I was watching a documentary, and the firefights were mildly annoyed they hadn't had a good fire recently. Of course, they don't want a "good fire" because lives/livelihoods get harmed, but firefighters wanna fight fires.
@jygb7092 as a firefighter that fwomp is terrifying cause it's got the chance of being the last thing you hear, so yes he's valid in saying that sound is terrifying.
Backdraft was my favorite movie as a kid. I always thought backdrafts and honey fires would be a lot bigger deal to me as an adult than they have been 😂
@@trollolol705 I’ll never forget my aunt calling (on the landline) one evening when I was about 7 and asking what I was doing and I said watching a movie. She said oh what movie. I said Pulp Fiction (just came out on tape). She started screaming to give my mom the phone. It was definitely a different era. No way I would let my girls watch chunky and Friday the 13th and all that stuff like I did.
Firefighters are actually the reason I became a backdraft. Something about erupting my innards in an instant is so satisfying. My heart is always warm.
@@joshlee7935 No, you can blame comprehensive databases, youthful stupidity, and idiot senior management for blind dogmatic adherence to an antiquated hiring and training process that frankly never worked or guaranteed quality candidates. They’re going to have to revamp the whole job criteria, hiring process, basic training, and field training if they’re going to avoid a hiring crisis.
Backdraft the reason I wanted to become a fire fighter. Never actually got to become a fireman, but work a ton with them, and they are brilliant people.
You wouldn't want to encounter that, it gets very hot, very fast, and usually firefighters get burned. They also tend to cause collapses. I never encountered one, but Ive been in fires where it flashed, its like being in an oven the moment the gas ignites.
He was celebrating that it worked like they wanted, training is tricky, ask the trainer that was demonstrating to us how magnesium burns and used too much LOL. Before I joined the fire crew, I was caught by a backdraft, a section of duct work caught fire and when we, untrained line workers, tried to put it out, I opened the access cover and heard a weird sucking sound, them flame shot out, catching me on the side of the head. Lost all hair on that side and had second degree burns on my face and neck. If I hadn't jerked back I would of caught it square in the face. Once I became a fireman, I urged any new trainees to take care when opening a door or busting out a window because of that incident.
This happened to me as a kid about 10 or so I was loading up a burning barrel stove with old garage door panels that had 20 coats of paint on them. I opened the door the smoke was completely still, then felt the wind getting pulled around my head, I slammed the door shut and it immediately was thrown back open and blew the flue apart and was chugging like a runaway train. Needless to say, it scared the crap out of me I opened the garage doors then crawled under the smoke line towards the stove with a small 2lb fire extinguisher and got the fire out. Then I came back with a bucket of water. and put it out. I'm both embarrassed and proud of myself and how I reacted.
That's so freaking awesome. Friend & I used 3 large extinguishers to put out a raging fire I embarrassingly caused & the firefighters said we should come on down to the academy. 🤣 People love to think, with 100% confidence, that they'll react appropriately to something like this but you never *_really_* know until you're confronted with the real world situation at full speed. (Myself included - very common trap to fall into)
I’ve witnessed them, it’s quite a sight. Three of my co workers were caught in one. One was blown down a flight of stairs and it ended another one’s career. Scary stuff.
@@JanB1605 "Out of nowhere" to us but I've read stories of experienced firemen inside a burning building and clearing their men out because they anticipated a backdraft/flashover. I have put out a house fire with a garden hose, a pickup truck fire with a dry chemical extinguishers, and a print shop fire with a dry chemical extinguisher. They were all very small fires and I acted quickly. My belief about fire fighting: 1. Act quickly, 2.Small fires are often easy to extinguish. Yes, I have extinguishers in all of my vehicles and 4 extinguishers at the kitchen entrance. I just installed 2 new smoke alarms.
@@guerillagorilla4423 Oh, no, I hope NOT. Around the fourth of July and New Years Eve I take the garden hose and try to water down everything that might catch fire from an errant bottle rocket. I try to follow the idea that prevention is not as dramatic as fire fighting but it's much more comfortable and safer.
I figured out how to do this in a wood burning stove with very light breaths. Saved me the time and hassle of shaving. It's a lot more fun if you can do with an open camp fire, so long as the flame as another direction to go instead of back in your face. You can cause short bursts of flame on command until everything catches fire.
I woke up in a second floor apartment on fire in 1997 middle of the night, went out the back window, across the roof and jumped on to the dumpster and down to the parking lot, called 911 and watched the building burning with all my stuff inside in the NY winter, let me tell you.
So it’s like… you got the fire contained in house and it’s almost suffocated out, but then you open a window or something and then as soon as the fresh air meets the dying flame, WHOOSH! 🔥
Genuine backdraft. It's a barn stall demo. They likely lit a hay bale (in the center.) It smoldered and smoldered...until it finally ate a hole through the bale to the outside. Then, WHAM! [You can tell it's a genuine backdraft from the smoke getting pulled back inside several times. Twice on closed, left window. Several points on the open one, at bottom.] Remember, a backdraft will breathe! (Suck and pull at air. Beware the whisps that get pulled back inside!)
Basically, the fire stops getting enough air to burn, but it's still hot enough to ignite when oxygen is reintroduced. When oxygen is introduced through an opening, like a doorway or a broken window, the fire violently reignites in a lethal conflagration.
TotallyAMetrocop I think he was asking why there was a delay. Most descriptions of backdraft make it sound like things will blow up right when the door/window is opened.
Good question. The fire has died down as it burns away the available oxygen. As there is an oxygen deficit the combustion is less efficient which creates a lot of unburnt product - this appears as smoke. Smoke is a flammable gas - we have created a fuel rich / oxygen deficient atmosphere. As the door is opened it introduces oxygen to the compartment. This mixes together to create a "perfect mixture" which will ignite when the balance is correct and the fire builds the temperature. That is why it isn't instantaneous.
Jack Middleton Actually the oxygen is stuck inside the house leaving no air inside With only gas and smoke in it So gas builds up. And fire will set on fire Is like a you put a alcohol (not a beer) and propane inside a long big pipe And set it on fire
I've done this training and have experienced a small backdraft while working in a commercial loft space working unit to unit. U feel it and hear it before u see it. It's very odd. They are extremely un predictable. Thus why the firefighter in the video went "yay!" The door was open for some time . It can happen straight way or some seconds or 30 secs later or not at all. It's the perfect storm scenario.
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I saw something like that happen to a house in my neighborhood. And it happened just as a firefighter was going around the corner towards the window. I thought he'd been blasted but the angle I was watching from partly obscured what I saw and he was okay. But for a few seconds I thought I'd seen a man burned alive and it scared the....stuff.... out of me.
Insufficient oxygen in the burning core of a building leads to a buildup of carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, etc., and eventually a pocket of these gases, all of which are above their autoignition temperature, find their way to a source of oxygen and you get nearly supersonic combustion and the resulting fireball.
Short answer: They're called backdraft because it's blasting the fire _back_ out where the _draft_ is coming in. Long answer: When a fire is burning in a confined and poorly ventilated space and runs out of oxygen, it starts to suffocate itself out while remaining super-heated. When you introduce a new source of oxygen like popping a door, a window, or manually putting a hole in a wall, that creates channel to generate a draft of fresh oxygen. The super-heated air in that room - which is VERY hungry for that oxygen - consumes it so fast that all that draft coming in flashes over, trailing _back out the direction it's drafting in from._ And that's why it's called a backdraft.
Because the temperature inside fluctuates, before the explosion happens, which causes the room to "breathe" in and out. When it draws air in, that part is the backdraft.
We have I did the flashover class they were going to do a backdraft for us but something didn’t work right so we all just stood outside disappointed but it’s something you don’t want to have happen on a real call
I’ve only seen a few actual backdrafts, luckily we were defensive by that time. You need experienced Chiefs to recognize bad situations because you just can’t see the big picture inside.
It’s more of a green tint. White smoke is in the early stages usually. In my experience it goes from white to brown to black and then it takes on this weird green hue and there is so much pressure it pushes through the mortar. Hopefully you’re defensive at that point.
watch the smoke: the sucking back in is feeding the fire is the actual backdraft…the flashover is a part of it, it’s the next step after the introduction of air to the smoldering fire and superheated air
YT is indicating there's a reply to your comment, but it can't be expanded, so I'll venture a hypothesis from my zero years in firefighting and next-to-zero knowledge of chemistry: this looks like a flashover event, wherein the _air_ heated by the fire (not the flames themselves) achieves a temperature meeting or excelling that of the combustion point of most / all materials inside that superheated air (furniture, carpeting, wall & ceiling treatments, etc.) -- all of which combust _simultaneously_ producing an effect analogous to _the entire volume of the air turning instantly to flames._ Subsequent to the flashover, I *think* (but ain't sure) that the sudden pressure differential between the fire and the exterior of the burning structure forces a jet of flame outside, producing the signature "backdraft", kind of like the reverberating pressure waves of HE ordnance or nukes. Don't know what kind of combustibles or accelerants they may've used here, but in every case, backdrafts and especially flashovers are spooky shit.
@@VindsvelleI’m a FF and you probably explained it better than I could. All I know is it’s scary AF. I’ve been in a few flashovers, luckily I’ve only witnessed a backdraft from the outside. The heat is indescribable.
@@mplslawnguy3389 Don't know how you do it, man. A few years ago I stopped by a controlled burning of a condemned house that our local FD were conducting, and even with the fire localized in the center of the (single story) house, the heat felt _from inside my car with the windows cracked, ≤20 ft away on the street,_ was oppressively intense. There were firefighters in gear (not all wearing face shields, IIRC) right up on the porch, almost point blank with the inferno. Plenty gnarly for me. I watch a ton of forensic analyses of industrial disasters (including lots of fires), and can't imagine the stones required for you guys to brave truly uncontrolled structure fires.
@@Vindsvelle I’ve had a few coworkers careers ended in house fires from backdrafts. One was blown down a flight of stairs and the other was burned too badly. He tried coming back but couldnt do it anymore. I’m getting to the point where I’m looking towards retirement. Still love the job, but you get in enough bad situations it kind of changes your outlook. Great job overall, but I want to be intact at the end too. You’re right about the heat. It’s hard to describe the feeling of getting right up the the point of burning. Your neck and arms feel like they’re boiling. Modern gear has been a blessing and a curse, because we can go farther into a fire than we ever could, which means we can get ourselves in some bad spots.
Backdraft, is a fire that is enclosed. The oxygen has been consumed starving the fire. The heat remains. Opening a window, door or such introduces cool oxygenated air causing an explosive reaction. A flashover, the contents of a room become so heated as to simultaneously combust with an extreme increase in heat. This video is not a backdraft, but a smoke explosion...
@@user-ul6tr5cq3e What? How do you properly explain the phenomenon, yet incorrectly say this wasn't it? Yes, it was. The fire is choked out, they open that little hatch on the side introducing fresh oxygen, and BOOM explosion of fire and smoke as it re-ignites thanks to new oxygen. You literally described exactly what this video shows, and then want to claim that's not what it is. Yes it is 😂
Electric car fires are ok , you have kids digging up the minerals for em in the congo then they explode into infernos that make new more advanced star trek backdrafts.
