Most people don't give a shit untill it affects them

Too busy looking at someone else misfortune...sad really

toxic somke it can kill you

the electronic man Do you know of any smoke that is not toxic? Even cigarette smoke kills ;)

it is toxic somke it dark black mate

@FBI LOL!!!

@FBI true, but idiots like this are everywhere.

Amen sister!

@FBI New Yorkers believe it's our civic duty to show up for all public disasters.

Amen Jill! There were way too many Jackasses wandering all over that scene! 😡😡😡

Same in my country when it comes to accidents on a highway: people slow down on the lanes going the opposite direction and nearly kiss the guardrail just to get as close as possible while making video's... I'm glad the police is now starting to report people's numberplates if it's the driver doing that, or if the driver slows down for a passenger to be able to do something like that just because of the immense danger it causes for someone not noticing in time and slamming into the car in front.

It’s typically American !

@@henribruyere2922 Canadian too.

If I had to guess.... gas fed fire/explosion

@Scott Smith i think to 👍🤦‍♀️

Scott Smith I was thinking the same. Seems to have burned much faster than normal. Maybe the wind contributed, but seemed there was an accelerant, too.

Engulfed*

Right! Not Like The Department Is Next Door Or Up The Street...Smh

You guys didn't know the fire department could teleport!?!? What's wrong with you guys?

+Danny B No freaking kidding. That is what everybody expects them to have.

+Danny B they also materialize with charged hoselines in their hands

The fire engines already have 500 gallons of water in the tank before they pump from a hydrant.

Wood burns fast

@Ho lee Fuk You are actually 100% right.

@Ho lee Fuk Even without fire it can move fast. One of the biggest misconceptions people tend to have about a fire inside a house is that it's quickly visible on the outside, whereas for it to do that has already consumed most of the inside to the point it's destroyed. We might not have as many fully wooden homes here, but the fire department in my country typically requests people to not try and extinguish a small fire inside their home because of how quickly it can get out of hand but call the fire department immediately. There have been a few PSA's in which someone had a flashover in a pan containing oil setting the curtain on fire, and someone decides to try and fill a bucket to throw on it, and it had the fire spreading all while filling the bucket up to a point it was already next to impossible to get close enough to it to effectively fight it. What also never cease to amaze me is how long it can feel for an ambulance or other emergency vehicle to arrive after you've made the call. My dad took a serious fall in the bathroom in the beginning of 2021 and it took 3 minutes after calling the ambulance to it getting here, but it felt like 30 minutes.

Rebecca Dunkley one quick spray should should push them back a bit lol

But then you risk injury... Those fire lines are more powerful that you might think...

IDK, I think it depends on whose house is burning, they might have a different opinion on which is more important! I know i would!

And God bless you for what you do!

What can be said about stupid ass people? Nothing. Stupid can not be fixed.

Douglas Puett , ageed.it is definitely a firesale!

I didn't see any people hindering the firefighters here...they were all across the street and on the corner watching and filming. However, those cars parked in front of the house should have been MOVED by owners immediately!

OMG. I’m glad I wasn’t the only person thought this. The building I lived in had 19 apartments in it. That’s the only time I’ve ever seen so many people standing around a fire- because they lived there. Multiple dwellings fires people stand around in shock watching everything disappear in huge flames and clouds of smoke 😢

Charlie Irvin Right?! It's like, don't they understand what they're meant to be doing here?

Or the fact that people were pulling in front of the house to watch the fire. You are in the way. And once that fire truck pulls up you arent going anywhere. Pull around the block and walk over like everyone else.

I can't beleive that people prefer taking pictures than grabing a hose and try to contain the fire so that it doesn't start in the first place.

@@Turbo999be this was a gas explosion and flashover, at the rate this fire spread, a garden hose would have done nothing... Hell, pissing on that fire would have had the same result...

Charlie Irvin too busy on their phones criticizing the fire department

Took forever to get water flowing dispite an army of personnel, always seems to be lack of coordination on these large fire scenes,

mruppity64 In NYC I seen the Fire Fighters Bust out the windows and put their hoses in the Windows, Cause was full of WATER. this is what happens if ya block The hydrant 🚒 🚓🚑🚒🚓🚑🚒🚓

Salvage cover over the front bumper of the truck and ease it forward til the car is out of the wat, actually that fait was not totally in the way the way the hydrant was sitting but still in the red zone

I once watched three LACo firemen lift an LASD patrol car rear end and rotate it 90 degrees in about three "squat lifts" to move it out of the way of a fire road. 70's, rear wheel drive, whatever patrol cars were then. Big Plymouth, Dodge. Heavy car, heavy chrome bumper.

the street is so dark and it gets huger and huger each time thats sad

Holly Rockwell I have my own commercial fire alarm system

I'm pretty sure the explosion would have awakened anyone sleeping in this home, and it would have incapacitated the smoke detectors in the process.

@@thirdgengta It might also have made someone impossible of leaving the home at this stage. These kinds of explosions tend to cause so much shrapnel to fly around that it can injure people that way, should they happen to have been inside during the gas explosion.

Fire doubles in size every minute. It doesn’t take long for a fire to go from small to tall.

welcome to ktown Los Angeles

hey she is driving a fiat ok?

it looks like she was originally parked in the driveway of the other house that caught on fire and moved it out of the way, doesn't look like there was much parking available.

I agree you can tell the difference in the ones that think about the job as there arriving and setting there self up to make shit easier snd faster for them to get water on that house plus there not waisting energy having to run that heavy ass hose all the way to a hook up they let the truck equipment do the work and pull that hose off there dam good job on those guys now I will say those other companies took forever to get water on that house it was ridiculous watching the man wait for water that’s why that second house kept getting worse even though more companies are showing up to put water on it that kinda pissed me off but I can’t arm chair quarterback them I comend them for even being a fire fighter

@@bigshot9557 sitting there complaining about people risking their safety stu

I just read this in Lil Wayne's voice

It’s technically ‘firefighters’ as, like in the two station houses I worked, women were part of our crew.

Wood burning immensely hot can cause explosion-like sounds, a completely wooden building in my city that went up in flames in 2020 produced those types of bangs so loud they were able to be heard a kilometer away from where I live.

Always do.

Doug Griffin they’re great. same w new york

Water flowing after one minute from setting the breaks.

@@Lilrtmanager New York are awful.

LAFD are awesome ! Thanks for your service guys and gals !

5tinytim also keep your yard clean and neat and all dead plants should be removed.

yep now the lawns.... deters firebugs

why else would an vacant house with no power go up on a puff of smoke that fast?

@@boomertuxx can you say meth lab 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Gretchen Murray Right! I live in the middle of the city, (North Side of Pittsburgh,PA) there is exactly ZERO clearance between me and my neighbors houses. It's a continuous row of houses for the whole 300' block.

YOU LIVE IN LOS ANGELES!!!

Gas explosions have caused appartmentbuildings in my country (typically made of all concrete walls and floors) to collapse....they are tremendously powerful and destructive as a result. It's why fire departments upon getting a call from someone who makes notice of "smelling gas" tell someone to leave immediately if they are in a closed building and to leave windows and doors that might be open, open due to a possible risk of sparking upon closing them (along with the added ventilation that might prevent the buildup of the right gas and oxygen mixture).

Is that what caused this explosion- Gas?

​@@ruthanneluvsvacuuming6653 Gas, or meth lab

@@desotofiresweep58 so it’s not determined

@@ruthanneluvsvacuuming6653 I dont know, I never heard a follow up. I wish I had I kind of would have wanted to know but I never heard nothing more about it

These houses were built in the 50s or 60s when it seemed like every man, woman and children were moving to Southern California.

New Orleans is the very same way! You can stand on your porch and spit on your neighbor is how close they are! I've seen some roofs are 1-2" from touching each other....😥⚜

BIG BRAIN

some of those are more like 100 years old plus. they clearly didn't have alot of room, and have lost even more because of sky high land values.

Building wood isn't the best idea either

ive always sid that too. its too dangerous with the houses being so close together,but todays builders are all about money and how many houses they can build.

I did not see anyone get in the way. Besides, that's one reason police are on the scene of large fires - crowd control. Everyone here seemed to know to stay back a safe distance.

This isn't too bad. You should see some FDNY footage where people are literally just walking over hose lines that guys are trying to pull as if the FD is in THEIR way

They have fire hoses, move em back forcibly..

They should warn the people once to get out of the way, then spray their asses with the hoses is they get in the way again.

Yah, though, do keep in mind that the water coming out of the firehose nozzle is under a pressure of around 80 to 150 psi (pounds per square inch), and anywhere from 100 to 300 gpm (gallons per minute) - or possibly more! XP

E 51 was LA County. This is LA City so they won't be coming :)

Yeah, where's Randolf and Kevin?

During the 70's Station 51 was on Olympic Blvd in East L.A., just off the Long Beach Freeway

Janice Hisey sometimes County goes to the city to help when city is understaffed or too many emergencies at once. I’ve been to city and I work in county

they never came because they turned the wrong way out of the fire station....they always went the same direction out of the fire station on EVERY episode!!!

luckily it didnt park all the way in front of it even though the driver did park in a Red zone, but if he/she would have parked right in front of the hydrant, the fire dept would have probably immediatly broken the windows and put the hoses right through the cars interrior......sure if they wanted to the firefighters could ave just lifted the car out of the way since it was such a small car anyways..LOL

The fire department can go thru the window to get to the hydrant.

Should’ve gotten Backdraft’d

To be fair, she moved the car from the driveway of the second burning house. It’s probably her house, poor thing.

Andy Grice But not ideal

Thanks for posting! I was wondering the aftermath. Glad Brownie was okay after all that!

"There is an app for that," they say. I think they are saving that app for next year's models. Why will people upgrade if the new phones are just the same as the old phones? (sarcasm) But cellphone videos probably are useful, shared for fire-fighter review and training.

ikr

Well everyone got pictures! Sad! Do they not have water hoses to protect the homes on either side? Disgusting!

And you are watching this video, shot by a cell phone ...

@@ohjumpa 95% ALLER Videos werden mit einem Handy (Smartphone) aufgenommen. Nur 5% mit Kameras 🤷‍♀️.

they got there really quick...less than 5 minutes, and that included the time to receive the call from dispatch and drive there

Both neighbors got fucked on that one

In the comments above someone wrote three other homes were damaged.

That's what happens when you live elbows to assholes. What do you expect when there is 4 feet between houses ?

would love to know what was in the house in the hot seat.

@@boomertuxx Same. That thing went up like a matchbox!

This is another reason why I don't like living SO close to your neighbors that when u sneeze...THEY say say Bless U!!!

That's so true I can't even begin to tell you....

In most communities fire trucks respond to medical calls due to the overwhelming obesity rate in the U.S. In case extra help is needed to lift some obese person. That sounds harsh but to many EMTS were getting back injuries.

Yup. We're enabling a whole generation to become useless individuals. Grown men acting like girls.

Now a days most firefighters are also trained EMT/Paramedics and most times you see fire trucks show up first to medical calls.

Enabling doesn't mean that everybody takes that path, luckily.

I'll see your 4:46 and raise you a 8:56 woman stands between firefighters and a burning house

@@ArtemkaPannat I fold.

Got to get that camera going.

Like a Fourth of July picnic

I been fighting fire for 43 years love my job there are some dumb folks out there

mamas

Michael Fitzgerald That would have been an admirable response time in any major city! Good Show, LAFD!

Michael Fitzgerald I’m hoping there weren’t any pets inside! There was no mention of anyone going into the surrounding house to even check for people let alone pets ! I will NEVER understand how over 40 people standing there filming this fire couldn’t knock on doors further down the block ! Maybe I’m being foolish because that’s the first thing I would do !!!!!

@@marilynsears7611 They are in awe maybe? I think its plain selfishness. I am surprised that these ppl want to stand so close & breathe in the potential dangerous air. My heart hurt watching this video. So incredibly scary! I hope no pets were inside and everyone go out safe. I feel horrible for other homes that were damaged as a result of the main one going up. So scary & horrible!

I was thinking same thing

and with a company that cares about their insured!!!

I feel sorry for the houses that are either side of it it's a miracle that they didn't burn too

so over 100 years ago?

there ought to be a law ...

Pat McBride the worst. I say to them “do you go home and turn your TV on its side to watch it?”

Aren’t they stupid?

Yeah fawking idiots

thats awful

Firefighters won't let you houses make their job harder

***** - Its water. Before the fire got out of hand, I would have drenched everything I could.. It would have saved something.

Insurance money

u couldn't get close enough with proper ppe

dumb buts not moving their cars I hope the cars blow up

My guess? Something inside like a gas leak or meth lab. It appeared they were doing construction though (renovations) judging by all the equipment all over, so maybe once it started smoldering it caught something combustible (construction material) on fire and BOOM, house go bye bye

Weis jemand was genau passiert ist 🤷‍♀️? Gibt es einen Zeitungsbericht 🧐?

@@robdog1245 no construction equipment. thats "just" debris of the explosion. first boom, then fire.

there’s a great photo of a similar incident hanging in my firehouse. hope you’re enjoying retirement, glad you’ve had a long one as i know that isnt always the case.

A lil smoke 🤔......where 🧐🙄???

FOOLS

what did they do that was so heroic? Geesh...it's there job and they are paid quite well.

Ur joking isnt it but lol i FedEx better

Not me I'll pass the hydrant to get water on the fire. 2nd in can get a water supply for me.

Fire definitely not out at the end of the video. Still visible fire venting through the roof. And the smoke says that there’s still significant fire inside the structure

Agree the fire was not out. Black grey is still heavily involved, white means water on fire. When you see the grey/yellowish that appears when it’s in the insulation/roof. They were also cutting into the neighbors roof, that is usually to vent the smoke so they can see inside. That means it was heavily affected as well. They would be there for hours to be sure it didn’t start up again, if not overnight.

Not everyone can see where it might be going, and things to do, and well you know, THEY'RE MORONS!

I reckon. That was no electrical fault. House looked abandoned as well. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Arson.

The guy in the background said "The house Exploded!" I believe it was then that the windows fell outward and the bricks from the chimney, and what looks like part of the house lay on the ground! A nightmare however it happened! There's several more explosions that can be heard throughout the video....Scary! 🙁⚜

I grew up around guns so I can tell you for a fact that those explosions sounded like guns going off. So most likely live shells inside the house somewhere that went off from the heat. Also, what PoyZun Iv said about the windows etc. is normal in a severe fire. The heat and super hot gases are building up and getting more and more intense. Eventually, it simply blows out through the weakest points of the house. Usually, this would be windows and doors. Ever seen the movie "Backdraft"? Once the fire gets a taste of the oxygen that comes roaring in it ramps up even worse. At that point, you are royally screwed. Also, you cannot fight a fire from the top-down as the air movement caused by the water or foam will just spread it. You have to go in at the base of the fire to knock it down. The guys on the roof were pointing the hoses down the side of that house. Most likely trying to get to the bottom of the fire to stop it from taking that house completely as well. If it was a drug fire that would explain the presence of bullets although tons of people have live rounds in their homes. However, smoke from a drug fire is very toxic and dangerous. The cameraman at one point is standing in the middle of the firestorm without showing any signs of sickness or distress so I kind of doubt it was a Meth lab. I saw one fire where a homeless guy was squatting in a property and he created a nice little firepit on the floor! You read that right!! The place burned down with him in it! So maybe a squatter started it? Were any bodies found inside? Oh, by the way, I own a chimney company and we have to learn about fires as insurance companies often send us out to trace the origins of a fire to see if it is related to the chimney or some malfunction of an appliance attached to a chimney. The insurance won't cover you if you were negligent in keeping up on the proper maintenance of your chimney and attached appliances. Have them at very least checked once per year and stay safe!!

I tell daughter, "no mo cooking meth in yo bedroom." She no listen to me. I tell her, "you get yo skinny ass out." She run down street in wedge heels. She say cuss words.

You didn't they guy at the beginning giving the operator the address? Dumbshit

+Ritz Crazie didn't hear the guy*