You can see the fire floating above the water and moving, this tells us is a hydrocarbon (immiscible with water), probably gasoline. The problem is very much spillage, the car's fuel tank was full sure. When there is much gasoline spill is very difficult to extinguish with water. The extinguishing medium is foam.(medium-expansion) .
The car wouldn't go out because this was a magnesium fire. It had nothing to do with ethanol vs. gasoline or an inadequate understanding of "extinction". Some cars have magnesium parts that burn very hot and can't be extinguished with water. Applying water actually makes the fire bigger. The only way to put a magnesium fire out is with class D powder or by burying it in sand. Otherwise, you just have to let it burn until the fuel runs out.
@firefighterdjk I'm not trying to be rude, but you haven't seen many magnesium fires, have you? Large amounts of thick, white smoke, and it looks like an electrical arc when you hit it with water.
The main problem is that this demonstrate a 100% misunderstanding of the process of extinction. Extinction is a very fast process: when you pur water on fire, when you blow a candle, you never see the fire decreasing slowly: it disappear immediatly. If you flow something on fire and the fire don't disappear immediatly, this mean you flow the wrong location or with wrong tool. And one day, you will do the same (flowing for nothing) inside a house, and this time, the result would be less funny.
@fiercyrabbit Actually, extinction is the complete die off of a species of life. You are completely wrong in your entire post. Maybe you should go back to second grade and learn how to spell and use words in the proper context before you try to explain how to EXTINGUISH a fire.
@317jlg its not that ethanol is hard to control or put out, its that ethanol is a polar solvent, not a hydrocarbon like gasoline so it requires a different type of foam. gasoline is actually far worse than ethanol in terms of explosive potential.
You can see the fire floating above the water and moving, this tells us is a hydrocarbon (immiscible with water), probably gasoline. The problem is very much spillage, the car's fuel tank was full sure. When there is much gasoline spill is very difficult to extinguish with water. The extinguishing medium is foam.(medium-expansion) .
puntaLanza 5 months ago
It's not magnesium, if it was magnesium you would see an explosion right when water hits it.
casams1992 6 months ago
This is a fuel delivery pump fed fire, not magnesium.
CGRSpaz650 6 months ago
The car wouldn't go out because this was a magnesium fire. It had nothing to do with ethanol vs. gasoline or an inadequate understanding of "extinction". Some cars have magnesium parts that burn very hot and can't be extinguished with water. Applying water actually makes the fire bigger. The only way to put a magnesium fire out is with class D powder or by burying it in sand. Otherwise, you just have to let it burn until the fuel runs out.
firefighterdjk 6 months ago
@firefighterdjk I'm not trying to be rude, but you haven't seen many magnesium fires, have you? Large amounts of thick, white smoke, and it looks like an electrical arc when you hit it with water.
PoppaBlue59 3 months ago
you make amazing cars lol
mcrking35 6 months ago
marshmallows any one?
FollowObeyConsume 6 months ago
man that brings back the good times of being a firefighter
jamesmyers10 6 months ago
The main problem is that this demonstrate a 100% misunderstanding of the process of extinction. Extinction is a very fast process: when you pur water on fire, when you blow a candle, you never see the fire decreasing slowly: it disappear immediatly. If you flow something on fire and the fire don't disappear immediatly, this mean you flow the wrong location or with wrong tool. And one day, you will do the same (flowing for nothing) inside a house, and this time, the result would be less funny.
fiercyrabbit 6 months ago
@fiercyrabbit Actually, extinction is the complete die off of a species of life. You are completely wrong in your entire post. Maybe you should go back to second grade and learn how to spell and use words in the proper context before you try to explain how to EXTINGUISH a fire.
bcfirefighter3 5 months ago
lol
mcrking35 7 months ago
goddamn germans
mcrking35 7 months ago
@mcrking35 what is wrong with us germans?
jamesmyers10 6 months ago
Someone's Benze is toast.
Begbucks 7 months ago
GOOD THING THERE IS A JOB JOHNNY!! LOL
TDEMSHOCK 7 months ago
shut down the water and switch to foam or any type B extinguisher
9caplad 7 months ago 3
If ethonal is that hard to control and put out, imagine what is does to the engines of the cars.
317jlg 7 months ago
@317jlg its not that ethanol is hard to control or put out, its that ethanol is a polar solvent, not a hydrocarbon like gasoline so it requires a different type of foam. gasoline is actually far worse than ethanol in terms of explosive potential.
pastathehoagie 6 months ago
fuel pump relay jammed and the pump is just feeding that bitch lol
Specrotors 7 months ago
Typical GERMAN car hahaha...STUBBORN fire....
Harleybum 7 months ago
Crews working in the engine compartment of the car then BOOM Dennis Weatherhold!
Truck3CFD 7 months ago