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  • @Plur307 ur wrong. A flashover is wen all the fuel material in the room auto-inflame by it self due to the room temperature. And a backdraft is wen all the gases combust, due to a opening of a window/door...something that give oxigen to the misture very fast....and then they explode.

  • That stuff animal rabbit took that fire like a champ.

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  • CERT stands for the Confused Elderly Response Team

  • it does flashover at 4:57

  • @fidny you are wrong hate to say it but you could only survive for 3 to 4 seconds

  • @nuclearseall you're close, you're argument would be better if you knew how to spell and use the correct terminology but you've got the basic principle. flashover occurs when all materials in a space pyrolyze and ignite almost simultaneously. nothing "auto-ignites" as i think you were posturing, fire is dependent upon the factors of the tetrahedron. a backdraft occurs when the only element missing from the fire tetrahedron is oxygen, when available, monumental flashover occurs.

  • That wasn't a backdraft, that was a flashover. A backdraft is when a fire burns itself out after depleting the oxygen in the room, the backdraft occurs when oxygen is reintroduced and a brief but violent explosion takes place. A flashover is when a fire reaches a certain temperature that all the contents, including the smoke flash into flame. A flashover is not survivable, a firefighter fully bunkered up can only survive 11 to 17 seconds and that is with serious burns. Basically giving you enou

  • Don't u people no wat starts a brackdraft!? Watch the movie... even though it was made by hollywood it was a real and not fake backdrafts

  • idk when this was made but modern couches go up a lot quicker then that one

  • nice work

  • nice work

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