Response to a Structure Fire Why Was Engine 411 the last to Roll? UPDATED Chief Bonnee corrected me.

UPDATE

Chief Bonnee corrected me. 

See his message below

The LMRFD was paged for a structure fire in the area of 3rd and Havasu the other day. I was at Hot Diggity Dog when the chief advised dispatch he was responding with R415 and he could see smoke from station 41. 

Then the LMRFD ambulance went by followed by the chief both running lights and siren. Let me say that again, the ambulance and the chief's pickup went by, but where's the fire truck? 

Finally several minutes later engine 411 went by on it way to the fire. 

There was one or two firefighters in the ambulance and the chief in his pickup. My question is why didn't one of them drive the engine, another drive a tender, and the chief follow in the ambulance?

There were no reports of injuries so why not bring all the equipment with NO ability to put water on the fire? The ambulance doesn't carry air packs and the chief's truck may have one, but they didn't have the equipment to enter a burning building to save anyone even if they did get there in time. 

I was always taught the chief should never show up to a fire without a fire truck because people will ask what I asked, why didn't you bring a fire truck?

UPDATE

I wanted to thank Chief Bonnee for correcting me, the LMRFD ambulance does carry air packs. 

He also confirmed that Engine 411the only piece of equipment carrying water was last to respond taking approximately 3 minutes longer to arrive.

My point was with a structure fire doubling in size every minute, why leave the only piece of equipment carrying water last to respond. Getting there wasn't the problem, getting water on the fire was...

With 3 people at the station why not have one drive Engine 411, one drive the tender, and the chief follow in the ambulance in case someone gets injured? 

Email from Chief Bonnee

10:07AM August 6th

Jay,

In regards to your post on your blog you don't know the details of the call and we do have air packs on the ambulance and the fire engine showed up on scene less than 3 minutes behind me you need to get the facts before you start saying things that are not true Thank You.

Timothy Bonnee
Fire Chief
Lake Mohave Ranchos Fire District

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