I like to imagine he's not green-screened in but rather a ghost of a former team mate who died due to their incompetence and now he's just angrily shouting out their failings from the afterlife.
I love how the paranoid owner built an impenetrable fortress, but somehow wasn't paranoid enough to build mostly with concrete, and steel, and install sprinklers all over anything that could possibly burn, or even better, a halon gas fire suppression system.
Problem with Halon once that triggered you got very very little time to get out period, because Halon takes all the oxygen out of the air meaning you can suffocate. I worked as a contract security officer for a couple of years during my career at Fulton County Government Center one of the areas we were assigned to patrol as interior building Patrol Rovers, was the record room where court records are stored and they have a Halon system installed ., the only thing we had to do was check and make sure that the exterior and interior doors for the area were secured when you first entered the room on one of the walls was a warning alarm and Beacon period its purpose was to let you know the system was about to be activated and you had a short period of time before the system was triggered causing the room to be flooded with Halon as a fire suppression method that would not damage the records stored in the space
@@arnoldsherrill6305 umm, that's not how Halon work. It chemically disrupts combustion, and is remarkably safe for human exposure. That's the whole reason it was developed in the first place. Otherwise you could flood the area with CO2. CO2 is a well-known, well understood oxygen displacer that gets used in fire suppression systems that DOES have the dangers which you are talking about. Maybe that was the system that was installed in the records room? Or maybe the people there just didn't understand how Halon works?
@@OmegaTou we weren't here when the system was installed we were told if that alarm starts to flash and you hear the warning do not hesitate to leave and everyone was told the same information from the major in charge of operations for the contract all the way down to the newest guard
I got sucked into watching this for some reason from RU-vid's algorithm, and I think I understand. The writer's 7 year old son is actually the inspiration to the show. He just sits and listens to his kid playing fireman, and writes it all down
@@Maddog3060 Exactly. I'll try to add something to my daughter's stories when she's playing and shee looks at me like I'm crazy and promptly tells me "That would never happen Daddy" 😂
1:15 actually there’s an even easier solution: just pull the release lever on the garage door opener! Garage door openers are designed so that they can be opened manually should the motor fail.
The thing that kills me is you can see where it's already been removed. The brace at center frame, top, is where the receiving end for the release would normally be. There is _nothing_ holding this door in place. It's just aluminum panels with wheels on a track, at this point. 🤣
Glad I'm not the only one that immediately thought of that. I wouldn't be able to watch this show. At least when Star Trek makes bullshit metaphors for nonsense solutions it's dealing with fictional space tech-magic.
These guys are acting like they're trying to fight a terror cell that's dug into a building with hostages. THE HOUSE FIRE HAS LITERALLY TAKEN HOSTAGES.
arriving at the conclusion that you need to create a makeshift rocket bomb out of a water heater to escape a flimsy aluminum garage door is one of the most borderline psychotic things ive ever heard
& not only did an entire crew write, produce, shoot, & edit it, but they got paid millions to do so. It’s almost like Hollywood is a giant money laundering scheme or something
The genius of lighting a water heater bomb right beside a gas-filled car in a small, enclosed space cannot go unnoticed. "Dispatch, our firefighters are requesting firefighters."
As lil kids, my bother and cousin set a box of firecrackers on fire next to a car (it was raining and they wanted to play with sparklers) 🤷🏾♀️🤣 my oldest cousin kicked the box outside…she was 13.🙄🤣🤣🤣 “Are YOU…smarter than a 13 year old?” That’s what the show should be called 🤦🏾♀️
Obviously, the safest solution is for everyone to sit on top of the water heater and ride it through the door and into the sunset. I'm also unaware of any security system - ever, which would fail secure in the middle of a raging fire, securing the occupants and things to be secured within that raging fire. That includes many SCIFs, where top secret and above things live out their existence.
Umm, that "gas-filled car" is the least of my worries. You know what happens when steam explodes? Let's put it this way. I'd rather be in the trunk of that car with the trunk closed on top of me, sitting directly on top of the gas tank while smoking a cigarette. That's how unconcerned I am by that "gas-filled" car compared to an exploding steam pressure vessel.
This is what happens when writers have like 12 hours to write a very emotional script without the time for character anything and without repeating stuff from other episodes.
At this point, I have to believe the pilot episode of this series had an event where every single firefighter on earth vanished, and we’re following a crew of dogs turned human who have to figure out how to fight fires using only the equipment left behind.
That water heater probably would've gone through the door (assuming they jammed every single safety valve on the thing). However, those things explode with such force that everybody in that garage would be dead and disintegrated. These writers need to watch some of the old Mythbusters episodes. They got exploding water heaters down to a science.
@@terry987654 And then it would crash through the garage door and into the rest of the crew outside because none of them knew that they were standing in front of a missile.
If it didn't have one that makes it even funnier. Imagine some contractor putting in the security system and being told "yes I want there to be no way anyone in the garage can escape"
Right? "Oh yes pls get more radiating heat on my bare skin, thank you daddy". On that, why is literally noone wearing a flashhood? Are they all just going to take their jackets off, put a hood on, then mask up?
I dont think they use flame throwers, but wild fire fighters and forest managers that start small fires to prevent large fires and to manage the forest, do use a handheld torch like device to start fires ahead of a fire to give it nothing to burn. The best toy they have is shotgun like device or maybe gernade launcher is more accurate , that shoots balls that burts into flames to start a lot of fires some distance away from you. I suppose in this show they could lit the rest of the house on fire to burn it away from the garage so they could escape.
All I can say is that I want to sit with this guy through a firefighter show just for the first time reactions. I can't imagine the amount of screaming there was the first time he watched this.
No one could've just pulled the release cable on the over head door operator. You know the one in event of a power cut that enables the door to be lifted one handed. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@Megatron Knows Ohhhhh obviously. Is that the code right after the code that says that you should never even try and touch a fire you just play around with the water hoses like children and let the buildings burn
Yup and if that don't work they have co2 foam they can spary along with ABC and co2 extinguisher's. My grandfather was a firefighter and I was allways at the fire house so I have seen it first hand also have been to an active hot zone but outside the truck line
So, they launch the water heater into and through the door. It then continues in its direction of travel, directly into the other firefighters outside . . . ummmmmm.
@@rainbowmoon1461 If this was real, *that water heater will not explode nor turn into a rocket!* Modern water heaters have safety valves to relieve the pressure inside, *That water heater will just throw hot smoke afterwards!*
@@rainbowmoon1461 And somehow they not only manage to let the super home burn down, not only manage to seal a whole team of firefighters in a garage, but will also likely kill all the firefighters that are outside with an IED they built in the garage as it burns down...
My head canon is that you were trapped by Station 19's incompetence, and came back to haunt them as a condescending ghost constantly tearing into their idiocy. The frustration on your face is gold 😂
My head canon for 9-1-1 lonestar is great. Basically I've become convinced the show is, secretly, genius. See it's actually a show about a captain he's mental state is deteriorating and he's made this cult of personality around him so that everyone just follows his orders blindly and meanwhile the world around them thinks they're crazy.
Have you ever noticed the nylon rope hanging off the end of your garage door opener chain? This disengages the motorized opener, allowing the door to be opened easily from the inside (or outside). Even if this is missing, the actuator is designed so that it can be pulled off its track by a Halligan bar, which is carried by every competent firefighter (there were what 2 in that scene in total?).
"if only there was a way to remove the only thing holding the garage door to the wall" Funny thing is if you look at the set in that scene (@1:09), literally nothing is holding it in place. The doors not even on the rails, no rollers ,no chain drive, hell not even the counter weight spring is attached. Its held in place with magic. (or the stagehands on the other side of it)
Respect for the property, as they didn't want to damage it. Neither by tearing the door loose or getting that pesky soot all over the inside. I'll just get my coat...
My dad hated going into old houses. He never knew if they were going to have an old pre-safety valve water heater. He did see one go through the top of a 3 story house one time.
We simultaneously got how not to get out when trapped in a garage, how to actually escape from a garage and how to turn the common water heater into a rocket. I know what I'm doing this weekend.
FYI, you'll want to look at how to defeat the safety features of the water heater to make it into a rocket. Mythbusters did this one episode, so there's where you can start your research.
It's called techno babble. Also when Sci-fi resorts to quantum physics and dark matter I respect them more than shows that totally make stuff up like flux capacitors. Because at least quantum physics and dark matter are real. I would prefer if they got the science right but thats usually asking too much.
@@nocare I'm totally confused by your expectation to find reality and dislike made up stuff when the literal name of the genre is science FICTION. Making up stuff is the definition of fiction.
@@crazy808ish It's science fiction not fantasy fiction; for which for my preference is hard sci-fi. The point of sci-fi for me is a fictional setting with realistic science and world building. If its 100% made up its no diffrent than magic and thus its fantasy and if its trying to use real science then I want it to be accurate. Any made up science should not contradict real science but simply explore the areas of the unknown. P.S. I like fantasy too but hard fantasy that has rules for the magic system instead of whatever the author says goes.
The exploding water tank could work... if they had around 45 minutes, the tools to remove the pressure release valve, a bomb range, and have the Mythbusters as two if their members. They'd also need a way of preventing the 3rd degree burns they'd receive from their stupidity.
2:52 That brass thing rattling on the hot water heater is the relief valve specifically designed to prevent the tank from exploding. Also they don't have the heater braced against anything so it's not really going to rocket anywhere just spray super heated water and stream all over the garage
I think Only the Brave is one of the few movies that show firefighting accurately, because it was made in honor to the 19 firefighters who gave their lives fighting against Arizona's Yarnell Hill Fire and was made in collaboration with the local fire department. Firefighters risking their lives by fighting wild fires deserve far more credit than they get.
Is this show still on the air? Because it never should have been to begin with. Thanks Jason for stating the obvious in such a fun and entertaining way. That show was anything but fun or entertaining. You're awesome, man.
Okay, this makes me want to watch old Emergency! episodes. Because as dumb as some of the situations were in those, I never felt like they forgot how to y’know, use the tools they had.
The most sensible thing about this entire show is the fact that under the right conditions and complete disregard for safety measures, water heaters do in fact become rockets.
"let's make a rocket out of a water heater to blow a hole through the door" The firefighter still sawing on the other side of the door, who's about to see god:
They should bring you in for a guest spot. Just some dude from a rival dude from a precinct who makes fun of the cast and/or the episode's plotline while working with them.
Just discovered your channel I’m absolutely dying of laughter. Thank you so much for starting my day off with a laugh and THANK YOU for your service! ❤
It's written by women, which means the tech advisor is either a man with loads of experience, who the women won't listen to since he's just a man, or a female firefighter, which means she was a diversity hire, never paid attention and never actually had to do any work.
@@Ziggy_Moonglow Or the writers wanted to have an accurate script but the executives wouldn't sign off on it unless they added in a bunch of BS. Male or female, Hollywood isn't known for caring about accuracy when drama is on the line.
I was honestly laughing out loud, in tears, through this whole thing. ALSO - is no one concerned that a water heater missile (which, really??) might HIT SOMEONE ON THE OTHER SIDE? Like, Woops! Sorry Joe! XD
I'm so addicted!!! I've binge watched all of your videos and me need MOREEEEE! :) As an ex-firefighter/EMT, seeing these shows getting called out warms my heart. :))))
They’re sitting like 10 feet away from an explosion that’s suppose to have enough force to launch a water heater through a garage door that they couldn’t even open with all of them trying to lift, shove and whatever else they could think of XD
@@briant7265 Ooh! And the overpressure! Interestingly, overpressure kills just as much, if mot more than, the shrapnel that would ALSO result from that explosion.
dont forget how they hid behind the car, which not only would be a much more logical choice for creating an exit, but also has the risk of exploding due to the explosive device right beside it.
I also like how she makes sure to put her helmet on, but then they all put their unprotected hands on top of the car, and also have their unprotected faces out in the open.
Someone watched the Mythbusters episode with the water heater rocket and decided that it would make a good idea for a _firefighting show._ One of several examples that show me my writing, no matter how crap it is, is better than some things that were actually approved by actual people for publishing and/or airing.
Looolll they could literally use that partner saw to cut a door in the brick wall in less than 5 minutes, we cut concrete with those constantly, super easy and quick
Yeah. To be honest, the firefighting and medical technique in Emergency! is unimaginably better than this 911 response crap. Outdated as it is, it was more logical. A little bit heavy on shocking right into sinus rhythm but it was way, way more realistic anyway. Better show!
@@damonminnix4660 Oh yeah, far better show. It'd be fun because firefighting has evolved so many ways that it would be funny to see the modern firefighter be like "Wait you're going to just tie a rope around your waist. Johnny, that's a 10 floor drop, it will kill you if you fall... and you still owe me $10." "Hey guys, that truck might have Hazmats, maybe we should put air masks and turnout pants on... No? Okay? Are we really doing this in our station shoes?" "Whoa, you can't just ride on the tailboard. It's against NFPA 1500... Oh fuck it, still cool as shit, make a spot. Whoo!"
The writers for Emergency had to *prove* each scenario came from a fire department log book. They could change circumstances (rescues in Florida might not work so well in LA), but it all had to be real. And they had I-don't-know-how-many firefighters and paramedics to consult.
Were they setting off an explosion inside an enclosed space? If it's powerful enough to launch a metal tube full of water through a metal door then it's probably powerful enough for the pressure to do serious damage to your organs.
I mean how do they think the thing is going to go through the door magic? It has to exert a force behind it to propel it forward you know towards where they're hiding.
@@kenbrown2808 Metal garage doors usually have riveted hinges instead of bolted ones. But the mounting of the rails to the walls is done with screws or bolts!
I also love how they expect us to believe that the girl who is 5'5" at best is a firefighter who can lug around close to 100 pounds of gear and also potentially carry someone out of a building.