Fire in Elementary School - New Orleans - May 28, 1985

A child spilled copying machine fluid on a heater and causes a massive fire that destroyed the school and spreads to a nearby structure. NOFD personnel worked quickly to prevent further extension of this conflagration that occurred in May of 1985.

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Education

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• School
• Fire
• Conflagration
• New
• Orleans
• Louisiana
• NOFD

[glmike523]

They should have opened the levees. Then the Fed would have re-build the building

[zaffdoc]

@glmike523 >>>---> They probably did anyway.

[buzzfuzz146]

Amazing! The whole school burns to the ground before they get any effective water on the fire. All that manpower and equipment and no water. I've noticed this in many of these types of videos.

[zaffdoc]

@buzzfuzz146 ---> There is a saying amongst videographers of fires being handled by organized fire departments that if you want to get a video of the action you better start shooting before you stop your car, because 99.99% of the time they are going to get the fire out before you can capture anything. The videos you have seen are those that obviously had a good head start before the FD arrived. In this particular fire the cameraman arrived on the scene before the FD.

[cfd915]

@MFD657 You can not compare New Orleans to New York. Heck, we all know how great firefighting is up there. We hear you guys bragging about being the greatest all the time. We are aware that New York firefighters would have had this fire out before the kid dropped the liquid on the heater.  Perhaps, someday our firefighters will become as great as you and then be able to wear those unprofessional, stupid looking short pants while on duty.

[zaffdoc]

@kayangthao A child spilled copying machine fluid on a heater and causes a massive fire that destroyed the school and spreads to a nearby structure. NOFD personnel worked quickly to prevent further extension of this conflagration that occurred in May of 1985. No one got hurt.

[NegativeKarma1]

@ROBLOXingHabbo Yea my school just had an accident SOMEONE TRIED TO BURN IT DOWN YESTERDAY! It was arson. The fire only burned up the administrator office and some other parts of the school but it could have been a lot worse!

[TruthersRAlwaysWrong]

To a 9/11 Truther, that smoke indicates "oxygen starved fire". LMAO!

[156325ful]

I think the moral of the story don't let kids go near heaters and copy machine fluid.

[PlausableApple4]

@engine173351 No, it was roaring! Like how a large fire roars lol

[zaffdoc]

@skateboardrider100 >>>----> I don't remember the details but I think he must have been carrying it since was spilled on the copying machine.

[skateboardrider100]

@zaffdoc was the child carring the fluid or did he knock it over

[ihateschool121000]

yessssssss

[ROBLOXingHabbo]

That child is a hero.. if only someone in my school burned down the place..