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.480 to rescue someone than throwing them over your shoulder at 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.960 the top of the ladder, which they'll still do. Yeah, 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.360 there's ladders that will extend you up and buddy, you're 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.360 hanging on to the top of the ladder. Man. But 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:45.200 if you're in a bucket, no, I can't because they 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.800 have ladders that go up you know, like fifteen stories. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.200 There's a hundred that's a fifteen story building. Just standing 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.400 on the top of the ladder, I would literally lose 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.680 my mind. Yeah, you're not cut out to be that guy. No, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.720 I'm not. Um a bucket, I would just crawled down 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.280 in the bottom of and be like give me to 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.920 have and just scream that the whole time. But I 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:06.840 don't think I would lose my mind. I just you know, 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.760 lose my s well. But most of those buckets are 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.800 open sided anyway, so you still and they have railings 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.080 and stuff. But no, it doesn't matter. I've been in 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.120 one of those on a film set, like I've been 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:23.800 pretty high up in a cherry picker um, and it's yeah, 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.200 I mean there, I don't have the big heights thing. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.600 But I was still kind of like, now, if this 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.959 isn't something happened, that would be in bad shape. I 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.840 imagine if you actually were also afraid of heights, if 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.720 you had like the rational fear and then the irrational 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:40.120 fear combined. But yes, some of them do have this 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.800 with the ladder. They the ladder will go up and 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.760 then it's um usually on a turntable, which is basically 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.360 a gear that moves it left and right, but with 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.199 one of those cherry pickers. Usually it's an arm that 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.240 has like at least one or two joints in it, 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:57.240 so you can kind of move that thing all over 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.000 like one of those robot arms. Yeah, you got litt 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.000 joystick yeah, uh, and you're it's just like playing a 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.400 video game. It's like a rock on socker robot, but 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.600 with a fire But the nineteen sixties is where we 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.120 really sort of got to where we are now with 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:16.440 the quote unquote modern fire engine. Um, and since then 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:21.720 it's just gotten even better. Yeah, they're not all red. Yeah. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.080 If you don't have a red fire engine, though, it's like, 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.840 what are you doing those white ones do you? Yeah, 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.400 that's kind of cool. I've seen communists to me, or 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:35.360 the yellow ones? What is that? Uh? Yeah, I've seen 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.240 yellow ones. I think I have to say, Charles, when 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:43.440 I was researching this article, there is um no more 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:47.360 guarantee of local press coverage than a city buying a 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.640 new fire truck. I cannot tell you how many entries 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.520 there are for different towns around the country. Look what 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.160 we got the fire department debuts new fire truck. Yeah, 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.080 they're all so shiny all the rome. They're like, look 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:06.080 at how much it costs because it's tax payer owned. Yeah, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.080 it's pretty cool. I think it's cute. I think we should. 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.560 I mean, I would love to do another follow up 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.680 at some point on like firehouses, because the whole thing. 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.080 I mean, there's something about being a kid. You're just 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.280 enthralled by it because you walk by. You know, there's 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.800 one right there in oak Hurst behind where all the 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:27.080 restaurants are, so people with kids are constantly walking by 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:31.400 this thing, and the doors always open, and the firefighters 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.400 are always sitting around, like I mean, obviously unless they're 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.040 on an active fire. There there, they look like they're 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.000 just enjoying each other, and they always smile and white 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.120 the kids in and to take a look, and it 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.240 just it's such a cool job. Come on and have 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.600 some chili. I love it is there a cooler job 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.400 where you're like putting your life on the line, but 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.840 you're still you know, so just like I've been on 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:59.400 military basis, those those people aren't just hang military basis 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.040 can chili and you're back back. Yeah, I know, but 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.400 you don't want that. Let's just to keep you a 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.760 long sea rations something joyful about that chili? And uh, 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:10.920 I don't know. I think you make a good point. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.080 Do you want to take a break? All right, let's 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.280 take a break and we'll talk about what's on these 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:48.480 amazing trucks? Okay, everybody, let's get down to it. What's 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.560 on fire? Let's start with the fire engine? This how 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:57.440 stuff works article? The way was it dry? It was trying. Um, 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:02.040 there was a lot of what's it called when you conflate? 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.560 I guess a lot of conflation where basically they make 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.280 it sound like it's all just on one truck. And 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.680 I guess it was because I think they made a 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.439 visit to a North Carolina fire department to look at 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.200 their truck and then base the entire article on that. 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.280 But the writer it was kind of funny, It's like, 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.040 and then there was this thing, and then there was 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.320 this thing and this thing was cool. And then they 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.240 had a thing here and they let me sit and 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:28.479 pull the run the sirens. Uh. But you know, again, 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.480 this is not they're all shapes and sizes. I think 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.200 this is sort of just a standard. When you see 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.560 a standard fire engine, you can count on a lot 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.640 of this stuff being on it. Is that okay? Yeah, 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.480 so uh, one thing that you're gonna you're gonna have 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.760 on an engine is a big tank of water. Is 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.200 an engine mostly right, But you also have the ability 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.280 and this is really neat if there's a lake nearby 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.119 or a swimming pool even or obviously fire hydrants are 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:02.240 are handy. Um, you can suck water from those things 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.960 and use it. But it's it doesn't just go straight 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:10.280 into a hose. Um. It runs through the truck and 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.440 then through the I mean there are hoses that attached 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.520 to this stuff or suck it out. But but you're 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.240 running it through the central engine. Um, so you can 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.080 regulate all that stuff. Right. And like an engine has 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.560 three components, Like every fire engine has at least three components. 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.720 A tank filled with water that it transports to the fire, 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.680 A pump that pressurizes that water from being pumped out 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:35.040 and then lines or hoses that that they'll pumped out 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.879 water shoots from onto the fire. So many hoses and 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.840 a lot of different hoses. This article spelled out every 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.200 single one of them. Yeah, And what I gathered to 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:50.280 was they want options, options, options, so they can have 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:55.879 speed speed speed, so hoses like they'll they'll have the big, huge, 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.520 you know, five footer, but then in compartments they'll have 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.800 footers and fifty footers because they just want to be 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.880 able to get water the fastest possible way. And that's 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.960 not all the times with the longest hose. Yeah, and 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.280 it's also not necessarily uh, the hose with the widest 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.359 diameter that's the best for the job, right right, Um, 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.280 it could be a smaller fire so you don't need 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.520 quite as much water. So there there is a lot 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.959 of um, a lot of split second decision, but decisions 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.400 in in hose selection basically, and from what I gather, 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.720 the fire captain is telling the crew like, we're probably 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:33.880 gonna need these hoses. You take this hose, you take 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.679 that hose, um ready break kind of thing on the 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.800 way to the fire. So it's not like the individual 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:45.200 firefighters are necessarily deciding for themselves, although I could be wrong. 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.399 I don't know. I'm totally speaking out of turn, but 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:52.800 just cobbling together separate facts. That's the impression I have. Yeah, 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.159 I think you're right. I think I mean, obviously, when 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:59.520 they get there, there's an assessment period that's super fast 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.200 on the way A. I think you're right. I think 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.560 they have an idea because they've been radioed. We've got 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.760 a you know, an apartment building that's four stories in 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.879 this many units, and the fire is largely on the 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.840 top floors. So on the way, the captain who sits 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:17.959 in the passenger seat is radio ing too the firefighters 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.960 in what's called the jump seat area, which is that 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.480 little area behind which carries like what six people four 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.680 to four to six to eight people in a fire 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.160 engine from what I see. So they're radioing back and saying, 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.560 all right, when we hit the ground, we're gonna need 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.719 three one footers. And they're different ports on the you know, 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.560 sides or the back or the top of the fire engine. 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:42.160 It's not just like, well there's only one area where 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.560 we can get this water. Uh Again, they just want 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:47.960 all sorts of options so when they get there, they 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.480 can kind of hit the ground running, right, So they 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.359 literally hit the ground running when they get there. The 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.000 um driver the House of Works article made it sound 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.960 like the driver is invariably the pump up rader. I 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.040 don't know that that's true or not, but there is 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:08.560 somebody who's designated the motor pump operator, the MPO, and 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:13.760 they look at you, you know, uh, they hop out 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:16.720 and they jump up onto the truck and they start 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:19.639 the pump. And the first thing that happens when that 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:23.680 pump starts um. At the very least, this housetuf Works 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:26.919 article had a truck that had an impeller water pump 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.200 on it, and it uses centrifugal force like it's rotors 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.080 like a turbine, basically spinning really fast, and when water 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.159 hits it, it slings it outside and in doing so, 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:40.720 the centrifugal force applied to it creates pressure, so it 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:44.840 pressurizes the water and they open the valve in the 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:48.400 tank because remember they've got maybe a thousand gallons of water, right, 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.639 it's a ton of water. Um. They and they turned 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:56.080 the pump on and they open the valve that dumps 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.560 the tank, the water from the tank onto the pump. 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:02.320 So that's being pressure and then the pump sends it 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:04.439 out to the hoses. And the reason that they do 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:07.000 this is they want to be able to start dousing 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:10.159 this flame, this fire with water immediately. But at the 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.119 same time they're also looking around for the fire hydrant 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.840 to connect to for like you said, a pond to drain, 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.840 to drain from a swimming pool nearby. They can drain 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.800 your swimming pool if they need to to turn what 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:23.760 are you gonna do get that out of my pool? 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:27.000 I don't like that neighbor that much, um. But they're 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:29.919 looking for other sources of water, and they can actually 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:32.880 set up something called a drop tank, which is basically 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:37.119