Melody Lane Fire

Three houses fully involved in less than 6 minutes

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Education

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• Reno
• Fire
• Department
• Structure
• house
• burning
• fully
• involved

[kdescente]

That third house was fully involved within 40 seconds- that is unbelievable fire movement!! What was the outside temperature at the time?

[IAFFLocal731]

The temperature was in the 90's I believe but it was the combination of lack of defensible space, high temps, type of construction and some newly stained decks that made this a volatile situation that repeated itself just recently in sept, 2008. Watch the ridgcret drive video. It occured just 2 housses down from this fire.

[mabas21]

Simply incredible footage, it is unreal how the fire engulfs basically a whole city block in such a short period of time. This video is a perfect example of fire behavior at it's worst, hope it is put to good use for training. Thanks for posting it

[twinboysfire52]

awesome video

[train672]

Very many thanks for sharing this.

It's amazing how a fire can spread so quickly.

I hope that home owners can learn something to stop this happening to them, but I guess it's a difficult situation to be in. Should residents be provided with hose and a hydrant key ? It's a difficult call to make. I hope that lessons will be learnt to prevent others having the same nightmare.

Thanks for the vid.

[R5H4D0W]

@mabas21 I once had a hard time believing how dry the brush is and how it is easily prone to catching fire until one time in New Mexico my road-side cooking nearly burned out of control. It was fine 2 seconds ago in the fire pit and one gust later had a small trail burning away from my camper! Luckily I had the sense to pack one of those Kidde 408 water extinguishers that gave me about 2 gallons at 100psi. Best extinguisher in my investment, saved my record for arson.

[sharppointy1]

This video frightens me because I live in the wildland urban interface in Salt Lake City. We live in the equivalent of the lower houses in this excellent video. 4 houses up the street the Wasatch National Forest begins and the brush on that slope is exactly the same as in this video of Reno.

Very instructive an scary video, thanks for posting it!

[SittingMooseShaman]

@NevadaWrangler... there is no escape!

[NevadaWrangler]

See that guy below and to the right of the fire on the hill with the shovel.....good effort man, good job, it was jsut too hot and fast above him to save that last house on the right. but good job for the effort guy....whoever ya are. And of course on the far left side, those firemen were awesome saving that house.

[NevadaWrangler]

@SittingMooseShaman snows for a third in reno where this fire was too.

[SittingMooseShaman]

... in the 'Land of the Run Away Brush Fire.' One would think acclimatised adobe or structural concrete... even sheet steel or aluminum would be the primary choice housing material... Tar shingled roofing with vinyl siding overlaying resin/flake board are absolutely, absurd! I don't even like these building materials here in the east- where it snows for almost a third of the year...

[engine1957]

Good job Local 731. You really had your hands full and you made a great stand.

[Hrledood911]

OMG! What an amazaing video. It show the growth of fire and how fast it spreads in a wildland urgan interface. The firefighters did an outstanding job to stop the fire from gettting the last house! wow, just amazing!

[1nm1]

amazing footage.

gives us some idea of what firefighters are up against in those conditions

any idea how fast the wind was going at the time???