No stupid comment, no music or stupid other sounds. Thanks for this video which speaks for itself by showing the serious of this cataclysm. Please be careful, God bless you💖
My heart goes out to those who lost their world, from homes to family members and furbabies. The pain you all feel while waiting for your neighborhood to finish burning just to go back and find anything possible left behind Is devastating to watch. If I was capable of doing anything possible to help I'd be there but I can send love prayers and hope for the fastest journey to a comfortable new normal while you all rebuild. Hang in there and lean on those around you From alberta canada
36 minutes in, the devastation as you go into the backyard and the surrounding hills... just horrible... Thank you first responders and thinking about everyone affected.
Yeah the way they are soaking the houses on the edge and as he goes around and you see the firefighters on the next street. I would not doubt if they saved those houses completely. But they being super effective.
I'm a retired firefighter This is beyond serious it is a mega catastrophy of unparralleled proportions. My Thought and Prayers go out to the victims be they deceased or evacuees. As well as all the personel involved in fighting this fire Stay Safe my brothers.
Best wishes to all firefighters in LA. You do exemplary work and sometimes without water. God bless you. Rhineland Palatinate Fire Department from Germany! 🙏🇩🇪
This is so sad and terrifying l am watching from Uk and l am horrified l cannot imagine the fear and uncertainty of all residents who have been affected my heartfelt best to you all and hope this terrifying situation can be brought under control. ❤️ from the Uk.
i was drained watching this 35 minutes in and i looked and it was a whole other hour left, i couldnt imagine fighting that. great job wow just wow, no words😞
Fire comes from all sides..Salute to all the firefighters of California for doing your exemplary job! God bless you and keep you safe as you perform your duties.. My prayers goes to you all and also for the victims..Be safe 🙏🙏❤️
Hey guys - thanks for the clear & concise footage without all the bs. We're keeping up with the events from down under (sister country of fires) & it's been so annoying listening to the s(*% talking news anchors, send them home! We're amazed just how many HAVEN'T lost their lives, great news. Keep safe, all the best!
First of all what an amazing video! You along with all these firefighters deserve a medal! Your dedication is INCREDIBLE!! I conversely hope ALL these firefighters get medals because in Australia they do! What I don’t get is, why are all the houses in America in a bushfire prone area built with wood & highly flammable materials? In Australia most of our houses are built with bricks or concrete and non flammable roofs. After our “Black Saturday” fires, owners were not allowed to build wooden houses they had to be brick or cement and they had to have clearance around the property, no bushes/trees up against the house, their own water tanks, protection blinds on windows. Some properties even put in underground shelters. You can’t keep having homes with so much exterior flammable material and although it looks so pretty you cant have trees and bushes touching the house or even tan bark on your flower beds. I watched a video of a new house that was still standing in the palisades because it was built with cement had NO open eaves or attic space, nothing touching the house and had a brick wall around it! It survived because it was built with the right materials and was a clear site, every house around it was gone! I noticed also a lot of these places had hedges around the property with wooden panel fencing! We all love privacy but hedges always go up fast!! No house is 100% fireproof but there are precautions you can take when you know you live in a fire prone area! Did no one learn from the story of the “3 little pigs” why are we still building houses made out of sticks!?
I am so beyond sorry to all of you that have lost everything , and to the ones who have love ones injured and critically injured and have also sadly loss their lives to these fires , and to the one injured and critically injured I hope you all make a full recovery and sorry to all of you that have literally lost everything including pets , and I pray for all the wildlife too , and to the Brother's and Sister's working exhaustingly to protect property and life , just want to say thank you , and to all the Samaritans helping during these very difficult and unfortunate events and times taking place !
This is closest footage I've seen of the fire fighting in LA by far. Other videos I've seen, the vloggers weren't obviously allowed in. This is incredible and absolutely horrifying to see. Haven't seen anything like this on the news. My thoughts and prayers go out to these firefighters working around the clock 24/7 to combat these fires. I can't imagine the amount of stress and exhaustion these men and women are going through. ❣🚒🧑🚒
My daughter has a friend in LA and his Condo burned down in that horrid fire. The after health affect of everyone's Lungs breathing in all of that fire smoke. This is a DAMN shame and tragedy.
@@Eve90 I'm sorry to hear that, I wish there was something I could have done. Sadly, with the amount of fire involving the rear, it wasn't saveable. Even with multiple fire trucks.
This is ASTONISHING footage. Mind blowing. On many levels. Obviously it's a look into to beginning stages of what we all know was to come. Also, it displays, in blindingly obvious fashion, the abject, total failure of planning and leadership at all levels of LA City and County re: public safety, particularly their FD's. Which not so long ago were among the very best in the world. This has been a known as the worst case/big one' scenario for DECADES: a Santa Ana wind-driven intra-city wildfire allowed to get out of control. All fire event planning and mitigation has been toward ONE END: should such a fire start, it simply CANNOT be allowed to get out of control. This weather (weather which, in spin control mode, 'leadership' keeps calling 'unprecedented'....hardly) was forecast days in advance. Assets should have been deployed and plans in place city and county wide. Via terrible and apparently zero planning, management and leadership, they let the unthinkable occur: an out of control raging wildfire in urban Los Angeles left free to burn anything and everything until it hit a natural break (i.e. the ocean.) As a born/raised former Angeleno, like all of us I've seen countless similar or even worse Santa Ana days (who do they think their fooling??) and on many of those days, fires have indeed broken out in unban, dense areas of the city: Bel Air, Hollywood Hills, Los Feliz...dozens of examples. In each one these, fires were swarmed on by literal armies of firefighters, and a few structures have been lost but they were ALWAYS put down before getting out of control. Because you simple CANNOT allow such a fire to get out of control. To watch the Palisades burning to the ground, literally to ashes, with ZERO fight, is the single most surreal and insane thing I've ever seen. My heart breaks for the city and all impacted. And for the line firefighters, who take their jobs VERY seriously and it was obvious were beyond frustrated at the lack of leadership and tools to do there jobs. The lack of water tender trucks (the hydrant issue is just a red herring) is probably the worst of countless failures. And IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED. To listen to these complete idiots (Garcetti, who was bad enough, was mayor when I left...but this Bass character is next level incompetent. How on earth did she get elected? Has LA lost it's collective mind?) and their chatGPT written platitudes and the delusion that anyone cares about their feelings (or that they will fix things) and their total refusal to even CONSIDER taking responsibility for what we all know is one of the biggest failures in US public safety history is so bizarre it's like they are living on another planet. Do they actually think they're fooling anyone? This amazing footage brings the full scope of both the tragedy and the failures behind it into sharp view. It's value is incalculable. My guess is it'll used in a forensic capacity in the future. Big, big kudos. And sadly, my hometown is in big time trouble, there's no doubt about that.
Hard to pre-deploy and get assets out of ahead of time when their budget is get by $17 million. Certainly could have made a difference. Granted at the same time while you can say they cannot let it get out of control like this there’s no guarantee it doesn’t still happen with a full staffed fully funded department. Sometimes all the planning and all the assets in the world isn’t enough to prevent something. Sometimes the recipe for disaster is just perfect. Sometimes nature is just going to do things beyond the scope of human intervention. Don’t get me wrong, not disagreeing completely and agree that there were definitely failures, especially from the city level in how the LAFD was funded and given the complete tools and assets needed.
If you followed this fire closely this was attacked by air since 11am, winds werent as bad (still 25-30mph) as the day progressed winds were up there around 60-80mph and no air attack was able to assist. Now imagine those winds kicking up embers 2miles + you’re talking about multiple homes going up every minute. You can pre plan and have assets ready but this was just one of those fires that had everything going for it to become a disaster. This had nothing to do with “Fire departments choosing to let palisades burn to the ground” they did their best but the fire was just out of control where they couldn’t get to every house which just let to more houses/neighborhoods being lost
Then you must be in your seventies or older because I'm 65 and I've never seen It that bad. There was no way to do an aerial assault on this fire once the winds picked up. Without that they were on the defense instead of the offense. They were having 70 to 80 mile per hour gusts, sometimes even higher because the fire also creates wind. And there is no way to prevent hydrants from not having water when there are that many lines being used.
Why don't these firefighters have any masks on? It made me so worried to think about the long term effects of being exposed to these types of chemicals in the air. It's not only the woods burning; all sorts of construction materials from asbestos to plastic, electronics in the houses, cables that would release all sorts of carcinogens... Maybe I'm ignorant but then someone please explain to me how this is safe?
That's all I kept thinking as well. I was in the Eaton fire and my eyes were burning so bad and my lungs felt like they were on fire. It was so difficult to breathe for even a few seconds.
Well actually masks for firefighters are only really used to protect them while they work so they can work longer,, their actual fighting suits soak up alot of chemicals and eventually seeps into their skin,, cancer rates are much higher for firefighters than everyone else,, I lost a good friend nearly 7 year's ago,, he was a fire fighter for about 15 year's,, the cancer that took him was a direct cause of chemicals his body absorbed from fire's
These firefighters gave it thier all! They knew it was a losing battle, but still stood next to engulfed walls, that could have collapsed on them,, to try to save a home of someone they did not know. It was too big, too wide spread, to prevent, contain, or stop. No matter prevention measures, equipment, or manpower.
I'd like to tell all Americans that after disaster, if the govt does not let you have a certain heating system...go into debt to get what You want & need. I say this because the govt would not help with coal or wood furnaces for us in pa. Only gas & electric. My parents were old, on a fixed income & could not afford the oil. Winter after brutal winter, there was no heat in that house, because hud would not help. Lobbyists made the rules. Utilities go down, dead of winter, you could burn anything, to get heat from a wood/coal furnace or fireplace.
many of them don't even have a mask on! this is not a wood fire, all the asbestos, burning paint, plastic, electronics... all carcinogens! I don't get how this is even allowed. are people gonna track all of these first responders for the rest of their lives and take care of them if they get all sorts of lung diseases or cancer?
I’m sorry I am a fireman and there are way too many hoses all over this video. I need to understand. That alone will kill pressure if everyone is just connecting all over of course there is no pressure.
Very Sad 😭😭😭 My Prayers 🙏🙏🙏 Are With All of You In California First Responders And All of The Residents Heartbreaking So Sad To see Such A Beautiful Place Burning Up 😞😞😞 Godbless All of You IN JESUS MIGHTY HOLY NAME AMEN!!!!
@bobcharlotte8724 Nope! Shot, cut together, rendered, and uploaded from my phone! I don't color grade any of my footage, with the exception of contrast editing. That's only done during some day shots to bring it closer to reality, but not done to this video.
I have been researching and studying these fires since Paradise California, after Lahaina Maui, I was enraged! I do believe I have a relatively good grasp as to how and why these "wild fires" are so devastating to everything except the "wild"... Seeing this devastation from LA has found me apathetic and numb... I can fluidly and easily express scientific and obvious explanations for the strange phenomenon we are witnessing. IT BOILS MY RH NEGATIVE BLOOD THAT PEOPLE WILL STILL DISCREDIT WHAT I HAVE PRESENTED, AND ARGUE, AND VILIFY ME AS SOME QUACK JOB WHOM DOESN'T KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT! So the structures are burned to the ground and cars are melted, yet the trees are still there with leaves and the bushes right next to the house are just fine...? I have seen super flammable ceder and gum and eucalyptus trees hanging with leaves intact hanging over multi story mansions that were completely leveled.... That's not normal! Kids plastic playsets next to incenerated homes, blue plastic trash cans sitting brand new looking inside garages that were leveled or next to cars and homes that were incenerated... Plastic usually turns to hot melting flammable goop when exposed to high temperatures! But okay your right everything is completely normal... No water in the fire hydrants? That's because the static energy that causes the crazy, not normal winds is caused by a macro wave energy source that vaporizes H2O in its beam path... That process obviously evaporated the water out of the steel pipes! Tell me how a brush fire burns pipes in the ground or ignites non flammable telephone poles and melts the electric lines and meter box's... I mean, smgdh... The energy concentration is so intense that anything, that is conductive, like metal or H2O, will have a ground fault reaction creating an arc, anything touching that arc would incenerate at extremely high temperatures, think plasma cutter, this is why plastic objects didn't melt, or the "open to the elements" super dry osb of the under construction home right next door didn't catch fire.... The osb was dry and had no H2O to boil or metal to combust... Unlike the steel banded tires of the car parked out in front of the leveled house that was also incenerated... It's the same thing that happens when you put foil in a microwave, but on a larger scale... The trees and foliage don't burn because wood doesn't conduct electricity very well... But DEW you know what does conduct electricity....? Everything that these "wild fires" DEW burn! The smart meters were installed and every home was wired to a dedicated ground wire coming from the polls to the house... Houses presmart meter, were grounded with rods into the ground... Now every house is hooked to a common ground that's feed back to the substations. Adding this ground allows the electric Company a third connection in which they can send singles through... They use this to monitor real-time usage as well as gives them the ability to pulse an alternate sinewave through the ground that will remotely shut off your power... That is their main purpose, the ability to remotely shut off power... IMO the electric company has data of extreme spikes and malfunctions during these fires... Most of the houses that survived this fire did not have smart meters or had isolation cutoffs between the and the grid... As far as the dustification of the man-made structures goes... It's frequency that vibrates particles, metallic objects, when exposed to certain frequencies, become hyper conductive and this produces heat... It also causes the surface of the metallic objects to oxidize, oxygen feeds fire... Hence the rapid incenereation of metal objects when placed in your microwave... Also explains the white look of the ash present on the cars and other incenereated objects like the broken power polls and transformers... Usually, house fires and even forest fires leave the landscape or surrounding structures covered in black soot and charred surfaces... These fires consumed entire homes but left only white ash and no smoke damage... Here is another bit of science, the oxidation of concrete or stone or ceramic objects, this process of vibrating concrete molecules literally zaps the oxygen molocules out of the masonry, guess what happens when you lower the ppm of oxygen molocules in concrete? IT LITERALLY, WILL TURN TO DUST! Hence the lack of structures after fires like that of Lihaina... I can also say that this type of frequency manipulation doesn't really affect plastic objects... They turned off the water in Maui/LA/Paradise becuase adding water to an electrical fire will only make it worse... The most moist place in a tree is obviously at its core, and just like the food in your microwave, that cooks from the inside out, so do the trees in these "wildfires"! Also brush fires don't leap, they spread across the landscape igniting everything flamible in their paths... This looks like these structures burned intensly fast from the inside out, and most didn't even singe the lush landscapeing or char the wooden fences at all! Notice that everything is not bright and lush green everywhere.... But still retains all of its foliage.... These plants and trees appear to be severely dehydrated but not burnt at all... I have seen under construction, open to the elements, stick frame OSB sheeting houses that are currently standing and untouched by fire, right next to completely leveled concrete, glass, and steel homes.... So please open your eyes and you will see that this fire was not normal wild fire.
Crazy how bushes and trees and palms and wood fences and deck chairs and decks and the awnings and trash cans didn't burn... But the bolts in the bulkhead wall look like they got hot enough to burn the bulkhead around them but the same wood that didn't have the bolts was completely fine...The artwork and rare cars... The historic properties all just gone! I would totally build back using those blue trashcans and wooden fence and deck materials, they seem to be the most Fire/Heat proof! Definitely not gonna use steel and glass, because these fires melted those.... Maybe cover the new house in all the unburnt foliage or palm frawns... Definitely not gonna be connected to the power grid, did you see those exploded transformers and fire proof poles?Virtually zero smoke damage anywhere on the stuff that survived right next to completely leveled concrete and steel homes ... Also brush fires don't leap, they spread across the landscape igniting everything flamible in their paths... This looks like these structures burned intensly fast from the inside out, and most didn't even singe the lush landscapeing or char the wooden fences at all! Notice that everything is not bright and lush green everywhere.... But still retains all of its foliage.... These plants and trees appear severely dehydrated but not burnt at all...I have seen under construction, open to the elements, stick frame OSB sheeting houses that are currently standing and untouched by fire, right next to completely leveled concrete and steel homes.... So please open your eyes and you will see that this fire was not normal
There is a video of a brush fire in Palasades from 5 years ago here on YT... It's crazy to watch that and compare just how different the news was reporting the fire, the emergency response to the fire, and the fact that the fire actually was burning the "wild" and the firefighters plus the home owners and their garden hoses managed to fend the fire off, saving all the homes on the block... Only the brush on the mountain side was affected, and the smoke was white/ Grey, and not the jet black plums of intensity like the recent fires... The video was a stream and was like 2 hours of start to finish fire fighting with news commentary... Very compelling evidence that this fire was foul play... Especially in how emergency response conducted themselves.... I feel like everytime I saw firefighters they were standing in huddles doing absolutely nothing, or doing pointless things like trying to put a small fire out by using purses that they had filled up with water and ran a 100 ft across the parking lot to jump on a small fire that clip was hilarious there were two firefighters using literal women's purses as a Bucket Brigade...
2 Peter 2:6: "And God did not spare ancient cities, but destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, making them an example to those who would afterwards live ungodly".
Looks like Dresden (Germany) after fire bombing in WW2. Good thing all or most people got out before this disaster. I think we need to study how to build more fire resistant.
They were bulldozed aside to make way for emergency vehicles. Due to road bottlenecks in the area, people fled their cars when fire approached the traffic jam they were in.
I believe during the high winds when fire was jumping streets at 60 to 70 mph the fleeeing evacuating residents in cars were going one way out of there but the fire cut them off trapping them in to the street with all exits ablaze. So the decision was taken to abandon the cars and excape on foot. There was a mass evacuation and hence the cars were five abrest filling the road.
Just thinking...instead of rolling out big firetrucks with all the hoses and such that take lots of time to set up, are there such things as small trucks with say pumped 2500 gal. tanks with in cab control to aim deck guns to patrol an area and put out little hot spots...point and squirt..."nip it in the bud" as Barney Fife would say. Have maybe a dozen of these units working with strategic refill points. I wonder how effective that would be in lessening full structure burns?
I’ve been thinking the same thing. But the US is fixated with BIG. The whole system with gigantic trucks is not suitable for narrow streets with low rise buildings. Don’t get me started on the stupidity with gas pipes and overhead power lines in fire prone areas.
Small truck and 2500 gallon tank don’t go together. You’re going to have a large footprint with a 2500 gallon tank. The water tenders (or tankers depending on what part of the country you’re from) that can be seen in some of the footage are probably in the area of 2500-3000 gallons and as you can see they’re going to be just as big as your regular pumper truck. The engines seen here and generally used throughout the country usually carry between 500-750 gallons. As you can see in some of the videos many of them have deck guns on top being utilized that can be used right away. But obviously trying to get closer or to the back of these structures is going to require pulling hose lines to access. Some brush trucks that are much smaller will have remote controled deck guns that can be operated from inside the cab. But those are going to be very limited in the amount of water they can carry.
They were left there with people fleeing on foot they had to bring a dozer out and literally pushed them all out of the way and they don’t do it nice lol they just push them where ever and into whatever just so emergency vehicles can get though
They were not crashed in to each other when they were evacuated. They were side by side. I believe during the high winds when fire was jumping streets at 60 to 70 mph the fleeeing evacuating residents in cars were going one way out of there but the fire cut them off trapping them in to the street with all exits ablaze. So the decision was taken to abandon the cars and excape on foot. There was a mass evacuation and hence the cars were five abreast filling the road. As the road was packed solid with abandoned evacuated cars where access was needed for fire fighters. A bulldozer was sent in to clear the cars to make way for fire trucks. So the dozer just pushed the cars out of the way resulting in what looked like crashed cars. Any crashing was the dozer pushing car after car in to the other cars to push them to the side.
Wow… I literally have no words to describe how bad this is and how bad I feel for everyone who’s unfortunately lost *EVERYTHING*.. great work. I can’t even imagine how excruciatingly *HOT* it must have been to be there in person.
The fire fell on the roof - wooden - ate through that - and then dropped into the home. The walls were sturdier and didn't catch as quickly, though in the end, most of them burned too, with only the chimneys of stone left standing. (My guess). My prayers are with all who live in Southern California and all those responders from there and who have come from all around to help....
Both Michel, Frankling and the entire L.A. SWAT force are looking for Trevor after he was seen drinking tequilla at blazing City bars wearing a flame thrower. They have found plenty empty tequilla bottles and what looks like his pair of shoes amongst the ashes but no sign of him.
2:10 At this point in the video he is driving north up Enchanted Way in the 900 block to the top of the hill that ends at cul-de-sac, then drives back down Enchanted Way, then he's at the 16900 block of Scenic Pl where the basketball apparatus is in the street, sadly almost all of Enchanted Way on the canyon side was lost.
Incredible, horrifying footage and well done to all you firefighters for your amazing efforts. Can I ask (as someone who probably doesn't know what he's talking about) - is there much point in hosing down buildings that are already well alight - such as at 41:57 - and clearly beyond saving? Wouldn't precious water supplies be better deployed around the edge of the fire line as a retardant to stop the fire spreading further? Best wishes from North Wales, UK.
Sorry to be contradictory. They only have a very limited capacity to survive fore. Just as a brazil Nut, or Walnut as some impact resistant outer hard shell it is only limited. Hit it with a hammer and the resistance is cracked. I am sure you knows as I do that wood has been used for cooking fuel for thousands of years since stone age generations had fire. That is because wood burns. Leave it in the ground buried long enough and it becomes coal which also generally burns. A densely leaft tree can actually go up in seconds when wind driven fire blows 20 to 30 foot flames at it. It was deep autumn when many of the desiduouse leaves were dry, parched and totally brown. So like tinder. They would burn rapidly. Green folage contains some oils whish also would blaze in to fire easily if hot enough. Sounds like a sparkler ignighing when they go. But the main trunk can resist or survive that first burning. But the trunk would also burn to ashes if surrounded by an inferno. So limited suvival ability.
Watching your video - I think homeowners should have stayed and protected their own homes. There were small fires that you could have stomped out - and didn’t. It may have made a difference. People should have stayed until it didn’t make sense.
Its like this guy is a ghost roaming the streets and nobody can see him; they might feel his presence and look his way but if this was Jersey or 40 other states he would be beaten by police, robbed, or both
I don't know how one could film that and not be frantic wanting to save the people's things..photos. one of my biggest fears ever playing out in this video 😢
Where did everyone in the cars go??? Did they just get out and start running toward wherever??? I can’t even imagine it. Hundreds of people getting out of their cars and high tailing it with all their stuff… so much stuff had to be in those cars. How scary and traumatic to have to decide what to do. A scene in a crazy movie.
no entiendo como las casa ardian tan facilmente? son de papel y carton las casas?? no son de materiales ignifugos como ladrillo, concretos y tejas y chapas??
No. Tile would be better.But in a fire like this even that really is no guarantee.All it takes is an ember to get up under an eave . Not when you have 70 to 80 mile per hour wind gusts or higher.
Have you seen Oakland, San Francisco, Tuscan, Portland, Detroit, and most of the Midwest? No healthcare, huge and wealth disparities, looks like a 3rd world nation to me! Can't even contain a brush fire
Really?? Australia isn't a 3rd world country and we get severe fires like this almost every summer,, it doesn't matter what country you're in with the right conditions you get these horrible fires,, it is what it is and when the conditions are as perfect for fire as these one's were,, doesn't matter how big your fire department is or how many resources they have you're not stopping these fire's
@@phil-anthrophist3960 especially when your mayors out the country, your governor is a grifter, your firedepartment is underfunded and full of unqualified poorly trained personnel, plus they didn't have water in the hydrants! The whole scenerio seems rather convenient, more so than coincidence... Now add in all the anomalies, and impossible physics being displayed as "normal" fire activity... And one would think they were in a corrupt third world country with an ignorant and easily duped populace....
@@phil-anthrophist3960 Funny, you say that these fires are "unstoppable", when... as the supposed 1st world nation we are, do have access to frequency based fire extinguishers that use sound waves to put out fires... These devices are used at airports to extinguish plane fires without damaging any of the equipment like water or other extinguishers would... They are highly regulated devices because they can cause bodily injury, but they totally work in seconds to extinguish any fire... As a modern nation with billions to hand out to other nations, one would think that they would utilize this technology to stop the spread of a pesky brush fire before it burned down an entire town worth billions of dollars in property value and the loss of potential tax revenues... But I guess convincing the masses that it was natural, and there is nothing anyone could do, because of the wind...
As an Aussie ex-fire fighter myself I was pretty unimpressed at first seeing guys just using water cannons from their trucks, seemed a bit scared or badly trained to get in there and attack the base of the fire, then I saw that one guy at 21:50 who seemed to know what he was doing, hauled the hose by himself up to the yard and hit it at the base and put it out in seconds. Seems a lot of LA firefighters are used to small fires involving one or a couple of structures and a bit undertrained or overwhelmed by fires of this magnitude. No disrespect or doubting their intentions or courage, but I've seen lots of videos now where they seemed not as effective as they could be. Of course, the water running out didn't help. Fire is a way of life, a constant threat in Australia every summer, which we just call Fire Season.
Thank you for your service and to those currently fighting these LA fires. I've lived in the Blue Mountains for 16 years, and this has been very close to home on several occasions. I feel sorry for all these people, the loss of life, devastating 😢 I wonder when it's our turn again 😢
@@OMG21ization Yeah me too. I live on the Central Coast, and it's basically surrounded by forests. We do back burns, but not enough, I fear. Join the bush fire brigade in your area if you can even if maybe not to fight fires there are many jobs to do and the training is excellent. At least it reduces the fear and makes you feel useful should the worst happen. Good luck up there, beautiful area.
Its heartbreaking to see this, it really is. All that work, effort, time, craftsmanship. Somehow Biden/Harris thought the best thing to do with our $ was to send 60 Billion to Ukraine, instead of spending a little bit here to prevent what many said would happen. So sad to see, how tragic this truly is; like Hawaii. One day you have the home of your dreams and things you want to end times with; next day its all gone. You can kind of see it hit a lot of people, that they never really though that would happen to them. Not only the loss of a house, a community, neighbors, poof that is all gone. Prayers to all those affected. Thankyou so much for posting this, seeing this side really shows you the devastation and beauty as it was being wiped out.
I don’t think we can ever see this close up real time footage of this. so I can see why the winds would make fighting this fire practically impossible.
Cant get my head around what happened here. My god its all gone. Where are the firefighters? I didnt see many at the start, houses ablaze & nobody around? No sense of urgency. 😮😢💔
This is the most amazing footage I've seen yet. What a horrendous tragedy. I grew up in Bel Air and survived the 1961 Bel Air Conflagration. It was bad but nowhere near as destructive as this 🔥 fire. Our house survived for some reason but all of the ones around us burned down. Thanks for your reply. How did you stay so calm? I wouldn't have been.
2 Peter 2:6: "And God did not spare ancient cities, but destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, making them an example to those who would afterwards live ungodly".
No wonder these houses burnt down,they r right up against each other.there is trash leaves,limbs an who know what else in the streets.a fire is definitely going to spread
It wouldn't have mattered much in this fire storm,, because the winds were soooo strong burning ember's would of flown upto 10-15miles starting fire's where no fire had been close to yet,, these ember's can get up under roof tiles where the frame of the house is wood and would also have lit any insulation in the roof,, burning embers can fly into mail slots on front doors,, they can get blowk under the house and burn through wooden floor's,, point is,, with the conditions that occurred it wouldn't have mattered a whole lot how far apart people's homes are
21:30. I need to hire that guy! I have 2 workers that stepped OVER a pallet all day that was a safety hazzard to them ans others. Dam! I wanted to see how long it took before sonone moved it to a safe place and they never did and i forgot to move it !
Excellent Excellent Excellent field work! This was absolutely astonishing. HISTORY!
No stupid comment, no music or stupid other sounds. Thanks for this video which speaks for itself by showing the serious of this cataclysm. Please be careful, God bless you💖
Most detailed, accurate footage of the Palisades. Excellent camerawork. Thank you and stay safe.
My heart goes out to those who lost their world, from homes to family members and furbabies. The pain you all feel while waiting for your neighborhood to finish burning just to go back and find anything possible left behind Is devastating to watch. If I was capable of doing anything possible to help I'd be there but I can send love prayers and hope for the fastest journey to a comfortable new normal while you all rebuild. Hang in there and lean on those around you
From alberta canada
36 minutes in, the devastation as you go into the backyard and the surrounding hills... just horrible... Thank you first responders and thinking about everyone affected.
Yeah the way they are soaking the houses on the edge and as he goes around and you see the firefighters on the next street. I would not doubt if they saved those houses completely. But they being super effective.
I'm a retired firefighter This is beyond serious it is a mega catastrophy of unparralleled proportions. My Thought and Prayers go out to the victims be they deceased or evacuees. As well as all the personel involved in fighting this fire Stay Safe my brothers.
Best video I've seen yet
Best wishes to all firefighters in LA. You do exemplary work and sometimes without water. God bless you. Rhineland Palatinate Fire Department from Germany! 🙏🇩🇪
This is so sad and terrifying l am watching from Uk and l am horrified l cannot imagine the fear and uncertainty of all residents who have been affected my heartfelt best to you all and hope this terrifying situation can be brought under control. ❤️ from the Uk.
i was drained watching this 35 minutes in and i looked and it was a whole other hour left, i couldnt imagine fighting that. great job wow just wow, no words😞
Fire comes from all sides..Salute to all the firefighters of California for doing your exemplary job! God bless you and keep you safe as you perform your duties..
My prayers goes to you all and also for the victims..Be safe 🙏🙏❤️
Wow incredible footage ! Thanks for all your hard work. The "news" will never show us this .
DAMN! by far the closet to the fires footage I have seen.....UNBELIEVABLE!
Hey guys - thanks for the clear & concise footage without all the bs. We're keeping up with the events from down under (sister country of fires) & it's been so annoying listening to the s(*% talking news anchors, send them home! We're amazed just how many HAVEN'T lost their lives, great news.
Keep safe, all the best!
First of all what an amazing video! You along with all these firefighters deserve a medal! Your dedication is INCREDIBLE!! I conversely hope ALL these firefighters get medals because in Australia they do!
What I don’t get is, why are all the houses in America in a bushfire prone area built with wood & highly flammable materials?
In Australia most of our houses are built with bricks or concrete and non flammable roofs.
After our “Black Saturday” fires, owners were not allowed to build wooden houses they had to be brick or cement and they had to have clearance around the property, no bushes/trees up against the house, their own water tanks, protection blinds on windows. Some properties even put in underground shelters.
You can’t keep having homes with so much exterior flammable material and although it looks so pretty you cant have trees and bushes touching the house or even tan bark on your flower beds.
I watched a video of a new house that was still standing in the palisades because it was built with cement had NO open eaves or attic space, nothing touching the house and had a brick wall around it! It survived because it was built with the right materials and was a clear site, every house around it was gone!
I noticed also a lot of these places had hedges around the property with wooden panel fencing! We all love privacy but hedges always go up fast!!
No house is 100% fireproof but there are precautions you can take when you know you live in a fire prone area!
Did no one learn from the story of the “3 little pigs” why are we still building houses made out of sticks!?
I am so beyond sorry to all of you that have lost everything , and to the ones who have love ones injured and critically injured and have also sadly loss their lives to these fires , and to the one injured and critically injured I hope you all make a full recovery and sorry to all of you that have literally lost everything including pets , and I pray for all the wildlife too , and to the Brother's and Sister's working exhaustingly to protect property and life , just want to say thank you , and to all the Samaritans helping during these very difficult and unfortunate events and times taking place !
This is closest footage I've seen of the fire fighting in LA by far. Other videos I've seen, the vloggers weren't obviously allowed in.
This is incredible and absolutely horrifying to see. Haven't seen anything like this on the news.
My thoughts and prayers go out to these firefighters working around the clock 24/7 to combat these fires. I can't imagine the amount of stress and exhaustion these men and women are going through.
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Amazing footage.
My heart goes out to all of those affected people in L.A. These scenes look like something out of a Steven King movie.
I still can’t imagine walking down a street an actually seeing this live, this is so overwhelming 😢😂
great video bro..
I’m here in colorado. Sending prayers and healing energy 💜💜💜💜
My daughter has a friend in LA and his Condo burned down in that horrid fire. The after health affect of everyone's Lungs breathing in all of that fire smoke. This is a DAMN shame and tragedy.
That's my friend's house the one that wasn't burning, but now it's burnt down to the ground.
@@Eve90 I'm sorry to hear that, I wish there was something I could have done. Sadly, with the amount of fire involving the rear, it wasn't saveable. Even with multiple fire trucks.
Amazing video. How was it that you were able to just hang around in places during 40:30. The firefighters just don’t tell you back off?
Press credentials, I’m guessing. And he respects the firefighters’ space.
He is part of the response team...filming
I thought I heard one of the firefighters ask him, “Who are you with?” He replied, “I’m independent.” That means he’s a freelance photographer.
@WendyCityPro I tink independent firefighter response team. His job was to film. Look at the captions on the video. ERFT
@ Thanks!
This is ASTONISHING footage. Mind blowing. On many levels. Obviously it's a look into to beginning stages of what we all know was to come. Also, it displays, in blindingly obvious fashion, the abject, total failure of planning and leadership at all levels of LA City and County re: public safety, particularly their FD's. Which not so long ago were among the very best in the world.
This has been a known as the worst case/big one' scenario for DECADES: a Santa Ana wind-driven intra-city wildfire allowed to get out of control. All fire event planning and mitigation has been toward ONE END: should such a fire start, it simply CANNOT be allowed to get out of control. This weather (weather which, in spin control mode, 'leadership' keeps calling 'unprecedented'....hardly) was forecast days in advance. Assets should have been deployed and plans in place city and county wide. Via terrible and apparently zero planning, management and leadership, they let the unthinkable occur: an out of control raging wildfire in urban Los Angeles left free to burn anything and everything until it hit a natural break (i.e. the ocean.) As a born/raised former Angeleno, like all of us I've seen countless similar or even worse Santa Ana days (who do they think their fooling??) and on many of those days, fires have indeed broken out in unban, dense areas of the city: Bel Air, Hollywood Hills, Los Feliz...dozens of examples. In each one these, fires were swarmed on by literal armies of firefighters, and a few structures have been lost but they were ALWAYS put down before getting out of control. Because you simple CANNOT allow such a fire to get out of control. To watch the Palisades burning to the ground, literally to ashes, with ZERO fight, is the single most surreal and insane thing I've ever seen. My heart breaks for the city and all impacted. And for the line firefighters, who take their jobs VERY seriously and it was obvious were beyond frustrated at the lack of leadership and tools to do there jobs. The lack of water tender trucks (the hydrant issue is just a red herring) is probably the worst of countless failures. And IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED. To listen to these complete idiots (Garcetti, who was bad enough, was mayor when I left...but this Bass character is next level incompetent. How on earth did she get elected? Has LA lost it's collective mind?) and their chatGPT written platitudes and the delusion that anyone cares about their feelings (or that they will fix things) and their total refusal to even CONSIDER taking responsibility for what we all know is one of the biggest failures in US public safety history is so bizarre it's like they are living on another planet. Do they actually think they're fooling anyone?
This amazing footage brings the full scope of both the tragedy and the failures behind it into sharp view. It's value is incalculable. My guess is it'll used in a forensic capacity in the future. Big, big kudos. And sadly, my hometown is in big time trouble, there's no doubt about that.
Hard to pre-deploy and get assets out of ahead of time when their budget is get by $17 million. Certainly could have made a difference. Granted at the same time while you can say they cannot let it get out of control like this there’s no guarantee it doesn’t still happen with a full staffed fully funded department. Sometimes all the planning and all the assets in the world isn’t enough to prevent something. Sometimes the recipe for disaster is just perfect. Sometimes nature is just going to do things beyond the scope of human intervention. Don’t get me wrong, not disagreeing completely and agree that there were definitely failures, especially from the city level in how the LAFD was funded and given the complete tools and assets needed.
If you followed this fire closely this was attacked by air since 11am, winds werent as bad (still 25-30mph) as the day progressed winds were up there around 60-80mph and no air attack was able to assist. Now imagine those winds kicking up embers 2miles + you’re talking about multiple homes going up every minute. You can pre plan and have assets ready but this was just one of those fires that had everything going for it to become a disaster. This had nothing to do with “Fire departments choosing to let palisades burn to the ground” they did their best but the fire was just out of control where they couldn’t get to every house which just let to more houses/neighborhoods being lost
Then you must be in your seventies or older because I'm 65 and I've never seen It that bad. There was no way to do an aerial assault on this fire once the winds picked up. Without that they were on the defense instead of the offense. They were having 70 to 80 mile per hour gusts, sometimes even higher because the fire also creates wind. And there is no way to prevent hydrants from not having water when there are that many lines being used.
a very good and factual documentation . god be with you 😪🙏
Looks like a scene straight out of a hollywood disaster blockbuster , crazy images ..i'm shocked
Why don't these firefighters have any masks on? It made me so worried to think about the long term effects of being exposed to these types of chemicals in the air. It's not only the woods burning; all sorts of construction materials from asbestos to plastic, electronics in the houses, cables that would release all sorts of carcinogens... Maybe I'm ignorant but then someone please explain to me how this is safe?
FRFR This type of burn and smoke will not end well for their health...
It is not safe and firefighters have one of the highest rates of cancer of all professions. Good question as to why.
That's all I kept thinking as well. I was in the Eaton fire and my eyes were burning so bad and my lungs felt like they were on fire. It was so difficult to breathe for even a few seconds.
Well actually masks for firefighters are only really used to protect them while they work so they can work longer,, their actual fighting suits soak up alot of chemicals and eventually seeps into their skin,, cancer rates are much higher for firefighters than everyone else,, I lost a good friend nearly 7 year's ago,, he was a fire fighter for about 15 year's,, the cancer that took him was a direct cause of chemicals his body absorbed from fire's
These firefighters gave it thier all! They knew it was a losing battle, but still stood next to engulfed walls, that could have collapsed on them,, to try to save a home of someone they did not know. It was too big, too wide spread, to prevent, contain, or stop. No matter prevention measures, equipment, or manpower.
Exactly..with those winds that limits their ability to fight fire since they can't do an aerial assault on it. And
I'd like to tell all Americans that after disaster, if the govt does not let you have a certain heating system...go into debt to get what You want & need. I say this because the govt would not help with coal or wood furnaces for us in pa. Only gas & electric. My parents were old, on a fixed income & could not afford the oil. Winter after brutal winter, there was no heat in that house, because hud would not help. Lobbyists made the rules. Utilities go down, dead of winter, you could burn anything, to get heat from a wood/coal furnace or fireplace.
many of them don't even have a mask on! this is not a wood fire, all the asbestos, burning paint, plastic, electronics... all carcinogens! I don't get how this is even allowed. are people gonna track all of these first responders for the rest of their lives and take care of them if they get all sorts of lung diseases or cancer?
BS!!! There were plenty of things that could have been done, specifically in this fire. You are misinformed or a apologist for Gavin and Company.
@andred3299 before, yeah..l9ts could be attempted.. but once it was 5 stories high eating over an acre a minute? Too big to control then.
Were the houses saved at 17:12, or was it all eventually burned?
I’m sorry I am a fireman and there are way too many hoses all over this video. I need to understand. That alone will kill pressure if everyone is just connecting all over of course there is no pressure.
Very Sad 😭😭😭 My Prayers 🙏🙏🙏 Are With All of You In California First Responders And All of The Residents Heartbreaking So Sad To see Such A Beautiful Place Burning Up 😞😞😞 Godbless All of You IN JESUS MIGHTY HOLY NAME AMEN!!!!
Amen
In my country just one of those streets would be declared as a major incident. I can't imagine how thinly spread the fire service is
I'm just curious but has this been color graded to intensify the orange or red?
@bobcharlotte8724 Nope! Shot, cut together, rendered, and uploaded from my phone!
I don't color grade any of my footage, with the exception of contrast editing. That's only done during some day shots to bring it closer to reality, but not done to this video.
@@EmergencyResponseFilmTeamERFT you know it's bad when the fire goes magenta. this is astounding footage.
To understand this fire you need to think of it as a huge blowtorch. What it touched was burned to a crisp very quickly, what it didn’t, survived! 🔥
I have been researching and studying these fires since Paradise California, after Lahaina Maui, I was enraged! I do believe I have a relatively good grasp as to how and why these "wild fires" are so devastating to everything except the "wild"... Seeing this devastation from LA has found me apathetic and numb... I can fluidly and easily express scientific and obvious explanations for the strange phenomenon we are witnessing. IT BOILS MY RH NEGATIVE BLOOD THAT PEOPLE WILL STILL DISCREDIT WHAT I HAVE PRESENTED, AND ARGUE, AND VILIFY ME AS SOME QUACK JOB WHOM DOESN'T KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!
So the structures are burned to the ground and cars are melted, yet the trees are still there with leaves and the bushes right next to the house are just fine...? I have seen super flammable ceder and gum and eucalyptus trees hanging with leaves intact hanging over multi story mansions that were completely leveled....
That's not normal!
Kids plastic playsets next to incenerated homes, blue plastic trash cans sitting brand new looking inside garages that were leveled or next to cars and homes that were incenerated... Plastic usually turns to hot melting flammable goop when exposed to high temperatures!
But okay your right everything is completely normal...
No water in the fire hydrants? That's because the static energy that causes the crazy, not normal winds is caused by a macro wave energy source that vaporizes H2O in its beam path... That process obviously evaporated the water out of the steel pipes! Tell me how a brush fire burns pipes in the ground or ignites non flammable telephone poles and melts the electric lines and meter box's...
I mean, smgdh...
The energy concentration is so intense that anything, that is conductive, like metal or H2O, will have a ground fault reaction creating an arc, anything touching that arc would incenerate at extremely high temperatures, think plasma cutter, this is why plastic objects didn't melt, or the "open to the elements" super dry osb of the under construction home right next door didn't catch fire.... The osb was dry and had no H2O to boil or metal to combust... Unlike the steel banded tires of the car parked out in front of the leveled house that was also incenerated... It's the same thing that happens when you put foil in a microwave, but on a larger scale... The trees and foliage don't burn because wood doesn't conduct electricity very well... But DEW you know what does conduct electricity....? Everything that these "wild fires" DEW burn! The smart meters were installed and every home was wired to a dedicated ground wire coming from the polls to the house... Houses presmart meter, were grounded with rods into the ground... Now every house is hooked to a common ground that's feed back to the substations. Adding this ground allows the electric Company a third connection in which they can send singles through... They use this to monitor real-time usage as well as gives them the ability to pulse an alternate sinewave through the ground that will remotely shut off your power... That is their main purpose, the ability to remotely shut off power... IMO the electric company has data of extreme spikes and malfunctions during these fires... Most of the houses that survived this fire did not have smart meters or had isolation cutoffs between the and the grid...
As far as the dustification of the man-made structures goes... It's frequency that vibrates particles, metallic objects, when exposed to certain frequencies, become hyper conductive and this produces heat... It also causes the surface of the metallic objects to oxidize, oxygen feeds fire... Hence the rapid incenereation of metal objects when placed in your microwave... Also explains the white look of the ash present on the cars and other incenereated objects like the broken power polls and transformers... Usually, house fires and even forest fires leave the landscape or surrounding structures covered in black soot and charred surfaces... These fires consumed entire homes but left only white ash and no smoke damage...
Here is another bit of science, the oxidation of concrete or stone or ceramic objects, this process of vibrating concrete molecules literally zaps the oxygen molocules out of the masonry, guess what happens when you lower the ppm of oxygen molocules in concrete? IT LITERALLY, WILL TURN TO DUST! Hence the lack of structures after fires like that of Lihaina... I can also say that this type of frequency manipulation doesn't really affect plastic objects... They turned off the water in Maui/LA/Paradise becuase adding water to an electrical fire will only make it worse... The most moist place in a tree is obviously at its core, and just like the food in your microwave, that cooks from the inside out, so do the trees in these "wildfires"! Also brush fires don't leap, they spread across the landscape igniting everything flamible in their paths... This looks like these structures burned intensly fast from the inside out, and most didn't even singe the lush landscapeing or char the wooden fences at all! Notice that everything is not bright and lush green everywhere.... But still retains all of its foliage.... These plants and trees appear to be severely dehydrated but not burnt at all... I have seen under construction, open to the elements, stick frame OSB sheeting houses that are currently standing and untouched by fire, right next to completely leveled concrete, glass, and steel homes.... So please open your eyes and you will see that this fire was not normal wild fire.
Crazy how bushes and trees and palms and wood fences and deck chairs and decks and the awnings and trash cans didn't burn... But the bolts in the bulkhead wall look like they got hot enough to burn the bulkhead around them but the same wood that didn't have the bolts was completely fine...The artwork and rare cars... The historic properties all just gone! I would totally build back using those blue trashcans and wooden fence and deck materials, they seem to be the most Fire/Heat proof! Definitely not gonna use steel and glass, because these fires melted those.... Maybe cover the new house in all the unburnt foliage or palm frawns... Definitely not gonna be connected to the power grid, did you see those exploded transformers and fire proof poles?Virtually zero smoke damage anywhere on the stuff that survived right next to completely leveled concrete and steel homes ... Also brush fires don't leap, they spread across the landscape igniting everything flamible in their paths... This looks like these structures burned intensly fast from the inside out, and most didn't even singe the lush landscapeing or char the wooden fences at all! Notice that everything is not bright and lush green everywhere.... But still retains all of its foliage.... These plants and trees appear severely dehydrated but not burnt at all...I have seen under construction, open to the elements, stick frame OSB sheeting houses that are currently standing and untouched by fire, right next to completely leveled concrete and steel homes.... So please open your eyes and you will see that this fire was not normal
There is a video of a brush fire in Palasades from 5 years ago here on YT... It's crazy to watch that and compare just how different the news was reporting the fire, the emergency response to the fire, and the fact that the fire actually was burning the "wild" and the firefighters plus the home owners and their garden hoses managed to fend the fire off, saving all the homes on the block... Only the brush on the mountain side was affected, and the smoke was white/ Grey, and not the jet black plums of intensity like the recent fires... The video was a stream and was like 2 hours of start to finish fire fighting with news commentary... Very compelling evidence that this fire was foul play... Especially in how emergency response conducted themselves.... I feel like everytime I saw firefighters they were standing in huddles doing absolutely nothing, or doing pointless things like trying to put a small fire out by using purses that they had filled up with water and ran a 100 ft across the parking lot to jump on a small fire that clip was hilarious there were two firefighters using literal women's purses as a Bucket Brigade...
2 Peter 2:6:
"And God did not spare ancient cities, but destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, making them an example to those who would afterwards live ungodly".
Looks like Dresden (Germany) after fire bombing in WW2. Good thing all or most people got out before this disaster. I think we need to study how to build more fire resistant.
Is the ash clogging engines?
I know this is a stupid question but why are all of those cars crashed on the street?
The cars were probably abandoned and the fire department had a bulldozer push them out the way so fire trucks can get through
Anyone know why all those cars are empty and bashed into each other around 11:00?
They were bulldozed aside to make way for emergency vehicles. Due to road bottlenecks in the area, people fled their cars when fire approached the traffic jam they were in.
@ I see. Thank you. What a nightmare
I believe during the high winds when fire was jumping streets at 60 to 70 mph the fleeeing evacuating residents in cars were going one way out of there but the fire cut them off trapping them in to the street with all exits ablaze. So the decision was taken to abandon the cars and excape on foot. There was a mass evacuation and hence the cars were five abrest filling the road.
@@haroldlipschitz9301I was wondering the same thing. This makes sense. Horrifying
He says they were bulldozed to the side in the video. Had to make room for the firetrucks
whats up with the 5 light traffic light
Just thinking...instead of rolling out big firetrucks with all the hoses and such that take lots of time to set up, are there such things as small trucks with say pumped 2500 gal. tanks with in cab control to aim deck guns to patrol an area and put out little hot spots...point and squirt..."nip it in the bud" as Barney Fife would say. Have maybe a dozen of these units working with strategic refill points. I wonder how effective that would be in lessening full structure burns?
I’ve been thinking the same thing.
But the US is fixated with BIG. The whole system with gigantic trucks is not suitable for narrow streets with low rise buildings.
Don’t get me started on the stupidity with gas pipes and overhead power lines in fire prone areas.
Small truck and 2500 gallon tank don’t go together. You’re going to have a large footprint with a 2500 gallon tank. The water tenders (or tankers depending on what part of the country you’re from) that can be seen in some of the footage are probably in the area of 2500-3000 gallons and as you can see they’re going to be just as big as your regular pumper truck. The engines seen here and generally used throughout the country usually carry between 500-750 gallons. As you can see in some of the videos many of them have deck guns on top being utilized that can be used right away. But obviously trying to get closer or to the back of these structures is going to require pulling hose lines to access. Some brush trucks that are much smaller will have remote controled deck guns that can be operated from inside the cab. But those are going to be very limited in the amount of water they can carry.
@@joshtavenner3073 OK, I guess I should written "smaller" trucks and I guess 2500 gal. is too big.
Thats what they do in Corsica. It works.
Very thoughtful. And completely wrong.
Why were all the cars in that one section that you were filming all together on that street like crashed into each other?
They were left there with people fleeing on foot they had to bring a dozer out and literally pushed them all out of the way and they don’t do it nice lol they just push them where ever and into whatever just so emergency vehicles can get though
@ thank you
They were not crashed in to each other when they were evacuated. They were side by side. I believe during the high winds when fire was jumping streets at 60 to 70 mph the fleeeing evacuating residents in cars were going one way out of there but the fire cut them off trapping them in to the street with all exits ablaze. So the decision was taken to abandon the cars and excape on foot. There was a mass evacuation and hence the cars were five abreast filling the road.
As the road was packed solid with abandoned evacuated cars where access was needed for fire fighters. A bulldozer was sent in to clear the cars to make way for fire trucks. So the dozer just pushed the cars out of the way resulting in what looked like crashed cars. Any crashing was the dozer pushing car after car in to the other cars to push them to the side.
Wow… I literally have no words to describe how bad this is and how bad I feel for everyone who’s unfortunately lost *EVERYTHING*.. great work. I can’t even imagine how excruciatingly *HOT* it must have been to be there in person.
I know a very sadden and horrid tragedy.
36:27 wow
So brush fires are starting inside people's living rooms ?
The fire fell on the roof - wooden - ate through that - and then dropped into the home. The walls were sturdier and didn't catch as quickly, though in the end, most of them burned too, with only the chimneys of stone left standing. (My guess). My prayers are with all who live in Southern California and all those responders from there and who have come from all around to help....
Franklin's house probably got burn up as well, gotta move in with Trevor
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Both Michel, Frankling and the entire L.A. SWAT force are looking for Trevor after he was seen drinking tequilla at blazing City bars wearing a flame thrower. They have found plenty empty tequilla bottles and what looks like his pair of shoes amongst the ashes but no sign of him.
It’s hard to believe this is real but it is.
2:10 At this point in the video he is driving north up Enchanted Way in the 900 block to the top of the hill that ends at cul-de-sac, then drives back down Enchanted Way, then he's at the 16900 block of Scenic Pl where the basketball apparatus is in the street, sadly almost all of Enchanted Way on the canyon side was lost.
Just a sad situation 😞 my friend prayers
Incredible, horrifying footage and well done to all you firefighters for your amazing efforts. Can I ask (as someone who probably doesn't know what he's talking about) - is there much point in hosing down buildings that are already well alight - such as at 41:57 - and clearly beyond saving? Wouldn't precious water supplies be better deployed around the edge of the fire line as a retardant to stop the fire spreading further? Best wishes from North Wales, UK.
Those already alight buildings keep releasing more and bigger ambers and higher up in the air, they risk more flares in other houses.
That wind. . . .unreal! Like a fire hurricane.
Trees are desighned to survive fire eith the bark to protect the tree.
Sorry to be contradictory. They only have a very limited capacity to survive fore. Just as a brazil Nut, or Walnut as some impact resistant outer hard shell it is only limited. Hit it with a hammer and the resistance is cracked. I am sure you knows as I do that wood has been used for cooking fuel for thousands of years since stone age generations had fire. That is because wood burns. Leave it in the ground buried long enough and it becomes coal which also generally burns.
A densely leaft tree can actually go up in seconds when wind driven fire blows 20 to 30 foot flames at it. It was deep autumn when many of the desiduouse leaves were dry, parched and totally brown. So like tinder. They would burn rapidly. Green folage contains some oils whish also would blaze in to fire easily if hot enough. Sounds like a sparkler ignighing when they go. But the main trunk can resist or survive that first burning. But the trunk would also burn to ashes if surrounded by an inferno. So limited suvival ability.
Watching your video - I think homeowners should have stayed and protected their own homes. There were small fires that you could have stomped out - and didn’t. It may have made a difference. People should have stayed until it didn’t make sense.
@@KarenChalmers-u6u I'd suggest you stop thinking, to be completely honest.
Its like this guy is a ghost roaming the streets and nobody can see him; they might feel his presence and look his way but if this was Jersey or 40 other states he would be beaten by police, robbed, or both
I don't know how one could film that and not be frantic wanting to save the people's things..photos. one of my biggest fears ever playing out in this video 😢
...and yes i know it isn't safe or feasible but the feeling of helplessness is overwhelming
Where did everyone in the cars go??? Did they just get out and start running toward wherever??? I can’t even imagine it. Hundreds of people getting out of their cars and high tailing it with all their stuff… so much stuff had to be in those cars. How scary and traumatic to have to decide what to do. A scene in a crazy movie.
no entiendo como las casa ardian tan facilmente? son de papel y carton las casas?? no son de materiales ignifugos como ladrillo, concretos y tejas y chapas??
most american homes are made out of wood
What if everybody had metal roofs? Would that have helped?
lol no
No. Tile would be better.But in a fire like this even that really is no guarantee.All it takes is an ember to get up under an eave . Not when you have 70 to 80 mile per hour wind gusts or higher.
Embers get into the attic, they get in there and burn the house from the inside out.
39:53 OMG!!
Where are earth are they going to take of of the debris to?
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How could this catastrophe happen in America? It's not a third world country.
Have you seen Oakland, San Francisco, Tuscan, Portland, Detroit, and most of the Midwest? No healthcare, huge and wealth disparities, looks like a 3rd world nation to me! Can't even contain a brush fire
Gov is stealing from tax payers. This is clear.
Really?? Australia isn't a 3rd world country and we get severe fires like this almost every summer,, it doesn't matter what country you're in with the right conditions you get these horrible fires,, it is what it is and when the conditions are as perfect for fire as these one's were,, doesn't matter how big your fire department is or how many resources they have you're not stopping these fire's
@@phil-anthrophist3960 especially when your mayors out the country, your governor is a grifter, your firedepartment is underfunded and full of unqualified poorly trained personnel, plus they didn't have water in the hydrants! The whole scenerio seems rather convenient, more so than coincidence... Now add in all the anomalies, and impossible physics being displayed as "normal" fire activity... And one would think they were in a corrupt third world country with an ignorant and easily duped populace....
@@phil-anthrophist3960 Funny, you say that these fires are "unstoppable", when... as the supposed 1st world nation we are, do have access to frequency based fire extinguishers that use sound waves to put out fires... These devices are used at airports to extinguish plane fires without damaging any of the equipment like water or other extinguishers would... They are highly regulated devices because they can cause bodily injury, but they totally work in seconds to extinguish any fire... As a modern nation with billions to hand out to other nations, one would think that they would utilize this technology to stop the spread of a pesky brush fire before it burned down an entire town worth billions of dollars in property value and the loss of potential tax revenues... But I guess convincing the masses that it was natural, and there is nothing anyone could do, because of the wind...
I feel like i needed. Respirator just to watch this video! There was smoke blowing in the camera lense the whole time ! Great repectful footage
God bless all the firemen!
I just can’t imagine how scary this is/was to lose your house, car everything in a matter of minutes.
As an Aussie ex-fire fighter myself I was pretty unimpressed at first seeing guys just using water cannons from their trucks, seemed a bit scared or badly trained to get in there and attack the base of the fire, then I saw that one guy at 21:50 who seemed to know what he was doing, hauled the hose by himself up to the yard and hit it at the base and put it out in seconds. Seems a lot of LA firefighters are used to small fires involving one or a couple of structures and a bit undertrained or overwhelmed by fires of this magnitude. No disrespect or doubting their intentions or courage, but I've seen lots of videos now where they seemed not as effective as they could be. Of course, the water running out didn't help. Fire is a way of life, a constant threat in Australia every summer, which we just call Fire Season.
Thank you for your service and to those currently fighting these LA fires.
I've lived in the Blue Mountains for 16 years, and this has been very close to home on several occasions. I feel sorry for all these people, the loss of life, devastating 😢
I wonder when it's our turn again 😢
@@OMG21ization Yeah me too. I live on the Central Coast, and it's basically surrounded by forests. We do back burns, but not enough, I fear. Join the bush fire brigade in your area if you can even if maybe not to fight fires there are many jobs to do and the training is excellent. At least it reduces the fear and makes you feel useful should the worst happen. Good luck up there, beautiful area.
Cement structures burning from the inside out unbelievable
Its heartbreaking to see this, it really is. All that work, effort, time, craftsmanship. Somehow Biden/Harris thought the best thing to do with our $ was to send 60 Billion to Ukraine, instead of spending a little bit here to prevent what many said would happen. So sad to see, how tragic this truly is; like Hawaii. One day you have the home of your dreams and things you want to end times with; next day its all gone. You can kind of see it hit a lot of people, that they never really though that would happen to them. Not only the loss of a house, a community, neighbors, poof that is all gone. Prayers to all those affected. Thankyou so much for posting this, seeing this side really shows you the devastation and beauty as it was being wiped out.
President Trump will stop all of these fires with the force of his will. He is an emissary of GOD!
the wind is too strong
Love from the 305❤
This is crazy to see from my home in Mass.
I don’t think we can ever see this close up real time footage of this. so I can see why the winds would make fighting this fire practically impossible.
Cant get my head around what happened here. My god its all gone. Where are the firefighters? I didnt see many at the start, houses ablaze & nobody around? No sense of urgency. 😮😢💔
Where were the firefighters? Fighting the multiple fires. And not just here.
Budget cuts, incompetent DEI hires in "leadership" positions, grifters like Newsom and Bass, I could go on but it is all well documented.
😲Only thing missing is an earthquake pretty much smh complete and utter devastation. #PrayersUpFroCali 🙏💕🎶💯
@9:58 *SOMEBODY LEFT THEIR DOG TIED UP IN THE FRONT YARD* ⁉️🤯🐕🐕🦺🐕🦺🔥🏠😡🤬🤬🤬
@@xx-vw9ep Yes, until they evacuated with their other dogs
@EmergencyResponseFilmTeamERFT He was one of a group that was evacuated? I hope so. It looks like an Australian cattle dog.
This is the most amazing footage I've seen yet. What a horrendous tragedy. I grew up in Bel Air and survived the 1961 Bel Air Conflagration. It was bad but nowhere near as destructive as this 🔥 fire. Our house survived for some reason but all of the ones around us burned down.
Thanks for your reply. How did you stay so calm? I wouldn't have been.
@55:45 Gross! 🌊 All of that pollution in the water must be really good for the environment! 🤢😪🐟🐙🦀🐛🦐🦑🐚🪸🪼
Вот это новый год с фейерверками
Getting a little smokey
I can confirm that 911 991 Speedster made it out fine, and only received minor scratches from the Christmas lights.
God forbid if any kind of rain pattern hits this area. There is no foliage to stabilize the ground from sliding.
I work out in Santa Monica and we had to shut down for two days cuz of this madness so many of my friends and clients lost there homes
You just left that dog to film?!
I would see if I back use the water hose and help put what fires I can out or something!! I would just try to help save people’s homes!
no water in the hoses
We pray every day. God bless the USA. Can we help from germany ?
I feel that no one can survive against the will of God..
From this natural disaster we can learn a lesson
2 Peter 2:6:
"And God did not spare ancient cities, but destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, making them an example to those who would afterwards live ungodly".
where are the firetrucks -
No wonder these houses burnt down,they r right up against each other.there is trash leaves,limbs an who know what else in the streets.a fire is definitely going to spread
It wouldn't have mattered much in this fire storm,, because the winds were soooo strong burning ember's would of flown upto 10-15miles starting fire's where no fire had been close to yet,, these ember's can get up under roof tiles where the frame of the house is wood and would also have lit any insulation in the roof,, burning embers can fly into mail slots on front doors,, they can get blowk under the house and burn through wooden floor's,, point is,, with the conditions that occurred it wouldn't have mattered a whole lot how far apart people's homes are
Was that a real dog standing in front of that house when he said puffers or puppers??? I’m hoping it wasn’t a real dog. So scared if it was.
21:30. I need to hire that guy! I have 2 workers that stepped OVER a pallet all day that was a safety hazzard to them ans others. Dam! I wanted to see how long it took before sonone moved it to a safe place and they never did and i forgot to move it !
09:58 I hope this dog is safe
Yes, owner evacuated with the puppers
This’s Unbelievable 😢
It was a Firecanne
الله اكبر الله اكبر الله اكبر 🙏🤲🏻🇵🇸🇵🇸
NBC: "isn't he doing a great job!!"
What happened to their cars
Цздц ты бесстрашный
Спасибо за подлиный материал
I can see where the fire makes its way into the homes through the soffit.
Blue Rome has Fallen ☠️
Ferească Dumnezeu ! Dacă focul a fost pus intenționat, mare pedeapsă își primește cel, de la Dumnezeu !
I wonder how they want to gain control over these fires, unless there's a lot of rain
Aerial assault with flame retardant and water.