LAFD Building Fire/Collapse

Here's one for the ages... LAFD gets EXTREMELY lucky here - A 2 story commercial in downtown with an add-on wood frame second floor comes crashing down on firefighters after about 20 minutes of active fire. Multiple firefighters were pinned/injured with one receiving serious injuries. That no one was killed made this a good day.

At the time of collapse, I was shooting fire thru a window...A hose line darkened the fire down and I slowly pulled out and hit my pause button JUST as the building came down... I've slo-mo'd it at the end of the clip so you can see it coming. A shame I didn't roll just a tad longer.

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News & Politics

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• LAFD
• flames
• firefighting
• collapse
• fire

[VX2100DV]

Excellent video/story. Did this go national?

[toastt21]

Yes...CNN and the 3 majors- I don't think Fox and the others were in business yet lol

[BlackForestOdyssey]

LAFD MY IDOLS

[Woodern75]

yeah .they are back to work.I believe the guy they pulled out had a broken leg and is now a CII.

[kevinkoda]

Emsworker68 - I'm in full agreement with you, 9/11 was in inside job, anyone who disagrees without checking alternative facts to those presented by the controlled media (in my opinion) are complicit in the lie and further acts of illegality that are perpetrated by respective governments and power structures.

[Emsworker68]

@Kevkoda um, this was a wood frame structure and they collapse all the time. WTC 7 was a steel frame structure and they do NOT suffer universal structural collapse due to fire.

[Goldenrod636]

One of these firefighters was on "Impact: Stories of Survival"!

[Kevkoda]

I actually got linked to this video by a chump who claimed it proved WTC 7 wasn't a controlled demolition, as this video shows that buildings collapse from fire all the time... My god, how DELUDED are this idiots?

[LAFiregirl]

ooooooooooooo... good for you!!!!

[torgeorge]

Its not often I see a video that takes my breath away, glad to see no one lost there lives.

[LAcityFD13]

he wasnt from 26's he was the captain on engine 57

[Zugvogel1]

Hmmm.

When I was Vol. Firefighter we have learnd to stay out of the drop shadow.But there big difference between US and Gerrnan training.When a Building burning like this is not much to do.Why get the Risk to get into the Building or get so near that falling parts of the Building can kill them ? Or maybe Alert more units and Ladders.