what a coincidence! I also don't like flaming things in my palm!

I hadn't seen the video, but it is awesome to see a professional fireman explain how you can be doing the right thing and still be fucked five ways to Sunday.

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."-Picard

Big respect for the guy who had the presence of mind to hold on to the container of fuel as they backed away instead of just dropping it while they ran

"Good news your repair is free" "Awesome where is my car?" "Yeah about that"

Something our mindsets and media doesn't really understand anymore: Doing the right thing doesn't necessarily mean you are successful...

I'm so glad a professional gave him kudos. He was more put together than I've seen in a lot of people.

My local garage has a whole protocol for working fuel lines, including using an enclosed, grounded, pump line to remove as much fuel as possible before draining the rest, grounding the car, and the mechanic to avoid sparks. As a precaution, they layer a fire retardant absorbative chemical powder below the work area. Why? Because the guy who runs the garage is a retired NYFD Captain who does not take chances. He also does ATV repairs, and doesnt charge an arm, leg, and your first born to do it.

Craigslist description “Slightly used, only 10k miles, no rust, runs fine, never had any problems with it.”

A few years ago I had an electrical panel catch on fire on me at work (wasn't my fault). I ran around the corner and grabbed an extinguisher, checked it was an ABC and then shot it at the panel. To my horror it seemed to make it worse, so I shot it again and once again it made it worse. That's when I decided I had done all I could, pulled the fire alarm, ran up stairs to the buildings office and told the single employee to get out if the building. I went out front and turned the gas to the building off (I'm a gas fitter which is why I was in the building in the first place). 90 seconds later the fire trucks pulled up and the fire fighters had me show them where the electrical panel was. They had it out in 2 seconds with some type of different extinguisher I didn't have access to but only after they had killed power to the whole basement floor. They told me I had done everything correct but I never had a chance with the panel being live and the wimpy little extinguisher I had didn't help etheir. God bless these guys.

Maybe it's just me, but there are few things more cathartic than being told that even though a situation was bad, you did everything right.

Customer: "is my car finished?" Garage: "Yeah, the fire brigade has just finished putting it out."

Calling the owner like: "The good news is that we're done with your car. The bad news is that so are you."

Imagine being that service manager. Having to make that phone call.

I still remember having to put out my first fuel fires in FF1 training. But even our sadistic training officer never thought of giving us a dripping fuel line fire above it at the same time!

Imagine you have a check engine light, and you come back *"so.... we owe you a new car..."*

“Hey, uh about that bad fuel line eh, as it turns out, you don’t need to replace that anymore.” ~ cartoon legs it out of the managers office and down the road.

Unfortunately a similar accident like this killed my buddy. Drained fuel, spark flew from a wrench hitting the exhaust, blew up the fuel and killed him. This guy is lucky to be alive and I’m glad he and his buddy weren’t severely hurt

Here's my story: I was in school to become an aircraft mechanic. In those days, the curriculum hadn't advanced much since about the 1940s. They still had a section on how to build a plane using wood, dope, and fabric, which is how they used to do it in the Wright Brothers' days. Everyone in the class had to build a small section of wing using these materials. The instructor wanted to demonstrate how flammable dope is, so he took one student's wing section and flicked his Bic. The wing section went up in flames faster than a marshmallow on a stick. Unfortunately, he did this demonstration in the paint shop. In what seemed to be seconds, the whole paint shop was in flames. Everyone got out without getting hurt, but it was still a shame. I thought this was one of the coolest instructors at this school. I have no idea where he was working the next day.

Had the joy of working somewhere that didn't believe in osha, I was pretty much laughed at when I asked where the extinguishers were, or hose, neither existed. One day there was a massive car fire and I just laughed while the owner and his sons scrambled to get it out with dirt from a bulldozer. There was also the time I walked in on one forklift lifting another to get to something. I still laugh thinking about that place.

I’m a mechanic and in 2008 I was in the back seat of a car that was on the hoist and myself along with two workmates were removing a fuel tank due to a leak. Unfortunately the car caught fire from a similar static situation, only I was inside the car holding the top end of the siphon hose in the tank. Scariest day of my life. I wasn’t burned much more than losing a fair bit of hair, and I damaged my knee on the jump to the ground. Sadly the whole workshop was lost, and all 3 of us were without a job from that day onward. We emptied a total of 13 extinguishers on that fire but they were no match for 80 litres of gasoline.

The important part at the end was the individual recognizing the fire extinguisher was depleted and he could no longer safely attempt to extinguish it. Turn tail and run... sometimes, thats all you can do.

I love that you specifically called out that the guy did the best he could in the situation even after you explained the things he didn’t know about. We can’t all know everything. Only me. Jk. I love your content. It’s funny, informative, and just all around easy to watch. And I love what you do. Why is it that from childhood, you are who I pictured every time I thought of a firefighter? Especially when my father, my 4 uncles, and now my son, all firefighters all their lives. It wasn’t my calling, but I respect the hell out of what you do.

I used to work in a manufacturing plant that made paints. We were surrounded by pigments, heavy metal dusts, and tens of thousands of gallons of various solvents and poisonous chemicals. The plant had been rated at an eight mile blast radius and sits on the edge of a heavily populated town. Safe to say the people of that town have no idea of its existence or dangers. Static discharge is a fear among all of the employees and several precautions are taken to eliminate the possibility. You can imagine the uproar when there was a small fire and management refused to set the fire alarm or call emergency services because they didn't want to deal with publicity. We found out shortly after that the foam system didn't even function. Corporations suck. A fortune 500 company, at that. The fire these mechanics dealt with was a particularly difficult fire and I give that one guy props for knowing exactly where to find the extinguisher to have at least a bit of control.

Props to the young guy for making sure the rest of the canister stayed away from the flames when it first went up.

My dad used to work as an engineer at a Ford plant, and he had a coworker who had this lovely phrase: "We don't have car fires, we have thermal events!"

That class B fire is nothing compared to ship's fire back in my Navy days. We had a new V16 Detroit Diesel installed to one the generators. This engine is the size of a box truck. While load testing the engine one of the connecting rods breached the engine wall. It must have been manufactured incorrectly like some loose fittings. Within seconds the lube oil and diesel fuel gushed out. The turbo chargers lost oil pressure and melted. Now we had activated the emergency fuel cutoff valve, but still had that diesel fuel / oil fire to deal with. We activated the halon and waited 30 minutes before entering the enclosure. It took about another 30 minutes (with several re-flashes) to put the fire out with the bilge sprinklers and AFFF stations located a deck above the fire.

honestly when i 1st saw this clip i thought it was the wrong fire exstingisture too. this really helped clear it up and show that us as viewer don't always have the full picture dispite wat the video shows of the voice over says. Great video as always really educational.

"So, uh, there was a slight issue with the repair and it's gonna take a little longer than anticipated."

It’s always a great day when FDC uploads

I accidentally watched this video, and now I am a fan. Positive, instructional, addictive.

Might I add, that one of them should have dialed 911 right away to get Fire Department enroute while they were attempting to extinguish it themselves. I love your videos! Keep them coming!!

I love the educational aspect and then the humor of "whatever repairs that person was getting are absolutely free"

Love that you point out he was correct in his actions with what he appears to have had available, most people would say he was wrong in their ignorance. That fire was not going to end well with the limited resources available in most workplaces. He did well in his attempt, and if he sees this, I hope he doesn’t feel to bad about his attempt to extinguish that fire. 👍👍👍

I spent a few years as a volunteer Firefighter. Learned a lot of life lessons from responding to house fires. I keep a kevlar fire blanket and extinguisher in my kitchen. I have a big extinguisher in my bedroom and a smart fire and smoke detection system. I do soft drill with my kids, we have a fire plan and an escape plan.

I lol'd at that final punch line. I also love the mix of content you have. Lots of humor pointing out people's stupidity, but you're also very deliberate about acknowledging when someone does something right or offer a real explanation to someone's seemingly stupid decision (IE, they're panicking, you would too!) Love the content man!

at least he got props for trying. sucks that he couldn't do much

As someone who’s hand was previously on fire after a lapse of thought(pouring high octane Shellite onto a flame), I can agree that I too do not like flaming objects in my hand.

Being a mechanic i have had a fire or two....... Or three with burning fuel or fuel soaked objects and managed to overcome these hickups. however the shit storm these guys find themselves in truly is next level and really shows how dangerous it can be to handle fuel in your garage......improperly.... Something a lot of People seem to forget these days is that this also applies to the gas station😑

Props to the kid for pulling the (possibly full) fuel bucket away from the fire as soon as he saw it. Negative props to everyone standing there, just watching. Super negative props to the shop owner if that was the only extinguisher (can't tell, but maybe that's why everyone else is just watching?)

One thing that makes this channel 10x better than Active Self Protection: no captain hindsight criticizing people for decisions they made in a split second in a life and death situation. The guy in the video did the best he could with what he had and that is what was said

- Picks up phone - Calls random number back - "Yes, about my cars extended warranty, I'd like to talk about that now"

This is actually really good. Having been in a fire, it's hard to think of what to do but seeing someone explain what these high stress individuals should have done is very decent content.

Back in the late 1940s my dad (only a toddler) had his house burn down on Christmas Eve. All seven kids and both parents escaped unharmed, but my dad never forgot the fear and decades it took for his poor (literally poor) family to get back on their feet and into a new house. Fast forward, my dad is now grown with a family of his own. My mom knew about the fire, they were childhood friends since Mom was about four. My brother and I? Well, we never stopped hearing about the fire on Christmas Eve and my dad was super, if not hyper vigilant about fire safety. He bought many fire extinguishers for our three bedroom house and taught my brother and I how to properly use a fire extinguisher when we were so small we could barely lift the bottles. Every year he would have us go through fire extinguishing drills when we would go camping. He would let a campfire get pretty large and tell one of us to put it out. By the time we were in late elementary school, we knew about smothering flames, which types to use what extinguisher (there were no ABC types when I was a kid)... and now that I am in my fifties living on a homestead with my brother, his family, my mom (dad passed a couple years back), fire is the number one threat to our property. We have two fire extinguishers and a fire blanket in each of the rooms in the house - not just bedrooms, all over the house. Smoke and CO alarms, the works. The community of homesteaders on this mountain have a volunteer fire department and our family contributes the heavy equipment (earth movers/backhoes mostly), but have reservoirs of rain water at the higher points on the property, about 500 feet in elevation above the houses, that we have a firefighting hose system and pump hooked to. Dad may be gone, but his family still remembers how to not panic and respond accordingly. His education he gave us for a lifetime is still being passed down along with the story of great grandpa's house burning down on Christmas Eve, so never play with fire... without adult supervision.

I took fire extinguisher training as part of an Emergency Response Team at a previous employer. Our "final exam" was to put out a gasoline fire that was similar to this. A perforated metal bucket hung from a chain suspended from a metal tripod, sitting in a 4x4 metal pan. The instructor poured gasoline in the bucket, lit the gasoline dribbling into the pan, and let the ERT members try to put it out with a single ABC extinguisher. Most of us took 2 or 3 tries. Some of us succeeded on our first try, but only after seeing someone else do it successfully (and paying attention).

2006 my very first fire was a car inside a home garage. When we arrived the car was fully involved and the garage was well on its way. We knocked most of the fire down when I, the 19 year old unexperienced guy decided to hit under the car that still had a good volume of fire under it. Well was I sure surprise when I hit that with a straight stream and flaming fuel went everywhere. Most of the garage was now on fire again, but a lesson sure was learned that day.

I remember a similar fire some years ago. I was part of a group of welders that had their own welding rigs. A fire started under one of the rigs and it burned through the fuel line coming from his auxiliary fuel tank so the fire was fed by the fuel coming out of the tank. The fire department arrived on scene but they could not get to the fire very well because the truck was fairly close to the ground. Someone brought a mobile crane over and hooked it up to the back of the welding deck and raised it up. The firemen did exactly what was shown here and kept going up and down with little effect. This went on for a while until someone suggested that they let down on the crane and bring to two separate fires close enough that they could be fought simultaneously. In a minute or two the fire was out. The firemen then grabbed a five gallon pail and tried to catch the fuel which was still pouring out. The welder who owned the rig asked them what they thought they were doing and they said they had to catch the fuel since it was a fire hazard and environmentally unacceptable. The welder told them they had better get some more pails since he had fueled up the night before and had 125 imperial gallons on board at which time the firemen decided to just let it run. Someone else then suggested that they just close the valve located on the tank where the fuel line originated....................

I love your explanation and your description of the videos and your method of extenuation from a dangerous situation

I'm really glad you gave this guy props for doing all the right things (even tho it didn't work) and for explaining exactly what he did right.

soo this guy's video should literally be shown in schools why do they never teach us actual important stuff like this smh

Man god bless you and what you do! Your quick videos are hilarious but this is informative and great breakdown on what was happening!!

This was actually extremely helpful and educational. I’m sold on having a fire blanket. Now I have a basic knowledge of civilian response to 2 point fires and that fire extinguishers only have 30 sec of functioning. Thank you!

imagine you're sitting in the lobby waiting for your car when you see a fireball out of the corner of your eye

I liked that this was a positive breakdown of what all happened. This is an awesome example know what to do, doing your best, but being in a crap situation. If they had a more stuff like this in fire academy programs, i think it would help take the training to the next level

I worked in a new car dealer shop several years ago. A mechanic was involved in a Very similar situation, draining the fuel tank into a pan on the floor. An incandescent drop light set off the fumes. Unfortunately the mechanic was very badly burned but survived. The insurance investigator recommended the purchase of a gas caddy to pump out any fuel from a gas tank into an enclosed container.

Love the channel....my grandpa was a fireman in the 40s to 70s

So glad to hear a real firefighter's take on this. One of the videos I saw had some dipstick arguing for days in the comments that they needed to use a sand-based extinguisher and that the one they used wasn't the correct one, because a sand-based extinguisher is such a common thing.

Keep this man at no dislikes. He deserves our full support

His endless energy and enthusiasm is infectious

I'm so happy that you're continuing this finally! Keep up the good work

How the crew from the old Emergency would put this out "Chet, Marco, grab the reel line and put this out. John, Roy check out that guy's hand. LA, Station 51 this fire is out, time out 15 mintues." How 9-1-1 Lonestar would handle this " Get the stick welder and cut this car in half. Captain, this guy has 2nd degree burns on his hands, he needs a transfusion right here in the field. Dispatch, we need a second alarm and a bomb squad, the car is full of explosives"

“100%free” Customer: I saw the flames... Mechanic:No,No, No... your car is finished Customer: Awesome. So can I have my car now? Mechanic: That’s what I mean....it’s finished. Lol

you are hilarious! actually, all of your videos are hilarious. but i do learn from them and the fact that i get a good laugh from your narrations really makes me remember them! thanks for the videos...

I'm ao happy I found this channel, it's definitely already in my top 5

A Cheeto line of FIREY CRAP! Has to be the greatest line ever!!

Customer: "Did you get my heater working again?" Shop: "Yeah just for a short while then it died out."

Very informative video. Thanks!

quick and informative video, need more videos like this, specially about fire!

Seems like a good way to get a free car.

Proof that sometimes you just have a crappy day at work even if you did everything right.

I really do have to give some props. He handled it the best he could and didn’t freak out. Knew right where the extinguisher was (which is astounding how many people ignore that part of the training, especially in high fire risk work).

THANK YOU DUDEEEEEEEE I LOVE YOU FOR THE LIFE SAVING INFO!

Station 19 would have used Windex

Service Manager calling customer afterwards: "Hey, not sure how to tell you this, but when we drained the fuel like we discussed the car caught on fire and is completely destroyed. But good thing, we have insurance! Here's the number." Customer calls insurance regarding the covered destruction of his neatly kept car: "Yes Mr/Mrs X, we are covering this incident. No, we do not pay what your car is worth in your area. The Bluebook value for your car is 40% below that, and that is what the policy covers. You would have to take it up with the shop to recover any value that you are not happy with, but as I understand they closed shop after this incident. Something about not liking flaming things in their hands."

You know what I love about these videos? They are truly educational and fucking hilarious 😂

I really like this video, I’m getting my FF1 cert and videos like this are very helpful

"Spray the source of the fire" Mechanic: WHICH ONE?!?!?! The only critique I have for this video is the other two (admittedly younger) guys. He seriously needed backup and they were both doing the headless chicken dance.

Having more then one extinguishers on it. What a concept, too bad there wasn't extra manpower available to help with that.....

Thank you for letting us know what was done right and what was done wrong. To be honest I don't know what I would have did

this was really interesting, thanks for the information!

BTW I just wanted to say that I am an instructor and sometimes use KZfaq videos to show my classes footage of emergency situations, body cams, etc. This is one I'm using for the classes now, as it's a dang good video. Thanks for this!

As a resident of Illinois, and someone who lives an hour southeast of Rockford, it pleases me with every video of yours to see that bunker jacket all the time.

I love the way you are presenting this lol

Channel is legit all the stuff on rekt thread but with fire department commentary, love it

My Dad was a fireman, he taught me to look for exit signs whenever I go into a building. It's automatic now, thanks Dad.

The end bit of "that repair is free" reminds me of my buddy. He went to one of those "15 minute oil change places"...and the forgot to put the new oil in his engine. Drained the old one and changed the filter. Needless to say he got a few miles away and his engine blew up and car burned down. No joke the oil place said "we'll give you oil changes for free for the whole life of your new car." But never once offered to replace it.

I’d seen you on shorts, but I like these longer form educational style vids even better. Subscribed!

This channel is my new fav

Note to self: Buy more fire extinguishers.

Bring your car to a mechanic and get a brand new car?🤔 where is this shop? I need a new fuel pump.

i’ve never watched someone that’s as funny and as informative as this channel

Your fire coat says Rockford ill. I live in Kenosha Wi just an hour and a half from you. I love your videos. Keep up the good work

Sweet! Now they own a hot rod!

I was waiting for the third option: What he could be doing to extinguish this fire 1. Use a fire blanket to extinguish the bottom portion 2. Use two fire extinguishers at once 3. Call the fire department.. *smiles and thumbs up*

I've never seen this before, but I've been in a similar situation. It was worth all the ptsd to know how to shout orders properly to get the right equipment, which any reputable shop should have on hand, calm things down, and not let it get this out of hand.

Fires are exponential. As soon as a fire becomes more than whatever your suppression system can handle, it's over. There's no way to be prepared enough to handle every fire scenario on your own. But I'm glad he said he did the absolute best he could with what he had.

Sir, I admire the way you tell it as it is. No blame as it was indeed a accident & they tried their best with the correct equiptment. Sadly their best was not good enough this time. Fault was draining gasoline into a plastic container that was not anti static. I saw this once happen when a open steel 1 gallon container of Acetone was dropped into a polythene container. A static electricity spark lit the vapor. No one hurt, fire put out. Flames went 20 foot up in the air. Plenty of the correct extinguishers available, plus the fire an fuel source were both by then on the floor.

That went from "Aw, sh!t." to terrifying in seconds.

As someone working in a car garage I have to say something about "using the wrong kind of fire extinguisher": When something starts burning you use "whatever is available". When my boss tried to weld oily sheet metal I used a blanket. When my Co-worker tried to clean a diesel-heater with brake cleaner AFTER he did a testrun I used a wallmounted water hose. When the carpet inside a car catched fire while someone was welding under the car I used the CO2 extinguisher that was standing beside that workplace. You use whatever you got. ...and change the workplace when you get tiered of putting out fires. Funny enough, when the place finally burned down it wasn't due to a work incident, but because of electrical issues

Subscribed, I love your humor! :D