South Salem 3 Story Apartment Fire Gateway Village

Here is a video I captured of a 3 story apartment fire that happened in the complex I lived in. It was pretty wicked thanks to the wind, it went up pretty quick. I was slightly worried about it spreading to our building but the firemen showed up in time to make sure it didn't get too out of control.

Some photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/9702080@N05/sets/72157624794547368/

The video is edited from start to finish of the fire. The 2:15 mark is incredible as bits of the roof collapsed and started the fire at the bottom unit. That's when the fire was at it's most impressive. Near the end, the middle of the building was still on fire, it was incredible how it kept burning despite the gallons of water they were pouring on it.

All in all, good response from the FD and job well done. Sucks for the people that lived in those buildings, especially the ones that lost everything.

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• south
• salem
• apartment
• building
• fire
• complex
• oregon

[sempirfi101]

dude hahaha that was hella crazy !!!! i live in the apartments...shit!

[dwizzlefoshizzle]

@janchad1

all things considered though, they did do a good job of getting it knocked down, especially with having to wait for ladder 2 to arrive. Great video

[coolsax64]

This is what happens when careless smokers dispose of there cigerettes in the bark dust around these appartments. that was the cause.

[gotgank]

Say hello to "modern" construction.

[mrman623048]

this shit was crazy, i was there

[gpluck]

wholly shmokes

[PlaymateMama]

Wow! You got pretty close to the start of it! We live across Robin's. So sad.

[khaiya329]

ahhh! this was right across the street from my apartments ;o there were sooo many fire trucks. was crazy. i feel so bad for those residents :[[[[[[[[!

[janchad1]

This is a great view of the Charlie side of the structure. For the first 10 minutes, most of the action was on the Alpha side... but, that side was full of smoke and not a lot of flames. Nice video!

[garycalgary]

horrendous. loss of property and these people's homes