Chief with a garden hose: Initial attack on a car fire.

Newsworking.org was on the scene of this car fire in Coplay, Pennsylvania yesterday evening before the arrival of the first fire engine. A chief officer who also got their early moved into the fire attack role. Here’s the caption with the clip:

At 2136 hours Coplay Engine 5 and a Whitehall Engine (E4) respond to a car fire at 39 N. 3rd Street. Police arrive and find a car with a engine compartment fire. Neighbors pull a garden house on it and deputy chief 35 (Shambo) assist with the garden hose until the companies arrive.