I’m thankful you explain the only explosions were the airbags and tires. I can’t even tell you how hard I want to roll my eyes when panicking people think the entire vehicle is “about to explode” like some kind of Michael Bay movie. 🙄 I also want to say those owners are incredibly lucky (and probably thanking their lucky stars) that they hadn’t had that van in the garage when it caught fire or that would have been awful. Houses burn as fast as match sticks now.
I'm no firefighter, but at the very beginning of the video I think a garden hose could've made a difference in at least reducing the fire's spread...of course I'm only seeing the fire from one side, from a distance.
@@paulwilliams6753 I wouldn't be concerned about trying to save the vehicle, but I would want to prevent the fire from spreading to anything nearby, particularly in a neighborhood of homes.
What??!! Nobody owns a fire extinguisher or a garden hose? I hit a deer with my S-10 Blazer, 4 hours later it was on fire just like this (battery/electrical issues) and I used a fire extinguisher to knock the bulk flames down and then got the garden hose to finish the job. No fire dept, no help and all over in 5 mins. People, drop the camera phones and go help your neighbors and strangers when the need help
For those of you who are thinking it was dumb to not try a garden hose at first, let me remind you that fire is HOT. You couldn't get close enough to make any difference without being right next to it and a garden hose doesn't have the pressure to allow you to be further away.
The nozzle make very little difference. The pressure in the water system and coming through a 3/4 in. hose just isn't enough. The FF in the video are using a 1.75 in hose. It's the gallons per minute that matter. A garden house is about 3-6 gallons per minute. That fire hose is about 125 gpm.
Clarence Trotter -Pressure and volume are two separate entities. You can have identical pressure on a garden hose and a fire engine (hypothetically) and at the end of 60 seconds, you will have 100 plus gallons of water more on that fire compared to 5 gallons from a residential garden hose
Now if you had 25 garden hoses all flowing at the same time and you held them all together so it all went into the car.....it would still be too hot to stand close enough with a garden hose.
No bigger than the fire was at the start of the video a garden hose could have easily put that out. I've put out larger ones than that with a garden hose myself, just stand upwind.
We had a used Black 2006 Mercury Monterey Minivan that had plenty of bells and whistles but it was a gas guzzling lemon. We purchased it based on a positive experience owning a Windstar previously thinking the Monterey would be similar (this actually could be our old vehicle as it was traded in to a Transitowne dealership).
We think of cars as being mostly made of metal, which doesn't burn, so it always surprises me how flammable cars really are, and how substantial and smoky car fires also are.
Nice of the guy in the black pointing to the location of the fire. People this was a very hot fire, your low pressure garden hose will not work. Plus add the fact one would stand at least twenty feet to avoid the heat. Finally the size of the fire demands a professional to handle.
Doofus in the video commenting, the hood was LATHED, it was not brittle if you noticed as they pry it the latch is still in full lock, but yet as hot as the hood still is its not making it easy. Its not like it was falling apart.
When the fire is consumed, everything comes from the fire trucks. The officials must take extraordinary measures to avoid such accidents, which cost the property great losses. For example, a proposal could be for example in every neighborhood, for example firefighting units, so that the intervention to extinguish the fire quickly and so on the roads
Was the second truck there for moral support? And, gasoline tanks don't explode (except in movies), they may rupture in a collision, and then gas can ignite creating a nasty fire. PNG or propane tanks may explode, but usually won't because of relief valves.
Necro, by your spelling skills, you are obviously a child age 7 - 9. Furthermore, the owner of the car ( a girl )was TELLING THE MAN IN THE BACKGROUND HOW THE FIRE STARTED and that when she saw the gray smoke and flames, she bailed out and dialed 911!!! The owner of the car is at home, but definitely NOT dead.
Burlington Northern Modeler Most house hold fire extinguishers are of the dry chemical type. Good for VERY small kitchen fires, or a TV set on fire, but if you don't get deep inside the material on fire, (i.e.) in this case the seats, the powder will just sit on the set and NOT put the fire out.
The Amherst firefighters did a great job putting that car fire out, I do know that some of the explosions are from the air bags,(The powder like chemical catches fire and sounds like a M-80 because I learned that from local firefighters, the other explosions I'm sure were from the tires, and quite possibly from any hydraulic fluid, at least the gas tank didn't explode because you would've seen the back end of the truck lift right off the ground and that sure is one heck of a bang noise too, I'm glad that everyone was safe,
10-12 explosions, and the back tires never blew. Several seemed to be from the engine compartment. There are all kinds of tanks in cars now, such as gasoline recovery tank, AC system...
Somebody have a fire extinguisher they could have started trying to put it out with the fire extinguisher I understand that I just set there or why don't they try to use a water hose and spray in their yard and spray the car down to try to cool it down I understand gas spreads but what do you think the fire department's going to use we're going to freaking use a high pressure water at other fire truck but anyway it's a it's just a suggestion
A garden hose wouldn't put it out and it would be a total lose anyway. Why risk any injury to save nothing. The only good a hose would do is trying to protect the house if needed.
The lady at the begining had send it over heated and seen grey smoke I'm no fire man but I can tell you from past experience a garden hose would have put that fire out
Uhhh yeah they arent electrical or airbag cylinder. It is the magnesium inmcertain body components, especiallynif it is heated and water applied. Not major issue
Actually, a good water hose with decent pressure would do a good job of containing it. I wouldn't try to get too close because of the danger from exploding struts and the airbags, but it would protect the exposures.
Actually.... a water hose with good pressure would have most definitely put this fire out at the early stages. Not very smart to get close to it and try to put it out, but it would definitely do the job. However, it would have had to been tried as the very first thing because as you could see from the video, the condition of the fire deteriorated very rapidly.
Nothing against the guys because they got the job done but just some critique or what my crew would have done. Get the k-saw ready to cut the hood open and get the nozzle inside and fog the interior as opposed to the long knockdown stream he was using. again great job just a little after action discussing.
+Mathew “856GreaseMonkey” Festoff Not a bad idea. I know my crew would do a long stream, then move up and fog the interior, while another guy pops the hood with a Halligan.
We normally only use a couple of guys to actually fight a car fire, plus the pump operator. The second truck was probably sent only because it was reported to be close to the house. A single engine with 3-4 guys is a typical response in most FD's.
Andrew Kahananui Honest answer, here in WNY, it is not something that is done by all departments. Many still fight fires as if this was 1960. I'm not trying to justify it, just providing an answer. My department requires SCBAs, others here do not. They just never used them before, so why start now.
Because this is standard since they are from same station that usually have average 3-7 appliances anyway. Plus this is in middle of residential neighborhoid which car flames have been know to also ignite the house too so then they would already have backup on hand.
They aren't fire fighters. They don't have the protective clothing, nor the education to know whether or not the car may explode, and how much time they have.
No garden house is putting that out even from the start. The engine is on fire. With the hood closed, there's no way to hit the fire with a garden hose.
Water is water and it will cool the fire down to below the point of combustion. I put out a transmission fluid fire in my Jeep Wagoneer without raising the hood with a garden hose sprayed through the grill. All the insulation on the wires was melted but not burned off and I drove the Jeep after getting the transmission rebuilt.
I added some backstory to the description since this video has so many views.
I’m thankful you explain the only explosions were the airbags and tires. I can’t even tell you how hard I want to roll my eyes when panicking people think the entire vehicle is “about to explode” like some kind of Michael Bay movie. 🙄 I also want to say those owners are incredibly lucky (and probably thanking their lucky stars) that they hadn’t had that van in the garage when it caught fire or that would have been awful. Houses burn as fast as match sticks now.
I'm no firefighter, but at the very beginning of the video I think a garden hose could've made a difference in at least reducing the fire's spread...of course I'm only seeing the fire from one side, from a distance.
Even early on the car was a total loss.
Unless you catch it VERY early, you want to let burn..........if you have insurance.
@@paulwilliams6753 I wouldn't be concerned about trying to save the vehicle, but I would want to prevent the fire from spreading to anything nearby, particularly in a neighborhood of homes.
People are too busy reaching for their cameras to record it rather than helping to put it out, that’s the world we live in now.
What??!! Nobody owns a fire extinguisher or a garden hose? I hit a deer with my S-10 Blazer, 4 hours later it was on fire just like this (battery/electrical issues) and I used a fire extinguisher to knock the bulk flames down and then got the garden hose to finish the job. No fire dept, no help and all over in 5 mins. People, drop the camera phones and go help your neighbors and strangers when the need help
Absolutely. Well put. Nothing like a bunch of people standing around like a deer in headlights doing nothing.
I find it amazing how quickly an entire vehicle can be incinerated. Just a few minutes as shown by this video. Great job getting this.
It made mostly of plastic.That why they burn so hot so fast
Good thing it wasn’t parked in the garage or you could kiss that house goodbye with it.
Why don’t the firemen near the burning car don’t wear breathingapparatous? In the Netherlands they always use that
Water on fire 1 minute after arrival, GOOD. NO SCBA, BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watching the Fire Department put it out with water must seem like magic to the locals?
Beautiful neighborhood.
Taxes are beautifully high too!
I am watching from Elmira NY where is the volunteer fire department?
That tire popping was almost as loud as me ripping major ass
Lol
Fun Fact: in the 70s and 80s, parked cars didn't just randomly catch fire. When you turned a car off, it was really off.
They did. But there were no cell phones or social media.
EXACTLY why there is no way in hell I would EVER even think about owning an electric car or even one of these POS hybrids'.
For those of you who are thinking it was dumb to not try a garden hose at first, let me remind you that fire is HOT. You couldn't get close enough to make any difference without being right next to it and a garden hose doesn't have the pressure to allow you to be further away.
Not all garden water hoses have weak pressure. Today companies are selling nosels for garden hose that fireman have on theie equipment
The nozzle make very little difference. The pressure in the water system and coming through a 3/4 in. hose just isn't enough. The FF in the video are using a 1.75 in hose. It's the gallons per minute that matter. A garden house is about 3-6 gallons per minute. That fire hose is about 125 gpm.
Clarence Trotter -Pressure and volume are two separate entities. You can have identical pressure on a garden hose and a fire engine (hypothetically) and at the end of 60 seconds, you will have 100 plus gallons of water more on that fire compared to 5 gallons from a residential garden hose
Now if you had 25 garden hoses all flowing at the same time and you held them all together so it all went into the car.....it would still be too hot to stand close enough with a garden hose.
No bigger than the fire was at the start of the video a garden hose could have easily put that out. I've put out larger ones than that with a garden hose myself, just stand upwind.
We had a used Black 2006 Mercury Monterey Minivan that had plenty of bells and whistles but it was a gas guzzling lemon. We purchased it based on a positive experience owning a Windstar previously thinking the Monterey would be similar (this actually could be our old vehicle as it was traded in to a Transitowne dealership).
We think of cars as being mostly made of metal, which doesn't burn, so it always surprises me how flammable cars really are, and how substantial and smoky car fires also are.
I love how people would rather record a fire than try to put it out when it was manageable.
thats just about a stupid statement.
Nice of the guy in the black pointing to the location of the fire. People this was a very hot fire, your low pressure garden hose will not work. Plus add the fact one would stand at least twenty feet to avoid the heat. Finally the size of the fire demands a professional to handle.
Great job on the camera.
Doofus in the video commenting, the hood was LATHED, it was not brittle if you noticed as they pry it the latch is still in full lock, but yet as hot as the hood still is its not making it easy. Its not like it was falling apart.
No SCBA on a car fire is asking for trouble......
Why wouldn't someone grab a hose and put out the fire when it was still small? Stupid.
Is that load popping when the tires blow?
Nice reflection on the car and who knows what might of caused the fire to start?
When the fire is consumed, everything comes from the fire trucks. The officials must take extraordinary measures to avoid such accidents, which cost the property great losses. For example, a proposal could be for example in every neighborhood, for example firefighting units, so that the intervention to extinguish the fire quickly and so on the roads
Lol 😂 WTF ARE YOU SMOKING?? A LOTTA WORDS WITH ABSOLUTELY NO MEANING !! GEEEZA H CHRIST!!
Great job guys, Put on your damn SCBA's
Zombie 18256 AMEN
I do not like to see the citizens' property burn up, it's sad
wow beautiful neighborhood, lawns and shrubs are meticulous.
Steve Franklin yes Mexicans do that for them lol
Those large home depot barbecues are a Menace 🤣
This is why I don't like parking the car in a garage attached to the house. You never know.
Nice neighborhood...bad minivan.
That was an SUV, rj4590. It looked like a NICE one. But it's "nice days" are OVER.
Was the second truck there for moral support? And, gasoline tanks don't explode (except in movies), they may rupture in a collision, and then gas can ignite creating a nasty fire. PNG or propane tanks may explode, but usually won't because of relief valves.
Second truck is because its next to a house to make sure it doesn't spread to the house
Pretty cool, thanks for posting!!
Car-b-que
+thornrob Ha ha. Good one.
Well,... if there were any grocery bags in that car,.. the food was very "well done!!!"
Damn , no one has a garden hose
How did I put my neighbors garage fire out? Oh, my garden hose...
Lucky it wasn't parked close to the house. I don't think some people don't realize how fast a fire moves.
Wow no air packs at all
That was my thought. Our Captain would absolutely chew your ass for not having a pack on when exiting the truck
Parked at home and no one could turn a garden hose on the damn thing before it went too far?
Where Is the owner of the car is dead at home?
Necro, by your spelling skills, you are obviously a child age 7 - 9. Furthermore, the owner of the car ( a girl )was TELLING THE MAN IN THE BACKGROUND HOW THE FIRE STARTED and that when she saw the gray smoke and flames, she bailed out and dialed 911!!! The owner of the car is at home, but definitely NOT dead.
Which fire company responded?
that's what happens when cars are made cheaply or not maintained properly
does anyone know how it started?
The airbags worked!
They worked VERY well. Lots of good healthy air-pressure!
Guess its time for a new Mini Van! :)
Yep! 'cause now, that thing CERTAINLY won't start!!!
And that is why you should not park a Big Oil firetrap too close to the house.
A hose wouldn't help. At his point the car is totaled by insurance. Not to mention theres no telling if it could explode.
It would help protect the house from radiant heat, the vehicle is toast however.
That's why they make rubbing compound.
I just sit back and read the comments
Once they got on it they put it out pretty quick
Firefighters are true superheroes but they don't have costumes they have equipment
It sounds like the airbag packages are detonating
A dam garden hose would put it out :/
It should take two firefighters to put out a car fire
Damn, they probably could have put this out at the start..
Where are seven Irish guys and a keg of Smithwick's when you need them?
Too bad these idiots don't have a fire extinguisher around. From the start a little common sense would have gone a very long way
Burlington Northern Modeler Most house hold fire extinguishers are of the dry chemical type. Good for VERY small kitchen fires, or a TV set on fire, but if you don't get deep inside the material on fire, (i.e.) in this case the seats, the powder will just sit on the set and NOT put the fire out.
I've put out many incipient car fires with household extinguishers.
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Get your SCBA and get closer boys. Next time hopefully.
Nice neighbor hood
The Amherst firefighters did a great job putting that car fire out, I do know that some of the explosions are from the air bags,(The powder like chemical catches fire and sounds like a M-80 because I learned that from local firefighters, the other explosions I'm sure were from the tires, and quite possibly from any hydraulic fluid, at least the gas tank didn't explode because you would've seen the back end of the truck lift right off the ground and that sure is one heck of a bang noise too, I'm glad that everyone was safe,
Modern gas tanks are made of fiberglass. They don't do BANG like the old metal ones used to.
10-12 explosions, and the back tires never blew. Several seemed to be from the engine compartment. There are all kinds of tanks in cars now, such as gasoline recovery tank, AC system...
Somebody have a fire extinguisher they could have started trying to put it out with the fire extinguisher I understand that I just set there or why don't they try to use a water hose and spray in their yard and spray the car down to try to cool it down I understand gas spreads but what do you think the fire department's going to use we're going to freaking use a high pressure water at other fire truck but anyway it's a it's just a suggestion
A garden hose wouldn't put it out and it would be a total lose anyway. Why risk any injury to save nothing. The only good a hose would do is trying to protect the house if needed.
Car is full of gun bullets, but nobody have a portátil extinguisher ! It is America!
She saw some smoke and called 911. Couldn't a water hose have helped put it out? I am glad that guy moved his car.
Where are the fire trucks believed to be asleep like all that gets a fire
I'm assuming the majority of these fires are started by electrical wire faults.
The lady at the begining had send it over heated and seen grey smoke I'm no fire man but I can tell you from past experience a garden hose would have put that fire out
Can anyone please explain why on many car fires we see bright white explosions sometimes??...what causes this ??....thanks in advance ......
airbag cylinders and tires are the little explosions you see
+333doraemon Heated Magnesium
Zapblam and Ac compressor lines too.
Often, those are electrical explosions.
Uhhh yeah they arent electrical or airbag cylinder. It is the magnesium inmcertain body components, especiallynif it is heated and water applied. Not major issue
Nobody has a hose
Nice work guys 🚒🇺🇸
Ty Clarke
Glad I’m no longer in Amherst
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday........ deer in auto pyro land...... we can't keep making this big payments...... and the bank don't understand
All I gotta say is NO SCBA. bad. Very bad
PPE do they think they don't need it ?????
Its too hot to get 10ft close to it in normal clothes. Water hose doesn't have enough water to affect it
Actually, a good water hose with decent pressure would do a good job of containing it. I wouldn't try to get too close because of the danger from exploding struts and the airbags, but it would protect the exposures.
Actually.... a water hose with good pressure would have most definitely put this fire out at the early stages. Not very smart to get close to it and try to put it out, but it would definitely do the job. However, it would have had to been tried as the very first thing because as you could see from the video, the condition of the fire deteriorated very rapidly.
So….nobody owned a hose?
Not enough pressure,or more importantly, volume from a garden hose, to extinguish this fire .
Nice footage. We'll done.
Not ONE person had a fire extinguisher?
That just lazy lighting it on fire in the driveway, at least take it to a bad part of town.
That's a hot ride
xDDDD
What camera are you useing? Those are lovely pictures.
Nothing against the guys because they got the job done but just some critique or what my crew would have done. Get the k-saw ready to cut the hood open and get the nozzle inside and fog the interior as opposed to the long knockdown stream he was using. again great job just a little after action discussing.
+Mathew “856GreaseMonkey” Festoff Not a bad idea. I know my crew would do a long stream, then move up and fog the interior, while another guy pops the hood with a Halligan.
Mcbear 291 If they opened the driver side door they would have found the hood release lever no excuses.
Dan Moreno
You mean the hood release lever that got cremated along with all the cable.
Oh no this is my neighborhood 🤪
good thing it wasnt right up against the garage huh.
What caused the fire?
Stupidity, never mind the garden hose??
Hey if I had that fire department...I'd move....2 fire trucks and only 2 guys working...yup, that makes sense
We normally only use a couple of guys to actually fight a car fire, plus the pump operator. The second truck was probably sent only because it was reported to be close to the house. A single engine with 3-4 guys is a typical response in most FD's.
ffjsb why no air packs?
Andrew Kahananui Honest answer, here in WNY, it is not something that is done by all departments. Many still fight fires as if this was 1960. I'm not trying to justify it, just providing an answer. My department requires SCBAs, others here do not. They just never used them before, so why start now.
I see. To each their own. Mahalo for the honest answer. I was curious because I see our dept here pack up on those fires to.
FightinaFire I don't think that's accurate. Every department around here wears an SCBA
no waterhose
Can I borrow a cup of water???
hot enough to melt glass
Nice footage, did you film it from the next town !....;-).....I know I know ,"safety first"...
it's a Ford!!!marshmallows anyone??
poor monterey
No one has a garden hose??
good jab
Do they not have a garden hose?
Don't be so shy next time. Just walk up there and start filming it.
SCBA??????
theultimatesabresfan I'm with you on the SCBA. One out of 7 firefighters wore it, either a rookie or a very smart FF
Yes! Always good to protect the liver and the lungs.
Somebody could have grabbed a host to help minimize damage done at least..just saying..
Robert......I think u mean HOSE as in garden HOSE..........a host is a person
For sale, 7 passenger BBQ.
The owner has, that the aren't is the garage.
Michael De Santa, by your poor grammar and spelling, you are obviously a child of about 7. You MEANT to say,...
..... The owner was lucky that the car was not in the GARAGE when it caught fire.
Absolutely. That would have caught the HOUSE on fire!!!
Probably not an English user. On the other hand, manners are used all over the world!
This is suspicious to me
wonder why 2 appliances to a car fire?----in uk only 1 would be despatched
Because this is standard since they are from same station that usually have average 3-7 appliances anyway. Plus this is in middle of residential neighborhoid which car flames have been know to also ignite the house too so then they would already have backup on hand.
I didn't see any appliances. I did see some fire trucks though.
grey man lol
chevy790 it’s different every where. In my city 1 engine goes and in another city 2 may go. It depends on that department.
Because UK is dumb. What if the fire had spread to the house which it could very easily have done?
where are the garden hoses these would have put this out before it got to big lazy people.i have noticed everyone just stands around does nothing
They aren't fire fighters. They don't have the protective clothing, nor the education to know whether or not the car may explode, and how much time they have.
If they put water on straight away it would not have grown into what it was a total loss
No garden house is putting that out even from the start. The engine is on fire. With the hood closed, there's no way to hit the fire with a garden hose.
Water is water and it will cool the fire down to below the point of combustion. I put out a transmission fluid fire in my Jeep Wagoneer without raising the hood with a garden hose sprayed through the grill. All the insulation on the wires was melted but not burned off and I drove the Jeep after getting the transmission rebuilt.