When my house burnt down in 1984, i remember the fireman telling my mother that a fire has no conscious or feelings and doesn't care what it takes and destroys in it's path. Scary.
Yes, not much goes up faster. Of course not all fires take off, like this. & some may even burn out, or take for ever to get going say a cooking fire with nothing around to burn, but room flashover in a minute or 2 is quite common & scary thought.
We were shown this during one of our Fire Investigation lectures in university and when the music started, most of us started dancing. To be honest, that is a catchy tune.
I took fire extinguisher training today for my job, and this video was part of the classroom component. Why don't they teach this in schools? Everyone should get training in using fire extinguishers.
Residential fire sprinklers that work off the plumbing lines would have stopped this conflagration in less than 1 minute! Residential Fire Sprinklers Save Lives!
Not sure what fire safety laws are in place where you are @MarkSamurai5, but in most of the world blocking fire exits is illegal and fetches high $ fines if breached. Definitely something to bring to your employer’s attention if only to help ensure employees’ safety!
Even if you have an extinguisher in hand, once you see flames touching the ceiling, its time to get the hell out of there, nothing short of a high pressure hose is going to help.
This is why you have good sized A.B.C fire extinguishers in all rooms and know how to use them and also have a home safety system that links all your smoke alarms that are also in every room of your house directly to the fire Dept. The faster the response the more lives and property saved. Seconds do count.
Food for thought. If you HAD to die in one of the following 4 ways, which would you choose…. 1. Trapped in a room like that 2. Drowning in a river 3. Mauled by a Bear 4. Plummeting in an airplane….
Fire is like the Terminator. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, EVER! Until it is put out or until everything in its path is destroyed.
I remember 2 years ago this kid tried to burn my garden down, we had alot of bushes in the back of the garden that would trail to our house and then the neighbours kid lit up a ball with fire and threw it in the bushes the fire was burning quickly but i saw it almost instantly and told everyone to get out the house before it spread we instantly called the fire fighters and they took care of it the bushes where burned toa crisp but it didn’t get to our house but the annoying part when the fire fighters asked who did this my mom said it was us...i was pissed of because it was clearly that kid but i guess she didn’t want to get them in trouble wich was straight up dumb
@1ladyslugga Well this is a common thing that happens at fires. I am a Volunteer firefighter and the way it usually happens is that most of the experienced guys can read the smoke conditions inside the house. We break a window usually to speed up the process of flashover so that way it happens before we are inside it. If that happens while we are in the room of flashover we have roughly anywhere 10-30 seconds to get out before our gear fails.
In less than 1:20, the fire is beyond the capability of a fire extinguisher. At 1:30 it is beyond the capability of a high pressure garden hose. At two minutes it might even overwhelm a built in fire suppression system. By the time this video is done, even that firehouse is overwhelmed.
Omg my dad told me to watch this because he knows how stupid I am with hot stuff and I nearly started a fire a couple of months ago. It only took nearly 3 minutes to burn down the whole room I need to be a lot more careful now
The whole point of this video is to show fire development. At 1:30 you could probably put it out with a garden hose but who keeps a garden hose in their living room! By the time you have collected the hose it'd be almost a fully developed fire with significant risk of flashover. Leaving the room to collect the garden hose would starve the fire so when you re-enter the room the influx of air would in fact cause all combustible items in the room to ignite causing a flashover IN YOUR FACE!
I've seen a couple of these flashover demonstration videos and it seems like it always takes around 2-3 mins from ignition to reach true flashover. But these are often done on room cross-sections missing one wall. I wonder, maybe someone with firefighting experience knows, how much of a difference would it make in a normal, enclosed room? Seems like there would be less oxygen available so perhaps slightly less rapid expansion of the fire? Just curious. Good to know how much time you have to get the f@#! out of a burning room. Never been in the situation and I hope i never am.
You are absolutely right. The missing wall makes a huge difference. In an enclosed space, that wall would be radiating heat back into the room, and flashover would occur much more quickly.
19 Years in the fire service and I can tell you this demonstration is accurate. Within 5 min from ignition you WILL have flash over, and you lose a room approximately every 30 seconds after the initial flash over
All you really need to do is make sure the electrical work of your house is up to date, keep things arranged in ways that a fire wouldn't be able to start, inspect your smoke detectors, and properly maintain appliances that will get hot during use.
What I find a bit unrealistic about demonstrations like this is the missing wall, which gives the fire access to a lot more oxygen than it would otherwise have. Yes, I know this is done so it can be filmed/observed without danger, but it's simply not quite the same as a fire in an enclosed room.
@SKarmytech sure it could still be put out at 1:20 and 1:54 with a fire extinguisher. but the thing is, you probably wouldnt really be able to get close enough to actually put it out because of the heat. The heat from that fire is trapped and building up in the room, along with the furniture nearby off gassing hot gasses
When you arrive and see those flames through the window, you don't Wait to get fully dressed, assemble an entry team, get the front door open and then enter a smoker filled space to get water on that fire. You pull a booster line to the window, break the window and put that fire out right now. What if there was a victim on the floor in front of that couch. By the time you got inside, they would be dead. By venting the window you are creating a Pressure Release Location for the smoke, heat and water vapor to escape out of and you have Protected the victim. The threat has been eliminated in seconds, not minutes.
im watching this because 5 days ago my neighbours flat caught fire it started in the lounge ,he was in the hallway and his lounge door was closed ,my son and friends managed to drag him out but his airway burned so now he in induced coma ,unfortunatly his friend was in the lounge and he burned to death ,the sight of his body was horrific
As far as fire attack, I would have hit everything back and forth at slightly lower than eye level and the floor to hit the seat of the fire where all of the primary fuel is burning. I can understand aiming upward indirectly for cooling the compartment in other situations but its already flashed. Hit the base of the fire for a few seconds THEN hit the ceiling and walls briefly. Hell if you want to use 30 degrees or slightly less on the fog pattern that will darken it really fast. Some steam conversion to cool everything
I should have specified the size of the fire extinguisher. A small fire extinguisher or garden hose is overwhelmed by 1:30, Not all fire surpression systems are the same and some could very easily be overwhelmed by 2:00. The fire house obviously isn't putting out that fire in 5 seconds.
I still play with fire as a kid once it got out of control so I quickly grabbed my pants then i smothered the fire I took the pants off the toilet paper and there was still fire so I smothered it again and that put it out and that was the first time I lost control of all of the fires I started.
Umm, at 1:54 the upper room temp near the ceiling would be over 300c and if that smoke up near the ceiling flashed over while you are in the room, like it does at only 2:15 you would be toast.
They came in with the fire hoses after the fire engulfed the room. What if u got there BEFORE that happened? How long to put the fire out then b4 it spread?
How would you be typing the comment even though the fire cuts power throughout the house (including the modem) when it reaches the wires that are in the walls and ceilings?
a sprinkler system wouldnt even let it reach that serious of a fire and even if there was a fire system it woudl be able to put it out at that point still specially if there is more then one sprinkler head in that room
Grasshopper80s4ever .oldford It is honestly slow compared to a few other videos. Google “fire spreading” A Christmas tree takes out a room in 1/3 this time. This one was slowwwww
jhanks2012 why are you asking about a church or a mosque specifically? Anyway, I say a church will be very similar to the room because there is a lot of furniture but a mosque might burn much quicker because the whole floor is covered with carpet.
Now with all the plastics and technology in 15 seconds half of the room would be in flames Don’t say I don’t know what I’m talking about because my dad has been in the fire department for 25 years
I might have it mixed up but I thought that flashovers happen when there is no more oxygen for the fire to "breathe" so it simmers down but then when oxygen is put in the environment again (for whatever reason) then there's an explosive combustion. I might have that mixed up with backdraft though..
That always happens with cigarette smokers in the house because they think they put out their cigarette butt and then they empty the ashtray into the trashcan and what do you got A big 🔥 Or cats eat electrical lamp wires which is another fire hazard
he is actually wrong a garden hose would still be able to put out that fire and even maybe a fire extinguisher depending on what kind that it is ive delt with many fires and it is very possible to do it
