I wonder how many folks in the neighborhood realized that the firefighters in the orange jump suits are actually Inmates in the State Prison System?! Cal Fire uses inmate fire fighters to get the job done. They dont get much public hurrahs, but they helped to save the Santa Teresa neighborhood.

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't catch this on camera but there was actually a lot of applause, clapping, and people shouting "thank you" to those crews. It was the case for both the Gabilan and Ben Lomond Fire Crews.

@anddrewb1367

4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering why it had department of state corrections on the trucks. Are they inmates volunteers or are they forced to assist?

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Not sure in terms of them being volunteers or forced to assist. If anyone that comes across this comment knows about that, leave a comment!

@oshtoolman

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tr35uckfanProductions As for the inmates being firefighters. While they are incarcerated, they do have to volunteer to be firefighters. Not all inmates qualify. Here is the link to the Calif. State Conservation site. www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info.

You've got some very cool fire trucks ( KW 900, them older 4x4 Internationals) on the West coast, thanks for sharing.

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

That white Cal Fire helicopter in the 4 min+ mark is amazing.

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

Great catches, love that Mack and bulldozer combo!

@Tr35uckfanProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! And I agree!

I've never been an Incident Commander. But I have seen how much stress it can put on one during a straight forward house fire. I cannot imagine what an IC in this situation must have to deal with! INSANE! I appreciate the work you all do out there and I learn a little something more each time a watch a well shot video like this! Like and sub for sure!

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

I am not a FF but I do listen to PulsePoint, so I can hear non tactical communications on the command channels and sometimes the IC's do have a lot on their plate depending on how major the incident is.

@charmcitytoe

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tr35uckfanProductions Oh yeah! I forgot I might be able to find some channels worth listening to on Broadcastify. I hope they appreciate you historically archiving their efforts and hard work. And I wish I could send some of this East Coast rain that way. :) Keep up the great work and stay safe and healthy!

Amazing video and would love to see more. Keep it up my friend.

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Those OV-10As are quite a site. Such an interesting looking aircraft, like if an A10 and a p38 got drunk and had a baby. And those S-2s and Hueys were definitely putting in the work.

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

They definitely do look different compared to the S-2’s. Idk what they do compared to the S-2’s, Hueys, and even the MD80 I saw.

@knightfoxgaming4121

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tr35uckfanProductions They are able to drop in personnel, but that would only be at most a 4 man crew. If anything they are running forward aerial observance and relaying information back down to ground crews, as well as setting up the "bombing" runs for the S-2s and Hueys, just like they would have done for aircraft back in Vietnam. The Bronco was well fitted for this service because of how long it could loiter over an area before needing to refuel.

@rustyclaymore1105

3 жыл бұрын

The OV10 carries the Air Tactical Group Supervisor, called Air Attack on the radio. Coordinates all airborne resources and is the eye in the sky for the Incident Commander.

Amazing footage! Would love to see what your able to capture in the future

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Used to hate trompin through the Croatan Forest in N.C.....putting something out....LOL ,had a friend out there who got me a Cal Fire shirt from someone who worked for them.....it's all wore out now....Much Respect to Cal Fire ...

Nice work man! Just earned a new sub!

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great video. Great shots and videos, as usual.

@Tr35uckfanProductions

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

You’ve outdone yourself! Keep up the great work!

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

21:26 - 21:45 music to my ears

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@honorablemittens2036

4 жыл бұрын

Dale Bob same here

Although serious, you folks sure know how to put on a show!

Great video I love the type 3 engines 🔥🔥

@Tr35uckfanProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Superb video. Thanks so much.

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great and interesting footage!

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Awesome Work!

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great footage

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

San Jose has a couple of pretty bad ass looking brush trucks

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

I agree

Awesome Footage.

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Gotta love CalFire man, can't wait to hit Junior so I can start training!

@Tr35uckfanProductions

Жыл бұрын

Hope that's going well!

Good video man sure is different on the west coast lol

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’ve only seen West Coast Stuff so I don’t know how we compare to the East Coast and the Midwest. Haha.

@MikeTheFireChaser13

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tr35uckfanProductions its almost the just units are different by my not alot of brush unit and choppers are used for medevacs checkout my channel if you want

Dope AF man! Stay safe🙏💪🚒🚑🚔

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great work!

@Tr35uckfanProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Those huey's were getting it done, Doin' work early attack style good job. here in Florida the aircraft don't go up till half the woods are on fire and it's a major incident

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Oh man... Yeah, the helicopters and air tankers were already there before I got there and I live about 5-7 mins from the scene (Took me about 20 mins to get there since I was on my bike). And I left about 3 mins after the calls came in.

@v_eryconfusing3365

3 жыл бұрын

But sadly, most of the Huey's don't carry as much gallons of water and are from the 1990s. Calfire recently upgraded to Blackhawks and massive firehawks though.

different world out there

What fire department are those lowboys from? Cool setup.

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

There were multiple fire departments over on scene... San Jose, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County (Not seen in this video), South Santa Clara County (Morgan Hill), Gilroy, Spring Valley, Sunnyvale (Not seen in this video), Palo Alto, and CalFire.

@richaricha6989

4 жыл бұрын

Never mind, I found it. They are CAL FIRE’s equipment. (The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE))

Talk about the 5yr anniversary of the first fire there

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Just shy of 6 years actually. And the first one I went to in this area was about a mile and a half to 2 miles further away to the east of this location.

@21:52 the white code 3 Tahoe is my departments chief and the apparatus is shows right after @22:13 is our tactical water tender

@Tr35uckfanProductions

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, so that was a Spring Valley BC. I knew the Water Tender was from there, but I didn't know that was a Spring Valley BC. Good to know!

17:56 Why does it say department of corrections? Isn't that prison systems?

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Correct.

@Badbhoys

4 жыл бұрын

Inmates are doing a fire camp there’s a show on Netflix called fire chasers it’s about cal fire and it will show u the inmates 👍

Jezz, In January! Those Cal boys& girls earn their$$👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Did I seriously put January in the description?! Haha! My bad! Just changed it to June. I took this video yesterday and the 2nd day of the video this morning.

@trob0914

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tr35uckfanProductions HAHA!! THEY STILL EARN THE $$

Why do the air tankers fly with their gear down?

@Tr35uckfanProductions

3 жыл бұрын

That I don’t know. I wish I knew why myself.

@pnwlove6159

3 жыл бұрын

I thought maybe it might have something to do with the DC 9 itself, as far as flying low and slow enough for the drops...possibly that the plane needed to have the gear to trick the flight computer into thinking it is landing so that it can be configured to fly at that low of speed and altitude. But looking online, I find just as many pictures of it with the gear up as I do down, and possibly even more. So who knows.

@mrbrown3462

3 жыл бұрын

@@pnwlove6159 If fill site is close by and not flying far many fly gear down take off dump and land again some planes take time for gear up and down so they just leave them down. Atleast that is what I have been told if fire is close to fill gear down if fire is a distance from fill gear up.

SFJD are getting Type III engines.

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

I'm aware of that ;) That will be mentioned in a Q&A Video that I am releasing tomorrow morning.

this seems to be a recurring thing. Didn't this happen like 8 years ago? maybe again this year lol

@Tr35uckfanProductions

Жыл бұрын

Sure seems to be. I've seen at least 2 other fires up there that I did not go. First one I recall was prior to this one, but between the 2014 and 2020 incidents, and the other one was prior to the incident in 2014 that I went to.

You just know its bad when they get the Bulldozer out ...

@Tr35uckfanProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yes... Considering there were 2 of them there. Fire consumed I want to say 120 acres, which is a lot for San Jose.

Air, ground crews are doing e erything they can to save your property.

Is that a Huey helicopter

@Tr35uckfanProductions

Жыл бұрын

Yup. Though they are slowly being replaced by Sikorsky UH-60 Helicopters. They are known as "fire"hawks.