News clip pops up showing Fire Fighter being arrested on the scene of accident. In my entire career once a Fire Crew has been legally deployed to a scene, only the State Fire Marshal can arrest on the scene, its called jurisdiction. Fire Departments are 1st priority on scene with local law enforcement has Traffic safety backup. So lets put the little bitty cop cars in the line of fire for the public to hit, when a Fire Truck apparatus is titanic big and blocks oncoming traffic from killing or injuring rescuers on the scene. Houston Fire Department in 2013 had more than 6 fire trucks damaged by traffic while protecting the scenes, including 1 fire truck totaled on 45 south, 3 crashes on 610 west loop. In TEXAS that cop would have been hosed down on the scene, but lucky for TEXAS all mutual departments work together as a TEAM. https://facebook/video.php?v=10201815826797302
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:46:52 +0000