Paris Texas fire - flashover explosion backdraft

damn!! that was pretty intense.

i live in paris, and i remember this. it was a backdraft by the way.

Backdraft is caused by an oxygen starved fire. Flashover is a heat driven event. This was niether. This was either a collapse in the center of the building causing the fire to be forced out, or a compressed flammable gas being released rapidly. Either way it is impressive and should be a lesson to all FF that even after a fire has vented and appears to be in a stable state a rapid acceleration of the fire can occur for many reasons. Never get complacent that is what gets us killed.

An old led 4in. gas line melted and accelerated the fire. The biulding was full of funiture that burning and created the flamable gas @ high temp . The natral gas had a lower burning temp which cased the flash fire and explotion .

Thats no flashover its too well alight for that.nothing left to cause it. thats a cylinder going off

NJS1726- not to beoffensive in any way, but thats a straight stream, no fog, and that was place was goin flash no matter what ie why everything was placed so far away!

Stay safe! Train as if your life depends on it, because it DOES!!!

I too am a firefighter from Pa. Butler Pa. i just finished up with essentials and one thing that i see wrong, is the hose line to the right of the scene is on a wide fog, and a wide fog will move alot of air, so the conclusion i came up with is that he forced too much air into the open windows and that is what caused the inital flashover, then onto the backdraft. What you think?

That was intense. God bless all firefighters!

i agree. it wasnt backdraft or flashover. it was a ball of fire being blown out the sides of a falling building...impressive either way though...

that was the roof caving in not a backdraft