L.A. Construction Site Inferno / LAFD / Part 1 of 2 / Da Vinci Apartments Fire

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  • 12-8-2014 Over 200 Los Angeles Firefighters battled a dangerous blaze that ripped through a complex of apartments under construction on the 900 block of West Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles. Firefighters first on scene at the "Da Vinci Apartments" reported several floors with "fire showing" from the 7 story building. As the blaze intensified, radiant heat melted freeway signs and spread to vegetation and palm trees on the 110 (Harbor) freeway. All lanes of the freeway were shut down in both directions due to the dangerous situation. Several pieces of apparatus were repositioned due to possible building collapse, lack of water in one area and radiant blistering heat. Utilizing ladder pipes, wagon batteries and portable monitors L.A. Firefighters kept the roaring blaze from crossing Temple Street to more apartments under construction. There were reports that over 500 apartment units covering one million square feet were destroyed in the late night inferno. Miraculously there were no reported injuries, the cause of the fire is under active investigation. MNR #DaVinciFire #ConstructionFire #FireLensMan

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  • @jayatchley
    @jayatchley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    So wow. I start dating a girl in June of 2014 (now my wife of 3+ years). We live in Atlanta then and now, but I take her to visit my godfather's house in Redondo Beach CA in late December of 2014. We are travelling to northern LA one of our days on the trip and I remember seeing an apocalyptic scene off the interstate and in fact, pulling off at that exit so I could try to get a better view of the burned out buildings I saw from the highway. She was not interested in investigating like I was, so we moved on. I'm always curious about this kind of stuff and had wondered about it ever since, especially because of the massive scale of the damage I saw. Now here I am almost 5 years later and I randomly come across this video on TH-cam and IMMEDIATELY realize this is what happened that lead to the aftermath we saw that day. Life's crazy. Great video.

    • @skitzochik
      @skitzochik 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      i got chills, wow... remarkable coincidence

    • @tommypasquale5150
      @tommypasquale5150 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@skitzochik I'll give ya chills

    • @thevalorousdong7675
      @thevalorousdong7675 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tommypasquale5150 you give everyone chills lol

    • @tommypasquale5150
      @tommypasquale5150 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thevalorousdong7675 that's bc its cold. its November and this is new New York

  • @Wreckitralph1976
    @Wreckitralph1976 4 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    Engine "dispatch we are en route can you give me the location again". Dispatch " the big orange glow that looks like hell has landed on Earth".

    • @lesfaust9634
      @lesfaust9634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You want to see a cool fire look up the firework Factory blaze

    • @LuisCasstle
      @LuisCasstle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pretty accurate actually, can't miss it.

  • @sadeva6532
    @sadeva6532 7 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    if anything ever deserved to be called an inferno, this is it.

    • @livingforJesus2120
      @livingforJesus2120 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well actually now in 2019 the inferno title owner is The Camp fire Nov 11th 2018.

    • @patrickbrookings
      @patrickbrookings 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@livingforJesus2120 That was horrible, and many lives lost :(
      This one reminds me of the Marcal paper facory fire earlier this year.

    • @lavenderbella187
      @lavenderbella187 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@patrickbrookings good thing is the arsonist is in prison

    • @mike32277
      @mike32277 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This and Marcel Paper in Jersey.

  • @PoppaBlue59
    @PoppaBlue59 9 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    I have never worked a fire this size, but I have worked some doozies. It is hard to explain to people the amount of energy, heat, the pure power of a fire this size. As long as everyone went home at shift change, that's all that really matters.
    To my LA brothers and sisters, God bless, and bring it home safe.
    Regards from Texas

    • @junkdeal
      @junkdeal 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      +PoppaBlue59 Energy......heat...power.........people wonder why Chicago burned! The average person has absolutely no idea what this force is, feels like, acts, or whatever! The intake crib a mile out in Lake Michigan burned that night! The radiant heat igniting things hundreds of feet away! It defies imagination!!

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      +PoppaBlue59 It is hard to explain the waves of radiant heat. Your hair and clothing can ignite! Metal melts, iron twists, vegetation ignites, and concrete can explode!

    • @catrachaV4
      @catrachaV4 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Every city n state should have helicopter carry gallons of water in case of fire like this...

    • @snoopfurlow1275
      @snoopfurlow1275 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@catrachaV4 agreed.and do a drop of water.plus foam would been more efficient something that big but they did what they could

    • @sammy7388
      @sammy7388 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes it was at least 5th alarm fire

  • @lappilappland3708
    @lappilappland3708 6 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    "Send me Red Truck with Red Light on Top until I say STOP"

  • @tommyd1542
    @tommyd1542 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    FireLensMan, In my opinion your two part video series on the Da Vinci Apartments Fire is definitely one of the top ten fire videos on all of TH-cam and I've watched over one thousand of them. Congratulations on a dangerous job done very well on your behalf. Kudos to the LAFD for containing this inferno which could have easily become a catastrophic conflagration.

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thanks Tommy D. Even though this was a huge blaze it was pretty much confined to the building of origin. A big seven story building in the framing stage I must add. Definitely was an "inferno." What I can't stand is when writers loosely throw the word "conflagration" around. You obviously know the difference, like you said, "could have easily become a catastrophic conflagration." Conflagrations involve several to numerous buildings on several blocks. And I'm not talking houses, I'm talking buildings. Anyways, a big thumbs up and thanks for watching...every fire is different...always a new lesson...

    • @tommyd1542
      @tommyd1542 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      FireLensMan, I totally agree with everything you said. Not only was I not at this fire I'm also not familiar with the area. Through the single camera view all I saw was one large building either to the left the fire building or behind it depending upon the angle of your camera when you were shoting the video so I had no idea what type of exposure problems the LAFD faced if any.
      At one point during part one of your video there appears to be a wall of fire across the entire freeway but looks are very deceiving especially if you're not there viewing the fire in person. I still believe this particular video is one of the very best fire videos on all of TH-cam. You certainly did an outstanding job covering this fire and the LAFD did a tremendous job containing and extinguishing this blaze.

  • @axysdnyd
    @axysdnyd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    A fire this intense is next to impossible to really fight. It's more about containment and preventing the fire from spreading than really fighting the fire within the structure. The heat had to have been super intense, the fire completely gutted the structure, there was no chance of saving anything in that building. I'm surprised it didn't spread but that's most likely due to firefighters keeping it contained

    • @uwe-paullorenz6163
      @uwe-paullorenz6163 หลายเดือนก่อน

      th-cam.com/video/-lE9wcl_LrE/w-d-xo.html

  • @tjmcmahon8709
    @tjmcmahon8709 8 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    At least it was under construction and not occupied...

    • @watchgoose
      @watchgoose 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @Sasha Tamara Keegan yes but at least it was NOT OCCUPIED was the point.

    • @onemanarmyoma0155
      @onemanarmyoma0155 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Sasha Tamara Keegan And now they can build them again, so it keeps their economy rollin'

    • @henkymizella6421
      @henkymizella6421 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lucifer'$ World!

    • @MultiTurbospeed
      @MultiTurbospeed 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Us humans can rebuild as many times as we have too.

    • @thehunterstruck
      @thehunterstruck 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Right man. Still upsetting for the workers who worked SO HARD to get to this point. I'm just glad all personal was okay.

  • @Mike12522
    @Mike12522 5 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    This fire was so large I could feel the heat through my monitor screen !

    • @cardiackidjones2848
      @cardiackidjones2848 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Mike12522 I had to take a shower half way through the video

    • @shyryTsr2k
      @shyryTsr2k 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cardiackidjones2848 I had to pour ice all over my body. I already turn up the heat in every room I walk into.😏

    • @Heather-gn5hl
      @Heather-gn5hl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Note 7 users are worried....

    • @randomdude440
      @randomdude440 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too

    • @randomdude440
      @randomdude440 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cardiackidjones2848 probably because the heat of the fire made you sweaty and the sweat made you smell horrible.

  • @SuperMarbelle
    @SuperMarbelle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The sight was amazing, the sounds tremendous, the size of this fire chilling. I thank God for the men and women who are able to fight these fires. I know I couldn't.

  • @bobby_D
    @bobby_D 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One of the most insane fires I’ve ever seen in my life. The sheer magnitude of it plus the location makes it an amazing spectacle. Man that’s huge.
    Props to the videographer. Unbelievable work and incredible footage.

  • @xaxoon69
    @xaxoon69 8 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Wow, THAT is a real big fire. I guess, priority of firefighters is to prevent spreading of fire, a small chance to extinguish that fire at its base. That must have been an incredible heat.

    • @spaghetti9845
      @spaghetti9845 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Surround and drown my friend

    • @spaghetti9845
      @spaghetti9845 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Dunno about 500... 100 maybe. Considering each engine is staffed with 3 people you would need 30 engines on scene which is probably 1/3 of the entire city resource.

    • @spaghetti9845
      @spaghetti9845 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nah. Its city of LA no mutual aid. They have the resources. Gear is good these days too.. not much going on there except surround and drown operation. If you had guys making interior attack that might come into play.

    • @spaghetti9845
      @spaghetti9845 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep no problem

    • @rond361
      @rond361 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      LAFD has over 3500 employees, 92 engines 42 trucks and a budget over $633 million. There is also LA County Fire Dept with 4700 employees, 177 engines 4 trucks and a $1 billion budget. They could put more then 500 firefighters on one fire. The only city FDs larger then LAFD is New York and Chicago.

  • @nowitsabadtime
    @nowitsabadtime 7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    A friend of mine lived like 2 miles from here, and the next day, he's like "Fire? Huh? What??" lol

    • @jwarmstrong
      @jwarmstrong 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He also said dude WoW - I'm so lucky my stash is in a fire proof box...

  • @HighOnLife1985
    @HighOnLife1985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    When you've shot scenes from "Volcano" the movie and your pyrotechs go haywire

  • @ArvellDorseyJr
    @ArvellDorseyJr 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I knew you was going to be there once I saw it on the news. This is the most intense fire I ever seen by far!
    Great footage!

  • @SGreen-rl6yg
    @SGreen-rl6yg 8 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    First Task Force that turned the corner was probably like ah shit

    • @bishgames8023
      @bishgames8023 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      no they would have left the station and been like ah shit

    • @SGreen-rl6yg
      @SGreen-rl6yg 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      National Anti Bullying Kids yeah very true

    • @bishgames8023
      @bishgames8023 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My dad just went on a fire call smoke and flames visible on arrival of first due second alarm here we go

    • @bishgames8023
      @bishgames8023 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Sean Green he was like ah shit

    • @Mc007-
      @Mc007- 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's right behind TF3 Div1 house. They didn't have time to think

  • @LJ11420
    @LJ11420 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I went on this road a few years after the fire to go to a Clippers vs. Kings game and it was still under construction.

  • @logmeistercy3801
    @logmeistercy3801 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    You know it's real serious when the fire turned night into day

    • @Skippy2539
      @Skippy2539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ya know it's serious when a fire turns day into night, come to straya and we'll show ya what I mean

    • @crazyleyland5106
      @crazyleyland5106 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      In London in the Second World War photographers were able to photograph the firefighters in action, as the huge fires caused by bombing made the night as bright as day. At the end of the Gulf War 1991, when the retreating Iraqi army set fire to all the Kuwaiti oil wells, a dark gloom descended over Kuwait City and the people were forced to breathe toxic smoke.

  • @keriwhitmire1953
    @keriwhitmire1953 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Holy sh** that's huge I can't believe someone would set this on fire. I'm glad the guy got sent prison for it

    • @jwarmstrong
      @jwarmstrong 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Smoking dope & watching Beavis & Butthead might make someone like fire fire fire hehehe

  • @spaghetti9845
    @spaghetti9845 8 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    wow... This is why multi story buildings should not be wood frames

    • @ravindarpandey6311
      @ravindarpandey6311 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Josh Roark

    • @jed-henrywitkowski6470
      @jed-henrywitkowski6470 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Tell that to the Euros.

    • @janetlanders8220
      @janetlanders8220 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Josh Roark 

    • @jwarmstrong
      @jwarmstrong 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ships are made of steel & they burn - so make the couches & drapes out of asbestos, concrete chairs plus no painting of walls - what about spontaneous human combustion.
      Please move to a mud hut w/ out a grass roof since wood is bad for millions of buildings.

    • @apmazurka
      @apmazurka 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed!

  • @wickedbunny2020
    @wickedbunny2020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dang the fire was so hot it caught the palm tree on fire from that far away? I would be terrified. Thank you to all the firemen and women everywhere. They saved my house this year from the Carr fire ❤️

    • @DanknDerpyGamer
      @DanknDerpyGamer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Looks like (yet ANOTHER) construction that uses OSB - engineered lumber made up of sawdust, wood flakes, and highly flammable adhesives. They burn much hotter than conventional lumber, hence why the radiant heat can melt siding on houses a fair distance away from house on fire that is made up of this stuff (or set it on fire) - or, in this case, set a palmtree on fire.

  • @sarahivsutterb747
    @sarahivsutterb747 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Madre de Dios, this was one of the most biggest fires I've ever seen in TH-cam and wow it was fascinating and astonishing how fast the entire building burned down to the ground! I love firefighters so very much and I adore them all together so very much! Thank you all together for your service and support in all kinds of situations like this one and may God bless you all together and hold his protecting hands above you all together, Amen in Jesus name, Amen 🙏💖🙏💖🙏💖🙏💖🙏💖lovely greetings from Sarah 🙋💖😍🙋💖😍🙋💖😍🙋💖😍🙋💖😍

  • @kansasthunderman1
    @kansasthunderman1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In March of 2014, there was a huge fire like the one in L.A. in the Mission Bay development in San Francisco. It was a six story wood framed condo building and the fire happened before the sheet rock was installed.

  • @crooked-halo
    @crooked-halo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I never would desire anyone to get injured or killed in a fire. I hate to see businesses and homes destroyed by fire...BUT I sure do love watching lots of really big stuff burn, explode, and fall down! Thanks for these awesome videos! And, today I learned that one can get sunburned by a fire. Well, duh! The sun is a really big fire! Are they hosing the road to keep it from getting damaged?

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      The radiation, radiated heat, coming off that building could give you a light burn, LIKE a sunburn. Too close and your hair and clothes could catch fire. As for the road, no, water pressure sucked so the streams of water at first did not reach the building.

  • @complexblackness
    @complexblackness 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ALMOST 3 YEARS LATER AND THE DA VINCI APARTMENTS ARE BUILT! Expensive too.
    Remember driving by the aftermath numerous times.

  • @larryrwendelljr4465
    @larryrwendelljr4465 9 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Wow, that was a nasty one. You gave it more life to see it with your superb coverage of this event. The news services did not show much except to say there was a massive fire in Los Angeles, and that was about it. I had a feeling you'd have the scoop on the fire in video form, way to go on the superb video, :o)

  • @Tom-Lahaye
    @Tom-Lahaye 9 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Looks like trying to extinguish a volcano!
    It blows my mind that permission is given to put a 500 apartment block entirely of wood down in down town LA!
    I would never live in or near something like this that can burn down in 20 minutes and turns the streets into hell!

    • @DarrelltheWolf
      @DarrelltheWolf 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey it's California the people that run the show there are fucking idiots

    • @Tk3997
      @Tk3997 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DarrelltheWolf
      If you think this type of constitutions is limited to California you're a moron. One of these things went up during construction near by in Raleigh like a year ago and looked pretty much exactly like this. It was melting the fucking facades of buildings and cars parked across the street from it.

    • @medicineman360
      @medicineman360 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Tk3997 Same. A couple of years ago, Knoxville had built a 5-6 story apartment complex, geared toward university students
      All wood framing, for the interior. If that thing ever went up, it'd be like a bunch of matchsticks.

  • @PoppaBlue59
    @PoppaBlue59 9 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    "Headquarters, I'm in the area...what were those numbers again please"?

  • @Dallas-Nyberg
    @Dallas-Nyberg 8 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Arson... the culprit was a jerk named Dawud Abdulwali - he has been arrested and charged

    • @NaturelDeese
      @NaturelDeese 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Dallas Nyberg what a piece of shit. destruction is just mind blowing

    • @kottonmouthkush4204
      @kottonmouthkush4204 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Dallas Nyberg of course it was a fucking foreigner

    • @HasanAli-sq3sd
      @HasanAli-sq3sd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Haha he is a muslim

    • @watchgoose
      @watchgoose 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@kottonmouthkush4204 we have plenty of domestic firebugs

    • @memry1571
      @memry1571 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      watchgoose This guy was domestic.

  • @PrincessUndertaker
    @PrincessUndertaker 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Man that's the Biggest Fire I Ever seen Damn!

    • @livingforJesus2120
      @livingforJesus2120 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Camp Fire on Nov 11 2018 is the worst ever in Cal.

    • @shawndubay4050
      @shawndubay4050 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here. That was crazy. Thank God that was under construction and nobody was in there. If safe to fly over and resources available thought they would have called in the firefighting water drop airplanes. They had a whole squadron of these airplanes at the local airport when I lived out west.

  • @SparlsOfficial
    @SparlsOfficial 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    7:40 you can hear a guy scream F***!!! 😂😂😂

  • @martygerlach5799
    @martygerlach5799 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for showing this, I saw this before and it's very sad that the construction workers worked really hard to get this all most finished and it goes down in flames!! 🔥
    You gotta thank the fire department for trying their best to control this devistating fire

  • @raymondroy4180
    @raymondroy4180 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    good shot filming the fire but they must had an eq at the time cam keeps moving a round.

  • @TRX450RVlogger
    @TRX450RVlogger 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Same thing recently happened in Tucson AZ it was insane! The flames were 500 feet in the air look up "The Mark Student Housing Fire Tucson Arizona" the flames were seen from 20 miles away!

  • @westsidegary8230
    @westsidegary8230 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Insurance company going to like this job. Wow! Great job FD

  • @firelensman
    @firelensman  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    September 2021, Over One Million Views ! Big Fire, Big Water ! Thnx For Stopping By !

  • @DaveWEarle
    @DaveWEarle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow, anyone else watching more than four years later, like me? I wonder, what was the outcome of the investigation, and what caused this massive fire?

    • @skoobs6051
      @skoobs6051 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Reading through the comments it was arson and someone sent to jail. Some kind of dispute.

  • @tommyf6576
    @tommyf6576 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That is the most incredible fire I have ever seen. Wow.

  • @engine66captain61
    @engine66captain61 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Numerous indicators of radiant heat make spotting TDA apparatus a no-go on uninvolved end units. See 7:29. Notice re-positioning of TDA within a few minutes of setting up for water tower. Wow, I was surprised it was initially thought this was a good spot. Tough job. Not sure what the exposures were or where exactly the Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta sides were, but exposure protection of the high rise in background looked like a priority one. Good footage

  • @greg33770
    @greg33770 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    YIKES ! Love the drive up and drive by.....You were so close ! I bet you felt the heat.

  • @laus7504
    @laus7504 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is terrifying!
    Thank you for the in-depth description. I've seen other videos of fires on TH-cam where the viewers are left with a lot of questions. Maybe they are ignorant questions, because the public doesn't have a clue about how professionals bravely give their all to save lives and stop these fires from getting even worse. They don't have any idea of how many firefighters are on the scene (200 hundred? OMG! Wow!). Or how the one firefighter was instructed to get treatment for "sunburn" aka, 1st degree burns and let his team take over.
    I live in the Southland. We cut the cord years ago and have managed to live without TV service. Although you can watch your favorite shows on Netflix and don't care about sporting events, you also sacrifice live news coverage and the local stations who obviously must have heavily reported this disaster. So I'm just seeing this now in 2016. If it shut down the 110 freeway in both directions (that's a huge deal for anyone who ever needs to drive through L.A! I mean, construction and repairs have to be done during the middle of the night with spotlights and clear everything by 6 AM. Even if you start work at 5:30 AM, there is still a traffic jam because one or two lanes had to be closed down.) I never knew about this fire (so thanks, you greedy cable and satellite companies for raping us!)
    Firefighters are true heroes here in So. Calif. We have gorgeous weather more days than I experienced growing up in dreary Michigan. Plus we fortunately don't have entire abandoned boarded up neighborhoods just waiting to ignite like Detroit or New Jersey is cursed with.
    We have wildfires that every surrounding county and then some, give their best to put out. They burn up expensive homes (who at least have fire insurance, but there are precious things that insurance can never replace) and anyone or anything that stands in their wake.
    I've seen the dedication of firefighters to do a job few others could do. Climbing up smoldering hillsides loaded with all their necessary gear in the blazing heat to put out any hotspots after the blaze is out that could reignite if left unattended.
    I will never forget 9/11! And the a-holes that say that the fires weren't hot enough to melt steel, haven't watched a single video like this to have that moronic opinion. Real people weighted down with their necessary safety equipment ran up all those stairs as people opted to jump and be splattered all over the pavement than to be incinerated alive. Your idiotic conspiracy theories make what the victims and the heroes that gave up their lives to try to save them into a cruel joke internet meme.
    God bless the heroes who put their lives on the line to save people, their homes, vegetation, and everything else we treasure as a society!

    • @taunteratwill1787
      @taunteratwill1787 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Laura S (laursaurus) How about you writing a book!? You seem to like writing LMAO.

    • @laus7504
      @laus7504 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Taunter Atwill LOL
      Sorry for the wall of text.
      I get a little chatty sometimes.

    • @taunteratwill1787
      @taunteratwill1787 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good thing you are one of the normal writers.

    • @laus7504
      @laus7504 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Taunter Atwill I'm not sure if I can call myself "normal" though! LOL

    • @bishgames8023
      @bishgames8023 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      just slap some aloe on and you will be good

  • @paulsmallriver6066
    @paulsmallriver6066 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ah chief, where do we start?

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Go to heavy streams.

  • @harmonyrosas4027
    @harmonyrosas4027 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Amazing video! My mom used to work at 221 Fig Plaza

  • @exsxpx1
    @exsxpx1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    someone should do a meme, with the caption Gentrification this is how you stop it.

  • @belfastmafia
    @belfastmafia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    did they build this thing out of matchsticks?!

  • @dotcassilles1488
    @dotcassilles1488 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    New subscriber from Australia, just saying hi and thanks for sharing these videos. Blessings, Dot

  • @michaelshuey7622
    @michaelshuey7622 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That must be an extremely hot fire with things combusting on the other side of the road

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You got that right...

  • @watchthe1369
    @watchthe1369 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Radiant heat started the palms on the freeway center island on fire. wow.

  • @HappyQuailsLC
    @HappyQuailsLC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Remember everyone, back east the massive low rent high rises were always built from poured concrete. Gee, I wonder why.....

    • @jimfitz1432
      @jimfitz1432 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Welcome to earthquake country.

  • @saltpan8005
    @saltpan8005 8 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I just have to say that however much the LAFD makes it's not enough. They really put their lives on the line trying to put out something like this.

    • @DarrelltheWolf
      @DarrelltheWolf 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Firefighters put their lives on the line in this country every single day, day in and day out

    • @kendesjarlais7577
      @kendesjarlais7577 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ken Desjarlais
      1 second ago
      you aint risking anything walking around a firetruck dude, or at the end of a 2 and a half inch hose blasting a hundred feet away

  • @michaelshuey7622
    @michaelshuey7622 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've never been to L.A. it looks like a beautiful city with all those big buildings

    • @paulsmallriver6066
      @paulsmallriver6066 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is worth a visit . There is so much to see and experience, lots of history as well.

  • @wendyw8931
    @wendyw8931 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A R S O N......I pray no one was hurt...God bless the LAFD

  • @hawkeye48
    @hawkeye48 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice job. Video of the year.

  • @FreedomNewsNow
    @FreedomNewsNow 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great video firelensman. Thanks for the tips on my video Massive Structure Fire Destroys Building. I have a Raw video using some of your tips coming soon. Thanks again - TacticalPatriot

  • @conspiraciesarejustgreatst2059
    @conspiraciesarejustgreatst2059 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can't imagine what it must be like to be killed by a structure fire. I'm pretty sure nobody here was killed but I'm speaking generally. This fire for example was burning so hot

  • @officialchrisazrikam
    @officialchrisazrikam 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    the fact that the metal highway signs, metal streetlights and even the surface of the road all caught fire is an incredible catch. wow, any chance of more footage than these two? or a longer footage?

    • @wendyw8931
      @wendyw8931 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Captain_Chris ...hwy signs are plastic

    • @plurallydial
      @plurallydial 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      The light poles were melting and those signs I think we're aluminum panels you can see one street light at the beginning being it melt it began to loose it's shape and lean down.

  • @cameronhubbard2220
    @cameronhubbard2220 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That's nuts. It probably took a long time for the firefighters to get it under contro

  • @AmericaVoice
    @AmericaVoice 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm just amazed that it took a while to get noticed and called in with that much illumination!! Great job getting that out.. I am no where experienced with a fire that size and only seeing 2 sides, but the ladder that was seen in this video clip was in the collapse zone at first.. The material didn't allow at first up close within the collapse zone unlike the concrete metal buildings in city's.. I'm glad they moved the units away. I could only imagine the heat radiating out from that fire... I feel for the contractor and the owner who is having it built both to money and time lost.

  • @protectoroffaith
    @protectoroffaith 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We had a fire like this back in 2013 in Kingston Ontario it was about that size maybe alittle smaller but it made news all over North America. Only reason for that is because the had to call CFB Trenton to bring in a chopper to save the tower Crain operTor

    • @protectoroffaith
      @protectoroffaith 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Operator

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for the heads up on the video, I think I saw it on the news a few years back, the video footage went "world-wide" because of the crane rescue. The fire you alluded to was in a four story building, the one here in L.A. was a seven story building. The length here in Los Angeles seemed ten times the length of the Kingston Ontario fire. Still, all dangerous and very destructive.

    • @protectoroffaith
      @protectoroffaith 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      firelensman very true and it was In December of 2013 not March so I’m correcting myself lol. It was one of Kingston’s largest fires on rivalled by the catarqui marshland fire only a year prior

    • @protectoroffaith
      @protectoroffaith 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I know the fire here was 7 stories but you also have to factor in the subzero temperatures we get in this part of Canada ( so lines freezing up ice on the roads and walk ways) the proximity of the retirement home to the building which cooked all the wires in rooms on one side of the building. There’s also pictures of the gas station acrossed from it covered in ice because they wanted to keep it from going up. All very scary considering how dumb that town was designed when built lol

  • @Bozukoviy
    @Bozukoviy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    tbh one of the most impressive fire related video i've ever seen.

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Definitely a "big one" for Los Angeles.

    • @tonyboss3025
      @tonyboss3025 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that's right it's a big one also check out 10 alarm see jeff stang fire p4 marcal paper factory a must see unbelievable wow

  • @realMoMoPuFF
    @realMoMoPuFF 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "I'm so glad I don't have to be down there with the peasants." All celebs on the L.A. hills, probably.

  • @tiger2338
    @tiger2338 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow!! And if I recall the news reports this was virtually across the road from a firehouse.

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's a big 10-4. Down the block from fire station 3, the "palace guards."

  • @lathamarea1437
    @lathamarea1437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the heat had to be incredible, yet the scaffolding stayed in place

  • @keithclark1875
    @keithclark1875 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dang, That's crazy. Sorry for the lost, glad everyone were okay.

  • @CedarPass
    @CedarPass 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That's about the biggest fireball of a complex as I've ever seen on TH-cam.

  • @bigbootychicana3165
    @bigbootychicana3165 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Seeing how hard those ppl worked so there job was burned down

  • @joeapicelli8367
    @joeapicelli8367 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing the heat bending the street lights. What was the cause?

    • @heli-crewhgs5285
      @heli-crewhgs5285 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The cause of the heat was a really big fire.

  • @JewCrew420
    @JewCrew420 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Damn that sucks heart goes out to whoever their lost their property

  • @bobby_D
    @bobby_D 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anyone know what that building was or was supposed to be? I’m at the NJ shore so I’m not familiar at all.
    Edit: I found out it was going to be the DiVinci apartment building. Someone correct me please if that’s not it. Thanks again!

  • @fanofClips
    @fanofClips 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    The construction site is in google maps.
    I have see many videos of the Chicago Fire Department (CFD), Fire Department of New York (FDNY) and LAFD (Los Angeles Fire Department) of course.
    The houses are all in wood in the USA ?

  • @jomy7616
    @jomy7616 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "apartments under construction" - What did they use ? Paper or Wood ?

  • @davidpoynter6546
    @davidpoynter6546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Damn!!!! Something no fireman want to wake up at that time of day and face something that big. I looks like the city is on fire.

  • @juliasantacroce3366
    @juliasantacroce3366 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would have cried if i was the owner of that place being built. Thats terrible.. good thing no one lived there yet but its still sad. Hopefully they built something even better in its place

  • @alarmoffice711
    @alarmoffice711 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    At 00:43 I was going to say good shot of the LA skyline & then I noticed just a peek of smoke & fire

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ChicagoScanner You are right about that one. The freeway kind of "curves around" the downtown area, so heading toward downtown you can see fire on the horizon seemingly between the buildings, even though the actual fire was on the edge of downtown, the 110 (harbor) freeway being the dividing line.

  • @hosedragger-204
    @hosedragger-204 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yep, that's a good one. A fire of that scale here in my town (where I'm one of the 20 paid-on-call firefighters the town has) would result in an immediate call for a countywide tanker (or "tender" as you folks on the West Coast call them) taskforce and a immediate call for an engine or ladder from every department in the county. It would also likely result in engines and tankers from across the border in Canada (with whom my county shares a Firefighter's Association and has mutual aid agreements with) being called in for station coverage of departments around the county, and some to respond to the scene along with units from the county to the south of my town. (My town is on the border of the two counties.)
    [For background, my county has 0 full time fire departments in it. All of them are either volunteer or paid-on-call departments, as are 95% of the departments in my whole state which is why a fire of this size would result in calls for mutual aid from so far out.]

  • @sjaakdewinter6258
    @sjaakdewinter6258 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why you make buildings who can burns so easily and heavy?

    • @jwarmstrong
      @jwarmstrong 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      They tried making the Hindenburg first - but the no smoking sign got lost.

  • @TheMonkeyrock77
    @TheMonkeyrock77 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can I use some of your video in a story I'm putting together?

  • @aj200415
    @aj200415 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    God DAMN that is a MASSIVE ass fire. All that fresh exposed Timber of those 2x4’s, it’s actually real tinder. Just went up in smoke.

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Very dangerous and burns very hot. Not to mention the seven story collapse danger.

  • @TheRobert2254
    @TheRobert2254 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why didn't la call in county in for assistance

    • @The-GreenHornet
      @The-GreenHornet 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      robert spencer because County can't hang with L.A. City.
      Station 14's are #1

  • @helpu2health
    @helpu2health 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember I was driving to work in DTLA and I was at the top of Kellogg hill in Pomona (25 miles away) and I could see the sky just lit up!!! I was like WTF!!!

  • @rollingstopp
    @rollingstopp 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was there when Napoleon took the City...

  • @benthomson9397
    @benthomson9397 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hit a little snag during construction so the completion date on that apartment complex got pushed back a few days boss.

  • @mayeskyj
    @mayeskyj ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We had one like that a few years ago just north of Seattle. Were you filming from I-5? Looked like you was standing in the freeway for some of that...

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  ปีที่แล้ว

      110 freeway, west side of downtown L.A.

  • @JayDS509
    @JayDS509 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's a real urban fire, there. Wow...

  • @BearwoodBrown
    @BearwoodBrown 9 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    WOW great historic video,, the glow in the skyline ,,then the drive by ,massive flames right next to the freeway ,the freeway looked like hell on earth ,surprized it was open,what a blaze,, guess they didnt need to vent the roof and interior attack??hearing the get out horns they must have been in the for awhile !! master streams didnt seem to be doing much,,well done

    • @haroldfrancis708
      @haroldfrancis708 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I could see it from the deck of the Carnival Cruise Line heading for Catalina.

    • @bnadit1949
      @bnadit1949 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fire was already through the roof and self ventilating through that opening and the windows

    • @meskertekle9897
      @meskertekle9897 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bearwood Brown fire
      Lo

    • @maynardferguson9599
      @maynardferguson9599 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      LA has a skyline???....ahhhhhh no.

  • @chuckwagon5518
    @chuckwagon5518 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Great job, LAFD!

  • @zin7ef65
    @zin7ef65 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    遠い日本でもLAでの火災がニュースで流れました。凄いですね

  • @nonoyobeezewax9527
    @nonoyobeezewax9527 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You could tell early on in this vid that this was a situation where it would take longer to put out the fire than it would to just let it burn out.

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think time was a factor. The building was so massive with such a heavy fire load they could not get enough volume of water fast enough. "Surround & Drown" was all they could do, preventing it from jumping blocks.

  • @marcoramires5045
    @marcoramires5045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    *A OBRA VIROU ESCOMBROS. O FOGO E SUA AÇÃO ESPETACULAR.*

  • @jurgenkuhlmann9194
    @jurgenkuhlmann9194 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a nightmare - for the company that was behind the construction of these buildings!

  • @vegasmedic9725
    @vegasmedic9725 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As soon as they arrived they should just let it burn and protect the exposures. That heat is intense

  • @rumorady-4566
    @rumorady-4566 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I never seen or heard of it and I'm live in silverlake over 2 miles west of downtwn L.A. ...
    .... Anyone here,if you have not seen the biggest explosion, of our time, even bigger then a couple of nuclear explosions. It happened in china, incinerating many blocks in a heavy populated areas, with scores of office buildings, apartment buildings, houses, bussinesses, etc... Around 200 people where killed and hundreds more missing. Everything was fried instantly. The people many blocks away died if they happen to be outside. The shock waves alone killed them. That's what I saw..
    Was amazing beyond belief.

  • @NVTrucker
    @NVTrucker 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Insane! They should've used a bambi bucket. Master streams looked like a 5 year old pissing on a bonfire. Great video work. Looked like something out of a movie.

  • @fanofClips
    @fanofClips 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi firelensman,
    This is a very spectacular fire !
    The build is all in wood ?
    I very good appreciate your videos. I have see all videos of your channel.

    • @firelensman
      @firelensman  7 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's in the "framing stage," More stucco and dry wall will be added later. The buildings in L.A. use very little brick due to earthquakes...

  • @bruceperkins7253
    @bruceperkins7253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This building was under construction and had no
    Walls and it sat rite across
    From a fire station but it is
    Been completed by. Now
    And there was another big
    Fire in an apartment building
    Just a few miles away at the same time. There is a picture of the two fires that
    Appeared on the front page
    Of the L. A. TOMES THE NEXT DAY

  • @itsjustme843
    @itsjustme843 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There is an insurance company out there somewhere trying to figure out how they can avoid paying this claim .

    • @Batman-wv5ng
      @Batman-wv5ng 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      erna fisher This is probably set on fire to get money.

  • @ronherrera26
    @ronherrera26 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    thanks for the video guy.

  • @curtisducati
    @curtisducati 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good thing it was empty , need steel frame not bloody wood !

  • @bobsjers
    @bobsjers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is why you shouldn't build mid rises with hundreds of apartments with no fire wall.

  • @Quadflash
    @Quadflash 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Sometimes the Dragon wins...