Fire in Elementary School - New Orleans - May 28, 1985

[TruthersRAlwaysWrong]

To a 9/11 Truther, that smoke indicates "oxygen starved fire". LMAO!

[156325ful]

I think the moral of the story don't let kids go near heaters and copy machine fluid.

[glmike523]

They should have opened the levees. Then the Fed would have re-build the building

[zaffdoc]

@glmike523 >>>---> They probably did anyway.

[ihateschool121000]

yessssssss

[ROBLOXingHabbo]

That child is a hero.. if only someone in my school burned down the place..

[NegativeKarma1]

@ROBLOXingHabbo Yea my school just had an accident SOMEONE TRIED TO BURN IT DOWN YESTERDAY! It was arson. The fire only burned up the administrator office and some other parts of the school but it could have been a lot worse!

[hydes2010]

yeah copy fluid in a heater is one big no no.....that stuff is as flammable as ever. Feel bad for the kid though.....accidents happen but bet he didn't expect to burn the school, a second building and a car down.

[engine173351]

Jesus that whole place was rollin

[PlausableApple4]

@engine173351 No, it was roaring! Like how a large fire roars lol

[lrd9999]

Looks more like a storage shed than a school. I hope the kid was OK. It must have been mimeograph fluid, the same stuff that started the first WTC fire in 1975. It's good that they don't use that stuff anymore, but it gave those blue worksheets a cool (probably brain damage inducing) smell when they were fresh off the press, so to speak.

[MFD657]

Are the Fire Depts outside of NY this horrible? What horrible ops This is disgraceful

[cfd915]

@MFD657 You can not compare New Orleans to New York. Heck, we all know how great firefighting is up there. We hear you guys bragging about being the greatest all the time. We are aware that New York firefighters would have had this fire out before the kid dropped the liquid on the heater. Perhaps, someday our firefighters will become as great as you and then be able to wear those unprofessional, stupid looking short pants while on duty.

[bienboydickie4444]

@MFD657 r u serious......this was 1985.....i'm more than sure that u know fire fighting ops r way more advance now right? and besides, after katrina, i've worked with a few ny firefighters and i wasnt impressed with there firefighter tactics..

[Lilskateschool]

A dream come true!

[SpeedDemon3870]

@Silvawolf100 I'm sure an adult asked him to go get it or something. Kids aren't in danger and they know how to handle certain objects so long as they're shown how. But because everyone is today is so damn fearful about anything bad that might happen, they don't show them, and so bad things happen. Way to go parents...

[yowyo22]

wow, its amazing how much they have improved on fire suppression since then! It has been 25 years and you can tell! anymore, vary rarely does a fire spread to another building. at least, not here. We have a completely volunteer fire department with just 50 firefighters and they could have kicked that fire's butt if it had been more recent!

[joek0617]

@yowyo22 ya, call down an oshkosh from the local airport...it'd be out in no time....

[happyjack880]

I used to have one of those stupid Federal helmets in the 80's. Glad those didn't catch on!

[rcsbach]

i wonder what kind of heater it was if its one that in the floor or one that stands up

[rcsbach]

the fire spreads quickly

[hinata3200]

kid was probably like fuck this i dont wanna be in school today

[Silvawolf100]

I bet that poor child was terrified. Im sure it was an accident. Though I kinda would like to know what the child meant to do with the copy machine fluid? thats not something a child would handle. but atleast no one was hurt.

[TheZASTAVA750]

i wish that is my school :)

[Silvawolf100]

@TheZASTAVA750 even if it had been your school (Im guilty of wishing the same when I was young) they would have had you transfered to another school. You wouldnt get the time off. Maybe a day at the most. unless you were severely injured. I asked someone about that as I was curious.

[Quamlen]

Yikes!

[SabretoothSnowMan]

Just magine, if people thought that this child done this on purpose; that child was probably grounded for 75 years, and spanked with a crow bar until it snapped into 59 pieces.

[buzzfuzz146]

Amazing! The whole school burns to the ground before they get any effective water on the fire. All that manpower and equipment and no water.  I've noticed this in many of these types of videos.

[zaffdoc]

@buzzfuzz146 ---> There is a saying amongst videographers of fires being handled by organized fire departments that if you want to get a video of the action you better start shooting before you stop your car, because 99.99% of the time they are going to get the fire out before you can capture anything. The videos you have seen are those that obviously had a good head start before the FD arrived. In this particular fire the cameraman arrived on the scene before the FD.

[SurendrdSeraph1050]

@buzzfuzz146 As a firefighter and having been raised in the firefighting world, I can tell you this. After a fire gets to a certain point - as in, the entire building is an absolute loss, which doesn't necessarily mean the building is already entirely consumed - you write off the building and try to save what's around it. You only have a certain number of hoses and people, and you've got to save what you can. You've got to remember, this was 1985 - not as many phones and as much technology.

[SurendrdSeraph1050]

@buzzfuzz146 And also, not trying to be a jerk, I just want to point this out as well - you've got to keep in mind Zaffdoc's reason for posting "these types of videos." They're meant to be largely educational and entertainment-worthy. That means that they're going to be big fires with disastrous consequences. And most of them are old. Someone could post on here every single fire we stop each day before the whole building burns down, but then they wouldn't be worth criticising or discussing.

[knpdyeballarice]

@buzzfuzz146 I'm going to assume you're not a firefighter. lol you sound like such an asshole man.

[PFD935]

I like the use of the booster line to cool the fire fighters covering the exposure @ 5.46 Very nice work. I must remember that when in tight quarters.

[clarkloveselevators]

I wonder what the kid thought!!!

[zaffdoc]

@clarkloveselevators ---->He probably thought ---- HC WTF!

[Medic9107]

lol, the horse surprised me.

[billybassman21]

Someone got detention over this.

[SabretoothSnowMan]

@billybassman21 No they didn't. There is no school. A whole new way to get away with something bad without detension.

[coolbluemidnite]

i wish that was my school .........

[wrestlelover0427]

I DONT HEAR NO FIRE ALARM

[kayangthao]

OH NO! how did the fire actually started?

anyone got hurt?

was it during school schedule?

the fire just getting bigger and bigger!

[zaffdoc]

@kayangthao A child spilled copying machine fluid on a heater and causes a massive fire that destroyed the school and spreads to a nearby structure. NOFD personnel worked quickly to prevent further extension of this conflagration that occurred in May of 1985. No one got hurt.

[skateboardrider100]

@zaffdoc was the child carring the fluid or did he knock it over

[zaffdoc]

@skateboardrider100 >>>----> I don't remember the details but I think he must have been carrying it since was spilled on the copying machine.

[MegaDev44]

if were my school i would see a little fire off goes the fire alarm and i will leave right now and i would start crying i love school i go to morrsinville grade school

[wrestlelover0427]

@MegaDev44 your crazy

[MegaDev44]

@wrestlelover0427 you are i am only 10 so suck it up because how would it be if it happended to you i like school though and also my teacher

[bkymic]

Wow, that's a hot fire. The radiant heat must have been tremendous, you can see them wetting each other as well as exposures. It's hard to believe we used to stap those steel tanks on our backs. The newer carbon cylinders are a gift from Above.

[bkymic]

Wow, that's a big fire. It's hard to believe we used to stap those steel tanks on our backs. The newer carbon cylinders are a gift from Above.

[coolbluemidnite]

i wish that was my school XD 

[AmalRishab278]

was anybody stuck inside

[PUFCKG]

Every time I watch this the fire seems to get fiercer. What building materials were used in that school?

[eddief32]

One thing bugs me, that the FF from the NOFD seem to be standing round like a spare pork pie at a Bar-Mitzvah, while the main part of the building burns, and aiming their hoses at the next building along - INSTEAD of dealing with the large fire, which is they could have extinguished it, would have prevented the building spread anyhow.

These guys look about as effective as a chocolate sunhat on a hot day.

[zaffdoc]

@eddief32 That was pretty cruel to compare the firefighters to pork at a Bar-Mitzvah, when they were waiting for marshmallows to roast. No, acutally New Orleans has a very good fire department and what happend at this fire is that the cameraman got on ths scene before all the first alarm companies arrived. It takes time to get the hose lines laid and water flowwing. The camera guy was on the way to a shooting and ran acrros the fire.

[Wa3ypx]

@zaffdoc agreed. not too agressive here. When in doubt, run in circles scream and shout.

[katmeowno]

@eddief32 wow. you must not be in the fire service because if you were you would know how quickly a completely wooden structure with fire safety ratings from 1985(or earlier) can go up and how hot it is to be close to. not to mention you would also know that for the original fire building there is a point of no return where you then focus your attention and manpower on the exposures( the closest buildings) to protect them.look up radient heat and remember it was 1985 also...dumb ass.

[webkinzgirl2]

that happened like 25 years but thats scary 

[kickin313]

that dumbass better move that car!

[kaylinsvlog]

that child is off to juvie...

[InBigBlockWeTrust]

Waa this is what we can call a Heavy Fire

[CaitlinCaitlin01]

That kid must have been popular that day :P

[zaffdoc]

@CaitlinCaitlin01 Yeah, with the NOPD.

[CaitlinCaitlin01]

@zaffdoc ahahaha yeah

[redsky822]

alright who was smoking

[bloodtech227]

anybody died? plz tell me im curious

[zaffdoc]

@bloodtech227 No

[bloodtech227]

@zaffdoc ok good :)

[bigdan45322]

schools out for the summer, schools out for ever, schools been burnt to the ground. lol 

[zaffdoc]

@giliganfan But if they don't, eventually they will be parents and then what?

[zaffdoc]

@giliganfan Good point, but what I was trying to say was that if kids did not have a school to go to learn, they would not know how to read or write.

[zaffdoc]

@giliganfan But, if that happened, young people could not read what you wrote.

[razorbak42O]

I was born that very same day 25yrs ago

[rangerover5555]

the kid probably did it on purpose

[MIKCURIE]

Sorry teach...ileft my homework in the desk

[blazeofglory78]

That cross street bldg exposure must've been taking a pounding from the HRR!

[jeffhardyrulez900]

AHHH 85 OLD SHIT HERE

[shortcrossrulezz]

DAD) so bob? how was school

BOB) oh the same told why to not spill copying machine fluid on a radiator

[HardDriveGuru]

Oh gosh. I hope this was an accident!

[horsieniven]

School is out for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter!

[Entertainment1970]

what a way to get out of school

[SwimmingMunky2]

childhood dream!

[firedude201234]

so son what happened at school today?

....i accidentally burned down the school daddy ;D

(sinister laughing from the child)

[crazygravytrain]

HOLY SHIT!!!! Now thats a fire

[AmyJoK1978]

im stunned did you see the smoke

[Danklin24]

So Timmy. what happened in school today? Oh nothing Dad, it just burnt the hell down.

[charger25p]

Hmm. not so sure thats New Orleans.lotta Spanish..doesnt matter anyway....School went poof

[darktornado78]

HOLT

[Ramiro3122]

ES EN ARGENTINA ????

[Ramiro3122]

Parece un incendio en ARGENTINA. JA JA JA

[vgamewiz]

...May 28 is my birthday!!!

[rjtoc2]

Around the 4:15 minute mark, that fire sounds like a bog ole' bowl of rice crispies.

[pusshair]

some people got lucky that the wind wasn't blowing in their way, others not so much!

[625LFD]

TommyRulezz123if a structure is fully involved you worry about the exposures first. Which is what they did.

[haydensrollercoaster]

my school had a fire in NC and i was right next to the building that was on fire

[cafr201]

Nice old school turnout gear! Good save of exposures with regards to how out of control everything else looked, they could have lost a city block....Maybe luck and the wind died down. GOOD video anyway! Thanks.

[dustystix76]

great vid! man that fire was SMOKIN at the 3 min mark..and the old school lightbars on the trucks...Twinsonic on the first truck and a Smith & Wesson on the truck that backs in around the 4 min mark.. that was a 'Surround n Drown' right off the bat..

[youjacqueline]

see if i was a firefighter id be scared

[youjacqueline]

holly shit! kids better all be alive the teachers better not have left ehm there shoo

[TommyRulezz123]

dude half the video. they arent even putting out the fire

[PopppaBlue59]

@TommyRulezz123 Dude, half the video they were stopping "extension". Remember, you are only looking at a small view of one side of a 5 sided fire.

[93CFD]

that fire must have spread quickly to get that big that soon nice attempt to protect the surrounding buildings.

[diverse0ne]

how come i didnt see the firefighters spray water at the school from the beginning?

i see why they were spraying near the other houses so it wont catch on fire..but i didnt see no1 spraying at the school untill the very last minute

[zaffdoc]

While responding to a reported shooting in the vicinity of the school the camera man came across this fire, so he was actually filming before the fire department arrived. It also takes a few minutes after arriving on the scene of a fire to lay the hose, attach to the hydrant and set the fire engine pump to boost the water pressure to fight the fire.

[mario2980]

well they were shooting some water

there doing this to makesure there aren't any kids/staffs that are traped inside

[ahern29]

@diverse0ne

It's called protecting exposures. By just letting the school burn while saving the buildings that surrounds it.  Unfortunately they were not successful.

[MrSuperkiki]

kids really hate school these days 0.o

[wrestlelover0427]

@MrSuperkiki TOTALY 

[explosivegarden]

this is exactly why sprinkler systems are compulsary to new schools, iven single story stuctures. B.S.M Colebourne Primary School, Uk

[wis7dom]

Ooooooh, not good! I remember using Busen burners in chemistry class at school and the teachers were really lax when it came to lab work. We used all sorts of stuff like magnesium etc. I am amazed nothing like this happened.

I never felt safe in that classroom! I don't even like to light propane BBQ's!

[PowerswitchEntertain]

That's scary! I lived in a house near a school, just closer than the building in you film. One night I woke up, because I couldn't breath, and the school was burning like in the film.

[sethtriggs]

Wow, look at the exposure on that thing. And maybe that place has trusses too. Flames reaching *across* the street. That is a hell of a scary fire.

[sbb924]

imagine what the kid must have felt that spilled the fluid

[frylock44]

Probably pretty damn good that he didnt have tpo go to school for a while lol

[SelenaGomezROKZForev]

Thats Not Funny The Kid Could Have Died

[pm76090590]

Wow very impressive fire !! flames are amazing !! how many time did the firefighters put down the fire ?

Nice shot !!

{sorry for mistakes, french before all ^^}

[skatergirl24567]

Oh this reminds me. Have you heard of the Our Lady Of Angels fire? The whole school was made out of wood so it burned pretty fast. It happened in 1958 and it killed 92 kids and 3 nuns. If you type in remembering our lady of angels fire, it will tell you the whole story.

[zaffdoc]

There are several YouTube videos of Our Lady of the Angels School Fire. Do a YouTube search and you will find them. The school was of brick construction, but there were many hazardous conditions that prevailed. Because of this fire many construction safety rules were passed into law. Initially the fire department was given an incorrect address about a block away which they responded to and delayed their arrival time. It is unknown if this would have prevent any additional loss of life.

[ryan125g]

how many fatitles ocured here?

(sorry bout the spelling)

[zaffdoc]

You need to learn how to use a spell checker. It isn't hard. Anyway, as stated above in the comments, no fatalities occurred..

[ryan125g]

its youtube like spelling matters any way,

i said sorry about it neway

[zaffdoc]

But why did you say "sorry bout the spelling." I really thought you were interested in --- oh, never mind. Sorry, I did not mean to put you down.

[ryan125g]

its ok,, but does you tube have a spell checker

[zaffdoc]

No, but my email does and that is where I check my spelling. I get comments sent to me on my email. Do you? Anyway, I hit reply and then type my message and it checks speilling and then I cut and paste it back into YouTube. Anyway, don't worry about it... I understood what you were writing and I just thought you were interested in spell checking.

[ryan125g]

o ic i could do that to, but i just check them on you tube, but dang i bet you get alot of comments cuz iv noticed u have alot of vids,, lol, i find out what thats like cuz ima start gettin some vids of my rigs up

[zaffdoc]

Let me know when you get the vids of your rigs up.

[ryan125g]

will do bro

[tubesteakdynamo]

You tube DOES have spellcheck if you're using Firefox. Firefox adds spellchek to everything.

[robotracking]

@tubesteakdynamo ................or do what i do, write it in word processor, check spelling then paist. Easy as 1 2 4, sorry, 1 2 3.

[tubesteakdynamo]

@robotracking <I just noticed the he spelled "paste" wrong. Given the context, that's entirely amusing.

[dawnhill1967]

@tubesteakdynamo and Opera

[skatergirl24567]

zaffdoc have you seen ladder 49? It is about fires and firefighting. It is a good movie! The only bad thing about it is the firefighter dies at the end because he is trapped inside, but he tells a guy through his walkie talkie to tell his family he loves them and it's sad but realistic.

[zaffdoc]

That was really a good movie. It would have been better had the firefighter not died at the end.

[skatergirl24567]

I watched it when I was 8 years old and ever since I wanted to become a firefighter. I am 12 and I love fires and I'm not afraid.

[ffjsb]

Ladder 49 was a horrible movie when it comes to what firefighting is like. Ok if you like drama.

[THEMIKON8ER]

That kid must have felt stupid, And why would they be running a heater in Louisiana in MAY???

[newmrmedicman]

exactly

[chase312]

Maybe it wasn't on, but plugged in, causing a short

[zaffdoc]

While it might not cause ice to form on your mustache it can get down to the mid 50's in New Orleans in May and that can be a little chilly for kids that live in Louisiana. Even if it were not that cool, they probably kept the pilot light burning until the end of the school year.... Which was probably only a week more. Obviously, the pilot light would be all that is necessary to ignite a flammable liquid.

[wazup4863]

did anyone die or get severily hurt?

[zaffdoc]

No, no one got hurt, but the kid was given a hard time by the police.

[skatergirl24567]

Aw WHY? It was only an accident. Plus accidently burning down a school is hard enough. Poor kid.

[zaffdoc]

I don't remember the details, but the kid might have had a history of being a trouble maker.

[skatergirl24567]

You know the video that you made called saturday afternoon tragedy? How old were the two kids that were playing with matches? Were there parents home?

[zaffdoc]

The grandmother was watching the children and was the one screaming. It was very, very sad. It took me a long time to get over that event. I think that there are more details about that fire in the video "Old TV story about Signal 51 Group" in my channel.

[BigDodds691]

wow...that really took off

[pipinirish88]

at 5:47 are they wetting down the 2 guys on the hose to keep them cool from the heat

[airplaneguy2]

See Kids, it's small things like that, that can cause huge fires like this.

[amtrakboy37]

OMG! Was anyone hurt????

[mysboys]

Does this mean I don't have to worry about finishing my homework ???

[amtrakboy37]

I guess your Homework is done.

[BLUECHET]

conflagration

[ColonelSamatoshi]

SHIT, I can't believe they ignored that car so long!

[zaffdoc]

The whole neighborhood is going up in flames and you are worried about a fricking abandoned car

[ColonelSamatoshi]

um, GASOLINE! OIL! PLASTIC!

[zaffdoc]

ummm, used condoms, empty beer cans, stolen car radio, 4 months of trash, used set of break-in tools, glove compartment full of parking tickets.....

[ColonelSamatoshi]

Oh come on Doc, you can't tell me you've gone stupid to what happens when gas or oil catches fire.

[zaffdoc]

Oh, but I can guarantee you that any gasoline that may have been in that abandoned car was siphoned out long before the fire. Ive never seen oil in a crankcase catch fire, but I guess it could.

[amtrakboy37]

Doc I agree. I would say what if it were you ColonelSamatoshi in that big fire. Would you go to the car or get to safety as quick as possible?

[ekhota]

This was my school from 3rd grade to 6th grade.

I was out there looking at this fire. Now I know YouTube has anything you want to see on here.

[fearthemustang]

where's the marshmellows

[kdescente]

A spill of copier fluid on a heater did that??? Thats one hell of a fully involved fire!

[vivamusone]

The fireman at 0:57 SAVELLE, is my Father.

better known as the "DUKE".....Love ya BRO!

[VirgilB01]

WOW!! Was anyone hurt?

[Rtzee]

That baby is Rocking!!

[turbolaser92]

schoools out for summer...