Those forklift operators remind me of when I was in the Corps as supply and we were gearing up to deploy. All our forklift drivers were driving like crazy when the weekends, or time off was coming up. We left skid marks on the roads. In one case it was a fire, we were trying to get all the gear back into the wearhouses where we had spreaklers. Then evacuated the people who stayed back to make sure everything was locked down. Thanks guys for your help you know who you are.
Those guys on the forklifts were hauling! Containment would have been impossible without them. I hope every one of them got commendations, raises, and free beer for life at the local pub.
I must say the fire department and the guys on those forklifts did a great job .the guys on the forklifts where very brave to go right up to the fire on them. Well done to all in volved.
This reminds me a little of a tire dump site that I worked as a volunteer fire fighter years ago just outside of Pittsburgh. That thing burned for days and felt like it took forever to make any progress. I give these guys and gals a lot of credit for being close to all that heat for so long. If you have never been close to a very large fire you would have a hard time understanding the immense heat these fires let off. Great Job and we appreciate all of you who do this everyday!
I don't mean to make light of this but those forklifts at 19:25 reminded me of the forklifts in the movie, "Cars" that service Lightning McQueen. Lol. These guys did an outstanding job of moving unburned stacks!
I liked the idea of those shipping containers lined up tight to each other, in case something like this happens (which it did). Angle of them good too, puts a metal barrier between fire spreading and the neighborhood. And those drivers sure were awesome! Too bad an update isnt posted to see eventuality of all aspects. Whew! Whatta blaze!
Great job of containing this fire. Unless your an expert or a firefighter you don't know how hot this kind of fire burns, a fire this hot can ignite material up to 1000' away and further with weather conditions. The goal is to keep the heat contained in the center of the fire. There is no chance of putting a fire this large out. The goal is to contain and let it burn itself out.
By spraying on top of the bales, they are converting the water to steam with helps to not only cool the fire but smother it in a sort of way as well. Small fires fought with chemical extinguishers are done by spraying the base of the fire though. Hope that helps with your question.
Jim Smith and Micah Reese I thought of saying "That's one way to get rid of recyclables no one wants." realized it was said already so said.... "how many times di I have to say it.... when you're burning trash (even recyclables) go to a deserted place as not to cause harm... " LOL
Helas it’s true everywhere....many fires mysteriously affect recycling centers and their warehouses, sometimes filled with recyclable materials, sometimes crammed by years...despite the fact that they are substantially inert materials then not subject to spontaneous combustion...
I wonder how much water it took to put that out. It must have been an incredible amount. Also, those fumes and smoke are no doubt extremely toxic. Burning plastic gives off some really nasty chemicals. Not only in the air, but with all that water the poisons must have leached into the ground water. I wonder if they evacuated the neighborhood; I would think they would have had to.
Anyone wondering this can do some simple math to figure out a ballpark number and be completely mindbroken (as am i) from it.. Each deck or aerial gun can have a flow of about 7 metric tonnes of water per minute. Each manual gun can have a flow of about 0.75 metric tonnes per minute. Numbers above are just maximum flow so nozzle type, configuration, etc will reduce those numbers. But let's assume everyone was full open just for the heck of it. Upwind I counted 9 men from the wire bales to the plastic bales. Downwind is hard to tell but I counted another 9. Probably missed some of them. Then there were what seemed like 5 deck/aerial guns in use from upwind to downwind. So that's 9x750l per manual plus 5x7000l per big gun. That's 41,750 litres per minute or 41.75 metric tonnes per minute, which back in imperial looks like 11,000 gallons per minute. This video lasted for 1 hour, 32 minutes so that's 5,093,497 litres, 5,093 cubic metres or 1,347,486 gallons over the course of the video.
I work at a recycling mine and back in the day tires caught fire and other stuff in the dump....the Ontario Airport FD would come in "space suits" pump 10's of thousands of gallons of foam and it did nothing....just like this fire. The only solution for fires like these is dirt.
The fire fighting response looks meager at best; can't they muster a more robust response. Looks like materials are stacked way too close together. Don't they have codes to regulate these businesses?
Provided they know that the building has no personnel remaining inside- why waste firefighter lives for a bunch of burning plastic? Agreed about things being stacked way too close together though.
finally a reporter that knows what he is talking abiut, Unlike the idiots in the US that call a tower ladder a cherry picker and an scba an oxygen tank. Great reporting job.
There was something similar to this in 2001, in Garfield Heights, OH at Garfield Alloys. Some dummy employee at Garfield Alloys decided to open a barrel of raw magnesium with a side grinder instead of a pry bar. Caused many explosions, and was worse when water was put onto the fire. Guess what happens when water is put on raw magnesium, it goes KABOOMSKI! Being that is was raining when that happened, it sure as hell didn't help the fire, made worse obviously. When garfield Alloys explosions happen I lived about 10 miles from the facility. I could see the bright white flames from my bedroom window. My current girlfriend (lives two hours away from me), felt the explosions in Erie, PA! This fire was so bad that out of state fire departments EMS and Law Enforcement were called in to assist.
Could only imagine the destructiveness from that. Was curious and tried searching for videos and only found a short clip of the white flames from miles away, perhaps documentation want posted but damn!
I was on the 10 west coming from San Bernardino and i was able to see the black smoke clouding the sky all the way from the 9th st exit! I work on Commerce way, i can only imagine how that area looks like now.
I don't know if anyone has said this in the comments section yet...so I'll be the first one to say....Those forklift operators sure did a heck of a job......
A bunch of forklift operators are out of a job after a fire at the Ontario Recycling Center.... This video airs... "And they're all hired the next day..."
If there are major fires resulting multiple times in a year then the contractors develops and building owners should get proactive and get rid of the unnecessary fire load inside their premises and improve on their fire prevention programs.
i didn’t watch all of this but i hope someone told the fire truck in the middle of lot that his water he’s spraying isn’t doing a bit of good. Hell it barely reached the first bundle
People consider parachute jumpers or parkour guys as modern day heroes but it is firefighters, and occasionally forklift drivers, should maybe be noticed too.
By the way the fire burns on the ground and around the waste, it appears that gasoline is involved. Someone placed gas all over the place and set that fire on purpose.
No money to be made in recycling. Cheaper to have an “accidental fire” and then claim bankruptcy caused by the fire. Meanwhile actual brave firefighters try their best to put it out. Stay safe.
In a situation like this. Why don't the officials order a helicopter to water drop the fire. These guys are wasting valuable resources, time and energy when other larger pieces of equipment should be utilized.
Gerry Jamieson Helicopters are ungodly expensive and it would take multiple runs to extinguish this fire. It also depends where the nearest water source is. Also, there is an airport nearby, constant fire helicopter fire operations may disrupt airport operations too much to make it worth the time. Firefighters fight large fires all the time without helicopters.
When they get this big there is basically not a whole lot you can do with it other than protect the exposures around it. The heat coming from these types of fires is intense. Even with foam you can't get down into the bales to actually get the fire out. They were doing all they could. Keep the edges cooled off and let it burn itself out. I've been on three fires of this size and type and have seen several firefighters hospitalized trying to play hero and getting too close. Like the guy says, these guys were probably there for days working the scene (and from experience, they were probably some hard miserable days. Hope I make sense with my explanation.
Absolutely loving the Fork truck guys! That was some excellent driving, proper skills!
Forklift*
They had some near miss collisions also.
Those forklift operators remind me of when I was in the Corps as supply and we were gearing up to deploy. All our forklift drivers were driving like crazy when the weekends, or time off was coming up. We left skid marks on the roads. In one case it was a fire, we were trying to get all the gear back into the wearhouses where we had spreaklers. Then evacuated the people who stayed back to make sure everything was locked down. Thanks guys for your help you know who you are.
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Was that a 5th alarm fire?
Those guys on the forklifts were hauling! Containment would have been impossible without them. I hope every one of them got commendations, raises, and free beer for life at the local pub.
I must say the fire department and the guys on those forklifts did a great job .the guys on the forklifts where very brave to go right up to the fire on them. Well done to all in volved.
Those firefighters and forklift drivers are amazing.
The reporter is really knowledgeable about firefighting techniques.
My son was on this fire. Been on a few of these myself over the past 30+ years of my career.
Thank you for all your hard work.
What company?
Jarred Jackson I'm gonna take a wild guess and say Montebello.
@Toms Game Station Hot is an under statement. The radiant heat can blister the paint off of the rig from 50 yards away.......ask my son:)
@@coleyamosno it's in Ontario right
Next to the Airport.
This reminds me a little of a tire dump site that I worked as a volunteer fire fighter years ago just outside of Pittsburgh. That thing burned for days and felt like it took forever to make any progress. I give these guys and gals a lot of credit for being close to all that heat for so long. If you have never been close to a very large fire you would have a hard time understanding the immense heat these fires let off. Great Job and we appreciate all of you who do this everyday!
Same thing happened in Zion Il, its on TH-cam, they had to bring an ARFF truck to help with the cause.
These operation are super efficient, kudos to the fire men and support team
I don't mean to make light of this but those forklifts at 19:25 reminded me of the forklifts in the movie, "Cars" that service Lightning McQueen. Lol.
These guys did an outstanding job of moving unburned stacks!
I like how the reporter actually knew what he was talking about
Agree. KTLA5 has great coverage and their reporters are outstanding.
He reminds me of the helo reporter, Bob Tur of KCBS 2 here in LA
agreed
Those forklift drivers are awesome.
They move like lightning 🙌
It's so incredible how easily fire eats water.
Those forklifts remind me of 'Robot Wars.'
Wow, that's massive thank u to our firemen heros, we love you💜🐾😇🌻🐝🌲🐞🥑💛🔥🚒
You’ll never see those forklifts move that fast unloading a truck !! Lol
Only at 4:50pm on a Friday.
I liked the idea of those shipping containers lined up tight to each other, in case something like this happens (which it did). Angle of them good too, puts a metal barrier between fire spreading and the neighborhood. And those drivers sure were awesome! Too bad an update isnt posted to see eventuality of all aspects. Whew! Whatta blaze!
Great job of containing this fire. Unless your an expert or a firefighter you don't know how hot this kind of fire burns, a fire this hot can ignite material up to 1000' away and further with weather conditions. The goal is to keep the heat contained in the center of the fire. There is no chance of putting a fire this large out. The goal is to contain and let it burn itself out.
Great work to the firefighters battling the blaze
U dont see that they dont perform nothing !!!! westing time !
Rest in peace oxygen. .... poor ppl who live near this area had to suffer so much from the smoke..... hope the air is clean and fresh again. ....
The pollution stays forever in some form, it never just goes away
I was driving on the 60 West around the time of the fire at first I thought a plane went down since it was near the airport
Shouldn’t the water be directed to the base of flames not over them?
The fire was on the top of the bails, thats why they are spraying it there. The wet stuff on the red stuff.
By spraying on top of the bales, they are converting the water to steam with helps to not only cool the fire but smother it in a sort of way as well. Small fires fought with chemical extinguishers are done by spraying the base of the fire though. Hope that helps with your question.
Yes... you know more about firefighting than the actual firefighters. Great job. /s
That's one way to get rid of recyclables no one wants.
That was what I was going to put here almost word for word
Jim Smith and Micah Reese I thought of saying "That's one way to get rid of recyclables no one wants." realized it was said already so said.... "how many times di I have to say it.... when you're burning trash (even recyclables) go to a deserted place as not to cause harm... " LOL
Helas it’s true everywhere....many fires mysteriously affect recycling centers and their warehouses, sometimes filled with recyclable materials, sometimes crammed by years...despite the fact that they are substantially inert materials then not subject to spontaneous combustion...
I wonder how much water it took to put that out. It must have been an incredible amount. Also, those fumes and smoke are no doubt extremely toxic. Burning plastic gives off some really nasty chemicals. Not only in the air, but with all that water the poisons must have leached into the ground water. I wonder if they evacuated the neighborhood; I would think they would have had to.
some of that water is just being wasted by the firemen
Anyone wondering this can do some simple math to figure out a ballpark number and be completely mindbroken (as am i) from it..
Each deck or aerial gun can have a flow of about 7 metric tonnes of water per minute.
Each manual gun can have a flow of about 0.75 metric tonnes per minute.
Numbers above are just maximum flow so nozzle type, configuration, etc will reduce those numbers. But let's assume everyone was full open just for the heck of it.
Upwind I counted 9 men from the wire bales to the plastic bales. Downwind is hard to tell but I counted another 9. Probably missed some of them.
Then there were what seemed like 5 deck/aerial guns in use from upwind to downwind.
So that's 9x750l per manual plus 5x7000l per big gun. That's 41,750 litres per minute or 41.75 metric tonnes per minute, which back in imperial looks like 11,000 gallons per minute. This video lasted for 1 hour, 32 minutes so that's 5,093,497 litres, 5,093 cubic metres or 1,347,486 gallons over the course of the video.
I work at a recycling mine and back in the day tires caught fire and other stuff in the dump....the Ontario Airport FD would come in "space suits" pump 10's of thousands of gallons of foam and it did nothing....just like this fire. The only solution for fires like these is dirt.
dirt catapults to put out the fires!
The only solution for fires like this is Time!
And I feel guilty burning a plastic bag....
This is not far away from where I live. This is at Bon View and State. I pass this place several times per week. Avoiding it now.
Our 120 year old Tabacco barn burnt down back in 1972. The fire lasted 4 days.
Sorry for the loss of your old barn. Buildings like that are what made America .
@@wendyw8931 With slaves
Lmao those guys with the fort lifts moving hella fast I got out of work was driving to Pomona and definitely seen this crazy fire
That place caught fire last year too around this time. I find that just weird
That was the first thing I said. Very suspicious.
China stopped taking our recyclables so they pile up and create a fire hazard.
@Donk This is Canada's recycles stuff not America's what does China not taking America's recycles has to do with Canada?
@Donk My bad
@Donk same with Australia. They stopped taking ours
This happened tuesday. Why was it not all over the tv news ?
The fire fighting response looks meager at best; can't they muster a more robust response. Looks like materials are stacked way too close together. Don't they have codes to regulate these businesses?
Provided they know that the building has no personnel remaining inside- why waste firefighter lives for a bunch of burning plastic? Agreed about things being stacked way too close together though.
Does anyone know what was in the green bales, in the bottom right of the picture?
Cannabis
What took the tiller truck so long to get setup
Always does
How did it start? Just wondering if it was carelessbess or something else? Disgruntled employee?
Those fork lift guys are awesome!!
Whew! Props to those fork lift drivers!
I moved from the IE 10 years ago. You forget how bad the smog is there until you go back or see it here. I don’t miss it.
Great footage guys!
this long train is amazing
I seem to remember a tire factory burning there about 10 years ago or more. Is this the same one? It just seems like deja vu to me.
finally a reporter that knows what he is talking abiut, Unlike the idiots in the US that call a tower ladder a cherry picker and an scba an oxygen tank. Great reporting job.
Scott Gingras This was in Ontario California.
Nice spelling
There was something similar to this in 2001, in Garfield Heights, OH at Garfield Alloys. Some dummy employee at Garfield Alloys decided to open a barrel of raw magnesium with a side grinder instead of a pry bar. Caused many explosions, and was worse when water was put onto the fire. Guess what happens when water is put on raw magnesium, it goes KABOOMSKI! Being that is was raining when that happened, it sure as hell didn't help the fire, made worse obviously. When garfield Alloys explosions happen I lived about 10 miles from the facility. I could see the bright white flames from my bedroom window. My current girlfriend (lives two hours away from me), felt the explosions in Erie, PA! This fire was so bad that out of state fire departments EMS and Law Enforcement were called in to assist.
Could only imagine the destructiveness from that. Was curious and tried searching for videos and only found a short clip of the white flames from miles away, perhaps documentation want posted but damn!
I was on the 10 west coming from San Bernardino and i was able to see the black smoke clouding the sky all the way from the 9th st exit! I work on Commerce way, i can only imagine how that area looks like now.
Shoutout to the firefighters and the homies on the forklifts they all got down 🤙🏽
I don't know if anyone has said this in the comments section yet...so I'll be the first one to say....Those forklift operators sure did a heck of a job......
The back ends of those forklifts are 4 or more inches of solid steel, a light bump at 1 mph isn't going to do anything.
Must be making room for container's coming back from the Philippines soon.
Blu Rox22 Js5 this is most definitely Ontario California. KTLA 5 is a local Southern California news station.
Know that this may be a strange question but guessing air Drops wouldnt work in a case like this or is it becasue it was too close to the airport???
Wouldn't make a difference
Cant u call the air tankers to help in cases like this?
A bunch of forklift operators are out of a job after a fire at the Ontario Recycling Center.... This video airs... "And they're all hired the next day..."
Prayers
Those fork lift drivers better have gotten a raise!
They'll be lucky to have a job to come back to when the fire is out.
Our Firefighter's ROCK
2nd time in a year? sounds like the fire guys need to elvaluate their fire safety
If there are major fires resulting multiple times in a year then the contractors develops and building owners should get proactive and get rid of the unnecessary fire load inside their premises and improve on their fire prevention programs.
Good yard workers on those forklifts! Wow that's a sstinky fire.
Recycling, not trash
@@peanut111shorty Burning rubber is stinky.
It’s not called structure protection it’s they are making containment lines
They are obviously not trying to put it out there only trying to contain it
Why don´t they use foam at all?
At 1.39 that firefighter just chilling and sitting down spraying water
the worst thing about fires like this is it puts people out of work for awhile
1:39 I love the firefighter sitting on the ground with the hose. Maybe it's cooler down there. Heat rises.
Why are they not using foam to put out the fire?
Every last one of those forklift drivers need a raise
i didn’t watch all of this but i hope someone told the fire truck in the middle of lot that his water he’s spraying isn’t doing a bit of good. Hell it barely reached the first bundle
Same thing I was thinking . And I watched the whole vid.
Wasn't he just trying to keep those bails in the middle from catching fire??
This same place burned back in 2016 as well.
I feel for these firemen I hope they are wearing some kind of breathing equipment.in my prayers
looks like a good spot for a water drop or a hundred
1topfueldrag Gasoline Drop!
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How did the fire start?
People consider parachute jumpers or parkour guys as modern day heroes but it is firefighters, and occasionally forklift drivers, should maybe be noticed too.
It 25:00 is the tiller spraying yet?
By the way the fire burns on the ground and around the waste, it appears that gasoline is involved. Someone placed gas all over the place and set that fire on purpose.
1:25 49s gives his buddies a soak with the truck monitor. Ha
I was surprised that a truck from the airport was sent to help. They did good though.
This video was published in 2019. Two years ago!
The best way to get rid of plastic is to Stop making it
Michael Johnson Can you get thru your everyday life without using or even touching any kind of plastic? No you can’t.
Bales upon bales of cardboard wrapped in plastic so it doesn't rot. The black smoke is from mostly plastics and some cardboards.
Don't understand why recycle centers have to store so much stuff. Why not sort, wrap, load and ship it out daily?
Airport fire truck not using its cannon, that ladder not using it's big cannon thing. The hell were they even there for.
I’m not understanding why the snorkel is not beinG used!
Can't trust MSM, don't know if KTLA fits that, living far from LA now I sure miss them. Aways felt honesty when viewing or listening to them.
I would have thought the 'urine' train would've been the one going from no.ho to downtown.
How did that fire started ?
On major fires like this with massive areas.... I would think they could call in an aerial water drop.. if not by plane, then by helicopters...
No money to be made in recycling. Cheaper to have an “accidental fire” and then claim bankruptcy caused by the fire. Meanwhile actual brave firefighters try their best to put it out. Stay safe.
Should put a snorkel/platform on that corner where it is raging and plumbing black smoke
Need a couple air tankers to bring in some targeted water drops.
Why didn’t they use like a foam made to put out gas fires 🔥?
you figure 1000 gallons per minute out of each truck x the hours and you got the amount of water used
In a situation like this. Why don't the officials order a helicopter to water drop the fire. These guys are wasting valuable resources, time and energy when other larger pieces of equipment should be utilized.
Gerry Jamieson Helicopters are ungodly expensive and it would take multiple runs to extinguish this fire. It also depends where the nearest water source is. Also, there is an airport nearby, constant fire helicopter fire operations may disrupt airport operations too much to make it worth the time. Firefighters fight large fires all the time without helicopters.
seems to me that a few carefully administered fire retardant airdrops would be beneficial.
The forklift drivers were the real heroes that day 😂
It's 9p.m. at night and I still smell it in North Fontana/Rancho Cucamonga area. Smells nasty, like moldy barbeque if there even is such a thing.
Yeah you could smell it in S Fontana. Had no idea this is what it was
Xtremecarfan101 No thats The Meth cooking that you're smelling!
Healed renewed like the Eagle 🦅 truest anomaly Hallelujah
no foam being used???..gana let it burn out???..why?
When they get this big there is basically not a whole lot you can do with it other than protect the exposures around it. The heat coming from these types of fires is intense. Even with foam you can't get down into the bales to actually get the fire out. They were doing all they could. Keep the edges cooled off and let it burn itself out. I've been on three fires of this size and type and have seen several firefighters hospitalized trying to play hero and getting too close. Like the guy says, these guys were probably there for days working the scene (and from experience, they were probably some hard miserable days. Hope I make sense with my explanation.
Why not drop water or retardand like in brush-/forestfires? California should know how to do it. They have had good practice lately.
It takes a lot to get them in the air, not easy as "hey give us a chopper with bucket, or plane with a load"
@@tugboat_actual yes and as in these 2 years I have learned that the water drops might spreads the fire.
That's bad for the atmosphere 😕 Talk about pollution...Unbelievable
Wouldn't them fire fighter planes be good on this job? I've no experience in this just a thought? Course depends on where the closest water source was
There that ladder sat, broken hearted. Came to flow water and only farted...
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
A BASF Turbolöscher could have been helpfull 🤗♥️ with Love from Germany
Buring garbage is a quick way to get out of garbage.
WHEN IS THIS GOVERNMENT DAM HELP THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND rescue and paramedics. Its a DAM SHAME