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@@Iris-jw3ci I'd forgotten his name, but I still remember "Fahrenheit 451" after all these years. Ray Bradbury at his best.

Pyromania exists in many forms and intensities.

I was watching a documentary, and the firefights were mildly annoyed they hadn't had a good fire recently. Of course, they don't want a "good fire" because lives/livelihoods get harmed, but firefighters wanna fight fires.

I’m pretty sure pyromania is a requirement for firefighters.

How about getting one right in your face? Happened to me when I peered into an old oil stove wondering why it wasn't burning.

​@@bhatkatsounds a bit painful... How was it?

*FUS RO DAH

​@jygb7092 as a firefighter that fwomp is terrifying cause it's got the chance of being the last thing you hear, so yes he's valid in saying that sound is terrifying.

Almost no fun at all. They worried I'd live with facial scars but it healed up clear enough. @@rhabeldibabeldi6812

quicksand... man I was trained to fear quicksand.

Dude those honey fires.... Like napalm...

@@Huwbacca lol so true

@@trollolol705 I’ll never forget my aunt calling (on the landline) one evening when I was about 7 and asking what I was doing and I said watching a movie. She said oh what movie. I said Pulp Fiction (just came out on tape). She started screaming to give my mom the phone. It was definitely a different era. No way I would let my girls watch chunky and Friday the 13th and all that stuff like I did.

@@chocolategravyandbiscuits8418 "chunky" hahaha

Narrated by George R R Martin

Do you prefer Chipotle, or Taco Bell?

​@@MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesisi eat indian & korean food

​@desertdesmond6736 calm down there, Satan, don't mix em 😂

he said CALMLY

Kinda like how cops make the best criminals. 🤔

You can’t be a firefighter if there is no fire.

There’s actually a shortage and huge understaffing problem between police, fire and EMS. You can thank rona for making this our reality

@@joshlee7935 No, you can blame comprehensive databases, youthful stupidity, and idiot senior management for blind dogmatic adherence to an antiquated hiring and training process that frankly never worked or guaranteed quality candidates. They’re going to have to revamp the whole job criteria, hiring process, basic training, and field training if they’re going to avoid a hiring crisis.

around Boston it was the guys who supported firemen…they showed how needed firemen were by nearly killing hundreds including multiple firemen 🙄

A backdraft killed Stan Rogers, and that’s enough reason to fight them.

What a coincidence. Backdraft is the reason I started lighting random fires. Small world.

@@adamschaeffer4057 …I hope you mean in your backyard and not arson, lol

@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial Of course, of course! Ha ha. What sort of person do you take me for? lol I mean, you got to test this stuff *somewhere* first.

You wouldn't want to encounter that, it gets very hot, very fast, and usually firefighters get burned. They also tend to cause collapses. I never encountered one, but Ive been in fires where it flashed, its like being in an oven the moment the gas ignites.

*would have

@@alistair1978utubego eat a tennis ball

@@alistair1978utubestfu

Wow. You’re an idiot.

it was a simulation. they had some kind of gas in the shed and set it off.

In your youth? And what are you now? 30?

Hahahaha, he was 11 when he was a fireman, for halloween.@@godzilla928

cringe

​@@godzilla928hardly. Dude is in his 20s most likely and probably volunteered once when he was 18.

That's so freaking awesome. Friend & I used 3 large extinguishers to put out a raging fire I embarrassingly caused & the firefighters said we should come on down to the academy. 🤣 People love to think, with 100% confidence, that they'll react appropriately to something like this but you never *_really_* know until you're confronted with the real world situation at full speed. (Myself included - very common trap to fall into)

You were a really quick thinker and responsible, to top it off you did it as a kid. Great job

Well dang, kiddo

You wont be in the hallway for long, ir at least, not in the part you were in originally

I like to imagine I would be shot out of the hallway like the hallway was a musket and I a bullet. Idk what I am saying anymore

I’ve witnessed them, it’s quite a sight. Three of my co workers were caught in one. One was blown down a flight of stairs and it ended another one’s career. Scary stuff.

😮

@@mplslawnguy3389Geez bro.

Me

The scary part is how it apparently just came out of nowhere.

@@JanB1605 "Out of nowhere" to us but I've read stories of experienced firemen inside a burning building and clearing their men out because they anticipated a backdraft/flashover. I have put out a house fire with a garden hose, a pickup truck fire with a dry chemical extinguishers, and a print shop fire with a dry chemical extinguisher. They were all very small fires and I acted quickly. My belief about fire fighting: 1. Act quickly, 2.Small fires are often easy to extinguish. Yes, I have extinguishers in all of my vehicles and 4 extinguishers at the kitchen entrance. I just installed 2 new smoke alarms.

​@@nemo227You're a fire magnet lol

@@guerillagorilla4423 Oh, no, I hope NOT. Around the fourth of July and New Years Eve I take the garden hose and try to water down everything that might catch fire from an errant bottle rocket. I try to follow the idea that prevention is not as dramatic as fire fighting but it's much more comfortable and safer.

Tryin ta squeak one out in a crowded area thinking it'll not be as loud as it turns out to be... o.O

That’s why I only eat Taco Bell when I have the next day off…boom

It's never just a fart :(

a shoom..

Sometimes you gamble on a fart and lose. No big deal haha😂

I’ve seen it end the careers of a few guys. Pretty much your worst nightmare as a FF.

Yeah they sound like stormtroopers lol

@@mattgehrke3115 it was the goats in the background running for their lives

come again?

that’s the stupidest thing i have read

Cool? How do you keep your eyebrow tho?

@@simonnachreiner8380 I don't need eyebrows.

Basically, the fire stops getting enough air to burn, but it's still hot enough to ignite when oxygen is reintroduced. When oxygen is introduced through an opening, like a doorway or a broken window, the fire violently reignites in a lethal conflagration.

TotallyAMetrocop I think he was asking why there was a delay. Most descriptions of backdraft make it sound like things will blow up right when the door/window is opened.

Good question. The fire has died down as it burns away the available oxygen. As there is an oxygen deficit the combustion is less efficient which creates a lot of unburnt product - this appears as smoke. Smoke is a flammable gas - we have created a fuel rich / oxygen deficient atmosphere. As the door is opened it introduces oxygen to the compartment. This mixes together to create a "perfect mixture" which will ignite when the balance is correct and the fire builds the temperature. That is why it isn't instantaneous.

Jack Middleton Actually the oxygen is stuck inside the house leaving no air inside With only gas and smoke in it So gas builds up. And fire will set on fire Is like a you put a alcohol (not a beer) and propane inside a long big pipe And set it on fire

I've done this training and have experienced a small backdraft while working in a commercial loft space working unit to unit. U feel it and hear it before u see it. It's very odd. They are extremely un predictable. Thus why the firefighter in the video went "yay!" The door was open for some time . It can happen straight way or some seconds or 30 secs later or not at all. It's the perfect storm scenario.

Die Hard?

Love Actually?

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey?

Lord of the rings ?

"I never saw Backdraft." "Me either!"

_It's the animal..._

Bro why is that your pfp? What do you have against Christians?

@@lordofducks3430 Sorry, buddy, I missed your comment from a few days ago. I actually have a lot of things against that disgusting death cult such as their horrific misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and straight up racism…and I won’t even get into the blatant hypocrisy of your average insufferable christian. Truth be told, I despise all religion, christianity just happens to be the one that I’m most familiar with. I won’t go further into it since there’s a good chance that after 4 days you won’t respond. If you do read this though, have a nice day, friend.

@@norcodaev while I do disagree heavily with what you've said here, i'd rather not start an argument over it. try to keep an open mind, and have a nice day

@@lordofducks3430 That’s alright, buddy. I heavily disagree with christian doctrine. Assuming you’re an adult though, we can discuss this without arguing. I don’t hate christians, I pity them. I see them more as victims of an evil, immoral, criminal organization. My mind is fully open. I’m absolutely able to be convinced that your invisible god exits if I’m provided sufficient evidence. That just hasn’t happened yet. If you have any, I’d be interested in hearing it. Anyway, have a nice day.

Why are you assuming their gender ?

The fire consumed all the oxygen inside the building and then suddenly jumps to the nearest source.

Insufficient oxygen in the burning core of a building leads to a buildup of carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, etc., and eventually a pocket of these gases, all of which are above their autoignition temperature, find their way to a source of oxygen and you get nearly supersonic combustion and the resulting fireball.

@@tetrabromobisphenol YEAH! SCIENCE, BITCH!

@@shinrapresident7010 SCIENCE!

@@tetrabromobisphenol 🤓

Here I sit so brokenhearted, tried to sh!t but only farted. Then one day I took a chance, tried to fart but sh!t my pants.

Short answer: They're called backdraft because it's blasting the fire _back_ out where the _draft_ is coming in. Long answer: When a fire is burning in a confined and poorly ventilated space and runs out of oxygen, it starts to suffocate itself out while remaining super-heated. When you introduce a new source of oxygen like popping a door, a window, or manually putting a hole in a wall, that creates channel to generate a draft of fresh oxygen. The super-heated air in that room - which is VERY hungry for that oxygen - consumes it so fast that all that draft coming in flashes over, trailing _back out the direction it's drafting in from._ And that's why it's called a backdraft.

Because the temperature inside fluctuates, before the explosion happens, which causes the room to "breathe" in and out. When it draws air in, that part is the backdraft.

The explosion is not called backdraft. The situation before it that indicates the danger exists is the backdraft.

I’ve only seen a few actual backdrafts, luckily we were defensive by that time. You need experienced Chiefs to recognize bad situations because you just can’t see the big picture inside.

it did

It’s more of a green tint. White smoke is in the early stages usually. In my experience it goes from white to brown to black and then it takes on this weird green hue and there is so much pressure it pushes through the mortar. Hopefully you’re defensive at that point.

watch the smoke: the sucking back in is feeding the fire is the actual backdraft…the flashover is a part of it, it’s the next step after the introduction of air to the smoldering fire and superheated air

YT is indicating there's a reply to your comment, but it can't be expanded, so I'll venture a hypothesis from my zero years in firefighting and next-to-zero knowledge of chemistry: this looks like a flashover event, wherein the _air_ heated by the fire (not the flames themselves) achieves a temperature meeting or excelling that of the combustion point of most / all materials inside that superheated air (furniture, carpeting, wall & ceiling treatments, etc.) -- all of which combust _simultaneously_ producing an effect analogous to _the entire volume of the air turning instantly to flames._ Subsequent to the flashover, I *think* (but ain't sure) that the sudden pressure differential between the fire and the exterior of the burning structure forces a jet of flame outside, producing the signature "backdraft", kind of like the reverberating pressure waves of HE ordnance or nukes. Don't know what kind of combustibles or accelerants they may've used here, but in every case, backdrafts and especially flashovers are spooky shit.

@@VindsvelleI’m a FF and you probably explained it better than I could. All I know is it’s scary AF. I’ve been in a few flashovers, luckily I’ve only witnessed a backdraft from the outside. The heat is indescribable.

Simplified: Hot stuff gives off gas before mass ignition when oxygen levels are just right in the mix.

@@mplslawnguy3389 Don't know how you do it, man. A few years ago I stopped by a controlled burning of a condemned house that our local FD were conducting, and even with the fire localized in the center of the (single story) house, the heat felt _from inside my car with the windows cracked, ≤20 ft away on the street,_ was oppressively intense. There were firefighters in gear (not all wearing face shields, IIRC) right up on the porch, almost point blank with the inferno. Plenty gnarly for me. I watch a ton of forensic analyses of industrial disasters (including lots of fires), and can't imagine the stones required for you guys to brave truly uncontrolled structure fires.

@@Vindsvelle I’ve had a few coworkers careers ended in house fires from backdrafts. One was blown down a flight of stairs and the other was burned too badly. He tried coming back but couldnt do it anymore. I’m getting to the point where I’m looking towards retirement. Still love the job, but you get in enough bad situations it kind of changes your outlook. Great job overall, but I want to be intact at the end too. You’re right about the heat. It’s hard to describe the feeling of getting right up the the point of burning. Your neck and arms feel like they’re boiling. Modern gear has been a blessing and a curse, because we can go farther into a fire than we ever could, which means we can get ourselves in some bad spots.

i assume that’s the very visual they wanted most, on top of the actual explosion of the air

Classic game my friend

Yes

They're training on a prop, it was set up to do that

He stole it

Backdraft, is a fire that is enclosed. The oxygen has been consumed starving the fire. The heat remains. Opening a window, door or such introduces cool oxygenated air causing an explosive reaction. A flashover, the contents of a room become so heated as to simultaneously combust with an extreme increase in heat. This video is not a backdraft, but a smoke explosion...

​@@user-ul6tr5cq3e What? How do you properly explain the phenomenon, yet incorrectly say this wasn't it? Yes, it was. The fire is choked out, they open that little hatch on the side introducing fresh oxygen, and BOOM explosion of fire and smoke as it re-ignites thanks to new oxygen. You literally described exactly what this video shows, and then want to claim that's not what it is. Yes it is 😂

it’s a true backdraft, the circulation of air sucking into the superheated air and smoldering fire is the actual backdraft. the flashover is a byproduct of the backdraft and is lumped in with the whole action even if it’s technically not true and read the description, it outright says backdraft/flashover