BIBB COUNTY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL FIRE DEC 2008

[kennedyrocker123]

how did this happen

[TheMike16112]

Student: welp, I'm going home early today

[firefightermat2010]

There was definitely a lack of response to the fire. Not near enough manpower or equipment on the scene. Regardless if it is a total loss or not. The response should have been greater. What is with the little engine out front? That is like pissing on a forest fire. Even if it becomes defensive, which it was, they should have surround and drowned.

[bcfirefighter3]

@firefightermat2010 Maybe thats all they had and the next trucks were 20+ minutes away? There is a ladder truck set up in back. I am sure there is more than what you see

[SupermarioMadness]

Looks like the janitor got pissed.

[HellFire6006]

@TheWSAVA I love reading dumb comments like yours. That is what you would consider a total loss...there is nothing to save at that point...you think they are going to risk their lives for a structure thats already completely engulfed? Think.

[MrRymantheman]

@HellFire6006 he has a point they should do somthing

[drumguard1]

12/16 is my birthday! But now it is the schools death date.

[kendraboo94]

i miss the junior high....

[firegadget2000]

laat je reet exploderen jongh

[aaron43671]

this video is alrigh

[icantfing]

how scary ......

[davisotj1]

oops

[sneezabonk]

School's out forever

[cccetomacrogol]

It seems the fire brigade did a swell job

[NFS13EPIC]

Y MY SCHOOL NEVER ON FIRE, Y ME NO HAVE FRIENDS

[tagger5532]

@NFS13EPIC Because you dont speak correct english.. let me pu it in terms you will understand. U 2 DUM 2 HAVE FRIENDS

[NFS13EPIC]

@tagger5532 Y YOU FORGOT TO PUT THE T ON PUT??? Y U HAVE FRIENDS forever alone.jpg

[wolfsrule31]

YIPPIE NO MORE SCHOOL FOREVER I THINK

[wolfsrule31]

no school XD

[Mrsupersonicspeed95]

this was on my birthday

[thefirstfamily3]

There was no school being held there at the time of the fire. It was in the process of being renovated to house the Board of Education.

[firealarmfreak455]

My older cousin went to that school. He was there the day the fire happened. LUCKLY he go out safely!

THANK GOD!!!!!

[ByWolfFX]

@firealarmfreak455 There Was no classes that day ?

[StrawberrieSmothie12]

What was the cause?

[arcticfox6428]

I never realized this till now, but WHO THE FUCK KEEPS A SCHOOL FOR 100 YEARS?

[XxXNouillesXxX]

@arcticfox6428 and that is why america has no history. You all think everything should be knocked down and re-built after 20 years. In the UK, there are many schools in buildings about 300 years old or more. My schools old building (only moved due to spacing and government requirements on sports), is 400 years old and is still used...but as flats!!!

[ewd76]

@XxXNouillesXxX

We never had very many 400 year old buildings to begin with.

[ewd76]

@XxXNouillesXxX

Closest thing we ever had was Jamestown, which was completely abandoned because it was never a good place to live.

[skiqsr]

This is what you get in communities that either can't afford a water system or those that choose not to have a fire department or a water system. Can't put a fire without water or a team of fire fighters.

[natebaby55man]

To Bad they never got a good water system in the town. The Price you pay to live the country. Sorry for the loss of a Nice looking building. And now the kid's are going to be at a loss for a while

[happyjack880]

Great truck placement fellers.

[maddiieeftw]

NO SCHOOL! :D

[wolfsrule31]

@maddiieeftw yeah no school for them because of the fire :D

[shawnhbkdx90]

Someone forget to turn a budson off?

[Andwrightrocks]

how did it start

[mrrockdaddy100]

WTF HOW DO THAY DO THING IN THE BIBE COUNTY FD NO WATTER? WOW

[EagleEye4838]

i cant exactly see anyone putting it out, and who can blame them

[Cmom137]

N More School? :D?

[TheyxSeexMexTrollin]

thats terrible=[

[theo1307tog]

if that was my school ..i woud run over and put som more gas on the fire :D

[arcticfox6428]

If that school is 100 years old, then they needed a new school.

[101webkinzluv]

holly hell

[lilamy73]

luv no scool

[WRFD46firefighter]

its just a drill

[theoliviakitty]

@WRFD46firefighter how can that be a drill its on fire



[dakman3113]

Wait, schools actually do catch on fire? I thought all those fire drills were just getting me out of my math classes!

[dounutkid123]

no SCHOOL

[gx4685]

now that jus brings a smile to my face a school on fire o hell yea

[ShadowFan06]

FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE X3!!

[covewatcher]

This fire is a defensive operation. I wish you well in your training. I really do hope you make it, and that you continue to watch videos like this and continue to learn. I know many people post negative things and such, but try to weed those out and ignore them and learn as much as you can by watching the various departments working. This site is a very good learning tool, sometimes for what not to do, but mostly very good and positive work. I hope you are successful !!! :-)

[covewatcher]

And lastly, IF you could enter this buidling, which you can't, what resources do you have to mount an attack? You have limited or no water at this point. Even if you had unlimited water, what are your plans? 2 1/2 attack lines through the front door? Your engine is outside the collapse zone, are you going to just keep screwing together hose sections as you advance? Are you going to shore up the second floor as you advance? You have to consider logistics as well. See my point? Uk or US,

[covewatcher]

This is, and I am certain your instructors would agree, a death trap for anyone inside. It is already collapsing, look at the porch. The upper windows are full of fire on the right side, and the fire is through the left and right side roof. If you want to walk in underneath that at the point you see it in this video, you need to revisit the section in your training manual on my favorite section, risk assessment. I have preached about that on here before. I recommend you review that section.

[bieny10]

the students who went to that school would be lucky to have years off school until the new one has been built

[thelastwilddude00]

its just common they saved money by burning it down dont you see

[thelastwilddude00]

the fire started buy electrical wirering or lightning hit it thats what we heard but i think they set that shit fire cus oh they got a board of education there they had plans for the board of education to be there so the lit the some bitch up thats all it is to it you fuckers are dumb and they built the board way to fuckin big and they spent millions of our money on it but hay i dont fucken care just a freeka ccident hahahah not fuckin dumb bitches they expect us to belieave that and we did

[GJgay]

@rideabonzaco, i am training to be a fire fighter in the UK, when we have fire's like that over here, we attack the blaze from the base of the fire. from what i can see all you are doing is spraying water over it?

in order to put out a fire and save as much of the buiding as possable ( which we try and do everytime over here ) you have to attack it from the base, not 30-40 foot in the air, also, we woud have probaly had a team go in to the building to attack it at the source

[covewatcher]

@GJgay GJ, I understand you are in training, so please do not take this as mean spirited. As I have stated previously, I am a retired engine capt. Let me tell you right off the bat, none of my people would be sent inside that building. From the point the video starts, this is a defensive operation. Secondly, see bonzaco's comments. He is dead on the money with the rural water situation. You can not attack the base (or source) of this fire, which we do whenever possible over here as well.

[Rainbowstar668]

that looks like a court house

[HalesNoobs]

thubs up if you wish that would happen to your own school :)

[TheSteinmetz342]

100 years old? damn i'm surprised something like this didn't happen sooner.

[wclevel3]

where's bibb county,alabama

[highlanderhybrid]

@wclevel3 Above Below Jefferson and kinda next to Shelby.

[wclevel3]

how did the fire start

[cody4168]

do uk how it started

[8267592grl]

we still miss this building :(

[FirefighterGillen]

thier was no onethier in the building. and no one should have to bearoundthe biuldin for it to fall on them. So yall growns upsgrow up and stop bein dumbasses

[FirefighterGillen]

thier was no onethier in the building. and no one should have to bearoundthe biuldin for it to fall on them. So yall growns upsgrow up and bein dumbasses

[5angelface]

is that was my school id be crying well my schools in a village and it was built in 1959 i tink it was in the 1950's anywayz

[knlb06]

wow this a not a good showing for the FD. they should have used gas to speed it up so they didnt have to waste money with the trucks around using fuel, because there not doing shit

[knlb06]

i love when people talk smart on here

[oceauna]

i remember that

[clarkloveselevators]

I think it would be impossible to make it look the same after the fire, so that was probably why they didn't spray much water.

[heartzempire]

I remember that. :(

I love that school.

And miss it.

[1stresponder1]

what was the cause?

[goofysoutherner07]

i used to go to this school and had good times there and to watch it burn to the ground breaks my heart

[rideabonzaco]

So all I am saying is that you can't look at a video and say, "Why are they not putting water on it?" when you don't know what resources they have. Just watch the video and make your own assumptions but don't critisize unless you were there and know what the Logistics Officer was dealing with. If you were there then you can say what could have been done better for training purposes only, not to piss someone off because they are just trying to help, and they do a good job at it, too.

[arpscec]

@rideabonzaco Well said....

[rideabonzaco]

on another note...If you have a 500 gallon tank, 1500gpm pump how long does it take to use all that water at maximum gpm? Even though most of the time you are only running one maybe two master streams on that size of a fire. each master stream is 350GPM or more. So your water is GONE in less than a minute. that will not cool the fire of that size significantly to stop combustion. If you live where I do with no hydrants, all that water must be trucked in. Good luck Mr. Logistics Officer!!

[petehenderson]

@rideabonzaco the school is next to a river

[rideabonzaco]

I am on a very rural FD and I can tell you that water is like gold. You use it VERY sparingly and wisely. We have 5 water tenders (not tankers out here, if you order a tanker you get a C-130 with retardant) and we use every bit of that water. If we have people out of town and can't get the water there is nothing we can do but secure the area and protect any surrounding structures / wildland. On one small house fire we used over 14 tenders and emptied them all, and still the area was very hot.

[butnob951]

@rideabonzaco i also am a firefighter in a small VERY VERY rural community and last week we emptied our tanker 7 times and our pumper 4 or 5 times at a huge 2 home fire.

so i know what you mean by water is a firefighters gold

[VFVFCo68]

I dont know why all of you guys are complaining about the lack of water...see all that white smoke? that is steam, that is WATER BEING PUT ON THE FIRE. This building is obviously large, it's old which means it is many times more flammable that most buildings....when a building this old catches fire it usually goes up immediately and there's not much these firefighters can do.

[FirefighterGillen]

For the one thats talking bad about the firedepartments fuck yall we did wat we could do and that was made sure no one was hurt and try 2 put it out even thought thier was no saving that school cuz of some dumbass people trying 2 blam some shit on a falsewire line.....they just needed some money for thier new damn board of education building

[MemorywipeProduction]

@FirefighterGillen Yea well what if that shit exploded or collapsed ontop of spectators, or there was a person trapped somewhere inside that could not be seen or heard?

[MemorywipeProduction]

@FirefighterGillen + Your a firefighter, act proffesional.

[FirefighterGillen]

For the one thats talking bad about the firedepartments fuck yall we did wat we could do and that was made sure no one was hurt and try 2 put it out even thought thier was no saving that school cuz of some dumbass people trying 2 blam some shit on a falsewire line.....they just needed some money for thier new damn board of education building

[shortcrossrulezz]

where is that water when you need it\!!!

[ballsofun]

exactly......where the f**k is the water. The tower was there since the beginning and not a squirt.

[z1bgreg]

As with every other video of ANY american fire service i watch, i find myself asking the same question, WHERE THE HELL IS THE WATER,

Why do they ever turn up, WHATS THE POINT ????????????

[CFD200]

trust me ive seen mult pics their was more departments and apparatus on scene

[aaronkundla]

Where the hell is the aid? No point in going inside that but i dont see any other depts

[PureShot101]

Where is the rest of the dept or mutual aid? Only 1 engine in front of the fire building? And only 1 ladder on the side?... Unless there were 10 engines and another 3-4 ladders behind the fire building, you need to rethink the mutual aid plan with the depts.

[InuZbaby147]

I used to live right accross from that school, i moved three years, i started crying just when i looked up bibb county, how did the fire start? omg...that is heartbreaking

[turdbandit1]

this is landon i go to this school district i am class of 2013 i am a ninth grader

[Austin1112Roblox]

Maybe my school will catch on fire next. ^_^

[camo673]

no school?

[AmericanMan44]

my dad was one of the firefighters there, i myself am a firefighter in training and hope to be as good as him one day, and im sry for your loss bamabritt06

[zachray263]

sad to see such a bueatiful old building go into flames

[Hedgeweed]

Those curly pillars - shaped like Mozart's wig - look shocked and scared. That's the trouble with school fires - they're the most ghostly fires of all. If rebuilding takes place, the old school will still be haunted by the fire. At one school, burnt years ago, alarms always go off on the anniversary of the fire. Some even see flames and smoke which are not actually there.

[alarm776]

and wich school may that be?

[Hedgeweed]

Sorry, didn't see this until today. The school is in Hampshire, England.

[DeeJo87]

no it isnt...

[dmn110]

You're retarded.

[Hedgeweed]

Good. Better than being boring. That's your department.

[kels027]

how did this fire start?

[Tidefan324]

It was undergoing rennovation and something happened. Faulty wiring or a small spark. I dunno. I went to school there and 35 years ago we used to clean the old pine heartwood floors with oil and a mop and sawdust. I shudder to think how saturated with oil those old floors were over the years. A small spark would probably have torched it in minutes.

[lrd9999]

@Tidefan324 The roof burned off one section of my jr. high school after a workman dropped a torch on it, but the roof was just about the only flammable part of it; they rebuilt it. The walls were brick, concrete and tile; even the inside walls weren't painted. People say '60s buildings are depressing, but that one proved its worth.

[UrbanMummy]

my old school dewdz

[bamabritt06]

A memorial to my grandfather burned in there. :[

[bullzisnipr3]

that sucks, sorry to hear that.

[skatergirl24567]

Really? I'm really sorry that happened.