Fire Training Gone Bad

During a controlled burn scenario to train firefighters, the siuation goes south quickly as participants learn that gasoline has been used as a accelerant to enhance the blaze. Add to the mix two trapped firefighters, their rescuer, and a pumper which won't go into gear and you've got one of hell if a mess. (video by Lou Angeli)

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• firefighters
• firefighting
• training
• burn
• bad
• gone
• wrong
• hose
• danger

[FilmLou]

The hoseteam retreated down the main stairwell to SideA

[maireadaniar]

thanks for filming these. I date a fireman and it is good for me to learn what he does. Makes me appericate him and all the other fire fighters more. And darn but you get all the fun. As a fellow photographer, this does look fun to film.

[FilmLou]

@maireadaniar You're welcome

[GhostBusterTrace]

Was she trying to save the hose or was she thinking that there were others in there and trying to guide them out?

[FilmLou]

@GhostBusterTrace She was trying to guide them out. But best practice was for her to leave the hose alone, so trapped firefighters could follow the line out to the window. She had good intentions, though.

[FilmLou]

@ff621 How else do get a line onto the 2nd floor when the main stairwell has collapsed?

[DJTHEMAC]

trying not to Monday morning quarterback here, but you should never pull a hoseline out of the house, especially if you think there are crew inside who may be trying to use it to escape.

What if the interior attack crew became disoriented and let go of the hoseline and were desperately groping around trying to find it, only to come up empty because someone had pulled it from the outside.

[WhatTheHell09]

Black Fires are very bad.......

[kthejung]

NEVER PULL HOSELINE OUT OF STRUCTURE WHEN PEOPLE ARE INSIDE. NEVER.

[coderedfiresafety100]

Really enjoyed that video.

[BCFSXCYYJ2010]

So what was the outcome? Was there a crew inside? Did they escape through this exit or another?

[cbarsonfire]

Wow! Where was the personel accountability of all the firefighters prior to ingiting the pallets Do you use tags/Id's to track who is in the building? While pallets are often used to start fires in trainining... what jackass used gas?

[mrrfrr]

....Well I assume the other crew members made it out. I do think a a single line may not have extinguished it but it would have darkened it down significantly. Also you witnessed a "Rollover" or and uncontained "Backdraft" where the liberated gasses were too rich to burn and as air rushed in either throught the open window of up the stairswell the mixture became lean enough to ignite.

[FilmLou]

@YorkRegionFireRescue So true!