Flashover Video

[No10fayc]

Maybe off tho the side?

[No10fayc]

I think the scream at :08 is outside the house.

[Cooles4Free]

Hear the scream at 0:08 ? Its scary to think about that there is somebody inside...

[tornadoguy2006]

Anybody ever figure out the sound at 0:10? Sounds like somebody inside.

I sure hope not

[VolkgartenBySquirrel]

It sounded like someone got caught in that.

Old house, was this fire because of an oxygen tank, a cigarette or a space heater? Grief alive boiling through the floorboards, and under the nice, wooden porch. Well, the guys did their job and got back home. Thanks for posting.

[axe3616]

hahahaha....... why you need 5 guys on a hoseline? tripping and falling over each other.

[CForks2]

id have to say no on that. there are 2 lines there and only two on one and maybe 3 on the other

[axe3616]

um... That is what you would call a Rollover, not a flashover. there was not alot of fuel due to the horizontal ventilaton (doorway) a flashover would have lit and would have been a little more explosive, and thicker black smoke (fuel load)

[CForks2]

i'd have to think it was a flash over due to the sudden ignition

[450rracer77]

best flashover video ive ever seen and they did a hell of a job knockin that down

[firewarden92]

One of the best flashover videos i have seen,

The hose team at the end of the video did one

hell of job, changing water patterns and moving the hose around, Trained very well,  Michael- VSFW

[muuiirum]

Why are your men even going in that close to the fire????? Everybody should be out of the building and protecting your exposures! Time to think defensive ops and portable monitors people!

[jakebakingcake]

that to me looked like text book flashover...

[mnjbooth]

i think you have some exposure issues there!

[col4627]

Was it a Flashover, or a backdraft? A Flashover is a "sudden and sustained transition from a fire into a fully developed fire" There were no signs of fire in that compartment, also check out the other signs. This looks like the the stoichiometric mix hadn't initially been reached which makes it lightly u r looking @ Backdraft. There is even a chance that the ignition wasn't sourced from the 1st compartment making this a gas fire ignition.

[mnjbooth]

textbook definition of a flashover!!

[rabidfish02]

A backdraft occours in an oxygen deprived enviornment after a fire has already peaked and is smoldering without having self vented. This is certainly a textbook example of a flashover. a backdraft is very different from this, however it can be just as dramatic.

[BGVAC31]

also before a flashover occurs smoke starts to bank down as far as possible to the ground and thick black smoke, definitely textbook example

[kb7obm]

the smoke was telling the whole story, it had lots of pressure a velocity which means you must fight it defensive! nice flashover, with readable warning signs.

[zozajiek]

this is why fire scare me

[1wickedfireman3]

Excellent example of flashover. You definitely dont want to be in the bulding at the time of a flashover ever in your life.

!!!VIVA LOS BOMBEROS!!!

[firedog26]

Very nice video!!!Great example of a flashover.Glad to see that they held off from a interior attack on this one.Great job to the commanding officer on that one.I love an agressive attack as much as the next FF,but we gotta know when to be deffensive.Good job engine 139!!!

[Markennz]

A job well done.

[AngreyMonkey]

I gotta give these guys some cradit, they handeled the fire pretty well. They didnt panic or overreact, they just waited for it to get to a point where they could safely get close enough to the house to extinguish the blaze.

[videofieldsoldier]

holy craut!

[winters30]

Two of us nearly got caught in a flashover. Luckily the lads outside sounded the evac sig and we set off out. The heat increased massively and constantly and i remember thinking 'o fuck!' Without the sig we wouldn't have set off out in time. We don't get enough live training here so recognising sign is delayed.

[kenunderhull]

Screaming was probably the women realising her house was gone. Heard about a minor flashover in a training ground once, all the guys got burnt on the wrists (minor) and they changed the issue gloves because of it.

[AngreyMonkey]

What state was that in? Because I live in Las Vegas/Henderson Nevada, and my dad was in one of those flashover training events, and almost all of the guys gurnt their wrists and some of the top of their hands. Wasnt horrible burning, just reddened skin, singed some hairs, and a bit of peeling, but no real blistering.

[theartofdime]

Wow, I've seen a few flashovers before and actually just finished taking a class on flashovers in a SWEDE unit last week and I can't believe how fast that building just flashed, maybe not proper ventilation?. Anyone have any additional information on this particular fire i.e whether there was a crew inside at the time? You can hear some screaming at the beginning but I dont see any hoselines going into the structure

[GeneralZodFDNY77]

My cousin told me about a job back in 1998 he was on. Lost 3 brothers in a high rise hallway. They were doing a search for an elderly lady. She got out, but she left the apartment door wide open. A sudden wind gust through the apartments windows and done. They only had time to yell a "Mayday!" and that's it. 3 seconds. That story damn near made me consider another line of work.

[EasyCompany101st]

just a guess but when that happens its bad

[Mhfd5004]

Great Shot of it

[WantaghFD695]

One of my chiefs on Long Island was caught in a flashover in 1993...spent several months in the burn center...he survived, but lost several fingers and is still permanently scarred...doesn't remember anything except being pulled out by a probie.

[bodega87]

Ha Wantagh eh? My cousins are from there...go probies

[engine139]

There is video of that paticualar job on YOU TUBE.

[lvcavender]

flashovers are very dangerous in ideal conditions you have about 7 seconds to get the fuck out or get right with GOD...good video

[Skyflash23]

good video, it shows how dangerus this kind of job can be! feel good ;-) austrian firefighters.

[peifer21]

if your in a flashover, you would most likely die, considering even in a pre flashover stage,your chances are pretty slim too..

[cfdfan]

wow must be scary to be in fire and have that happen

[xReVinEvo8x]

im a firefighter myself....and being inside a building when a flashover happens is one of the scariest things ever

[bodega87]

NOBODY lives through a flashover, it's simply not possible and being a firefighter as you claim, you should know this. You may have seen one, but no, you were not IN one.

[irishfirefighter72]

While flashover is one of the dealiset things to encounter on the fireground, there have been cases of firefighters surviving a flashover. However, it is safe to say the best way to survuve a flashover is not to get caught in one.

[tberto1313]

Ive never been in one myself, But the fdny books say you have 5-10 sec. to get out.

[theartofdime]

yea your chances of surviving a flashover are pretty slim, a few seconds at best before its too late

[cfsfirey]

Good Video