INCREDIBLE FIRE! 5 HOUSES BURNED - FULL VERSION
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2012
- This residential fire in Maple Ridge B.C. started on Wednesday September 26th 2012 around 4 PM.
The fire was caused by a propane torch that was left on and unattended, which a worker was using to apply a tar moisture seal to the deck on the front of the house. It spread to 5 houses, burning 4 completely to the ground.
The first 3 burned in 20 minutes. The house on the left had just been occupied by the new owners 3 days prior to the fire. Building 2 houses this size would take us 9 to 10 days with a crew of 6 to 8. After building so many, it was really fascinating to see them come down in 5 minutes!
It was incredible and unbelievable to watch this happening in front of me. Once the first house started to heat up the one to it's right a realization came to me: "There is nothing stopping this fire from catching on and burning the next one, and the next one, and the next one..." As the first house burned, the heat grew more and more intense, and the only way I could film was to position myself behind a pile of rocks. For most of the 40 minutes I had to hold my arm in front of my face because I could feel the heat burning it. At one point in the video you can hear someone telling me that my face is really red.
Standing there watching the houses go from freshly framed, to bellowing smoke, then flames, and then the entire house transformed from light wood colour into a bright burning orange glow outlining all of the structure and collapse floor after floor and then continue on to the next building to repeat its destructive pattern... completely consumed me with awe. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
This is why houses made out of wood shouldn't be that close to each other.
exactly
+thevansmack How stupid
+thevansmack Funny ha ha at least I'm.not ashamed of showing my pic loser
One of several reasons. Me, I'd be happier in a smaller house with a much bigger yard. 1 acre, minimum. I love dogs and want them to have plenty of room to romp.
@ Chibiabos Wolf, I agree with you 100%
Imagine being in your house and thinking "my house is safe I am four houses away from the burning one."
I would never think that, I’ll start soaking my house with a whole lot of water to prevent the spread (fire is like COVID, social distancing is important and water is a mask but masks are not 100% neither is water if fire is hot enough, we also have asymptomatic houses that have fire burning inside the walls) if any of my neighbors houses are just beginning to ignite or have not, then I’ll try to stop it and of course knock on their door even break window (in a fire I don’t care if it’s legal) if necessary to get them out.
Lol it probably would've been slightly safer if they weren't built out of wood. Who builds a house out of wood? That's just asking for a catastrophic fire.
Dude managed to film in landscape the entire time! I am impressed!
Pretty sure he got his fair share of burns for standing there filming it. But I definitely appreciate his sacrifice for the viewers.
Why would he get burns? Hes very far away. You do understand how fire works right?
The FD managed to save a lot of water by just letting it burn down.........
@@PoorMansChemistI guess you didn't know that fire is hot?
@@OCC_Plumbing_and_Restorations I understand fire better than you apparently. You do realize that just because you can see a fire that doesn't mean it can burn you right? You have to be close to the fire for that to happen. You know the inverse square law that spreads out the infrared radiation as it radiates from the source? Maybe watch some physics and chemistry videos and then get back to me.
It amazes me that people still build houses this close together.
yeah thats why i hate the way most houses are here in england, they are usually connected to eachother but as they are brick they hold up a little bit longer but thankfully i have a fire dep about a 3min drive away if there was a fire that fucked up my street
@@Renn13thank God in the UK we use bricks. 3 of those houses looked like they were made from wood 😮💔
You can see that the building on the left is from a different material as it hold up so much better than the houses on the right
Builders, not people. To maximize their profits
@@DoctorSmartyPants Exactly. After they build it, they could care less about the people.
Congratulations on the purchase of your new TINDER BOX house!!! We've included such amenities as less than 5 feet to your neighbour, so that if his house goes up first, yours will too! Fire Hydrants that are too far away and don't have any pressure at all! And the best is that the nearest fire hall is 200 KM away. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!
Im Pennsylvania houses are inches away
Did you notice the house on the left, was the second house to start burning, and when the 3rd on the right started the fire was not even halfway through the second one to start burning? finished houses are able to withstand and slow fire a lot better than exposed wood.
don't forget, along with your purchase you also receive a complimentary bag of marshmallows.
Sam Smith you have that jackass Dan Ryan building this shit everywhere? The entire north half of our county is flooded with it.
Yeah but i bet its cheap
The number one reason why buildings shouldnt be that close together.
And they wonder why Europeans don't build their houses from wood
I so agree just.... WHYYYYY!!!😪
TheMoleMan95 Never been in Denmark or Sweden...?
damian lyman I was just about to comment the same thing! lol!
TheMoleMan95 in countries like e.g. Sweden and Norway they still build many houses out of wood, but e.g. as for central Europe you are right, there are hardly new houses built out of wood; The fire most likely wouldn't have spread to any of the neighboring buildings
The house on the left show a good example of using fire retardant siding, insulation and drywall interior wall. IT DID NOT burn down even though it was the second house to catch fire.
The other four houses did not have drywall installed yet or insulation or siding.
Whoever shot this video did a masterful job. The duration of this shoot, under harsh conditions, could not have been easy. However, your perseverance made it look like it was. Thank you!
THEY STARTED IT
@@creedsters2001 YOU WAS THERE WITH THEM !
C'mon, no need for sarcasm 😂😂 besides if he'd have immediately gone and grabbed a hosepipe, who have done the most important job of filming 🎥
Legend has it that the fire trucks are still in route to this day.
There quota is 5 houses a day or they can't justify their existance.
😂
Check out Jeff Stang fire P4 Inferno Marcal paper factory 10 alarm A must see unbelievable wow.
@IRON V8 personally those houses are gone anyway no point of saving them
lol
We in London learnt this lesson 350 years ago (1666). Don't build your houses too close together and do not build them with wood!
Chicago definitely got the message after 1871 if you know what I mean
What about terraced houses you dumb fuck...
@@Kowinaida those aren't built with wood
@@edwarddowds1014 I KNOW. I was referring to their statement regarding proximity.
@David Wanklyn from that sentence it appears you're one of those plebs.
It’s amazing how quickly an unfinished house can burn to the ground. In the time it took the 1 finished one to half burn, 3 unfinished ones were reduced to ash.
Nice job getting this on video. No talking or BS, you stayed in a safe area and stayed the hell out of the way. Good Job👍
He should have knocked on the neighbouring houses if you ask me
This shows how the great fires in London (1666) and Chicago (1871) were able to spread so quickly.
@@PabTSM-OfficialChannel definitely what I thought of this 666 the devil has something to do with this😧
Obviously they haven't learnt the lesson from history, so history will repeat itself .god help the owners😟😟😟
@@georgeplagianos6487grow up.
It goes without saying that this video is an excellent example of how just heat alone can catch your exposures on fire.
I knew some folks whose house was old and quite close to the equally old house next door. Next door folks decided to do some renovations that required a building permit and the entire house had to be brought up to code. The spacing of the houses was less than what the code required, so a thick layer of stucco was applied to the house as a fire retardant.
In Victoria, BC
Thank you for shooting it in landscape.
Legend has it that the fire department is still responding to this fire, lights and sirens activated
Agreed!
You did a great job covering this fire Man , these new homes go so quick , glad I ( by choice ) live in a 1940s SOLID BRICK HOME .
The cameraman lit the fire to make a video
It'd be nice, them brick homes, BUT, building codes on the west coast don't allow for that because of earthquakes. Maple Ridge is a suburb of Vancouver, B.C.
A wood fired oven
I like in an apartment
I live in a 1973 home and neighborhood. 70s were end of beautiful homes and lots. 80s began mcmansions stacked on top of each other w streets that look like a used car lot. Cant imagine why anyone would choose to live that way.
A+ to the local fire department! Great job at saving the basements!!!
Wadapak hahahha
Ha ha ha ha hA ha ha ha ha!!
If you could do better, I implore you , please try!
Ok, since it’s clear you think it’s clear cut and dry putting out a fire, let me explain something to you, if a house fire get to a certain point, the fire department will just let it burn because there is no point in trying to save something that is already a total loss. Also, you can see them trying to spray the other houses, yet the fire was so hot it was just evaporating the water and burning the houses, there was nothing they could do, it was a lost cause
@@glennhuber4975 well it requires department to actually show up
Prayers for the person who left a propane torch unattended. 10 yrs later and I bet he/she still feels awful. Thanks for the great video.
Sometimes we want to do more. And we run into things that stops us in our tracks.
That's the first thing that came to my mind. I feel so sorry for him.
"I ask God to give him peace and comfort always...Amen!" It could happen to anyone.🙏😇
@@GDavinno it couldn’t!!! It happened because of stupidity! He should be in prison in my opinion!
Great video on how radiant heat works in a structure fire.
I can't get my damn BBQ grill to light without a struggle and this stuff goes up in seconds.
Get your wood from a developer...that stuff really burns.
ImJuniperNow lmaoo
Really? Ever had to fix cracked mortar joints from heat? Its expensive. Houses under sonstruction are not the same as the finished product with barriers, insulation, sheetrock that has a fire rating, etc. Stupid comments.
ImJuniperNow And I can’t light my paper on fire
I'm guessing why the 2nd house on fire took longer to burn than the 1st and 3rd house did-at least, that's what it looked like to me.
As a professional FF from Canada, I can tell you this fire had a good start before the FD arrived. Being under construction, there were probably open walls, windows, unfinished drywall, etc..., setting off a firestorm. Once these get going, and no FD on scene within 5 - 7 minutes, there's nothing to save, except protecting exposures and keeping the unburned homes from catching fire.
7 YEARS AGO?
@@SonicPrime_ dude the video was 10 years ago
Yep. Also what you get when amoral, greedy developers stuff these places in like sardines in a can. More property tax for sleazy city councils.
As I also recall, this subdivision was up in the hills on the outskirts of town, without even enough of a water supply to those few blocks. What's more, this all started because some fool of a worker was installing waterproofing membrane, but left a lit propane torch near bare wood.
@@interesting9688 no I meant it was a long time ago
Insurance fraud maybe?
The fact the the houses bunched together like that create a perfect wind tunnel once a blaze has started, really makes things burn down quickly.
Sucks for the work crews that think they don't need fire extinguishers on the site. Propane torch is an oldie but a goodie for starting fires.
Why on earth would anybody want to live that close to one another in the first place?
6.5 years later and it's still burning.
8 years later and it’s still burning
20 years later and it’s still burning
1000 years later and it’s still burning
15000 years later and it’s still burning
1000000000000 fucking years
Perfect example on why i would never buy a house like these they sit way to close to each other.
I would rather have houses built no closer than 500 feet
Substandard building materials and homes too close together. Are there fire codes there?
besides the fact you'd be able to see into your neighbor's bathroom.
@@SilentEcho9194 yeah, placed AFTER the fire.
Ocean Grove N.J.lost 17 homes in one fire.
Sir. Great job in your filming. Im really impressed. Sorry for the heat you were exposed to.
Hardy Plank is doing pretty good but the soffits are the weak point. Just vinyl or sheet aluminum covering the ends of those trusses. And that OSB is just glue held together with poplar chips.
Great video. Thanks for taking one for the team.
I'm having second thoughts about moving out of my concrete wall home!
What prison are you in? LoL, LMFAO I!! 😂😂
@@tonyvio7714 Why on earth would you think that? We in Florida build our houses stronger. That prevents the house from getting blown away by a hurricane. Go peddle your ignorance elsewhere.
@@barelygettinby In Europe almost all the houses are in reinforced concrete too, I never seen a house made of wood so far.
I'm never moving out of mine. Adobe and concrete. Metal roof. 70 years old. On 3 acres with detached garage, also adobe and concrete with metal roof. Both have 2 foot thick walls. (Jan Griffiths).
I love how you can hear the firetruck approaching but it never comes. Hmmmm mustve got lost
It was there but you didn't see them because obviously there was a street on the other side.
@@dennismorgan2532 thats sad man. And there's probably no Roadway or fire plug on this side for the fire trucks to stop and connect the houses.. I've never built houses with only one fireplug on just one side. screw those people who don't want a road heance a plug in the back ..😞
There are on the other side of the house
"Oh look! a Tim Hortons!"
Couldn't find the fire??
I hate that so many new subdivisions build houses mere feet apart from each other. It’s no surprise a single fire can spread to multiple fires in just minutes.
Puede est fuego trabajo
Thanks a lot, Prometheus.
Where are the fire trucks coming from, Alabama.
Florida, actually. Close though.
From Georgia, the country, not the state
Russia
That’s what I’m sayin
@@MegaShanes1 🤣
Lesson learned: When developing an area, you may want to make sure you have enough fire resources close by.
Or not build houses so close to one another
You want to live far away from the city? Well then, you got it.
+Tony Farrington yup
***** Omg ,that's cool I could find a needle in a haystack too.
emilyloueyou
Hi, I'll be using a clip of this video for my project. Thank you
older video but Ima throw my 2 cents to the arm chair firemen and builders. This looks like a apartment complex. Buildings are always this close to each other. Perfectly normal anywhere in the US
The wood structure is fine. Only reason why these houses went up so fast was because of the exposed wood everywhere. Mix that with saw dust, chemicals, and so on. Also take note the build on the far left. It is down wind of the fire and is receiving the bulk of the heat. Yet the siding ate most of the flames for a good amount of time. Plus things like draw wall (which is usually pretty good fire barrier) slowed the burn process on the in side of the house as well. In the span of this 40 minute video, probably only 70% of that building was lost while 4 others were toast being unfinished buildings
The finished building lasted so long because it has its proper fire protection. Plus by the time the fire department was making action, They are moving to protect this building and the ones to the left of it. The unfinished buildings are lost cost. There is no one inside and nothing else in danger so a controlled burn is made. Perfectly reasonable.
If all these buildings were built and finished, the fire would have mostly destroyed one and probably melt the siding of the neighboring buildings. Perfectly normal.
So giving the situation here, I think everything was handled well. When you are dealing with a massive inferno reaching 6 or 7 stories in the air at some points, you would need a HELL of a lot of water to calm that down.
That's modern construction for you. All the wall and roof sheathing, is el cheapo OSB board. It is wood chips, loaded with glue. It burns like dry pine needles, as you can see in this video. Can't tell what the siding is. If it was hardee board, these places might have had a chance. I suspect it's some kind of pine lap or T1-11.
Its got to be vinyl which melts and burns but does not catch fire like T111 or pine lap which both of those i seen catch fire yet took a few minutes to do so.
What about bricks m8
Very true!!! Old houses were built way better and people shouldn't demolish and burn them, they should save the material
Rory Gallagherfan the houses should be built with large bricks, concrete floors including attic floor and concrete and tile roof all reinforced with steel. That’s how Germany builds homes and they don’t cost a nickel more
@@lincolnpaul1814 : Actually, the kind of construction these burning houses has, is cheaper. A lot of the wall and roof framing arrives at the job site pre cut, and only has to be nailed into place. All these houses were minor variations of the same model. That's how they can slap them up so fast. Steel and concrete is expensive, especially where lumber is quite cheap, the American south and Canada. Lots of pine trees.
Great video! Thanks for hanging in and getting the whole thing.
One thing about fire I think that's the worst is how silent it is "if smoke alarms are not activated", or you have none which is awful. Did anyone check on those neighbors?, the ones on the left side that were occupied,....not to run into a burning house but before it spread did anyone look?. Those fire trucks you couldn't here so let's say someone is working night's and out cold sleeping, unless there's an explosion where it's loud, no one would hear anything before smoke killed them. Sadly at that point the fire would've hit their house. Fire spreads fast and does not care if you just moved in or tired. This video is heart breaking. I'm glad you stayed far back, this was horrific.
Beautiful home's but essentially on top of each other, built fast and well,........sadly this. This was a massive job that would require a multitude of man power with arival with in five minutes. With houses that close and that main fire out of control, no stopping that dominoes effect. I hope no one was hurt. Thanks for the video. I hope it's used as education in schools etc as too how fast a fire can spread. Bless those firefighters because we run away from flames as they run towards it. 🙏
Why the hell do they build such big houses so close together? If I could own a house that big I wouldn't want my neighbors that close to me. One neighbour burns their house down and the whole neighborhood is going down LOL
The best example of failed building regulations I have ever seen.
@therockkkkher yep thats the one
@therockkkkherThe rise of putting houses closer together, and building them out of cheaper "engineered wood" made up of wood flakes and flammable adhesives, has nothing to do with millennials, their education, or shit like that.
@@DanknDerpyGamer if ppl would NOT buy houses so close together the builders would get the pic
Dank 'n Derpy Gamer well they’re buying this shit.
These houses are pretty safe once they’re completed. Look at how slow the left-most house, which looks near done, burned compared to the others. Sure it’s risky when the wood is exposed but the chance of rebuilding a frame is worth the lower costs.
When the house across the street was burning, my husband and a neighbor had garden hoses on it until the fire department arrived, they then moved the hoses to the roof of the house next door.
Not inhabited yet, still the shipping labels on the windows
Did the Fire dept actually work on putting out the fire or were they more vigilant in stopping your husband and neighbor from doing theer do diligence?
I’m also wondering if the firefighters were on scene earlier (C side), but given that the houses are not inhabited yet, the fire hydrants might not have been charged yet, needing time for them to run lines.
@@krisandashleyackner1255 ..this view IS the ‘C’ side… this is the backyard of the houses..
And the fire department WAS on scene fairly early in the video. Just listen to for the sirens.
A prime example of why wooden buildings shouldn't be so close. I'm glad to see the fire brigade let them burn! Hopefully the construction company learned a valuable lesson in fire prevention.
Reading down through the comments i find it odd that there is no mention of an important fact. The home on the left is the only home that is completed. The other four are nothing but wood and if all the rooms had the drywall installed we would be looking at a whole different outcome. At 14:00 you see the fire is still containable with the completed home. Input anybody?
Being a First Responder myself, I can speak on behalf of my fellow brothers and sisters that this is our worst nightmare right behind seeing an infant not breathing........ fire spreading to more and more homes........
Me portal mierda justo todos ellos salva
It's amazing how well that fiber cement siding performance slowing the fire. The weak point for the house on the left was the eaves.
I was just saying. It's miraculous that the fire didn't spread further through that house on the left. It didn't even get the chance to punch through the windows on the top floor.
I'm a new subscriber and wow it just went up like nothing that's crazy i feel bad for the workers who was building those houses hopefully everyone was safe
Imagine building one of these just to watch it burn
Amazing how the brown house to the left (camera view) was so much more resilient than the other three to the right. The first house to the right was engulfed in minutes.
Here in Germany it takes half a year to build a good house, from cellar to the roof, and all interior. In this case here one and a half week.....
Wenn wir was können, dann richtig bauen. :-)
Well goody goody for you. I've been to Germany several times, not impressed. Maybe you should show Volkswagen how to build cars that aren't gross polluters, and sell them illegally around the world using fraudulent devices to hide their criminal activity.......of course Germany has a history of doing some pretty bad stuff doesn't it.
John Franklin Well you must be blind then... Yes VW is a fckn bad example of German quality but usually that is the only argument by butthurt Americans... Out building and general engineering is on very high standarts. You dont need to be an expert to be able to telll that. And dont even start talking about lies or environmental pollution cause America is much worse than we are. All these big trucks... Roalling Coal... Yeah.. Also your history is not nicer - been killing alot of innocent people as well... Vietnam for example. Also never fucking ever connect German people from today to our history... We have fucking 0% to do with that or any other connection. It is cruel and a big desaster which nobody here is proud of.
John Franklin And by the way the VW cars are still better than the FCA crap... Or most of the cheap US cars... No wonder why almost nobody in Europe wants or buys them.
We should build good German built homes here in Canada and the USA.
For me as a firefighter this fire operation is very tough, ive watched it in other videos where i saw the lack of manpower and water supply also the involved were made of mostly combustibles to add the spacing of house wherein it gives a better breathing for the fire. Cover exposure is best for this operation but due too high winds and the combustibility of the materials use in those houses too add the accessibilty( No units on this side) it will be hard to control.
It almost doesn't help that most, except for the home on the far left, were all under construction and had nothing to slow fire spread. There was three on fire by the time they arrived.
Combustibility of these materials.
Its a crime.
Thanks for the great footage! I admire your tenacity for continuing to film even though your face/arms were definitely suffering from the heat!
Talk 'bout packin' heat. These houses certainly were doin' just that. Goes to show that the heat alone will spread the fire even if the flames themselves don't touch the house.
With those wooden houses so close together, somebody should have read about the Great Fire Of London in 1666 before they started.
Someone should have read three little pigs.
Only 353 years prior.
or even the great Chicago Fire
@@benlee2765 go
Omg u said 665+1
It's crazy to see how the choice of cladding material affect the fire transmission time. The left house survived despite being in the wind path. While in the right they where basically lucky that one of the house a wasn't built yet.
This is really sad. So many houses burned in such a short amount of time. This is another reason I don’t like to live on top of my neighbors. 🙏
A lot of people are saying "This is why houses shouldn't be made of wood", and "This is why they shouldn't be built so close together" But what many people seem to fail to notice, is that these houses are unfinished. The only finished house, the one on the far left, is the only one which didn't get completely destroyed by the fire. Sure, it was severely damaged, and would still need to be bulldozed and rebuilt, but the fire took longer to catch on the house, and cause any significant harm. The reason being is that in their unfinished state, the houses were little more than bare wood, very similar to what could be used as kindling, but in the final stages of construction, the houses would be covered in a fireproofing material, which prevents any fires from spreading too quickly.
The only reason these houses burned down in this short of time, was simply because they didn't have their fireproofing materials put on. It's not because they're cheaply made, or even because they're made of wood. It's because they weren't finished. I can guarantee you, that had these houses been fully finished and fireproofed, we would have seen only one, maybe two houses lost, not the full 5.
Downunda Thunda plus a faster fire department lol
It's good to see that at least someone on here making comments understands the circumstances. And as far as Blaming the Fire Department is concerned, this seems to be a brand new development which make me wonder what state the hydrants were in? Did they work? Did they have good enough pressure?
Downunda Thunda your kidding right? There is no special fire proofing that goes on a house. The only places you typically see that is in between 2 units or in between a garage and living space. But if they were not sheet rocked and all that I totally agree there would be no"fire blocking" and it would act like a big wood stove basically.
yeah, and if they get a little breeze of wind from the ocean they are dust in the wind...
USELESS WAY OF BUILDING HOUSES - PERIOD!
MDFlight I live in New Hampshire and basically all the houses are built basically in the same way other than any old mill type building that's been turned into apartments. I'm 34 abs have never lived in a house that's been the victim of a fire and you don't see it very often. It does happen obviously. Even a house built of stone or whatever likely still has enough flammable things in it to kill people. So just remember that.
As for me, living in Belgium/Europe, I'm baffled by the speed these "cardboard" houses are burning down. Over here houses are built using bricks, or even the couple of wooden houses are way more solid here. I can see in the reactions that American and Canadian people are used to this kind of houses, because they're commenting on the lack of distance between the houses instead of the quality of the construction.
***** But a stone house next to a burning one is not set on fire this fast as a wooden one. The outer wall /fassade should not be made of wood because of those things you see here .If you have a house made of stone walls you got many time if a room is burning and the flames set the next room on fire. Here you can see they are not able to protect the last house even if they try. Imagine if such a fire happen at night if you are sleeping with your family - bad chance to escape.
***** We have mostly brick, stone och even concrete houses. Been to USA a few times, last time this summer and visited Dallas. And the houses there are mostly made the same way as in this video.
We have wooden houses but not to that extent. The American Dream is glitter on the outside but shit on the inside. It's more about the look then the quality.
Aaa Belgium i'm comming out holland
1- 95%+ homes in the US are not built this close.
2- Most home built in the US are brick, except for a few parts of the country where light to moderate earthquakes are common, then you don't want brick.
3- Americans are NOT used to homes being built this close, because it doesn't happen in most parts of the country.
4- Cardboard? You consider plywood, 2x6s, concrete and brick cardboard, is that what they teach you in Belgium/Europe.
mikeserenar
I am aware that this particular fire is in Canada and not the US. As I have only been to the US though and have only experienced living in similarly constructed houses there, I can only comment on that.
Regarding the cardboard I can understand what (s)he(?) meant: Seeing the wooden frame that is covered with plywood, the crevices filled etc. does give the impression of cardboard. If you are used to walls being a foot thick or more, then having such thin walls made from less sturdy material is strange.
When I was in Detroit staying with a friend, we stayed in one of these wooden houses too. The flooring with the wooden beams is nice (nice and thick and sturdy), but I was amazed to be honest. All that is keeping someone from getting into the house is an axe. The walls appeared flimsy and easily breachable. Plus they'd go up in cinders if a fire started. And this was not a bad part of Detroit, it was the more affluent suburb.
If you are used to thick concrete or brick walls, then it really takes some getting used to living in a house constructed in such a way. Yes, we do have wooden houses in Germany where I'm from, some of the old medieval ones still stand after near on 400 years. However, those are built with thick wooden (a lot of them oak) beams, around 8 inches thick (or more).
Yes, a fire will gut a house even if it is made of concrete or brick, but it will not spread as fast, as the basic floors and wall structures (not the coverings like carpet and wallpaper) are not made from a highly flammable material, so damage will mostly not be as severe as the fire-fighters have more time to attend and extinguish the fire. You rarely see houses burnt to the ground, only if it's either a barn, one of the wooden houses or if a gas explosion ripped it apart or if the fire has been burning for an extended period of time.
One thing that puzzled me when I visited Detroit: driving through some of the suburbs we saw the burnt out remnants of houses. Now normally you'd expect them to be torn down (or I would at least as they are a health and fire hazard) and the lot left vacant (or the house rebuilt if the city needed to house its population and building sites were in high demand). I understand why they wouldn't rebuild in Detroit, but why don't they tear the ruins down either? Can someone enlighten me on that?
Wow, I'd feel super safe living in that area! Super duper quick fire response
Well when you live 10 minutes outside of the city, you have to know they won't be there as quick. Add in that four of the five homes were under construction and you have a big issue. Focus on the occupied house on the left and let the rest go. They'll all, and they were, be rebuilt anyway.
What a great idea to put housing so close together.
YOU had every opportunity to put in a bunch of stupid selfies and didn't take it? You could've put some really ridiculous and asinine music over this and you didn't either? KUDOS - - THUMBS UP!
Jet Gardner, no shit dude, well put. Yes, good video.
Thumbs down. Misleading title. Not 40 minutes.
Really? you're whining about 41 seconds??? GROW UP
dude take a fuckin joke
At the start of the video you can see the house on the right starting to bake. Then it was holy shit, and it took about 2 seconds to go woof.
Foxy go floof and housey go woof in 2 seconds.
I wonder if they were able to grab a few things before it went up
this is one reason why i hate houses being so close
It has been 9 years of and legends say it is still burning today
One thing for new housing they were built way to close together, they should have had twice the space in between the houses. They were built close together on small lots like old housing was in the 1930-40's.
Yes,bigger houses for the land to pay less taxes. With a lack of water for the firemen… We do not see on the other side of the houses...
My parents live in a neighborhood similar to this. One house catches fire the whole neighborhood goes up in flames. I have a huge issue with houses being built like this. When I buy mine, it'll be further apart. At the least it'll be made of brick.
mindyschocolate Good thinking Mindy. Not every one is on the same line…
Brick houses do burn...just not as fast or as hot....I've seen far too many brick houses with nothing but the shell left.
maximum profits... instead of building a mansion on their land to live, they build four large homes to rent/sell. max profits... now max insurance settlements..
Wooden framed buildings should have side yard set backs of at least 50' minimum.
Did you actually see the distance between the original fire and the second that caught to the right. There was extremely hot convection there and there was at least 20 to 25 feet. It all depends on conditions.
Should have brought the popcorn for this video, wow,lost for words.
This is just like a Forrest fire , dry wood and wind . Built to close together. All you need now is some marshmallows and enjoy the show.
Yeah, that is the bad thing about houses being too close together!
fire resistant insulation in the walls and ceiling on the left house helped to slow the spread of the fire there. the other houses that burnt had not yet been painted with fire resistant insulation
+Fabian Kempe "painted with fire resistant insulation"?? As a fire precaution that sounds very crappy to me!
Yes great filming so thank you.
I'm cheering for the fire here. Those were monstrosities.
"After building so many, it was really fascinating to see them come down in 5 minutes!"
You sound proud of the fact that your workmanship can be reduced to ash in such a short time.
Personally I would be ashamed of that fact.
Sounds like he lit the fire.
@@AmybethMcKee I agree with you Amybeth.
There is a good reason why our timber framed houses in the UK have a minimum distance between them and this video shows why.
@@AmybethMcKee I agree ☝️
It looks like several issues at play here. Houses too close together. Crappy building materials...A house that can be built in 8-9 days are going to be junk....high priced junk but junk nonetheless. It also seems like they were having water issues. I am guessing since this was a new development perhaps the fire hydrants weren't put in or there was not enough hydrants or pressure. Obviously you can't see what the FD was doing so I can't comment on what was going on with them. But I hope no one was hurt!
Maine Catholic Guy: In another video about this fire, it came out that there were no hydrants. Don't even get me started on that one!
I bet he meant it was framed and dried in in 8-9 days, but not finished inside in that time frame.
How far away is the fire station
The fire dept. must have been 20 miles away.
Probably made of engineered wood. Has adhesive which makes it extra flammable.
You know it is.
its called FallAParticle Board....
In Britain its called M.D.F. planks made out of Wood Chip, Compressed Paper and Glue. All compressed together into strips that look like real Wood. It acts like Wood. You can paint it, varnish it, even saw it in half but, look at the inside and you`ll see the composite. And judging by the number of Houses going up, there`s not enough real Wood to make proper Houses. They way forward is to start building with Bricks an Mortar.
@@smoothfags20 -- Adobe and rammed earth are also more fire-resistant than wood.
“Engineered Wood,” who came up with that name? Stupid Wood s more applicable. It’s not wood at all, just mostly inflammable glue.
This is what happens when you build them right next to each other. At least it "looks" like they were new and unoccupied.
exactly
Steve Laminack why the fuck are these houses out of wood?
stupid idiots
BackGeRRi Delic Cause they squeak when they walk. They are too tight to pay to build long lasting things these days. Back in the day they made things that last, cars, houses, etc
One was occupied
Great response time, did they get lost?
Wow. Just insane. It all happened so quickly! So scary to think about it.. i hope everyone is ok :)
These homes were under construction...lots of air flow to allow fire to spread. Completed homes dont spread fire to this extent.
The scenery is much improved with those eyesores out of there.
Because a burned strip of debree is much prettier than a house...
Wood construction is used in locations where stresses on buildings occur vertically as well as horizontally (earthquake). It is an efficient and strong material if designed and built properly. Interior fire blocking, fire walls and fire protection should protect the home. Here, none of that was installed or not yet installed.
third world countries use wood too because its cheap and they can’t afford anything else. But seriously if you are going to build houses so close together in an area with limited access to water then why use wood which burns better than anything. Why not use brick as at least you MIGHT end up with a structure left then so not a total loss, less material to feed a fire and might be easier to put out and control. No matter how good the fire protection is for wood, its still not perfect for preventing or stopping fire completely. In most fires you see brick buildings or brick fireplaces left standing when buildings made of other materials have been burned to the floor
Well, it looked nice on paper.
Fire dept. were definitely on time for this one...
such good house planning , make a row of wooden houses, so if one catches fire the domino effect will take effect
And without a significant wind blowing.
about time u start building real houses
in Slovenia you will not see a wooden house anywhere, the only wooden thing you might find on ones property is the garden shak. You might find some wooden homes in Nordic Europe, but other than that good luck finding a wooden neighborhood in Europe.
+Timi116 Sadly....People have sold out and developed a hopeless case of "Made in China" disease, because of profit being more valuable than quality and it only has metastasised into terminal cancer from there.
+Mike Roberts German houses are made of Stone, so they burn not so fast
***** But you could still build firewalls to prevent the fire from spreading to another house
***** additional to that the US Firefighters aren't the best ;)
OMG that is so sad ... I am really sorry for everybody lost their house in this again this is so sad
😔✝️🛐
Price of the homes
Having watched this I think the FD did the smart thing stopping going any further than trying to save buildings that were totaly burning out of control. We had an incident like this at a primary school about 7 or 8 years ago the FD couldn't save the building where the fire was they stopped it going any further. God bless all fire fighters they do real work against all odds and put their lives on the line every shout they go to
One of the craziest fire videos I've ever seen! Awesome footage, dude.
10 years ago you need the hand to hold this steady, very good camera man.
Wow, 5 BIG homes gone in 35 minutes. They say you only have 2-3 minutes to get out of a new home built now a days. Everything is so flammable.
Four of them weren't finished homes either which obviously didn't help anything at all. Only the far left home was finished.
this has to be the best fire video ever filmed
Im baffled by many of things here
1 the flame burned 3 to the right and 1 to the left which was the closest to any house there
2 terraced house fires rarely spread
3 the amount of technology and craftsmanship these days and a little torch can destroy 5 houses in 45 minutes the prevention could be better
That explains a lot
The three houses to the left were still unfinished; houses in the construction process are much more vulnerable to fire in general and being kindled by radiant heat in particular. They burn faster and hotter, and collapse more quickly, because their wood structural members are both exposed and well ventilated. It's more like a pallet fire than a house fire.
Also, once the firefighters arrived (which happened first on the other side of the houses, at about 14:30) they were aggressive about extinguishing and protecting the completed and occupied houses and let the uncompleted and unoccupied ones burn.
Well, this reply is two years later but the reason the fire consumed more homes to the right probably has to do with ventilation. If windows are open, the fire can get plenty of oxygen and burn much faster. The home to the left looks like all of the windows were closed so the fire was unable to fully catch until it burned through the wall and roof.
I am still amazed while watching it play that the second almost finished one the first which the fire spread to is burning so slow due to the siding being what I assume is vinyl which takes a while to melt but not catch fire.
Yup, radiant heat can spread a fire mighty quickly. Good argument for proper spacing between buildings, or, installing sprinklers in the eaves to provide a water curtain.
Cuando valla también fuego trabajo quiere ve
Serves you right for building so damn close together
Those aren't house they're tinder boxes...
They’re built to sell, not to stand. This is east of Vancouver, so the developer builds the plan in a week flat, signs the paperwork (usually done before they’re even started) gets 4 million dollars, and gets the hell out of dodge. Burns down the next day, contractor nowhere to be found.
10 days to build this house.......crap workmanship guaranteed.
I’ve seen this about 8 years ago and I’m surprised about it because this a real domino effect of how fire spreaded from one to another and to the next one.
Aside from the house on the left, the rest were all under construction so there was nothing to slow it down.
I wondered what's the cause the fire.
How did it get started in the first place?
Marshmellows anyone?
Ok sounds good