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  • ...and the foundation is still standing!

  • wait!!! did they ask permission from the owner before they burned their house down

  • @lukuleleLOL Wouldn't they feel sheepish if they got the wrong house.

  • I know now why I hate Vols. so much..Just another opportunity to play with water and take pictures. "Look at me Billy Bob we burnt that Fucker Down..YE Haw" Jackasses!

  • 6:24 Chilling in the grass! ;)

  • Totally off topic but...

    The music sounds somewhat similar to "Structures From Silence" by Steve Roach.

  • Atleast the house was put to some good use before it was taken to the landfill

  • >.>

  • Now this is what happens when a house is built out of timber

  • whats a fire department? 

  • 3:48...BOOBIES ON THE WALL!!!!!!

    

  • great training = house destroyed

  • why did the lit the house??? was is supposed to be demolished or why did they put it on fire

  • why would they do that D':  :'(

  • @234olive training

  • what was the culprit of this fire?

  • The only issue I have with this is the roof crews are not breathing air. Yes training is important but training right and safe is more so. Too many FF's are lost during "Training"

  • lol 3:50-4:11 hes like damn wtf

  • meanwhile in Africa....

  • why did they burn the house down?

  • LAFD 

  • Why did they not want that house? It looked like it was still a pretty nice house.

  • Something must have been seriously fucked up with frame work or the foundation as I see no other reason for why the owner would want to level his house which looks to be a fairly decent upscale home.

  • @ArizonaChris96 could have termites or roaches or be so obsolete or a bad setup

    I work with remodeling and renovating apartments and some of the stuff I see would be cheaper to demolish and build new then try to straiten out the old stuff .

    It will be cheaper to build a new house and it will be a NEW HOUSE

  • Hmm, I'm hope that house wasnt full of Jews. Because then it would be a GAS CHAMBER!!!

  • why did they burn it down?

  • beautiful vid.

  • The training process is all part of the cruel game fire fighters face day in, day out. Without such training lives would be lost. I know of a fire-fighter, who little girls says to her daddy, am I going to see you later ? "Sad" wondering if daddy's coming home, but it is the fact of a fire-fighters life. So for them that go and starting fires for fun, please consider the dangers all fire fighters face along with consequence of a destroyed family if a fire fighter dies due to arson.

  • HAHAHAHAHAH 3:53, the spray painted naked lady on the wall

  • the owner didn't want his house?

  • were there any members of watertown at this burn or just middlebury?

  • @klebz07 As I remember there were a couple guys from Watertown who attended, but it was mostly Middlebury FD.

  • @Knightlite1 oh okay. Where there any Middlebury Juniors there? Because I'm on the Watertown's Junior Corp. and I was just wondering if the are able to do stuff like this.

  • @klebz07 Juniors were there and were allowed to control the masterstreams on the outside. They were NOT allowed to go on the roof or go inside as I remember. There was one Junior from Watertown there.

  • @Knightlite1 i should hope not! i would think that juniors just don't have the needed experience for the roof or inside

  • @Knightlite1 Great video

  • @klebz07 Im on the Middlebury Juniors, we are very limited on doing things such as this as most junior corps are, I went to burns at the fire school and we can not go into the burn building. But we were allowed to help out and clean up.

  • @simplexalarm114 Yeah, Watertown Juniors are limited to doing this also. I don't mind though. Doing other stuff is prepping us for joining the regular department! 

  • @klebz07 Junior can do this stuff in drills but that is IT. They do not enter a burning building during a call. You must be 18+

  • There are people like this that help us to better our knowledge at what we do by letting us train

  • Poor house. :(

  • hey do that for fun, and I can't burn my leaves.....

  • That looked like it was still a pretty nice house! Why did the owners want it gone?

  • the owner requested that to save them money read and ya will see the reason behind it but in my personal opinion i would not have done it at all fires are not a play with it's not a troy

  • smashed the window im going there tomrow whish me luck by the way im a girl im so scared

  • in my town theres a burnt down house on Purpose cause it was to much money but the lady who owned the house still lives in the hut shes mental but she wrote on the walls in BLOOD TRESPASERS WILL BE SHOT SERVIVERS WILL BE SHOT AGIAN and some ppl from my class went there and 2 of them were held Hostage one of them had a baseball bat and she took it and smacked on of them in the Stomach and dropped it and digged her nails into his sholder meanwhile the otherone picked up the baseballbat and

  • When i was a teenager, we had a chimney fire, the fire dept respoinded and put it out, and then we found out that they were going to have training the next day on .... how to put out a chimney fire !. They got trained a day early.

  • they dident do it on purpuse they do that to practice

  • I wonder if they turned it in to the insurance company any way? Good burn guys, stay safe.

  • What state was this filmed in? In our state (SC), we must remove the roofing material from the house before we can burn it. Also, interesting wall decorations beginning at 3:48.

  • Just curious as to why there were so many FF on the in initial attack line ? also noticed that the guys on the roof were not working from the roof ladder and one FF though donning his B.A did not have his face piece on when heavy smoke was billowing out around him, yes its only training but should be practicing the same as if it was any structire fire. Utilize the Safety Officers who could of picked up on it, other than that, great video guys and tks for posting.

    Brother TC

  • @TheeRiverwolf

    Apparently you didn't read the description either.

  • @Knightlite1 good idea train at 25% speed with 60 people on the line...that will be just like the real thing... what a good experience 

  • @bobsirebob Maybe the training was the evolution of fire, not the control or extinguishment. Not all firefighter training revolves around getting the wet stuff on the red stuff. It is a science and should be treated as such. Please, do everyone a favor and think before you comment.

  • how dreadful

  • what was wrong with the hous that they burned it looked like a nice place

  • why burn such a nice house?

  • @emtconey - some people must have money to burn

  • IT WAS ALRITE JUS DIDT SEEM UP 2 PAR

  • uh fyi it's called training

  • heh watched a house burn down in front of me today was pretty intense propane tanks exploding and flames shot up from roof into a big tree and burnt like half of it lots of fire dep ppl get thr house was fucked anyway

  • Lets try to put the fire out and when we can't we'll all say it was burned down on purpose. What a horrible department!

  • @GWOPPGETTER , dude, it was a house the owners wanted burned down, to give the volunteer firefighters, who, have other lives and jobs, and sometimes only get a couple hours training a month, and a few fire calls a year, an opportunity to get in and feel the heat, darkness, smoke, flame of being in a burning building along with fighting the fire from the inside, and then how to maintain a blaze in the event a real structure in not salvageable. Vol. dept do this all the time.

  • Was there a backup line when the engine crew made entry?

  • @ntfd125  Yes. RIT was right there off camera.

  • great fire department by the way I think by make believe they meant it was not a real emergency. this was a practice exercise I believe

  • what a horrible fire department

  • @GWOPPGETTER

    H E L L O ........ We burned the house down on PURPOSE!

  • @Knightlite1

    rofl, that gave me a good chuckle

  • @GWOPPGETTER Seriously? Read the damn description.

  • @GWOPPGETTER Good Fire Dept its called practice DUMB ASS know your facts

  • @GWOPPGETTER Its for training purposes 

  • @GWOPPGETTER Fire departments do this all the time, when there is a house that a bank cant sell they let the fire department use it for training, and when the fire department is done with the house they let it burn down.

  • r u stupid or something

  • @GWOPPGETTER they were going to tear it down anyway

  • @GWOPPGETTER

    Its called TRAINING.

    douche.

    If you knew a fucking thing about firefighting you see that there were like 10 people go in at once. On a REAL house fire, usually 2-3 go in together as a team.

  • @GWOPPGETTER Holy shit you are a fucking dumbass!

  • Do they even know what there job is?

  • thats not good it causes polltion they clould have used a constrution vehicle and torn the house down

  • @TheDonny03 ok so then they could not have cought up on their jobs an practiced construction nevermind polution

  • @TheDonny03 its wood... Clean Burning...

  • @TheDonny03 , and spent several thousands of dollars hiring a company to come in and do it and haul all of the materials off safely, and deprive the FD of important training. also, before most controlled burns like this, that states fire marshall, comes through and checks to make sure no hazardous materials are in the building, and requires any that he finds before he/she signs a burn permit for that dept. to burn the building

  • Middlebury, CT

  • is this middlebury indiana?

  • We had a town nearby where i live in germany. it was called "Otzenrath" and the whole village has been demolished and torn down due to quarrying of coal.

    And a few houses were also used for firefighting-practise-purposes which made this ghost-town even spookier...

    Otzenrath was just one of these villages among 4 or 5. Check Wiki "Tagebau Garzweiler"

  • 3:57

  • can someone explain to me what's in the background @ 3:57?

  • The people who owned this house went around the house before it was burned and drew things on the wall. All sorts of stupid stuff like the one you see there. I guess they did not have much respect for their home.

    We did not see this until after the shot was up here. The firefighter in the picture is setting the house on fire to be burned down.

  • @Jaxshun Those are boobs.

  • @Jaxshun a cat

  • @racerx8228 i knew it!

  • @Jaxshun And there was also a smiley face i just noticed.

  • @Jaxshun Might be brown/gray paint.

  • @Jaxshun FACES i mean, :) And :3 Sorry.

  • ya training caus ethey wouldnt really burn 1 down

  • it is only a traiing house fire tho. iz it?

  • Why is the truck company not operating on air? Refilling cylinders is next to free, there is no reason to be breathing that stuff.

  • wat state was this in?

  • Firefighters training to save lives and property is more than worth any environmental damage that this evolution may have caused.

  • "The house was then burned to the ground at the owner's request saving the family thousands of dollars in demolition costs."

    learn to read man...

  • and it's a tax write off!

  • @sharky53198, yes they could have gone to a training site, but for a vol. dept. could mean traveling hundreds of miles to find one and might have to pay to use it. and it isnt the same experience, sure you have a safe tower that burns, but you don't have the experience to control an external blaze simulating a fully engulfed blaze, also, the state fire marshall goes through all training houses and makes sure all hazardous materials are removed.

  • you sure have a lot of volunteers there.. that must have been damn fun

  • Hey thats in my town Middlebury where are all the trucks at least engine 1 should have been there at least 4 trucks i guess?

  • Do you actually believe we would set a house on fire, and somehow forget to bring an engine or two? I believe the entire fleet was there at the ready along with a swimming pool truck full of 7000 gallons of water. Master streams set up on all exposures.

    I think we had it covered.

  • sounds like u had it coverd nice vid

  • while they were burning the house down starting at about 6 minutes in, what were they using the line for? was there an unseen exposure? or were they just training in hose opperations?

  • There was a pile of junk a little way from the house out of camera view. The person who wanted the house burned down did not have it far enough away, so we tried to set up a little water curtain to preserve it.

    The other parts where you see the hoseline shooting water up in the air was to try to protect a really cool looking tree that was close to the house. There was an attempt to try to save it, but it was just too close.

  • here in new york we can no longer do live fire training do to some firefighters dieing in a training fire we still do ventilation training with out fire.

  • The video is illustrative, but I see that they need more energy to try to extinguish the fire inside the house.

  • Again, the purpose of this exercise was to burn the house down, not put the fire out.

    We had training evolutions where we set some small fires with pallets and hay to let some of our new guys get familiar with the darkness, smoke, and heat. No big fires.  We knocked them all down.

    When everyone had their turn, we burned the house down as planned.

  • Ive been on the roof with just about as much before. Holes were cut, and we quickly got off the roof. Sometimes there will be that much fire present, but the roof wont be involved yet. Oh, and they probably got clearance first before burning an ENTIRE HOUSE down. For shit's sake, our department needs clearance to burn our propane prop. This is prob. in the middle of nowhere, and not many citizens reside there that could breath that crap.

  • Is there a reason he's using a partner saw to ventilate instead of a chainsaw or is it just personal preference?

  • Gotta love 3:41. This is more of a video for arsonist to get their rocks off with then a training video. To many things going wrong in the vid to be training. Looks like a bunch of fire bugs in turn-out gear to me.

  • Actually it's not a training video but a video of a training day. I think the real goal of the video is to give non-fire fighters a glimpse of what it's like.

  • I think you're right

  • jammvonk is correct. It is a video of the MVFD training. The end goal for the entire day was to indeed burn the house down so the owner could build a new one in its spot.

  • that was a nice looking house whata waist

  • @PaulieMac77 yea, but it was prob. owner preference, no matter how nice, new or sturdy the house, they call, we burn.

  • my mouth was open the WHOLWE time

  • Does anyone else agree that this was entirely too much fire to have people on the roof?

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  • @emtziggy45 There was a lot of smoke but not much fire. Just a few hay bales and some pallets. The shots you saw with a lot of fire, there was no one on the roof.

  • @emtziggy45 i guess it depends, the fire didnt self vent but I could be wrong.

  • I take it nobody has read NFPA 1403 or the numerous fatality incident reports related to live-fire training on acquired structures?

    Ignoring that for a moment, why are there four guys on the roof - none of whom are on air? Why doesn't anybody have their collar up? Where are the backup water supply and attack lines? And on, and on...

  • why are that doing that

  • why dont you read the description

  • haha look at the wall behind the guy at 4:01

  • HAHAHA!!

  • How come the guy on the roof is not wearing his SCBA? Thats a no no

  • Next time, 162 White Avenue, with napalm

  • awesome video a+a+

  • awesome video nice job i love it !!!!

  • keep it up !!

  • weres the hot dogs and marshmellows

  • They had to contain the fire... wet the areas around the house so it won't spread and become uncontrolled.

  • very nice, love it

  • can someone tell me why they weren tring to put the house out and were spraying water away from the house?

  • briellebetch, if you would read the description you would know why they didn't put the house out... "The house was then burned to the ground at the owner's request saving the family thousands of dollars in demolition costs".

  • @Nesquik775

    But what is the cost for the environment?

  • @trancis36 who gives a shit, one house fire for training will help them prevent many more from getting too large!

  • im not sure i wasn't there but im sure they were keeping the air cool and protecting exposers

  • Protecting the exposures. There is an enormous amount of radiant heat coming off a house fire and they are trying to stop damage to other property while turning the burning house into a carpark!

  • after you have conducted as many training evolutions in each room and everyone has learned from it, let the buiding free burn and protect exposures

    ( any threatened structure within 40 ') dont get anyone hurt and let the building go. Thanks the homeowner for the experience.

  • Good video except for the porno music.

    WOW!!! At 1:16 I'm so suprised to see the "Incident Commander" up on the roof!!! He never trusts his people enough to let them do their job. THANK GOD he's there, otherwise the fires would NEVER go out. At least that's what goes through his head....

  • I dont think that was the incident commander, I think he's just a chief. Not sure tho, I know some companies around me put their chiefs in that "pinkish" color to distinguish themselves from everyone else. I would assume that he wasn't the IC he was just overseeing the roof operations.

  • Or could just be another Dept., from a town close by. Training together. Thats what we do anyways.

  • Thats the best way to learn too bad most new fire fighters have to learn when its actually someones house burning. wish we had so building to play with like that

  • like at 5:10 looked like a tornado passin over the house lmao

  • How long after you had visible smoke did it take to have flames showing?

  • Did the woman own that house?

  • Yes, the woman in the video owned the house. She wanted to burn it down to build a new one on the same spot.

  • 3:48 Nice drawn woman in the background lmaoo

    Great video

  • Yeah, we saw that after we made the video. The entire inside of the house was sprayed with graffiti, which we found really strange. We thought how could you do this to your own home? None of the graffiti was drawn by the FD, just the homeowners.

  • weve gotta burn on the 17th. gonna be a long day lol

  • that looked like a nice houce when u see some of the rat holes we do burndowns on over here lol

  • I was there when they were prepping

  • great video showing the stages of fire!!!

  • I wish they would let us do burndowns.  In NJ its against the law.

  • Probably against the law for accidental fires too. lol

  • it is probably an old condemd house and they just used it 4 training. we do that some times.

  • plz temme y would they burn down the house

  • This house was donated to us as they wished to demolish the house.

    Two things come from burning the house down:

    1. Save the owner money in demolition costs.

    2. Get training on a real house fire so that we would be more prepared for when we get another house fire.

  • For the same reason why they crash new cars, they learn from this and it is good training.

  • now THAT is controled burning done right, everyone in FULL PPE (with the excpetion of the one guy on the roof)

  • The guy on the roof was in full PPE with the exception of him not having his scba mask on

  • Koool

  • ye what was the point in having that big of attack teams?

  • They were not all attack teams. There was one attack team and two search and rescue teams.