First six minutes of a trailer home fire 

Lmao

We'll try it on our neighbors first to test if it works..

ikr and I'll definitely remember not to set them in fire if I do

That's not how I am supposed to dispose of shredded paper? I guess it would have cost me only 3 houses to learn that! Thank you RU-vid!

Thegreatmush i agrre

That’s the same materials they use in most kitchen cabinets and countertops. Most mobile homes are fully engulfed in 8 min or less.

Yea really is this really a true assessment of a trailer fire itsnot furniture or carpeting burning its pallets and shredded paper. How many people have pallets and shredded paper in their trailers. Lol

They have to work with what they had.

i know how it is. september 14th we got a call at 430 am saying our house was on fire. we had just dropped the dogs off at the house it was right after hurricane irma we lost everything we owned but the worst part was loosing the 2 dogs the older one was found laying on top of the small one. the house was gone in 15 minutes at the most.

Joe Petrick i have seen it first hand and they go fast. It's like any home sad to see people lose their belongings

Thereal hodgydaddy: OMG! I'm *so* sorry, especially about the dogs!

Trailers aren’t built to last-they’re built to burn! And that’s if cockroaches don’t invade first-they LOVE the glue in particle board materials, so if they get into one of these, they immediately go on the mother of all benders!

Any mobile home built before 1976 had aluminum wiring. That’s why mobile homes older than that burned the way they did, plus the materials used to build them were super cheap and flammable. Thank goodness your neighbor made it out safely. 😳

The way the heat rises is an effect called “thermal layering,” and it’s the reason why the rule of escape is “stay low and go!” In my Firefighter I class (I’m a volunteer), the first time we were in the burn building the instructor had us stand up for a minute after they got the fire going so we could feel the difference in the heat at the ceiling vs. the cool down on our knees. After that, every time we had burn drills they’d watch to make sure we stayed low, and anybody that even sat up too high would earn a whack on the helmet with the instructor’s spanner wrench! And the types of water patterns we use with the hose make a difference too-I remember one of the last drills when they had the fire good and roaring, and this idiot probie tried to use a fog pattern (wide spray) on it. All he did was screw up the thermal layering so it was just as hot down at floor level as it was up high, and we were on our bellies trying to find a cool spot! The instructor cussed him out and asked if anybody knew what to do. I hollered “Gimme that line!” and hit that sucker with a straight stream in a “Z” pattern starting from the ceiling and knocked the fire down enough so that we were relatively comfortable (I didn’t put it out completely because others needed the practice too). And that was in the simulator-imagine how well we have to learn those instincts to deal with a real fire!

Our community lost a family of 6 exactly like this a few years ago on Thanksgiving Eve. Mom, dad and 4 babies under 6 (one was a cousin of the children). Absolutely heartbreaking. The adults were found with the kids, trying to get out.

Well yeah. The flames were touching it basically. Have you never been camping? It's hot af near a fire

1960s and 70s technology it sounds like lol

My smoke detector sounds almost like it (I have a 1978 model and I know I should replace it but we have another smoke detector next to it

Sounds like someone is strangling a deer. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

+Ignited Fury That's a really good point. I never thought about it that way.

+Ignited Fury But fire can be any color, depends on what (chemicals) are burning. Cool to think of it like that though

arsonist tendencies.....

It realy is, artistically and scientefically fascinatiang. Copper/Copper bearing rocks and minerals produce green flame.

Project Xfire: yes, I've done some research on that. Here's an interesting point. It is said that most people do not dream in color, or if they do, it is either red/green, or blue/yellow. There are the rare individuals who dream in full colour. I am one of those individuals. Also, because I am phobic about fire, I often have nightmares about it. Whatever colour predominates in the dream (or nightmare, as the case maybe), if fire is present in the dream, it is definitely the usual colour.

It is a training video

I have brick walls.

@@CzechRiot are you being serious. Andy England 🇬🇧

@@andrewdaley3081 I like this thread. 😆😆

Amber Locked it seems like they do go up faster because of the smaller space you have to go thru to get out, I had one burn up way back in 1968 because of the furnace, at that time it had an old pot burner in it that had been worked on over the years by people who didn't know what they were doing, including me, the float in the burner stuck and flooded the floor with kero, the rest is history,, todays are safe as a house.

Amber Locked No, sash weights would be at a salvage yard if you can find them, they were used in windows yrs ago to help open and close them , a crow bar would work or anything steel, strong that you could smash a window with.

It may not have "gone up fast", but the fire alarm didn't sound until almost 1 min 40 seconds. Even if you woke up instantly hearing the fire alarm, one still has to contend with the smoke. The smoke is almost always the killer in a house fire. So scary!

Four minutes from lighting of fire until the trailer is completely filled with deadly smoke. It's not as much the fire that kills. It's the smoke. And four minutes is pretty daggum fast.

3 min till the room flashed over that's nothing when your sleeping

Kale Harms my neighbors caught fire at 5 aclock this morning

In a trailer park near where I live there was a structure fire the other day

It's to simulate if a fire started in the trailer, whether it was from a couch lighting on fire, a Christmas tree, what have you. Regardless of the source fire, it shows how fast the rest of the trailer burns. I've seen actual trailer fires that have burned just as fast in "normal" conditions.

A typically loaded mobile home is going to burn much hotter and would be fully engulfed in flame in the same time.

A sofa and one easy chair would have done the same thing, only much hotter.

Sounds rather like 2 other infamous nightclub fires where a lot of people died. Club Cinque Sept in France in the 70s, and going further back, the Cocoanut Grove disaster in America.

Simaginary Friend: that's why it's a good idea to put in a battery-powered smoke alarm as well, to serve as a backup.

PeooPlaysMinecraft: Hope you've been able to recover.

Change the aquarium position

Better move the aquarium. Even though your house may not burn down. Better safe than sorry. I think a human life is more important than a few fresh water fish

Not likely since it was already venting and had an oxygen supply from the start.

no smoke no need for an airway

Actually, most smoke detector is exactly what it sounds like. (detecting smoke) usually a smoke detector has invisible rays of light which once they are covered by smoke, sets the alarm.

i figure its more of a gtfo warning than a "hey try to put this fire out"

Are you serious....

Lol!

Malia Pease Thanks, of course it was a joke.

+Groovyman 1968 that was a abandoned house

Actually, that was the PASS devices on the firefighters’ air packs. They’re like a motion detector in reverse in that they’re designed to go off when we stay still too long. They start chirping like that at first, and if we don’t move enough to shut them up they start screaming after about 30 seconds. It’s a way for our buddies to find us should we get injured, unconscious, or trapped in a fire and need rescue.

@@dragondancer1814 I know what it is. I am a certified technician for Scott and MSA SCBAs. That periodic chirp is the low battery indicator.

@@kenziebrax My bad, I thought you were talking about the antiquated smoke detector in the place.

They only go for so long, my old house was from 1978 and had one that screamed exactly like that, it would go for about 30-45 seconds then kinda go higher pitched until it stopped, I think they have a capacitors that runs the buzzer, and it drains rather quick, mine also developed a loud buzz, that we considered the "it has power" alarm lol

Done it this way. It's one way to get rid of a trailer -- if you have a way to cut the metal frame into manageably-sized pieces.

I don't hope any fire. I was near a camp fire last weekend, and the smell ugh... It makes me feel a real hadache smelling that the whole time (migraine) and i had the feeling of a cactus in my troath. Today the smell of soot was still in my hair today. Ugh what a foul stench. And i got a cold with it toghetter because it was cold outside on a weekend in Belgium. I hope i never have to smell that stinky burning smell of fire and soot again.

P. de W. because of modern materials and plastics, you only have around one to two minutes to get out. there is no time to gather property, everything but your life is replaceable.

It completely depends on the construction of the building, size, and the furnishings. Not to mention if doors are closed. There are TOO many variables to make an absolute statement as to how much time you have.

Training burn u mean?😀🤔

The fire alarm

+Kim Ludlow I suppose its to simulate other stuff they'd have laying around. You know, chairs, books, etc. Using the shredded paper and pallets are a lot cheaper than actually furnishing the home, but provide for a decent replication.

Shouldn't have to be questioned.. I mean it's a simulation, but if it really must be answered.. The shredded paper for one could simply be kindling and have zero meaning, or two, it could represent books, newspapers, magazines, etc. The pallet would obviously represent some type of furniture. Furniture has wood in it. Pallets are wood...

training

It's almost impossible to put a good stop on a trailer fire even in a city.

I live down the street from the fire department