West Platte Fire Department is under fire for how they responded to a deadly Weston fire

WESTON, Missouri - A home video that captured how the West Platte Fire Department responded to a deadly Fourth of July fire is raising a lot of questions in Weston.

The video only captures one viewpoint and is only 14 minutes long and does not capture how they got the fire under control, but what it did capture has many outraged. A group pressed the Weston City Council about the issue Monday night.

The fire killed George Treese the owner of the downtown antique shop, Old Man Geezer Mantiques.

“To know that someone you love and care dearly about is in there, and you see very little effort of someone getting into the building is tough to watch,” said Jennifer Koerper.

She says the video shows 14 minutes of the fire crews not being able to get a working firehose to the fire.

“They were not getting any water pressure you saw some squirts of water but not enough to do anything. So I don’t know if someone got there sooner if he could have been saved, I think it's just such a sad loss for Weston,” said Koerper.

Her other big concern from watching the video, “why they did not enter the porch at any time that was not done until by Platte County I don't know."

The city council asked the group to bring the issue up to the Fire Department and their board.

Lynn Johnson, the Fire Chief, did not feel comfortable talking about the tape on camera until she got a chance to see it. But she did say they did not wait 14 minutes to use water to fight the fire and that they had received conflicting reports about whether or not a person was trapped inside.

She also said once they did get inside the building it was hard to get him out because of all of the stuff around him.

The fire board meeting is on July 27 at 7 p.m.. The group said they plan to be there.

The person, who took the home video, is remaining anonymous.