Intense fire

This clip is used in the curriculum for S290, Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior. Amazingly intense fire behavior. This all happens in just two minutes.

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Entertainment

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• wildland
• fire
• wildfire

[Altayayo]

This is time lapsed over about an 2 hours. Watch the clock in the video.

[pofsa]

Uh, yeah. Watch the clock in the video. Goes from 3:10:xx to 3:12:xx (hour:minute:second).

[deshayarts]

my pnly question is how did the camera survive????

[pofsa]

Can't say for sure in this case, but I've seen cameras enclosed in a steel box that is filled with sand used for this kind of thing in the past. Don't know anymore than that.

[3903foster]

"Burning to death on a mountainside is dying at least three times ... first, considerably ahead of the fire, you reach the verge of death in your boots and your legs; next, as you fail, you sink back in the region of strange gases and red and blue darts where there is no oxygen and here you die in your lungs; then you sink in prayer into the main fire that consumes."

Norman Maclean

[joek0617]

@Tumbadora1 flashover

[joek0617]

flashpoint at 450 deg

[SweStuff94]

how long would u last there? i think u would pass out after about 10sek in that heat

[hebneh]

And then, after this scary process is finished, all kinds of plants will quickly sprout, including the ones whose seeds require the high temperature of a fire to be set into growth. The whole evolution of the forest will then happen all over again, to where there eventually are mature trees which can then burn again.

This is a natural progression. Unfortunately people and their structures get in the way sometimes.

[OneSkiWonder]

@keithtreason I work in the field of wildland firefighting. This is real, trust me. They protect their cameras on tests like this.  The melting point of glass is 3,133 degrees F and the heat inside a wild land fire doesn't go above 2,000 degrees F. The cameras are inside a metal box (good heat conductor) which is filled with sand (good heat insulator) and the camera itself is inside a composite box to protect the camera from the sand. Trust me, the camera is very safe from the fire.

[OneSkiWonder]

@greenninja999 Watch the clock, this took place over 2 minutes....

[AC130EMPYREAL]

i think wild land is scary as hell. im new to fire fighting but i dont want to be caught in one of these. Its not the way t go

[minawa21]

wow

[Tumbadora1]

mmm, i dont know but it seems to me that someone pore some sort of accelerator around that area including on the trees.... But just assuming because of the rapid ignition point... looked like a great fire, my toast is burn in seconds!!!

[Tumbadora1]

mmm, i dont know but it seems to me that someone pore some sort of accelerator around that area including on the trees.... But just assuming because of the rapid ignition point... looked like a great fire, my toast is burn in seconds!!!