Response times questioned by neighbors
7:02 p.m. Saturday, July 5, 2008
"They was a little slow getting here, in my opinion, because when you're in something like that time goes by so fast," said Gary Anguiano, who helped before firefighters got there.
A fire at this house, 633 Southeast Lake, didn't stop Gary Anguiano from running up to it, and using a plastic chair to break out this front window to make sure nobody was inside.
His neighbor Greg Hernandez came out with a garden hose to help put out the flames, waiting for the fire department to show up.
And when they did, "Everything was kind of chaotic about a water truck or something, about water truck three or something that they didn't have the people for it, or something of that nature," said Anguiano.
That's when Anguiano says a firefighter from one of the trucks rushed into the fiery house.
"He went through the window, it was a miracle he got back out because he got engulfed in flames. He more or less had to jump back through the window. I mean it just totally had saturated him with flames. It was unreal," said Anguiano.
Justin Glover says the first truck to show up didn't use water.
"When they first got here, would have did it, the house won't look like that. It didn't take them that long. As soon as they shot the water on it, it went out.," said Glover.
Anguiano believes response times could've been faster too. "It was kind of slow getting the water to the house, even though there's a fire hydrant just about maybe 20 yards down the street," said Anguiano.
"A little bit of the house could have been saved, you see it's destroyed now," said Anguiano.
Once the water hit the house, it didn't take long to put out the flames.
Houses next door were sprayed down too, to make sure they didn't catch fire.
Luckily, no one was home when the fire started.
An elderly lady and her grandson who lived at the home are now receiving aid from the American Red Cross
The cause of the fire is unknown.
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Jul. 5, 2008 at 7:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)622 (anonymous)
I got an idea, lets take this policy to the dispatch center. We don't need them working 40 hours a week plus another 40 in overtime. We can have the police dispatcher answer the phones, she only talks on the radio every few minutes and when the officers go in a chase she can hang up, they will call back if its important. And fire dispatchers, we don't need them, firefighters are resourceful, they can dispatch themselves...
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