A driver nearly drove their truck off the Ballard Bridge at approximately 4 p.m. on Tuesday. According to the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), two southbound lanes and the left northbound lanes are blocked. They said to expect heavy delays. Photos of the crash show the truck’s front two wheels off the ground, hanging over …
On June 8th, 2022 I captured footage of a “Rescue Heavy Major” call in central Seattle, for a person trapped under an overturned truck trailer. The victim was pinned by just their ankle, and they were successfully extricated by Seattle Fire crews. A second victim sustained a head injury while trying to avoid being struck …
On August 1st, 2018 a tanker truck carrying 5000 gallons of gasoline crashed and started leaking near the West Seattle bridge. I recorded Seattle police and fire units responding to the crash and stabilizing the scene. Seattle Fire crews applied a large amount of foam to the truck, to suppress the gasoline vapors and prevent …
[No Sound] It’s ultimate tiller time … time! Here’s footage I captured of Seattle’s 11 tillers (plus spare) responding to different calls, a look at some epic “Tiller Drift,” and tillers responding with other Seattle Fire units! Seattle Fire has 11 tiller trucks in service; for some reason, there’s no Ladder 2 and Ladder 7 …
On September 16th, 2021, Seattle Fire units responded to a fully involved shed fire in south Seattle, near the light rail line. The fire was initially dispatched as a 2+1+1 (2 engines, 1 truck and a chief). It was briefly upgraded to a full response, but was downgraded back to a garage fire. The first …
Officials said the truck was on the interstate responded to a separate crash when another car came along and struck it.
...Here’s a collection of Seattle Fire units responding, that I recorded from live traffic cameras. Featured are the elite Technical Rescue team responding in Rescue 1, the Marine Emergency Response Team responding in Marine 1, and the Hazardous Materials Task Force, responding in Hazmat 1. I have in person (non-traffic cam) footage of these units …
(No sound) Here’s another Seattle Fire response collection, featuring Rescue 1! Also seen are Rescue 1 Aerial (formerly Ladder 7), Aid 14, the spare/old Rescue 1 rig, Marine 1 and the Hazmat truck. I know these don’t have quite the same substance as some of my more in-depth videos; rest assured, I have more Quick …
[No sound] Here’s an all new collection of Seattle Fire tiller trucks responding to various incidents! The Seattle Fire Department has 11 Ladder Companies (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13); all of them are Pierce Arrow tractor drawn aerials, and all of them have 100 foot ladders (except for Ladder …
*BREAKING* At around 2:25pm on Friday June 22nd a car was reported to have crashed into a restaurant in Downtown Seattle’s Chinatown area, leaving several people injured, and prompting a large response from the emergency services. I had been waiting at fire station 10, only a few blocks away from the scene of the accident, …