Having grown up in that beautiful home made it very difficult to watch this video. It was a very devastating event, but there couldn't have been a better crew to do the clean up. Now a new family can build a new home and create new memories. While those of us who lived there can remember ours. Thanks Mike ❤
Damn! As a former firefighter, I was going to say it started in the basement and you then pointed into the basement. Always nice to see you two helping those who really need the help. Good morning, Mike and Aaron!
I can agree with the basement being where it started i guess but with it 100% gone, burned to nothing, how could the FM determine what started it? Any evidence of faulty wiring has been fully destroyed as well as any real proof of exactly where it really started.
@@warrenmichael918 You don't know what the house looked like after it burned or what the owners did to "clean it up". Just because you don't see something now doesn't mean it wasn't there immediately after the fire. Mike even said that the owners had already done some clean up work. I will guarantee that there was far more to that house immediately after the fire than what is there now.
Good morning, Mr. D.P.. Wow, what an awful thing. As a retired Firefighter, I have to say, (barring the loss of life) there's not a much more devastating thing to happen than someone losing their home. It really tugs at your heart when you see the anguish on the faces of the owners. Thank the Good Lord nobody was hurt. My thoughts, prayers and best wishes go out to them. God bless.
This video hit me hard... I could smell it thru my phone... I lost everything to a house fire... including the best damn dog a man could have 😥😥😥 RIP Dozer, I will see you again.....
I don't know how to explain it, but it sure felt like you gave extra care when you removed the memories and anguish of the burnt-out home. Thanks for demonstrating the compassion to give the homestead its final dignity. Great video and my heart goes out to the cousin who lost his Grandpa's home, along with the blood, sweat, and tears of rehabbing the place for the next generation of the family.
This story broke my heart. It's hard enough to see a burned down building, but an older home, with lots of sentimental memories is much harder. I hope the owner can now build it bigger and better....and SAFER. I'm so sorry that this happened, but maybe it was a blessing in disguise that it burned down before they moved in. Great job with the cleanup, Mike and Aaron!!
Man, the save of the center column was awesome. Great job! My prayers are with this family. We lost our home many years ago, and it still affects me after 25 years. Hats off to the VFD.
This all looks familiar. Did we get to watch Matt quote this job? The loss is very, very sad! A day before moving in. Wow! Crying shame to lose Grandpa's house to boot! Thanks, Mike and Aaron! Lee
Excellent clean up Mike and Aaron 👍. I just noticed something else. When are y’all gonna put a yellow light bar on top of the work truck ? Might come in handy when Aaron is stopping traffic for Mike. It would make a good rainy day project in the shop. Aaron needs to be seen. 👍😎
As a former volunteer ff, I can completely agree. I remember smelling that in my hair for days after working a structure fire, and to this day I can't stand smoked food or drinks due to the familiarity with the smell of a house fire.
For what it’s worth the lift eyes on that propane tank are engineered for empty or 10%. Good idea to run straps all the way around the tank when they are full. Good video, man that was a hot fire.
That Cistern was super well built. Neat ol men back then. It is almost sad to destroy their work of art but like you said it is obselete. But super cool to see.
The memories made in this house are that are left - completely. The bricks were so brittle the heat must have been tremendous. Great clean up - ready for the next phase.
It’s a shame that their house burnt down but at least it happened before they moved in. I wasn’t expecting the dirt walls around the basement to cave in as bad as they did. You did an excellent job cleaning it up. We had a cistern under the old house that I grew up in here on the farm. The house was torn down many years ago and the cistern is still settling after all these years. I have to add dirt to the hole every few years.
Good morning sunshine! Hate to see anyone lose their home in a fire! Best of luck to the family. Yall did an awesome job cleaning it up! Much love from Henderson Ga USA
There is so much relief to the family, once the site is cleared. You guys go above and beyond just rubble clean up. It now looks like a nice start to a build project.
Morning Mike, and Aaron, So sorry for their loss, Its so sweet, that you our as Big hearted as you are. Sending my love and God's blessings to you all, stay safe,Keep on Smiling, Keep the FAITH!!!Wanda In N E Ok
I absolutely enjoy watching you and Aaron (man, behind-the-scenes ) working. Since I ran across your page, I do not miss one video. I am intrigued by the excavator would love to master that great beast. 😊🥰
Yes, they do sometimes as a firefighter. You got to shower thwp or three times just to get the smell off you. The worst one I had been on was a metal building storing Hay and cow mulch and chicken mulch . EVERYONE bunker gear Reeked, the whole station had to rotate out on response until their gear was washed and sanitized.
The cinder block walls acted like a furnace, trapping all the heat. I can`t imagine the internal temperatures that were reached. Great job of avoiding that chimney!
Prayers for the family for the loss of the home. Congratulations to you and Aaron for the work you did helping the family. Have a great weekend and week.
How absolutely devastating for the family, and what a wonderful job you did in cleanup. The pain & loss will always be there, but healing can begin and they can look to a new future. Wow Mike, bless you & Aaron for what you did. Thanks for sharing this. And I agree about the cistern. That sucker was well-built.
Nice clean up, walls were definitely dangerous, fires are nasty things to clean up after. That cistern was in decent shape for as old as it was. Thanks for the video, enjoyed watching.
I can imagine it smells pretty bad, that burnt smell always creeps me out! Burning houses are so bad to see, it’s like a thief stole everything that you’ve worked years for and it’s all gone in a few hours! I know many people that have had their homes catch fire, it’s a sad thing! I imagine this house had many memories that went up in flames quick! At least nobody was in the house and nobody got hurt, Mike! Thank God!!🙏🏻 Are the owners going to rebuild? Sending prayers and positive energy to the family who owned this home! Hopefully they will be able to start a new home for themselves soon! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
On camera it looks like it cooked pretty good in there Mike, surprised at how nice it cleaned up and doesn't appear to have fire damage on any of the surrounding tree's or foliage. Good vid guys.
We fought the devastating wildfires in our Texas panhandle, now we’re fixing to start on the cleanup, but we don’t have anything with a thumb, hopefully they’ll lease us an excavator with a thumb, long roads ahead of us right now.
Mine burned all the way down. Even the block foundation was gone. We didn’t have volunteer fire departments especially out in the country. It’s absolutely devastating to be helpless and watch it all go away.
I have to say wow you and man behind the scenes are the best I follow you constantly I appreciate how much you put in to make this possible and by the way shout out to Arron hopefully I spelled it right keep doing what you do buddy I am a lifelong supporter 😊😊😊
Looks like you found some precious gems. Well at least the fire took care of getting rid of the junk, minus the metal of course. You can really see how the heat from the fire pretty much destroys the integrity of both brick and mortar. Anyway, great work as always. Best to you.
You’re doing a great job you and Aaron, I feel so sad for the people that were moving into the house there big dream to own a house and it burned but thank God they weren’t in there sleeping.See you on the next one
So sad to see this, just days before Matt's cousin wsa to have moved in. Happy to hear that the family will be building something back on this site at some point!
Tell the family sorry for the loss of their grandfather I know what that loss means I cried when I lost my grandfather. I am glad that everyone was safe and hope that the family still has a place to live and that are they going to rebuild their hopefully better home maybe this is a sign from the grandparents to build from scratch and better than before. For the scrap metal where is the second dump truck I see they use a small trailer for the scrap metal. Man that fire-roasted the foundation look at how black the ground has gotten from the fire. It gives you a new-found respect for what fire can do to a home if not watched closely just glad that the family was safe. Hopefully, they will rebuild a better home for the family and a bigger home for the family. Sincerely! R.S.V.
You do good work a great personality I would love to work with you all my parents are no longer here I live in East Tennessee I watch all the videos for 3 to for years now I love it
Although sad about what happened there it still made for great viewing guys. We call those blocks hollow stone blocks here in NZ , I think you call them cinder blocks up your way bro. Safe travels. Ken.
So sorry for the loss of their home, but thankful it happened BEFORE they moved in. That was amazing how the blocks just crumbled like they did. Looked like they had been through a crusher.
As a former volunteer firefighter for Klein, Texas, I have been to a few house fires ,and unfortunately experience with my own. It is a wonder sometimes what survives and what doesn't. Great massive holes in a wood floor and a few feet away a bookcase of books relatively unscathed. Or the roof and celing gone, yet an office chair and plastic table unscathed. Yes, it sucks to see a fire at any ones household. But the Most important thing to remember is that it is just stuff PEOPLE are not replaceable!!!!.I am glad That I my case that given the size of the blaze no one was hurt except for their pride that they could not save the home of a former Firefighter in their Department. The house was nearly as old as the department, which was found 1952. To see a founding family home that stood since 1959 when started construction and was actually built with timbers harvested from the homestead what really hurt was me loosing my solid one inch tounge and Grove flooring and the actual framing that was actually 5/4 lumber. But pine and oak aging in the Texas heat for 60 plus years gets a wee bit dry.
😮😢 it sad to pull in to one of these jobs ( at least for me ) because as your demo you can not help but think of all the memories good an bad an things that are just not replaceable. But we have a job to do and we do it but still have a broken heart 💔 for them….
I sure miss the CASE Minotaur™ DL550. I’d have liked to see it work this job. It’s like a big yellow Swiss Army Knife for dirt! 😆 Mike in the 210 Aaron in the 550 Crash in Bubba Dump Job done before lunch 👍🏻
I built a cistern while we were finishing up building a 35x50 woodworking shop, It took all the runoff from the peaked 12 on-12 roof; it was used to water the nearby downhill garden, and we used altitude to move the water. The only control was a solar-powered solenoid valve. Cisterns are still practical in some situations
House Fires are a terrible thing this one was really bad A very nice clean up nothing special except for the cistern to deal with even that went smooth taking care of that
I have the emergency services contract for our township fire inspectors and also a volunteer firefighter and will help out whenever I get called for assistance. Great job boys ( as usual) 🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'm really surprised that house had no Rebar in it.Or concrete down The holes. Even though it's sad it might be a good thing that that happened to it.I imagine in a tornado or anything like that would have been dangerous.
This was a good cleanup of a bad situation. It was a bit traumatic to watch. As bad as this one was, the results of the Camp Fire in and around Paradise, California was even worse. My former wife had a house, studio apartment, and two car garage and the only wood left was a three-foot piece of 2 x 4 from a fence. Even the mortar in the brick was gone. I mean gone! Never knew mortar could burn. I was on-site for the cleanup for which FEMA requirements specified full Haz-Mat PPE and all debris wrapped in plastic and sent to one of two dump sites. All surface dirt was considered contaminated and also removed. Then consider this same scenario times 14.000.
