Hey, we like cupcakes too. Especially at a controlled burn.

hahaha who wouldn't!?

Honestly, for most of them a chance in a lifetime to gain such experience!

On something like this the training is minimal at best. While taking loads of resources.

Fun fact about these structures. There were several hundred of them build almost the exact way across that region of the country. They'd literally come in as kits to be put up from the railroad. So the dynamics of how they burn and collapse was pretty well known and its almost a milk-run to baby sit one as it burns down by the time this one was taken.

They are letting the inside of the building burn out first, so it collapses in on itself.

Well if you keep down the source of heat, less heat to burn nearby items

There are no timbers. Grain elevators are built with nothing but 2x4s and 2x6s laid flat. It's called "cribbing". Ask me how I know.

@@martinkennard1669 OK how do you know? Fact is a structure in Buffalo New York was dismantled saving 9 million board feet of lumber. Also another term is stackwood construction. I've built this way

@jeff bybee I worked on building two in 1967. Right out of high school, 164 ft. high. Replacing ones that burned down. Not far from the burning one in the post. SIdney and Havre, MT. Nothing but 2x6s and 2x4s laid flat. Steel beams over the truck passage. I'm not saying old 1800 structures didn't have wood beams. We would make beams out of 2x6s stacked. All corners were tied together with diagnol cribbed in bracing every 4 feet. Boxcar loads of lumber. Amazing structures. Now replaced by 100 grain car terminals. Back then, they were spaced along a railroad at the distance a horse drawn grain wagon could haul in a day.

they were all very very toxic, that thing was build long before "environmentalism" was a term and since it wasn't a public structure they could use any old "DANGER: WILL GIVE YOUR DEAD GRANDMA CANCER!" chemical they wanted to.

Wasted a lot of water at the beginning

@@terryjohnson7572 yeah and the water pressure in the area probably dropped substantially.

If you a good with a tender "tanker" task force operation there can be a contant flow of 2000 gallons a minute for a big fire with a proper draft site and enough rigs

With all the pumper trucks at the start my guess is they pumped water out of the Cedar River rather than using drinking water. the river runs fairly close by the site.

@@grandwaha 2000gpm for any period of time is not possible without an unrealistic number of apparatus

heh, if you tried to sell lumber from one of these you could end up in Federal prison... there are chemicals in that wood that chemists can't even legally buy anymore.

more than a hundred of these things have been taken down, there's a playbook for em.

I have an important training statement to make but first of all I should allow you all know that I’m a highly educated expert in the science of firefighting, if I had to rate myself I’d say I’m in the top .01% of other experts, although none of them are most likely as high of an expert as I am. Like a lot of you who have made observant comments I too haven’t actually fought a fire, nor have I gone through firefighting school, however I grew up watching Emergency in addition to the many KZfaq videos I’ve seen, all this to say, I am a expert in the science of fire fighting. Now for the important training statement for the fire fighters to learn from me. It important to be careful when fighting fires. Please feel free to seek my advice or the advice of the 1000’s of other KZfaq watchers who are also now expert fire fighters such as myself but none as expert as myself.

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there's an old bird XD

Ikr

Ashland N.H. U.S.A. still has their Mack R but they are the last 1 I know of in my area.

toxic, poisonous, dangerous, splintery, weathered and shattered old wood that would have required the fire department be on hand every day for a month to tear down. The wood wasn't a loss and wasn't beautiful. They used the kind of wood you wouldn't use for pig pen to build these all over the country. All that wood pre-dated the environmental movement and could probably sterilize a small lake if they'd soaked it in it.

@@prjndigo have you ever worked in a grain co op?? I'm guessing not!

My dad spent his life working in one exactly like this. They could have torn it down and damn near bought a new truck with the proceeds

@@prjndigo si it's clear you have no clue what you are talking about.

This would have been unbelievable if it still flour or sugar dust residue in it or contained slightly fermented fodder residue. Not that this fire isn't quite awesome and is certainly something you don't see every day.

_posted_ in 2017 doesn't mean filmed in 2017 That looks more like a rather good late 1990s digital camcorder system

its a metal clad wood building, you can see the horizontal wood on the sides after the sheeting comes off. The fireguys are wearing stuff that is close to level II bulletproof.

Got to make way for the new.

no, they're all dead from all the pesticides, poisons, tracking compounds, wafarin and other toxic materials sprayed all over the building. That's why it had to be burned.

@@prjndigo I work at an old 1950's Era grain mill it looks just like that one. There's extreme EPA and FDA rules that prohibit us from using any type of chemical pesticides, rat poison and or anything in that category. It's an endless battle to keep rodents at bay. And the timbers that make up the structure are all rough cut hardwood lumber that was made frome a local sawyer that is no longer around.

Probably the same ones who are going to pick up all the ashes.

just con a bunch of amateur metal detector enthusiasts to do it , tell them its an old gold processing plant and tell them they can keep what they find as payment then you can just pay them in scrap iron !

Your car tiers

These were built in almost every other county across a major portion of the US from kits delivered by the railroad - there's a play-book for burning them down that's been around since before "web site" was ever a term.

@@imbetterthanyouis Apparently you think ppl are as thick headed as yourself!

To me, what a terrible wast of resources. Old timbers, water. I wonder if anyone even thought of the environment their kids live in? The smoke !!!

This was phuquing stupid to do.

@@clairestaffieri4398 It’s the disposable world we live in. Our culture teaches us it’s easier to destroy than preserve but it’s also part of the dictum that to get what you want you must leave something behind. In this case I think what is wanted is a “blooded” fire department that is better prepared for disasters and what is left behind is pretty obvious. I’m a railroad guy and what this is to me is another nail in the coffin of an historic and useful transportation system and we will rue the day we burned it to the ground.

All the highly toxic, stained, poison riddled and cancer causing chemical filled rat-piss-covered mildewed rough hewn rusty warped trash that they _would_ have had to spend months tearing down with diesel powered equipment and had to have had the fire department on standby with engines running all day every day to have recovered what... $30,000 in lumber? Most the wood in that structure was garbage when it was put up.

@@clairestaffieri4398 see my comment in reply to joe larson in this thread

A giant pile of toxic wood that was going to have to be burned anyway and would have needed the fire department on hand all day every day just to tear down to begin with.

super multi-toxic stuff... that wasn't a residence or a public house (like a bar, grocery, bank, hotel) so they were allowed to use things that'd give mushrooms cancer to keep the rats, pidgeons, mice, mold, mildew out

That is cement.

Because it's made of wood!

the ones that no longer deliver power to the missing building? they're fine

To get training in.

@@benjaminsorenson Nothing to learn from that.

bc you might need it

As a firefighter of 8 years I can tell you id rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it

it was more then likely used for transportation as the city that is from is about 15 miles away.

the two teams right in front of it were using it's pressure manifold

unbelievably toxic poisonous wood that was pressure treated with chemicals before the term "environmentalism" was invented. None of that wood was re-useable and the structure was so toxic it wouldn't be safe to demolish either. If they HAD demolished it they'd have just taken it somewhere else to burn. It would have taken about a month and would have required the fire department stand-by with a running truck all day every day.

The airhorns blowing about 1/4 of the way into the video was the signal to back off. The handlines closest to the building where remotely operated.

burning these down is such a common thing that there's a playbook, this one was made easier by all the metal cladding

lol

Some of both is my guess.

It was saving a month of diesel exhaust from machinery and stand-by firetrucks just to transport all the toxic wood to another location to burn it anyway.

Multiple departments from surrounding counties, most likely

Those handlines are remotely operated.

@@craigintn they maybe remote but there’re still personnel standing there which was my point.

there were more than a hundred of these specific buildings that have been controlled burned down, there's a play-book for it that even tells you where to station firemen.

@@prjndigo Yep and every fire goes exactly as planned. Clearly you're not a fireman or if you are you should probably receive some additional training.

Fmrit98, don't flatter yourself.

to control the rate of the burn to keep it from throwing burning embers or collapsing to the side and not burning up completely... several hundred of the exact same building were build all over a region of the US and there's an actual "burn down play-book" for taking them down

not sure, there many towns called Nashua. don't know what state.

It's Nashua Iowa

it was riceville not niceville its about 35 minutes north of nashua

The building is huge and I think units from other towns came to learn how to use some of the equipment and get some practice on big fires , Most buildings in these towns are two and three stories tall.

In real life you would have the same it as called MABAS. Look it up find out how it works.

I was thinking the same thing? How annoying!

Did anyone check the clothes in the dryer? 😅

You forgot to phrase the beginning of your answer with, "What is...." Sorry folks, that's all the time we have today for.... BURN. THAT. BARN! Stay tuned for next week when one of our lucky contestants sets torch an old airship hangar! So long!!! (Chip Duffy's wardrobe provided by Joe Rogan Polyester Casuals)

keep the fire low so it don't catch on to the other structures have you ever been too hot standing by a campfire? same idea if you did not move away you would burn

I would think that there are variables such as wind strength and direction, that would ruin the idea that one size of grain tower, fits all when it comes to learning lessons..

The department also wets down the outside to keep the structure from failing out, the hole is with control burns to have the structure fail inward.

MikeandMichelle Wells forces it to collapse in on itself rather than outward on all the firefighters

@@jamesluck2969 Exactly

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You do realize that this burn is less than a bubble to the earth... It does 1000x more damage to itself when a volcano erupts... The leftist media has you all so concerned with global warming... Humans haven't hurt the earth. The earth has been warming for millions of years. Since the ice age... How do you think the ice melted in the 1st place. The earth goes through cycles of warmer and colder temps. It's normal

this wood is so toxic it could give your dead grandmother cancer, if it had been torn down it'd still have been burned somewhere else - none of the wood could legally have been reclaimed and sold-on. it all came from an era where "environmentalism" hadn't entered the dictionary

Hey that's where I'm from and currently live it's gone to shit stay away lol

Then that narrows it down to Nashua, PA or Nashua IA. I'm betting Iowa since the fire department names match other towns near Nashua IA

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Yeah, they shou!d be heavily fined for that air pollution.

It's to keep the fire from spreading and too quench the fires thurst

Jay Smith another millennial

Its called training.

go join up and see how easy it is to do, and why "so many gallons fresh water" it takes to control something. you might actually LEARN something.

"OMG" how many bog turtles died ????????