Absolutely. It is scary how few of them know how to use a fog nozzle, or swear by their straight stream. Well guess what: It is possible to put out fires without flooding the neighborhood.

The fire also had fire fighter fighting it from the inside. The fact the smoke turned white so fast and then started billowing out at considerable speed suggested fire fighters had hoses deployed from inside the building. This is a very common tactic in apartment and office block fires.

@@ph11p3540 Exactly, you can perfectly see the moment the interior attack starts. And i must say, i'm in awe of the discipline those 2 firefighters on the aerial ladder showed. Keeping on their task at hand of protecting the roof and not once aiming their nozzle inside. Perfect example of good communication and use of strategy, with each team sticking to their task and using the right techniques. I'm using this video as an example during our own platoonexercises on CFBT and firefightingtechniques

Construction matters. If this was in the US , flames would be shooting out of the windows to the left and right of the main fire incident