. . . most of the FFs are wandering around and doing: nothing - as there is nothing they could do . . . and which god? there is no god who would care or bless . . .
nope they will just pass the cost of the claim onto the construction companies insurance company then the construction company's insurance will be pissed and raise everyone's insurance rates to recoup their costs.
Excellent filming.close enough to show how even water takes a long time to extinguish a fire that has got that big and hot, just turning to steam in places. Fire service did a great job WEll done and god bless you all.
Very scary fire. You can hear it growling and every now and then a roar. You'd never catch me up on one of those sprayers, I hate heights, but I would like to see what it looked like from there.
Many large scale building projects such as this apartment building contain both flammable and non flammable materials that why it takers so long to extinguish such a blaze. This particular fire was later ruled as arson by police and fire officials and the person responsible was convinced of first degree arson and sentenced to a minimum of ten years in prison
Nathan Lee. The Person or Persons who started the fire claimed to be Moorish Americans. And They also claim that They have Diplomatic Immunity and The Land is actually owned by Them.
That was sweet how they put the aerial ladders through the opening of the freeway👍 guaranteed those firefighters were felling the heat up their,they kicked ass!!
Four years ago I worked Security at a Construction Sight for Condos being built in Summerlin area of Las Vegas on the far west side, and at times the winds there can get to 60-70 mph, and I knew that one crazy person could do exactly what you see here, if not worse.
Long way up those steep ladders and scary too ! Imagine their heat up there.... I'm surprised you were able to get that close for pics. Good job on it ,so sad some idiot put all these people's lives in jeopardy !
couple things impressed me, In the first video at about 9:30 you can see three master streams on the left side of the frame, It looks to me like things were hot enough that they were turning to steam by the time the water got close to the fire. I don't see how, as a fireman, rolling up to something like that, and with my 3 inch master stream, thinking, how is this going to make a difference? and third, the LA water system could keep up. It'd be an interesting piece of gee whiz information to know the GPM the fire department was flowing at the peak of the fire.
Water turns to steam when coming in contact with 🔥 lol. The men are smoldering the 🔥, suffocating it, and cooking. Not allowing it to create any more chemical reactions to sources near it. Basic fire science and behavior.
The arsonist who set the fire only had a sentence of 10 years to life. That does not seem like enough to me he endangered the lives of over 200 firefighters and caused millions of dollars in damage how is 10 years possibly enough.
Sometimes it is all about cooling it down enough that it doesn't spread. It is going to burn no matter what but cooling it down some keeps it from spreading. Pallet yard fires are the same way, infinite fuel with infinite air and not way to really cool it down except to soak the walls before they fall into the center. Then when they get low enough you can hit the core.
Over the past year, several of these monstrous apartment buildings have gone up in flames. In march of 2014, another one in Mission Bay of San Francisco went up.
. . . this was a nice one . . . the effects of the FF's efforts were mostly to cool the highway / surroundings . . . nothing at hands to put out such a fire . . . if they had targeted just to protect the surroundings the fire wouldn't even have lasted as long as it would have run out of fuel faster . . . .
Good materials that have been used for this large construction or not ;-) how can it be possible to build such a large building in wood, and indeed in the center of town just up to other buildings, I can not understand it but please tell me I'm interested. (indeed) by the way, shows the scaffolding enough what is best to build in = concrete and iron reinforcement, Is the cost of wood versus concrete that determines the build quality, and what with the cost of building insurance it should be cheaper with a more fire-safe construction.
It is not to be sarcastic but I'm actually interested in your building standards in relation to European standards, so if anyone has some links I will be happy. Stay safe
Ja, wie nahezu alle Häuser, Apartment Complexes und kleinere Hochhäuser in den USA und Canada! Leider kommt diese Bauweise immer mehr nach Europa, sodass wir in Zukunft auch so grosse Feuerkatastrophen hier erleben können weil die Politik soetwas erlaubt und sogar noch fördert! Soviel dazu und hab noch einen wunderschönen Tag und noch ein gutes Neues Jahr mit viel Glück und Spass und vor allem Frieden, liebe Grüsse von Sarah 💖🙋💖🙋💖🙋💖🙋💖🙋
I believe fire is the most destructive elements on earth we had a fire in our home when i was 6 in 1971 my mom and step dad both burnt bad my mother survived my step dad lived one month died fire is a horrible way die
this makes three massive apt complexes that were under construcktion and burnt to the ground, makes me wonder if the cause was due to cost over runs maybe.
The similar Houston fire started on the roof in the middle of a work day; I can't imagine any competent arsonist would work that way. I *do* wonder if developers may start re-thinking using all-wood construction for projects of this magnitude
JGC Cincy Constructing buildings with the matchsticks that pass for 2x4's these days is the cheapest way to do it. Since we've collectively bought into the notion that the cheapest, most profitable option is always the right one, I doubt big developers will give the notion of constructing safer and less flammable buildings a second thought. Granted, this building burned extra quickly because it wasn't finished, but TH-cam is overflowing with examples of recently constructed houses and apartment buildings that burn so fast that firefighters can't make an interior attack safely and have no choice but to throw water on them from outside and try to protect exposures. Unfortunately, this has become the American way of doing things...cheap at any cost.
Jason Bogard Only way to stop this absurdity is more stringent building code, for this type of building. A detached family home out of wood? Ok, as long as there's enough separation between them to prvent the fire jumping over. A 500 apartment complex in downtown LA with a similar building on the other side of the street, entirely of wood? Insane! There's no country in Europe where building code allows such type of construction. Large buildings have to be steel (with adequate fire proofing) or concrete, walls must withstand fire for several hours, and they do, because a apartment fire is in most cases limited to the apartment where the fire started (in some cases fire spreads trough window and door openings to upstairs apartments) Even for a detached wooden family home regulations are stringent (eg in Scandinavia were this type of home is common, the distance between houses is large) and in some countries like the Netherlands it's almost impossible to get permission for a wooden house. A ban on wooden construction in citties has a long history in Europe, eg after the Great London Fire in 1666, and after many other medieval citties burned down to the ground. But as long as the money from big companies dictates politics in the States, there's not much going to change.
That's the issue with California. Wood is the best for earthquakes on a performance/dollar scale. To build a steel structure to resist the earthquakes we have is a very expensive venture. Concrete won't even survive an earthquake, just crack and crumble. Not to mention if the "Big One" hits nothing will be left standing, regardless of quality, so wood makes for the easiest material for rescuers to preform rescues from. You have to look at all of these factors, yes it catches fie easily, but it provides the best survival chance in in earthquake. You get one or the other, not both.
Reinforced concrete may be more expensive to build, but how much did this burned down building cost? and the cost of the new building? There are concrete buildings all over the world in earthquake area's. You are lying.
Great video! I've seen several construction sites burn to the ground. Most were caused by a careless worker. Can you imagine what the insurance payout will be for that fire!
I lived in NYC for a year, lived in LA for 32, the LAFD really needs to a few pointers. Part 1 of the beginning was tough to watch and I’m not even confident they ever heard of “surround & drown”
Great video. At the end where you see the other office tower behind the freeway sign, you can see the fire alarm lights on all the floors flashing, thought it was lights from the emergency vehicles at first.
Your right, those are alarm bell-lights. I've seen them go off in buildings downtown before, usually a test or malfunction. Interesting light display when they do go off.
firelensman I’m told that in New York there was a dorm building next to an airport runway that when originally built, each floor’s fire alarm lights flashed in unison, one floor after the other. Drove the airport nuts (false alarms etc.) until they could get the school to make changes to that fire alarm system.
Within seconds after arrival, I guarantee they knew they were not going to extinguish that fire/save the building. Their main goal was to contain it, and prevent other buildings/vegetation from burning - which they did, successfully. That's how it works with monster sized fires. #TheMoreYouKnow
2 freeways? Anyone who doesn't live in the LA area might not realize that even at night, this inferno practically shut down downtown LA. This is the worst fire video I've seen posted on TH-cam. Firefights are truly heroes!
Was that apartment building made out of wood or was that the wood just for the concrete forms. Boy was it built close to the interstate I hope they have good soundproofing
Well on a wooden structure like that there's nothing much you can do let it burn structure protect then when it collapsed in on its self start putting water on it.. really all you can do surround and drown
Pretty embarrassing that scaffolding is holding up better in a raging fire than a nearly completed apartment complex isn't it? Might be a good time to move on from wood frame construction perhaps?
Dj Djero its a pretty good chance that all that scaffolding was written off and hauled to the scrapyard after the fire cooled off. No way any of it was still usable afterwards.
Spontaneous Combustion: friction between real estate values, property taxes, insurance premiums, building costs, and poof, up in smoke. I'm impressed at how far those pumps can throw water off the tower ladders, that's a pretty long distance. Great job in keeping the fire from jumping the road where this was filmed.
Seeing this go up in flames makes me wonder how safe the completed building would have been in the event of a fire, although there might have been some fire retardant materials added later in the build. In Britain there have in recent years blocks of flats that have burnt to the ground, some of them timber framed. Luckily the fires haven't spread so fast and everyone has escaped in time, but these people will have lost everything. As nobody is killed, these fires don't make the headlines much, but eventually someone won't be so lucky.
I really wonder what made this whole block burn like hell; I mean: in a building under construction there is concrete and bricks. Both materials are not flammable.
Yes, but the fire is raging as if tons of flammable material (if you listen closely, you hear a series of small explosion, like from propane or acetylene cylinders going off) had been stored inside.
+James Weber Putting in the firewalls is part of the construction process. As the framing is done, the building is very vulnerable to a massive fire because the drywall and firewalls are not in place yet.
firelensman yea I was realizing that was a dump idea after I said that. The Rotors would probably spread the embers and the cooter would probably get smoked out and the wind generated by the copter would probably be annoying. And you get what 350 gallons of water per drop and a engine can do 1000gpm or something like that. Thanks for the reply.
Keri Whitmire You think it’s out, but there could still be a source burning under all that, that you couldn’t see to the naked eye. So firefighters will normally stay on scene for an extended timeZ
Driving into work the morning of this fire it lit up all of LA....I WAS 20 miles east ON THE 10 FREEWAY in pomona on Kellogg hill and Ltd looked like a bomb went off in DTLA
with a fire like this, there is not much you can do about it but help to keep it from spreading. Buildings under construction burn like tinder boxes....
I just don't get it. Why the houses in USA are made from paper? The structure of an apartment block made from wood? Where is the the steel? It's obvious the firefighters can't put out the inicial fire and save this construction. In Portugal were i live all the houses and apartments are made from concrete, bricks and steel. So if a fire start in a floor the firefighters can save the building
Rufus Moore Because not all types of 🔥 need foam. Halogens are used to different classified types of fires, or when dealing with specific issues. Such as in warehouses, goods or aircraft that use fuel or electricity.
Lots of room for lots of people, lots of chip, sh*t and glue walls to give firefighters cancer. One enclosed stairway, absolutely zero firewalls. Modern workhouse firetrap for the modern workers. LAFD hats off to you though!
This fire cost a fortune for any civil person. Send the bill to Ron Veldhuijzen van Zanten at Bonar BV, Arnhem Holland. He is on LinkdeIn too. But he will listen and answer when you get a excellent lawyer to go right to him and sue him. It will not cost you anything. Cause when a excellent lawyer rips him a part it will cost a Civil Person nothing. Cause this guy at Bonar is truly educated and sees no reason to pass conflagrations like this. As civil and just for Innocent Civilians to live.
You can feel the firefighters exhaustion. God bless them for their hard work and dedication.
. . . most of the FFs are wandering around and doing: nothing - as there is nothing they could do . . . and which god? there is no god who would care or bless . . .
Just watched LAFD put out a volcano
May God continue to bless, and watch-over our Firemen.
. . . which god? there is no god who would care or bless . . .
@@carmenschumann826 why are you being weird
Dude those Palm trees were frying!!!
Man, the insurance company for the scaffold rental business must have been pissed...
Someone's not getting their deposit back !!!!!!!!
nope they will just pass the cost of the claim onto the construction companies insurance company then the construction company's insurance will be pissed and raise everyone's insurance rates to recoup their costs.
@@retiredarthritic2083 That is the living chain
Why ask fir 1
Why ask fir 2
Excellent filming.close enough to show how even water takes a long time to extinguish a fire that has got that big and hot, just turning to steam in places. Fire service did a great job WEll done and god bless you all.
Very scary fire. You can hear it growling and every now and then a roar. You'd never catch me up on one of those sprayers, I hate heights, but I would like to see what it looked like from there.
Hot as hell up there!
🔥 creates its own weather.
Many large scale building projects such as this apartment building contain both flammable and non flammable materials that why it takers so long to extinguish such a blaze. This particular fire was later ruled as arson by police and fire officials and the person responsible was convinced of first degree arson and sentenced to a minimum of ten years in prison
Nathan Lee. The Person or Persons who started the fire claimed to be Moorish Americans. And They also claim that They have Diplomatic Immunity and The Land is actually owned by Them.
Another great job by LAFD with overwhelming circumstances. Anyone know if the audio will be posted?
The most dangerous job on earth: firefighter!!! Let's tip our hats to them!
test pilot and bull rider come in ahead of them
don't forget miners, worrying about if the planet crushing them
Being president is actually the most dangerous.
That was sweet how they put the aerial ladders through the opening of the freeway👍 guaranteed those firefighters were felling the heat up their,they kicked ass!!
Another superb video capture. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family :o)
Four years ago I worked Security at a Construction Sight for Condos being built in Summerlin area of Las Vegas on the far west side, and at times the winds there can get to 60-70 mph, and I knew that one crazy person could do exactly what you see here, if not worse.
Long way up those steep ladders and scary too ! Imagine their heat up there.... I'm surprised you were able to get that close for pics. Good job on it ,so sad some idiot put all these people's lives in jeopardy !
i think they have to do some renovations now ...
very nice fire...felt the heat here in my living room....THANKS
Did you get any footage of the fire that spread to the Lewis Brisbois building?
Sorry, no.
This is some awesome firefighting and videography.
Thanks, I couldn't get every angle and be "everywhere" but I sure tried...
Thank you for likeing my comment. Im a retired firefighter
JJs Dad?
Do you know how many units responded to this call ?
Everything....... and then some more....... that's easily a 10 alarm right there
even though this was quite the disaster, they got everything Rebuilt in about 3 years and must say it looks absolutely AWESOME......
Does the fire dept have to account for how much water they use or it doesn’t matter?
It doesn't matter. On a larger scale I say no water really leaves planet earth, never wasted.
15 yrs in prison is not enough for this. He should have got life.
How long did it take them to put this fire out
For every hour it took them should have been a year.
All of that damage for someone being shot. The arsonist needs to spend the rest of their life behind bars! This type of hate is senseless!
According to Google Earth, 4 months later, the new building was rebuilt and under roof.
couple things impressed me,
In the first video at about 9:30 you can see three master streams on the left side of the frame, It looks to me like things were hot enough that they were turning to steam by the time the water got close to the fire.
I don't see how, as a fireman, rolling up to something like that, and with my 3 inch master stream, thinking, how is this going to make a difference?
and third, the LA water system could keep up. It'd be an interesting piece of gee whiz information to know the GPM the fire department was flowing at the peak of the fire.
It's like they're pouring gasoline on it...
Water turns to steam when coming in contact with 🔥 lol. The men are smoldering the 🔥, suffocating it, and cooking. Not allowing it to create any more chemical reactions to sources near it. Basic fire science and behavior.
Crazy seeing those palm trees burning even though they are 30' from the building. Fire is such a wonderous yet terrible thing
30 feet ? try 100 or 200 feet !
That’s normal in 🔥 science.
The arsonist who set the fire only had a sentence of 10 years to life. That does not seem like enough to me he endangered the lives of over 200 firefighters and caused millions of dollars in damage how is 10 years possibly enough.
Plus, there was a major drought going on, wasn't there? Hope the "to life" is what this nasty bugger gets.
Terry Jerome that's just disrespectful. I agree with you 100%
Terry Jerome That guy won't make it ten years, every inmate will want to kill him.
How was he caught?
Arsonists never get long enough sentences.
Sometimes it is all about cooling it down enough that it doesn't spread. It is going to burn no matter what but cooling it down some keeps it from spreading. Pallet yard fires are the same way, infinite fuel with infinite air and not way to really cool it down except to soak the walls before they fall into the center. Then when they get low enough you can hit the core.
Great videos as always.Thanks.
Great great footage! Nice pan from one side to next...
Fantastic job by the firefighters! Also, great video footage - hope you didn't bake too much! Thanks to all of you for a job WELL DONE.
Over the past year, several of these monstrous apartment buildings have gone up in flames. In march of 2014, another one in Mission Bay of San Francisco went up.
Didn’t think it would collapse.
God bless all the men and women firefighters and their families
Was this a 2nd or a 3rd alarm assignment????
More like a 10 Alarm Plus Assignment. 25 x 10 = 250. How about that?
Whoa!
firelensman Wow
What abort to use a tankplane DC10
They would have needed flood insurance too.
. . . this was a nice one . . . the effects of the FF's efforts were mostly to cool the highway / surroundings . . . nothing at hands to put out such a fire . . . if they had targeted just to protect the surroundings the fire wouldn't even have lasted as long as it would have run out of fuel faster . . . .
Great video. Keep up the good work.
"Hey Rocko, I guess the refinancing for your project fell through???"
Good materials that have been used for this large construction or not ;-)
how can it be possible to build such a large building in wood, and indeed in the center of town just up to other buildings, I can not understand it
but please tell me I'm interested. (indeed)
by the way, shows the scaffolding enough what is best to build in = concrete and iron reinforcement,
Is the cost of wood versus concrete that determines the build quality, and what with the cost of building insurance it should be cheaper with a more fire-safe construction.
It is not to be sarcastic but I'm actually interested in your building standards in relation to European standards,
so if anyone has some links I will be happy. Stay safe
In California building codes are different due to seismic activity, AKA eArtHqUaKeS !!! Lots of bricks is a no-no.
Great shots. Thank you
War das Haus aus Holz gebaut worden ?
Ja, wie nahezu alle Häuser, Apartment Complexes und kleinere Hochhäuser in den USA und Canada! Leider kommt diese Bauweise immer mehr nach Europa, sodass wir in Zukunft auch so grosse Feuerkatastrophen hier erleben können weil die Politik soetwas erlaubt und sogar noch fördert! Soviel dazu und hab noch einen wunderschönen Tag und noch ein gutes Neues Jahr mit viel Glück und Spass und vor allem Frieden, liebe Grüsse von Sarah 💖🙋💖🙋💖🙋💖🙋💖🙋
Why do you keep changing how much light goes through the lense, it looks like the fire is all over the place the way you have it
It looks like that because it is all over the place
What cost the fire
How long were you on scene for? Great footage btw!
they were there all night and most of the day putting out the fire and hot spots.
Just amazing! thank you for posting!!
I believe fire is the most destructive elements on earth we had a fire in our home when i was 6 in 1971 my mom and step dad both burnt bad my mother survived my step dad lived one month died fire is a horrible way die
this makes three massive apt complexes that were under construcktion and burnt to the ground, makes me wonder if the cause was due to cost over runs maybe.
The similar Houston fire started on the roof in the middle of a work day; I can't imagine any competent arsonist would work that way. I *do* wonder if developers may start re-thinking using all-wood construction for projects of this magnitude
JGC Cincy Constructing buildings with the matchsticks that pass for 2x4's these days is the cheapest way to do it. Since we've collectively bought into the notion that the cheapest, most profitable option is always the right one, I doubt big developers will give the notion of constructing safer and less flammable buildings a second thought. Granted, this building burned extra quickly because it wasn't finished, but TH-cam is overflowing with examples of recently constructed houses and apartment buildings that burn so fast that firefighters can't make an interior attack safely and have no choice but to throw water on them from outside and try to protect exposures. Unfortunately, this has become the American way of doing things...cheap at any cost.
Jason Bogard Only way to stop this absurdity is more stringent building code, for this type of building.
A detached family home out of wood? Ok, as long as there's enough separation between them to prvent the fire jumping over.
A 500 apartment complex in downtown LA with a similar building on the other side of the street, entirely of wood? Insane!
There's no country in Europe where building code allows such type of construction.
Large buildings have to be steel (with adequate fire proofing) or concrete, walls must withstand fire for several hours, and they do, because a apartment fire is in most cases limited to the apartment where the fire started (in some cases fire spreads trough window and door openings to upstairs apartments)
Even for a detached wooden family home regulations are stringent (eg in Scandinavia were this type of home is common, the distance between houses is large) and in some countries like the Netherlands it's almost impossible to get permission for a wooden house.
A ban on wooden construction in citties has a long history in Europe, eg after the Great London Fire in 1666, and after many other medieval citties burned down to the ground.
But as long as the money from big companies dictates politics in the States, there's not much going to change.
That's the issue with California. Wood is the best for earthquakes on a performance/dollar scale.
To build a steel structure to resist the earthquakes we have is a very expensive venture. Concrete won't even survive an earthquake, just crack and crumble.
Not to mention if the "Big One" hits nothing will be left standing, regardless of quality, so wood makes for the easiest material for rescuers to preform rescues from.
You have to look at all of these factors, yes it catches fie easily, but it provides the best survival chance in in earthquake. You get one or the other, not both.
Reinforced concrete may be more expensive to build, but how much did this burned down building cost? and the cost of the new building? There are concrete buildings all over the world in earthquake area's. You are lying.
They did not take long to rebuild it! Great progress .,
What the the hell was this matchbox built out of?
OSB. I swear it burns hotter than gasoline. It's all of the glue and crap that's in it.
Some say they are still fighting that damn inferno.
Protect the exposures
Great video! I've seen several construction sites burn to the ground. Most were caused by a careless worker. Can you imagine what the insurance payout will be for that fire!
How long are the fire fighter fighting the fire 🔥
Just beautiful 😍.
I lived in NYC for a year, lived in LA for 32, the LAFD really needs to a few pointers. Part 1 of the beginning was tough to watch and I’m not even confident they ever heard of “surround & drown”
Get you!
Great video. At the end where you see the other office tower behind the freeway sign, you can see the fire alarm lights on all the floors flashing, thought it was lights from the emergency vehicles at first.
Your right, those are alarm bell-lights. I've seen them go off in buildings downtown before, usually a test or malfunction. Interesting light display when they do go off.
Anyhow, you posted some great video. Thank you for sharing
The fire was so big, it most likely detected the heat or the 💨 from the source. 🔥 gives of radiation, causing fire spread.
firelensman I’m told that in New York there was a dorm building next to an airport runway that when originally built, each floor’s fire alarm lights flashed in unison, one floor after the other. Drove the airport nuts (false alarms etc.) until they could get the school to make changes to that fire alarm system.
Yet the scaffolding held up..had to be one hottt fire
Looked at this area today on google and those are pretty apartments.
Those are actually very good apartments if you dont have a problem with traffic sounds
@@marcellagoston1984, I thought so too. I don't know anything about that area but very nice design & architecture.
Surprised they didn't call in one of those helicopter water tankers on that one. It's not like it had a roof.
Anyone else notice the razor wire on the road sign @ 9:42??? God damn graffiti...
Had to watch again,,WOW>>>
Not a good finished product for the Owner/s and/or Stakeholder/s
I like how they got barbwire on the highways overhead signs @ 9:48
FireTV Only in the People’s Republic of California.
@@Renville80 To stop graffiti.
That fire wasn't put out at all, the Firemen were Totally ineffective, it just burned itself out.
Within seconds after arrival, I guarantee they knew they were not going to extinguish that fire/save the building.
Their main goal was to contain it, and prevent other buildings/vegetation from burning - which they did, successfully.
That's how it works with monster sized fires.
#TheMoreYouKnow
How many freeways were shut down?
+Harold Francis Two...110 (Harbor) and 101 (Hollywood)
2 freeways? Anyone who doesn't live in the LA area might not realize that even at night, this inferno practically shut down downtown LA.
This is the worst fire video I've seen posted on TH-cam.
Firefights are truly heroes!
Was that apartment building made out of wood or was that the wood just for the concrete forms. Boy was it built close to the interstate I hope they have good soundproofing
Well on a wooden structure like that there's nothing much you can do let it burn structure protect then when it collapsed in on its self start putting water on it.. really all you can do surround and drown
Pretty embarrassing that scaffolding is holding up better in a raging fire than a nearly completed apartment complex isn't it? Might be a good time to move on from wood frame construction perhaps?
Dj Djero 🔥 weakness every and any type of material significantly.
Dj Djero its a pretty good chance that all that scaffolding was written off and hauled to the scrapyard after the fire cooled off. No way any of it was still usable afterwards.
Good job you guys to put out the big 🔥 fires
Spontaneous Combustion: friction between real estate values, property taxes, insurance premiums, building costs, and poof, up in smoke. I'm impressed at how far those pumps can throw water off the tower ladders, that's a pretty long distance. Great job in keeping the fire from jumping the road where this was filmed.
MsPrincesspaulina The modern 👨🚒, best investment in tax payers money. Shouldn’t their equipment be as well?
that was insane first time I've seen it
if that is a apartment structure the tenants are going to wait a little longer
Seeing this go up in flames makes me wonder how safe the completed building would have been in the event of a fire, although there might have been some fire retardant materials added later in the build. In Britain there have in recent years blocks of flats that have burnt to the ground, some of them timber framed. Luckily the fires haven't spread so fast and everyone has escaped in time, but these people will have lost everything. As nobody is killed, these fires don't make the headlines much, but eventually someone won't be so lucky.
That scaffolding is tough !
Three times Grenfeld!
This building is (was) a shame to.
Where is the air unit? This big fire
Purely for curiosities sake, I wonder how much water they used. This is insane.
Gadsdan Each truck can hold a thousand +
I really wonder what made this whole block burn like hell; I mean: in a building under construction there is concrete and bricks. Both materials are not flammable.
In California building codes are different due to seismic activity, AKA eArtHqUaKeS !!! Lots of bricks is a no-no.
Yes, but the fire is raging as if tons of flammable material (if you listen closely, you hear a series of small explosion, like from propane or acetylene cylinders going off) had been stored inside.
Alls you need is a chemical reaction, oxygen, a fuel source and heat.
A tad late to watch this horror; however, what did they find in the investigation? My guess arson. Thanks in advance anyone has any information.
should of used concrete in the structure with steelstuds for partition walls and not osb thats what happend here ?
cause?
Wow, those scaffoldings are some allien technology! :O Human made-ones are usually disintegrating by the light breze..
That scaffolding company did a good job, it held up until the very end, then collapsed inwards.
That’s the biggest fire I saw like the may 1 2019 fire
Need to check the fire regs on all that dodgy material
Can't even to begin to imagine how hot that fire was.
mark peters 1K-2k +
looks like it was the most flammable construction site in the world-burnt like rocket fuel
That's because it's all wood construction hmm with earthquakes in LA I'd think steel & Concrete be a better choice for a building being Constructed
I'm impressed the scaffolding stayed up as long as it did
no firewalls? great planning
+James Weber Putting in the firewalls is part of the construction process. As the framing is done, the building is very vulnerable to a massive fire because the drywall and firewalls are not in place yet.
the only thing still standing is the concrete staircase at the back side of the building
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I know it isn’t normal for them to fight fire like this, but why don’t they just use a few helicopters and dump a lot of water on them with that
Because the building can collapse unto the street, injuring Firefighters and damaging equipment.
firelensman yea I was realizing that was a dump idea after I said that. The Rotors would probably spread the embers and the cooter would probably get smoked out and the wind generated by the copter would probably be annoying. And you get what 350 gallons of water per drop and a engine can do 1000gpm or something like that. Thanks for the reply.
I bet this took all night and probably all day the next day to put out this fire
Keri Whitmire You think it’s out, but there could still be a source burning under all that, that you couldn’t see to the naked eye. So firefighters will normally stay on scene for an extended timeZ
Driving into work the morning of this fire it lit up all of LA....I WAS 20 miles east ON THE 10 FREEWAY in pomona on Kellogg hill and Ltd looked like a bomb went off in DTLA
I did not think that such large buildings are made of wood.
The man who burned this down got 15 years in prison.
He got lucky no one was seriously injured or died, he may have gotten the death penalty or life in prison...
I google mapped this building, 913 W Temple Street, L.A., you would never know this was the site of a major fire..
with a fire like this, there is not much you can do about it but help to keep it from spreading. Buildings under construction burn like tinder boxes....
Gary Phillips Anything burns with a chemical reaction, fuel, oxidizer and heat.
I just don't get it. Why the houses in USA are made from paper? The structure of an apartment block made from wood? Where is the the steel? It's obvious the firefighters can't put out the inicial fire and save this construction.
In Portugal were i live all the houses and apartments are made from concrete, bricks and steel. So if a fire start in a floor the firefighters can save the building
I wonder why there was no foam used on this
Rufus Moore Because not all types of 🔥 need foam. Halogens are used to different classified types of fires, or when dealing with specific issues. Such as in warehouses, goods or aircraft that use fuel or electricity.
Lots of room for lots of people, lots of chip, sh*t and glue walls to give firefighters cancer. One enclosed stairway, absolutely zero firewalls. Modern workhouse firetrap for the modern workers. LAFD hats off to you though!
This fire cost a fortune for any civil person. Send the bill to Ron Veldhuijzen van Zanten at Bonar BV, Arnhem Holland. He is on LinkdeIn too. But he will listen and answer when you get a excellent lawyer to go right to him and sue him. It will not cost you anything. Cause when a excellent lawyer rips him a part it will cost a Civil Person nothing. Cause this guy at Bonar is truly educated and sees no reason to pass conflagrations like this. As civil and just for Innocent Civilians to live.