Here is several fires from today and the past several weeks that were just posted. Just playing catchup!
LA Furniture Factory Fire
A massive fire was reported at Stephie’s Furniture manufacturing plant in Los Angeles. The blaze at 158 E. 58th St, near E Slauson Ave and Main Street in South LA, was reported at 5:41 p.m. and was knocked down in 79 minutes.
The building appeared to be involved in wood manufacturing and firefighters had problems with exploding transformers and downed power lines. At least 150 firefighters were on scene at the “58th Street IC”. One firefighter was admitted to a hospital for possible heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation.
Detroit Apartment Fire
This fire is from November 12, 2010
DETROIT- Firefighters were called to the scene of a fire in an apartment building on Detroit’s east side.
When firefighters arrived, the found this apartment building with fire on two floors and heavy black smoke. Firefighters initially tried to battle the blaze from the inside of the building but the fire was too dangerous and they had to retreat.
A Firefighter tells me that there was a fire in this building earlier in the day and the cause of this fire was likely a rekindle.
I have not received any reports of any injuries.
Truck Fire in San Marcos
On my way to school saw a large column of black smoke coming from a neighborhood. I pulled up just before San Marcos Fire arrived and started filming just as they parked. A quick but exciting fire attack. There was also some sort of reactive metal that exploded (small) as soon as the firefighter introduced water to it. Possible magnesium part? My Haz-Mat instructor was actually the Captain on this engine company.
Female Firefighter Cinnamon Challenge
Bourne Street fire – Brockton, MA
14th Street fire in NW Cleveland, TN.
STATter911.com ran this earlier here. And another great fire here!
Just walking my dog and saw this house catch fire. It literally consumed the house within seconds. I got there before police/fire department. So sad, on Thanksgiving, too. The woman who lived there seemed disillusioned and panicky, people came outside & were tending to her a couple houses up.
Nice videos,
I’d like to share some thoughts on them:
1. LA Furniture Factory Fire
Nice job taking out that massive fire within 79 minutes, but in the video still not everything seems to go too well:
* The hose lines are a bit of a mess (Mostly unavoidable on such a big fire, but especially the many tangled up LDHs between the parked engines (as seen at 0:07) can become a serious obstacle for anyone who needs to drive down that road. (for example an ambulance to pick up casualties)
* The firefighter at 0:53, who has a nozzle fixed to his body with a sling. What happens if he trips and falls while the nozzle is open? (There are plenty of hoses to trip over) Will he be able to close it, or can’t he reach the valve lever anymore? Seriously, fixing a nozzle to your body is dangerous, just don’t do it.
* The monitor in front of the door at 2:30: Pressure way too low?!
* At 4:20/4:30 a firefighter watering the floor? Water is already flowing out of the building, there can’t possibly be any fire left on the floor.
2. Detroit Appartment fire
Good decision to withdraw interior attack. Obviously nothing left worth risking one’s health and life in there. The lack of injuries very likely can be accounted to this decision.
3. Truck Fire in San Marcos
* I share the estimation of a magnesium part being responsible for the violent reaction with the water at 1:24. I think it’s the metal core of the steering wheel (This part often consists of a magnesium alloy in newer cars and the violent reaction appears on the driver’s side inside the cab)
* Magnesium alloys can become a real annoyance when it comes to taking out fires. A fire department in my area once had a hard time taking out a burning van, which was so old that the van itself for sure didn’t contain any light metals. They had to empty their engine’s whole water tank to take out the fire. Later they found the remains of a rather new chainsaw inside the van and concluded that it must have been this chainsaw’s magnesium alloy motor/transmission block which made the fire that stubborn.
4. Cinnamon Challenge
Priceless! Had as much fun watching this as everyone involved in the video seemed to have.
5. Bourne Street fire – Brockton, MA
* The house at the beginning video hopefully isn’t the same house which is exposed to the fire later on. (Can’t tell for sure from the video) If it is, those people shouldn’t enter it until the fire is under control and it’s certain that it didn’t spread to the house.
* The man and the child at 0:57 are getting rather close to the smoke and the heavily dmaged fence and they stay there unattended for a rather long period of time. Someone should have an eye on them, and possibly get them away a little further to avoid unnecessary injuries.
* The parking position of the aerial leads to total obstruction of the whole road, although there’s plenty of parking space at the sides of the road.Especially the ladder guys should know how important it is to have unobstructed space to deploy their apparatus.
5. 14th Street fire in NW Cleveland, TN
* Nice job of the camera person staying out of the way. This also gives a rather good overview of the whole scene.
* Nice job of the neighbors taking care of the woman who lived in that house.
* Well done, police officers. Good idea to move your cars out of the way before the fire dpartment arrives. Every firefighter must enjoy working with you.
* Is the driver of engine 1 tying his shoes after getting out? Untied shoes and the pedals of a fire engine don’t fit together well, better try not to get entangled somewhere down there. Loose parts of equipment or clothing near the driver’s controls are prone to lead to accidents. A department in my area crashed their engine due to a helmet that got caught in the wheel after having been carelessly placed on the dashboard. Fortunately the outcome of this crash was nothing more than a destroyed garden fence, some scratched paint and major embarrassment.
* Someone should pull that hose off the road, there’s plenty of space on the lawn. Nobody needs to drive over a hose unnecessarily.
* Quick progress at taking out the fire. Unfortunately it looks like the house is lost anyway. I hope the caring neighborhood will help.
Wow. That’s it. You read the whole comment. Thanks for your effort. What’s your thoughts?