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Why are American firefighters so slow?

Whenever I see a video about American firefighters, I notice when they arrive on scene, they seem to roll out 3 miles of hoses and then discuss who's going to do what next.

In the Netherlands they make a plan and put on their oxygen mask on the way to the incident. From the moment the fire truck stops, it only takes about 20 seconds for the first water to hit the fire. How is that in your country?

In this video they arrive around 3:10 and manage to start extinguishing only 16 seconds after parking:
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Miram · 31-35, F
Over here they are even slower. Hundreds people died last year because help took forever to start.

By the time the army joined for rescue, even soldiers died due to the spread. It was hell.
@Miram damn, that's really bad ☹️ I wonder how it's possible for such important people to be trained so badly...