They should have done the right thing and gone around to get it set up asap... The beat the shit out of his car.

Probably because this made the hose kink and they had to disconnect it all and run it over the car instead while the people inside the building suffocated to death.

Car glass is tempered, so probably not

The amount of water in a tank is a fraction of what is needed to tackle a major fire. You've got about 3 minutes worth with a branch open at full flow.

Because of that limitation, you also aren't going to start an internal attack until you have a reticulated supply established, since running out of water while inside a building is a potential death sentence.

If I were in the same position I would have simply run my feeder run around or over the car rather than messing about like this guy.

The car isn't even parked in front of the hydrant and smashing the windows out accomplished absolutely nothing here as you can see the outlet they connected to is pointing toward the hood and bumper of the car and not the windows. You sound like the type of person who calls people "criminals" if they ever criticize the police for misconduct.

Dude, I'm with them. I clicked this for a justice boner, people that park in front of hydrants are selfish pricks, but the whole time I'm thinking "it would have been easier and faster to just go over the hood, or even under the front." Every second counts and he wasted time breaking the windows and putting the hose through. It even looks like the hose has to bend more this way, I don't know it that is enough to affect the flow rate, but it can't help. And in the absence of a red curb (at least I don't see one) it's not unreasonable to think the area between the posts is the no parking area, and it looks like they're outside of it. If they're in it they're barely in it. If I had to park that close, I would find another spot, but if I saw someone doing this I wouldn't think as poorly of them as I would your average selfish parker.

I park legally but that firefighter used the illegal parking as an excuse to deliberately delay aid to an emergency. The firefighter and the driver are both shitheads.

More than one person can be an asshole.

If you call me whatever nasty name you can come up with to my face, you're an asshole. If I then knock you out and give you permanent brain damage, it's completely fair to call me an asshole too.

They have the NYC FD emblem, which is s full-service FD

They should get their overwidth truck privileges revoked, it kills good urbanism when they can't reach a one-way or bike-only street. Bike paths are actually a common way for emergency services in non-American cities to bypass traffic jams, a well-known problem in NYC. Well, the mandated and enforced Rettungsgasse too, but standalone bike paths are wide enough for police, ambulaces and fire trucks to reach car-free spaces.

That is the FDNY, he isn’t a volunteer.

He is probably the driver or engineer and isn’t going to to into the building

there's always some assholes who think the rules shouldn't apply to them. here we are.

That'll depend on where you live. Without painted curbs I'd rely on the physical indicators. In this case the bollards in front of it. Car is outside the shown limits so I'm guessing this is legally parked and they just wanted a video.

As passengers usually do?

This is why we have one of those reusable spring-loaded belt cutter / window breakers in the centre console.