Three Alarm Sumner Commercial Fire With Flash Over

From June 1993. Nearly one block of old historic Sumner was destroyed in this Three alarm blaze which started has an electrical short in the ceiling. several business were destroyed. Watch the window glass fallout and this breathing beast of fire really come to life.

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[LeoniaJulietek953]

hihi ich bin total naja wie soll ich sagen reich

[VX2100DV]

@LeoniaJulietek953 Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Wesen völlig naja.

[km1075]

where is this town? i guess urgency isnt a priority

[VX2100DV]

@km1075 Sumner, WA

[efRAIN19Vaz]

@Mon3yMotivateD1 Thats not a dumb question at all its actually a very good one. From the very beginning of the vid there seemed like a lot of smoke, so if anyone were to be in there they would be dead or very close to death due to the high levels of carbon monoxide that is given off from the smoke. If I was capt. and arrived on scene with high quantity of smoke coming out the windows I wouldnt send a rescue team because no one inside could possibly be alive, so why risk lives of my men?

[ffjsb]

@joek0617 Not in this situation. He's using fog stream to try and keep the fire off of him because he's too close. A fog stream is good at close range on smaller fires. This fire is too big for a handline, it needs a master stream to deliver more GPM's.  They should've had a straight stream from at least a 2 1/2" going into the store front long before it flashed. Fog streams are good for a room or two, they don't have enough penetration for bigger fires.

[RTFMAce]

@km1075 You are 100% correct! Urgency is secondary. Priority is not getting firefighters killed trying to save a building that is gone. It appears there is one engine crew on scene to begin with, there is no way one crew can safely go offensive on something like that. Firefighters will risk a lot to save a lot and we will rush into a building that everyone is rushing out of to save a life. Property is replaceable, a firefighter's life is not.

[skiqsr]

You can only work with what is on hand... the 2 1/2" line came out way to late.

[rm911medic]

At this point in the fire, if this is what they saw when they arrived, then the priority is to keep other structures from burning. This structure is an obvious total loss, and first responding crews would be working on exposure protection and rescue.

[joek0617]

@ChurchillVFC it cools more effectively, that's how water put fire out, it robs it of the energy needed to react

[joek0617]

@VX2100DV in other words, it get so hot in there that everything lights up

[GTFD2HOUSE]

thanks for calling the city garage how may we help you?

this is chief mcgillikuddy and I was wondering if you had time for a quick paint job this week?

sure chief, what needs to be painted?

the EO side of our pumper.