This shows how little can be done to fight large fires. The firemen do an incredible job and we are all great full to them .some pay the ultimate price for keeping us safe.

Thank you all for all your hard work I sincerely appreciate it stay safe

Holy crap! That's one massive fire! Glad they got a KD on it and great job by the FF's onscene and great filming by you! 👍

Talk about a fire dept that’s been taxed to the max this week. Tragedy within their own ranks, and then this ginormous fire. They’ve been tested to the max. Condolences to the families involved, especially their kids. But also to the Sisters and Brothers of LACoFD. Our HG will be there in support standing alongside many others.

Any firefighter can only do as much as they can with their equipment available. Nobody can do much against the fierceness of this inferno other than to let it burn itself out. Thank you to the hero firefighters for the dangerous work they do. I tip my hat to all of you brave men...and woman...

Oh my God, what a monster. The heat radiating from that must've been horrendous. The term firefighter is apt. It's like a nightmarish warzone. Very brave and professional people.

Sorry for the loss of property but WOW WHAT A GREAT VIDEO!! Hard fight for the firefighters but what a great job!!

Los Angeles County Fire Departments YOU ALL did an outstanding 👏 great job!!!!

I was very happy/surprised to see a hose rope/strap in use. They save a lot of arm strength use. I'm old school.

Great shots. Thank you

awesome footage as always!! glad you guys made good time on this one 🔥

District Chief: "Send me Red Trucks with Red Lights on Top until I say *Stopp* !! "

Awesome Video, thanks for sharing!

Great camera work once again, love the radio traffic. Thanks for posting Stay Safe.

THAT A MASSIVE 3RD ALARM FIRE SUE!

Interesting over the shoulder rig to support the weight and recoil force of the hose by the backup member of the nozzle team. Do hoses come with that attached near the nozzle or is it set up at the fire ground?

These Heros are warriors.. Never do they show fear during battle. God bless them.

Awesome footage

Imagine fighting that monstrous fire that was raging hot during a drought and the hellacious temperatures of both combined. It is totally amazing these men and women can survive such conditions. That structure was burning insanely hot. WOW!

Incredible video

Great video

The radiant heat off that must have been unbelieveable.

Awesome

Question..Why don't you start putting out the fire as soon as the fire truck stops?

It would be good to see the daylight footage of this the next day,

Imagine if this happened in like a small rural Iowa town. The limited resources, water supply, apparatus and firefighters. Lafd has their firefighting skills to t. They always do a good job. Stay safe.

What was stored there to have such a fire load??

By the time they got their ladder up it was history.

I was wondering how long that engine was gonna try and stay there

From the description of the conditions this was a total loss on arrival. The firefighters did well containing this fire to the original fire building. Comments about this being a slow job are not needed.

Where was this'?

Any mutual aid departments? & How long were they on scene for? Also great video !!

Unable to find an intersection of Gage Avenue and Atlantic Avenue on Google maps?

What a massive indraft at 2:00!

My Condolences to the Family and Friends of this brave Firefighter 🕯🌺 My Father was a Firefighter and I was very proud of him 😎

A terrible loss, but at the extent the fire was already involved, this was a total loss before the fire department even got the call.

Excellent Catch 👍❤️🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒

Unbelievable!!!!!!

Whats anchoring the nozzle & hose to the ground at 1:54 so it's not flying all around?

The correct location is, Salt Lake Ave. & Gage Ave. BTW, great video!

Great video, man that looked hot! Is it me, or does it seem like an increase in these types of fires!?!

God Bless our Firefighters

I would’ve probably melted there! Nice footage!

Now that’s a dragon if I’ve ever seen one!

wow thats a big fire for sure.

Isn't that E. Gage Ave (3383) and St. Lake Ave?

Why don't they use smoothbore nozzles on their handlines, especially the 2.5"? Is it a west coast thing??

The intensity of this fire is max

incrível!!

How do you get let onto scenes like this

WOW!!! WOW!!! WOWZER!!!

WoW those guys did a Great 👍 job . That fire was big and hot 🔥 fast

Been a fire buff since the start

why did that building not have fire sprinkler system. or another word fire suppression system. every building in the world should have them.

The part I find interesting is hearing one of the LAFD Sikorsky S-70s in the background. Can't tell if the helicopter attempted any kind of air-drops or if just providing aerial coverage to the ground forces.

Damn

Wow, this fire reminds me of the Marcal paper fire in elmwood park nj. if you never saw it, look it up. It was a crazy fire

12:47 guy who set the fire?

anyone know the causes

Who was Troy Carlon?

Arson?

At its height, this almost became a firestorm. The whirling tornado of flame was under development, but didn't Quite make it--thankfully!

can you imagine the amount of water being used

Man, what an inferno.... Everything that could be done was being done.

So when it is OK to pour water on it , after its half gone or all gone ?

Wow,firnado.

How does that even happen

🌊🌊🔥🌊

Definitely need more saws.

A structure fire that big, the best thing is to pull back, protect any surrounding bldgs and let it collapse within itself

No tower ladders???

pictures of war... would be interessting to know, what was stored there...

I think its cool how they have a guy behind every guy with a hose. What do they call that back-up ? Just kidding lol

How does this even happen like bro it looks like somebody purposely blew the thing up

Another save!

Hold on a damn minute, It's beautiful as fuck ! So hell is a beautiful place ?

Trying to get this fire out with water is not done , the water evaporates even before it hits it`s target , leaving it burn controled is best thing to do.

Green green orange green green

Wow

I would have peed my pants a little bit if I was there

I wonder if this is what Rome looked like when IT was burning....

Bow truss widow maker, glad they went right to exterior attack.

I wonder if the firemen (say omg that's huge?) Something isn't right. Every square inch is on fire.

An RPG would open up the side of that building

In Germany we would rise not less an 5th Alert on a big fire like this . (Means 5 voulenteer Fire Companies+ Not less than 3 Ladders from the next bigger Firestations).

what the hell was in that building?

Conduct rescue, defensive posture, CA water shortage... just let it burn.

Ooo a great big fully involved bonfire

Where are the marshmallow chocolate wafer Smores when you have a big fire.

Да, братва, нормально вам там досталось)

To all...I am in the UK. I pray all souls are safe and well..please take care xx

I am surprised they didn’t loos e a piece of apparatus.

Only 3 alarms...What was total rig and manpower count...Looks big enough to be 5 alarms in Chicago...

When I see fires like this, I sometimes think to myself "conserve water" it's a lost cause, let it burn.

Why aren't planes used to put out big fires ?

Boutique Amps Distribution, '65 Amps and maybe others in that building. Lot's of wood to burn. Making that 'warm' vintage sound... :.( So much lost there.

1:24 Wow, look at that thing breathe.

I am begining to see patterns to these. Most industrial fires are going to be total losses. The businesses simply have to lock their buildings down like fortresses and there is no access for the firefighters to get in quickly. By the time a couple doors are finally broken, the fire has developed to the point that a standard rapid attack hose simply doesn't flow enough. Taking a big hose in is going to take the whole engine to maneuver and will have to be written off as that first truck has no choice but to retreat. Most industrial fires are going to be a case of having attack lines dampen the fringes to hopefully hold a fire at bay until sticks start to get positioned and up to get main attack streams up. A main attack stream like you see on the back of the pumper trucks and the ladders on the ladder trucks is likely to core out most houses when used on them, which is why they tend to be used only on a fully involved house. A thousand of gallons out of each hose and each 2 of the big hoses take a pumper with the ladder truck and a third supply pumper truck on a hydrant to supply. On top of that, they have to be careful how many hydrants on a pipe circuit are being pulled from, or those big hoses start to look anemic. The in ground pipes have their supply limits too. The whole process builds a temporary infrastructure in a fast paced chess game against a threat that could easily start taking out square miles of city buildings. Just incredible what they achieve so quickly even if it looks like they are moving in slow motion sometimes.

They call this "URBAN RENEWAL" In Los Angeles

You get that amount of fire, the best you can do is surround and drown, baby! Surround and drown!