I can't bear the responsibility of being a firefighter but these people deserve my respect, especially when they're fighting fires that were deliberately caused by arsonists. Real heroes don't wear capes, they're clad in fire retardant suits and masks.
As a Firefighter I want to say thanks for the awesome footage. Many of us in the profession know what a backdraft is and how to avoid it. However; I personally never seen one with this much details.
Thanks for your service. I just run out of burning buildings (far too often for my liking to be honest) but it takes a special type of awesome dysfunction to run into one!
"If a plane flies through smoke, does it drop?" 6:02 Yes, it does. I am a pilot and I have flown over a smoke stack of an industrial complex, about 500ft above the stack. The plane didnt "drop" or fall out of the sky but what was experienced was severe turbulence. The rising heat and density change of the air made the plane shake violently for a split second. Thanks for the video.
I imagine firefighters probably bust out as many windows as they can before going in, so that it's already happened and the the risk is lower. Scary just knowing it can happen.
I experienced a backdraft at a house fire in 1965 when I was a firefighter. I kicked the front door open, saw super heated gases glowing and swirling on the ceiling. The house sucked air in. I could feel and hear the air rushing in past me. I turned to leap off the porch, but was blown off. I escaped unscathed.
@@dreed100 The word "material" implies a solid. Solid water is hardly fireproof and you would be hard put to build anything from helium. However, water is not fireproof. Putting out a magnesium fire with water is a huge mistake as the magnesium will break the water molecules apart and use the oxygen to keep burning. That leaves the hydrogen behind which also burns. Similarly, putting out a sodium fire with water is also very entertaining. As long as you view it from a sufficient distance and not from the end of a hoseline!
@@johns7734 And then we have fluorine fires which will make almost anything flammable, including things that aren't flammable in an oxygen atmosphere like a block of iron. And then ClF3 takes it past 11 and up to 20 and I'm reasonably sure can react to anything short of N2 or noble gasses.
It really shows how dangerous this phenomenon is that trained firefighters giving a demonstration of a backdraft can still be caught off-guard by it happening.
A true firefighter would have know to be a good distance away from a specific fire but the way that this structure was built they knew what sense of direction is was going to go the small hole in the fro t wall was only so small that it wouldn’t grow width I’d that makes sense but yeah he could have stood farther but cmon when you have slo motion cameras it just looks so much better
@@emon2689 Not an idiot, just inexperienced, probably a rookie. This is why they do training. I guarantee that he won’t ever forget what he learned there.
I think they do it to prove they really know how to deal with fire and never get them set on fire. A bit like dothraki braids, except it requires no manual enforcement
@@michaelcaplin8969 thanks, dude, at first I was more into writing a generalistic comment about how every Firefighter has a mustache but as I went to the commentsection myself, I realized people are very much aware of that so it was time for me to question reality.
@@olafbellefroid3393 I'm glad you did some recon and decided to opt for a different route. Otherwise, this wouldn't have existed. And to be honest, your comment makes the world a better place - for everyone!
I was in volunteer fire & Rescue for 21 years and, lucky to say, I was never caught in a BackDraft situation...Thank God !!! I helped put a lot of fire out and rescued quite a few people from certain death situations. That long ago and I still feel the blessings from those episodes.
The Republic of Ustio Not going to lie, that would, to help fuel our desires I recommend this picture from Operation Tumbler-Snapper where milliseconds after the bomb exploded the picture was took. THAT is what's awesome
I am currently studying to become a firefighter myself in Sweden, we illustrated this test aswell and had quite a few opportunities to experience this on site. Very beautiful in a controlled environment!
SEE, the first one is Exactly why they are so dangerous. One more second and that guy would have gotten a face full of fire. Mad respect for the guy for being a pro and walking it off.
@ Exactly what I was thinking. They are preparing it, they know it is unpredictable and they know that it shows no signs before going. GO AROUND THE BACK MORON!!
He had to expect this to happen but he walked to the from. This is like walking infront of the barrels on a shooting range. This is begging for being crippled / killed. Idiot! "What could possibly go wrong?"
His kit is designed to withstand high temperatures, so even if he was in the centre, as long as he either fell to the ground or jumped out of the way as soon as it made contact he should have been fine.
I was a full time Fireman for 30 years, an indication that a backdraft is imminent, is to look for 'pulsing' of the smoke coming out of the building, just about visible in these scenarios although not very clear at all. I was once doing 'flashover' training and actually inside a container on fire just like this, after we extinguished the fire, I looked at the temperature recording equipment, it showed 520 degrees celsius at head height, we were lower than a snakes belly putting it out!
@@gordonhaire9206 I presume you are in the USA? In Britain we were FIREMEN. I have the documentation to prove that 46 years ago I joined as, and was titled and referred to, as a FIREMAN, don't be so quick to assume that the USA rules the world on job titles. Incidentally, in Britain our title only changed to the rather odious 'firefighter' after women were allowed to apply!
This 'Backdraft' phenomenon reminds me of a film form the early 90's, which featured these 'Backdrafts', and the difficulty firefighters face in tackling 'Backdrafts'. I believe the film was called... "the Very Dangerous Fire".
Barnaby, well played. Now get back to making hilarious Dabchick videos, if you would be so kind. Seriously though, I actually chortled. Not just chuckled or tittered, but actually chortled.
Here in the US, we are big fans of Hickory wood flavor in our food. I worked at one of only two locations that made a product called "Liquid Smoke". I was a furnace operator there burning 8 tons of hickory chips in an 8-hour shift. Basically keeping the furnace right at 5 to 15 seconds away from a backdraft event. Looking back, I guess I was a bit of an expert/fire teaser at creating the perfect environment for backdrafts, without letting it actually have one occur. We had a very tall smokestack with metal walls inside over each furnace. Suspended inside were racks of wires hanging from top to bottom of the stack. Wires were connected to antique X-Ray machines which created a very high electrical field between the wires in the stack. Smoke gets thick enough and the electrical discharge made the smoke attract to the walls as an oily, resin-like deposit. Gravity and heat collected this Liquid Smoke at the bottom of the stack and then when my barrel got full I would pump it out to an above-ground storage tank for processing at another facility to make the food flavorings and extracts. Our wall phone, opposite the furnaces, was a frequent victim of the backdrafts. Even though it was 20 to 30 feet away, Salvador Dali would have used that melted thing in his artwork without hesitation! When the furnace DID belch fire from a backdraft, your best choice was to just fall back and let it go over you. Quite a sight to see, and an attention-getter there mates! Between the flames, smoke, and high voltage electricity, it was a very dynamic job experience, to say the least!
I’m a volunteer firefighter, i actually got trapped in an attic when a backdraft occurred. I’m very lucky to be alive. It was incredible being engulfed in fire. I did suffer severe 3rd degree burns and had to have skin grafts. But the fact that I survived is amazing.
This happened to our department and the city fire department when they called us in to a large corncob bin fire. Two large doors where open to allow us to pour water streams into the structure. We'd been there for almost an hour when my chief ordered me to go fill somebody's air bottle. The truck with the cascade unit was just outside of the fireground as I changed the guy's air bottle. That being done, I got on the horn and asked the chief if I could set up the cascade to fill more air bottles, as this job looked like it was going to be a long, drawn out affair. He said " Yeah, go ahead Ron." As I put the empty bottle into the steel bucket to start filling it, I heard a loud, rattling, booming sound and looked up in time to see a huge plume of orange-blue flame, smoke and burning corn cobs engulfing the city's engine and everyone there in that area. I saw the top of the bin lifted up and clanged back down again, with flaming corn cobs rocketing into the air. Silence then surrounded the area, except the sound of our trucks. My first thought was " My God, they're all dead!" But then I heard one of the paid city guys call out, "Eyeee-haaaaaa!!!" Okay, time to go. Somebody's okay! I grabbed my gear and ran back in there to help pick up the pieces. In all, three of Fremont's guys had some burns and bruises, while ten of us volunteers where battered around more by the backdraft. Two had dislocated shoulders, while others suffered from bumps, bruises and some burns. A friend of mine didn't know he'd wrenched his back after everybody was transported to the hospital to be checked out. ( the adrenaline wore off!) What's spooky about it? It was Halloween, 1997. We got our Halloween scare...
@@Cookie-gw1vv It did! Believe me, it did. It put our department out of action for a couple of days until we could get the equipment we lost replaced. If you can, look up in the Fremont Tribune, (Nebraska) November 1, 1997. The fire is in there.
Fremont Rural Fire Department does have a Facebook page. Go there and ask about that fire. October 31, 1997. Fremont, Nebraska. Ask about that fire at Junior Weiser's.
POV: after watching this when it first came out you decided to join the fire service. Now you’re watching a few years later to remind you of good times.
This is the best episode you have ever made. I knew the science behind a backdraft, but had no concept of the reality involved. The instantaneous ignition is amazing, but what really blew me away was the power of the wind. Backdrafts have been described as a "flash of fire when the air ignites" and its weird to think of air burning, however it really IS air burning, (or at least the oxygen), that is burning. You don't think about it but oxygen is extremely flammable; that's why you never smoke around anyone who is using an oxygen tank! Still, that wind, oh my oh my. Stay safe out there brothers.
I along with so many others have had a flashover, not a backdraught, pass completely over my head to curl down the wall behind me. Your friend is your PPE and your hose. You MUST keep the water on. Drop the hose and try to exit and you probably won't make it without serious injury. All you can do it keep cooling the air until the gases have burnt off. It is terrifying the first time and not much better in subsequent events. The lazy orange flame covering the ceiling is quite spectacular. Prior to the issue of flashoods and Nomex gloves to us in the 80's hand and facial burns, especially the ears, were very common. Even with the hoods and gloves you would still boil in your own sweat and suffer heat syncope. We lost a young guy from one of my old stations in Greater Manchester after he suffered debilitating heat syncope and dropped on his way out. Absolutely tragic, a fire started by two young girls messing about burning brochures outside and pushing them under an external door to a hair dressers. Fire can be quite beautiful especially filmed in slow motion but we obviously never forget just how deadly that beauty can be. Thank you for demonstrating the dangers we face.
Crazy, my dad was a Volunteer fireman. After watching this, a visual representation of the complete and total danger that he potentially was in in many situations. Brings new understanding to just how dangerous fire is. And how dangerous fighting fire can be. Thank you
richb313 why do you think the fire department let them do it? I know they have a large budget now, but I can't imagine they could afford to pay the city back for all those fire fighters' time alone. The fire fighters got the better deal with free slow motion analysis. Saved them a few thousand dollars
Funny that the whole point was the sudden and violent explosion that they're trying to create and the fireman just walks face first up to the opening and misses the fire ball by about 8 inches. I mean dude, come on.
This serves as a great training video AND a great Slo Mo video. That was pretty impressive, the sheer power is tremendous! Can't imagine being inside at that point!
This is the first time I have ever heard of this channel or got recommended something like this. I have to give you props on the filming and editing part of this video. I have never seen something like this before in my almost 26 years of life and it is very educational.
5:50 I love how you can see the cool air rushing in the bottom of the doors opening as the hot smoke races out the top. Gotta love them thermodynamics!
@@elbenezermirabuena7755 about the Minecraft vids one, I'm slightly confused as to where you got that? i don't watch Minecraft or play very often, I mostly watch science videos with the exception of perhaps this kind of stuff, if it makes any sense?
I have heard the term "backdraft" all my life and never really understood what it actually was, its rather amazing! When you think a bit about it the whole time that the fire is smoldering/little burning the materials inside the box its also creating unburnt gasses from the smoldering material and suddenly you intro oxygen and all those gasses along with everything else GOES very fast! Rather amazing to say the least! To all FIREMEN: Be Careful!!!
1:55 I loved how as they mention the couch is going to get cooked up they say aww and relax one more time on the seat to give it some love and enjoy it before its toast lol.
Firefighters are a special breed of human. I'm humbled by their bravery and seeing this, it gives me an even greater respect for them! Incredible! Good footage. Very well done.
5:26 I’ve heard so much about fire being a living thing and watching the smoke come out you can almost make out some creature in it. 7:13 and how he sees a dragon in this. I was always taught to respect fire which I’ve passed on to my kids when we burn brush.
On March 30, 2019, 30 firefighters lost their lives when putting out a forest fire in Sichuan, China due to sudden changes of the wind causing explosions. R.I.P.
it's in part why I became a firefighter. Not per se because of the movie. But because of a coincidence when I watched it for the first time and on the very same moment elsewhere in town a big hotel fire had a backdraft in which my uncle died... He died because he went in to carry out more people. In total he carried 17 people to safety, he died with the 18th in his arms... I was 16 at that time and I decided I wanted to be prepared for such scenarios, to be like hime but not die...
I appreciate the idea behind this video, Backdrafts are such terrifying things. thanks for teaching people! ^^ And they can be much faster depending on the situation and location of a fire.
4:47, the red stripes on his jacket would mean in my country that he is a sergeant meaning he’s an experienced firefighter ) But the mistake he made could have been a lethal one for a firefighter, one step faster and he would have had the flame right in his face.
I was a bit surprised he didn't go around the back or at least a but further away. I mean they were deliberately setting up the conditions for a backdraft.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade to be fare it was just a very small backdraft with this small container ------ imagine this x 5 in an apartment or time 500 in a factory hall
If you watch his hand it looks like he was reaching to unlatch the door from the side. He was starting to reach out for the latch and crouch down the second or so before the backdraft.
@@johnpatz8395 Yep and if I remember correctly it was said that they were going to open the bottom door then boom. I don’t believe for a second he was planning on walking in front of it either!
Had that torch hit him, chances are it would have been fatal. The velocity and temperature of that would not be survivable after a blow to,the head with it.
When I was a volunteer fireman back in the early 70's, on one of my first drills in a multi-story building, one of these hit me before I had a chance to put my oxygen on, I ended up being knocked out and had to be carried down stairs.
Oh my goodness! The first firefighter that got the first blast, I hope he is okay. I remember the movie Back draft. But now I know what it means. I will keep the firefighters in my prayers. This video really opened my eyes to the dangers the firefighters face.
It's basically superheated air! The mushroom shape makes sense because it's the same concept that occurs when an atomic bomb is detonated! The superheated air expands upwards faster than outwards, causing the mushroom shape!
GhostShipSupreme a fluid moving through another fluid will make that shape. Water will do the exact same thing just by pushing your hand through it. This backdraft is caused by pressure where a bomb is like you said hot causing it to rise but they do the same motion
This is why I respect firefighters
This looks so dangerous and awesome
In another life I want to be firefighters
I can't bear the responsibility of being a firefighter but these people deserve my respect, especially when they're fighting fires that were deliberately caused by arsonists.
Real heroes don't wear capes, they're clad in fire retardant suits and masks.
Did a fire course as part of offshore training, and it gave me a whole new respect for them.
Its you again...
I see you more often than Justin Y.
As a Firefighter I want to say thanks for the awesome footage. Many of us in the profession know what a backdraft is and how to avoid it. However; I personally never seen one with this much details.
@Claudio Hernandez, respect.
I've only been on the department for about a year and I'm lucky to say I havent witnessed it either
Thanks for your service. I just run out of burning buildings (far too often for my liking to be honest) but it takes a special type of awesome dysfunction to run into one!
Shouldn't all of you know what a backdraft is?
Sam McQuillan-Gordon he literally said he knows what it is, he’s just never seen one
You see the mustache on the one lighting the fire? That's how you really know he's a professional firefighter
I have lost mine making toast, indeed that is a pro if he can keep it.
2:57
Lol
What are you talking about...that’s popeye
It's true. They are like damage indicators.
"If a plane flies through smoke, does it drop?" 6:02 Yes, it does. I am a pilot and I have flown over a smoke stack of an industrial complex, about 500ft above the stack. The plane didnt "drop" or fall out of the sky but what was experienced was severe turbulence. The rising heat and density change of the air made the plane shake violently for a split second. Thanks for the video.
I like how you say it didn’t drop out of the sky, as if their question was legitimate
Nice
Bore off - tablet
I’ve flown through wildfire smoke columns and yes, it’s turbulent.
@@jamesbizs Fall out of the air could be a way of saying stalling
loves how he just casually pulls a box of eggs out of his pocket
lol I thought he was gonna pull out just a single egg at first
you don't carry a dozen chicken generators around in your johnny's cavern?
That's how you can tell he's not a professional firefighter
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Thats the only way i get my eggs out from now on
Much respect to my fire fighter buddies who deal with this to save people's homes and lives.
Here's to the people that are butthurt at people who post obvious positive statements to get likes.
I imagine firefighters probably bust out as many windows as they can before going in, so that it's already happened and the the risk is lower. Scary just knowing it can happen.
:)
@@homeslice1479 Ventilation is very important, yes, as is "ensuring proper ventilation" from a safe distance.
We're all insane, it's why we do it.
I know a firefighter who was caught in a backdraft. He was fully equiped. His left ear was melted to his gear. His nickname was lucky. He was
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I experienced a backdraft at a house fire in 1965 when I was a firefighter. I kicked the front door open, saw super heated gases glowing and swirling on the ceiling. The house sucked air in. I could feel and hear the air rushing in past me. I turned to leap off the porch, but was blown off. I escaped unscathed.
Congratulations
Bro were you on a movie set or is your life just an action movie all time?
@@LowLifeDustfirefighters
Emts and police live like they are in a movie 90% of the time
liar. pure fiction
@@LowLifeDusthe lied
"It's only fireproof, until it's not"
- Gavin Free, 2019
In fairness, it is actually a very accurate way to phrase it. Things that are "fireproof" will hit a certain point where they just burst into flames.
Bastian Springer
- Nothing is fireproof. There are only varying degrees of fire-resistant.
@@johns7734
Wonder how actually true it is..
There are materials which are technically fire proof aren't they.
Water for example?
Helium...
@@dreed100 The word "material" implies a solid. Solid water is hardly fireproof and you would be hard put to build anything from helium. However, water is not fireproof. Putting out a magnesium fire with water is a huge mistake as the magnesium will break the water molecules apart and use the oxygen to keep burning. That leaves the hydrogen behind which also burns. Similarly, putting out a sodium fire with water is also very entertaining. As long as you view it from a sufficient distance and not from the end of a hoseline!
@@johns7734 And then we have fluorine fires which will make almost anything flammable, including things that aren't flammable in an oxygen atmosphere like a block of iron. And then ClF3 takes it past 11 and up to 20 and I'm reasonably sure can react to anything short of N2 or noble gasses.
It really shows how dangerous this phenomenon is that trained firefighters giving a demonstration of a backdraft can still be caught off-guard by it happening.
Or that guy was an idiot and should of known to walk around the other side
A true firefighter would have know to be a good distance away from a specific fire but the way that this structure was built they knew what sense of direction is was going to go the small hole in the fro t wall was only so small that it wouldn’t grow width I’d that makes sense but yeah he could have stood farther but cmon when you have slo motion cameras it just looks so much better
That why should alway check for heat before opening a door..
@@GoogleUser-kr6se i don't think heat really matters, it's mostly if there's an other opening or not
@@emon2689 Not an idiot, just inexperienced, probably a rookie. This is why they do training. I guarantee that he won’t ever forget what he learned there.
It's amazing how some mustaches grow a professional firefighter in the course of their lifespan
I think they do it to prove they really know how to deal with fire and never get them set on fire. A bit like dothraki braids, except it requires no manual enforcement
@@syferpolski4344 flew over your head mate
Dude, this is awesome! Do you see what you have done? You have created something beautiful with that comment!
@@michaelcaplin8969 thanks, dude, at first I was more into writing a generalistic comment about how every Firefighter has a mustache but as I went to the commentsection myself, I realized people are very much aware of that so it was time for me to question reality.
@@olafbellefroid3393 I'm glad you did some recon and decided to opt for a different route. Otherwise, this wouldn't have existed. And to be honest, your comment makes the world a better place - for everyone!
Fun fact - You finally clicked this after years of recommendation
No lol
Yeah 😂😂
Soooo true
No, loser
It is a couple for me
As a former firefighter this was really cool to watch. Thanks Slow Mo Guys! Your videos are very interesting and educative
I was in volunteer fire & Rescue for 21 years and, lucky to say, I was never caught in a BackDraft situation...Thank God !!! I helped put a lot of fire out and rescued quite a few people from certain death situations. That long ago and I still feel the blessings from those episodes.
I'm impressed that the little camera inside lasted for so long. 500C+ is some serious heat 😲
A phantom is no little camera 😂
@@Exilir8 Not the phantom, the GoPro that was in the room in a heat resistance box.
This series is one of the BEST things to come of TH-cam Originals.
"It's only fire proof till it's not" should be on all the new bunker gear
lol 69 likes nice
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Can we all just appreciate how good his freakn reflexes were to pan almost immediately?? 6:08
He did do it professionally for a while
Gabriel Ocasio I would like a slow mo of him reacting XD
At this point his arms just go in auto mode, it's amazing
Lol 🤣😅😁
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The reflexes of a photographer
Planet Slow Mo S1 Ep12 (Finale): Atomic Bomb Explosion in Slow Mo
That's be AWESOME!
The Republic of Ustio Not going to lie, that would, to help fuel our desires I recommend this picture from Operation Tumbler-Snapper where milliseconds after the bomb exploded the picture was took. THAT is what's awesome
Almost heaven, West Virginia
It would be a nightmare getting the lighting right.
First you would need a time machine, due to the 1963 Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
I am currently studying to become a firefighter myself in Sweden, we illustrated this test aswell and had quite a few opportunities to experience this on site. Very beautiful in a controlled environment!
SEE, the first one is Exactly why they are so dangerous. One more second and that guy would have gotten a face full of fire. Mad respect for the guy for being a pro and walking it off.
Why did he go in front of it anyway when he knew it could happen any moment..
I think it was a mistake to walk in front of it when it's about to go off. Unless someone denies that, he won't be getting much respect from me.
@ Exactly what I was thinking. They are preparing it, they know it is unpredictable and they know that it shows no signs before going. GO AROUND THE BACK MORON!!
He had to expect this to happen but he walked to the from. This is like walking infront of the barrels on a shooting range. This is begging for being crippled / killed. Idiot! "What could possibly go wrong?"
His kit is designed to withstand high temperatures, so even if he was in the centre, as long as he either fell to the ground or jumped out of the way as soon as it made contact he should have been fine.
“It’s only fireproof till it’s not”
Best quote of 2019
It is
@Pixel нет я не хочу идти
Я ненавижу всех вас
Oh nein, ich gehe besser hier raus
Uhhhhh
Thanks to the Travis County Fire and Rescue team for helping out on this!!! That's my son right there!!!
No it is my son
@@DrRence LOL!!! my son is one of the firefighters...
@@DrRence Yes, you're right, it is... Your son did an awesome job...
is he the one that was about to walk in front of that door?
@@derekphelps7881 Thanks, no, he's the intelligent one... :D
This is easily one of the most beautiful segments you've filmed. The roiling clouds and explosive ignition are awe inspiring.
4:47 - 4:51 Even professionals make mistakes that could cost them dearly.
Seriously. Betcha he got a talkin' to for that
I couldn't believe it. In a controlled, proposed to be safe environment, not the best thing to do. I'm sure he did hear about that.
seriously! dude put his face in front of a cannon... and hes a pro? or was this his first time with this training?
Would be better for him to give up his job
@@spencersmick8884 chef gave him an order. soo.. no it's not his first time.
Didn’t know what backdraft was but by the thumbnail, I thought it was water
Same
I thought it looked like a grey cabbage
Me too
Andrew Ely same
Andrew Ely also looks like hiccup from the newest how to train your dragon
Every video from them feels incomplete until Gavin says "That is Mental!"
Mentewl
Agreed
or "that is _claass_ "
yeah it came out everytime lol
I was a full time Fireman for 30 years, an indication that a backdraft is imminent, is to look for 'pulsing' of the smoke coming out of the building, just about visible in these scenarios although not very clear at all.
I was once doing 'flashover' training and actually inside a container on fire just like this, after we extinguished the fire, I looked at the temperature recording equipment, it showed 520 degrees celsius at head height, we were lower than a snakes belly putting it out!
Olbno
No full time firefighter calls himself a "fireman." If you were a fireman, you stoked fires, you didn't fight them.
@@gordonhaire9206 I don't give a toss what you think, I joined FULL time nearly 50 years ago when we were called FIREMEN, not a woman in sight!
@@cvince2862 I joined 58 years ago. We were firefighters, not firemen. The job title was FIREFIGHTER.
@@gordonhaire9206 I presume you are in the USA?
In Britain we were FIREMEN.
I have the documentation to prove that 46 years ago I joined as, and was titled and referred to, as a FIREMAN, don't be so quick to assume that the USA rules the world on job titles.
Incidentally, in Britain our title only changed to the rather odious 'firefighter' after women were allowed to apply!
This 'Backdraft' phenomenon reminds me of a film form the early 90's, which featured these 'Backdrafts', and the difficulty firefighters face in tackling 'Backdrafts'. I believe the film was called... "the Very Dangerous Fire".
lol
🤣😂
Barnaby, well played. Now get back to making hilarious Dabchick videos, if you would be so kind.
Seriously though, I actually chortled. Not just chuckled or tittered, but actually chortled.
the movie backdraft
No it wasn't! It was called "The Most Dangerous Fire". Duh!
You can really see how air is sucked in at the lower edge of the opening at 5:49.
Now that’s a thorough succc
Here in the US, we are big fans of Hickory wood flavor in our food. I worked at one of only two locations that made a product called "Liquid Smoke". I was a furnace operator there burning 8 tons of hickory chips in an 8-hour shift. Basically keeping the furnace right at 5 to 15 seconds away from a backdraft event. Looking back, I guess I was a bit of an expert/fire teaser at creating the perfect environment for backdrafts, without letting it actually have one occur. We had a very tall smokestack with metal walls inside over each furnace. Suspended inside were racks of wires hanging from top to bottom of the stack. Wires were connected to antique X-Ray machines which created a very high electrical field between the wires in the stack. Smoke gets thick enough and the electrical discharge made the smoke attract to the walls as an oily, resin-like deposit. Gravity and heat collected this Liquid Smoke at the bottom of the stack and then when my barrel got full I would pump it out to an above-ground storage tank for processing at another facility to make the food flavorings and extracts. Our wall phone, opposite the furnaces, was a frequent victim of the backdrafts. Even though it was 20 to 30 feet away, Salvador Dali would have used that melted thing in his artwork without hesitation! When the furnace DID belch fire from a backdraft, your best choice was to just fall back and let it go over you. Quite a sight to see, and an attention-getter there mates! Between the flames, smoke, and high voltage electricity, it was a very dynamic job experience, to say the least!
Liquid smoke is a good product.
@Rick Sanchez
I still love the smell of hickory to this day. That was in the late 70’s. Lololol
What an incredible story. Antique x-ray machines!!!
I've always wondered how they did that
Thanks for the informative comment
I’m a volunteer firefighter, i actually got trapped in an attic when a backdraft occurred. I’m very lucky to be alive. It was incredible being engulfed in fire. I did suffer severe 3rd degree burns and had to have skin grafts. But the fact that I survived is amazing.
Gav and Dan I'm a firefighter myself and never knew how backdraft worked. Thank you for this video. It really does help.
This happened to our department and the city fire department when they called us in to a large corncob bin fire. Two large doors where open to allow us to pour water streams into the structure. We'd been there for almost an hour when my chief ordered me to go fill somebody's air bottle. The truck with the cascade unit was just outside of the fireground as I changed the guy's air bottle. That being done, I got on the horn and asked the chief if I could set up the cascade to fill more air bottles, as this job looked like it was going to be a long, drawn out affair. He said " Yeah, go ahead Ron."
As I put the empty bottle into the steel bucket to start filling it, I heard a loud, rattling, booming sound and looked up in time to see a huge plume of orange-blue flame, smoke and burning corn cobs engulfing the city's engine and everyone there in that area. I saw the top of the bin lifted up and clanged back down again, with flaming corn cobs rocketing into the air. Silence then surrounded the area, except the sound of our trucks. My first thought was " My God, they're all dead!" But then I heard one of the paid city guys call out, "Eyeee-haaaaaa!!!"
Okay, time to go. Somebody's okay!
I grabbed my gear and ran back in there to help pick up the pieces.
In all, three of Fremont's guys had some burns and bruises, while ten of us volunteers where battered around more by the backdraft. Two had dislocated shoulders, while others suffered from bumps, bruises and some burns. A friend of mine didn't know he'd wrenched his back after everybody was transported to the hospital to be checked out. ( the adrenaline wore off!) What's spooky about it? It was Halloween, 1997. We got our Halloween scare...
Ronald Robertson wow
I have a creeping suspicion none of this ever happened
@@Cookie-gw1vv It did! Believe me, it did. It put our department out of action for a couple of days until we could get the equipment we lost replaced. If you can, look up in the Fremont Tribune, (Nebraska) November 1, 1997. The fire is in there.
@@ronaldrobertson2332 maybe give a link?
Fremont Rural Fire Department does have a Facebook page. Go there and ask about that fire. October 31, 1997. Fremont, Nebraska. Ask about that fire at Junior Weiser's.
"It looked so nice and soft until that big flame came out"
Dan, 2019
POV: after watching this when it first came out you decided to join the fire service. Now you’re watching a few years later to remind you of good times.
This is one of the best ones you guys have done. Awesome but freaking scary too. Much respect to firefighters everywhere.
Who else thought it was water from the thumbnail lol
Me
I thought it was a callused heel🤣
I thought it was an orange xD
Will Giffin ikr
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Gavin : "I wonder if we could cook some eggs on it"
Dan : *Casually pulls a dozen eggs out of his pocket*
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Gg Acc that’s the joke...
@@theamateurfurry4735 please tell me you guys are being sarcastic
should have slow mo'ed the egg!!!
what makes it so dangerous is the long pause, where you think nothing is going to happen, you walk towards the fire, then it suddenly explodes.
it's like when you have a dud firework.
"...is it gonna go?"
"idk, go touch it."
"Firefighters typically do everything they can to avoid a backdraft"
1st one right in the face lol
Notice how none of them budged after the first one until it was well over haha. Example at 6:13. Lesson learned.
actually flashover is much more dangerous than backdraft...
Luke Arts that’s false
First day on the job...
"Honey, I don't know about firefighting as a career."
No. A backdraft is basically just a MUCH more intense flashover, to my knowledge. Backdrafts are more dangerous.
This is the best episode you have ever made. I knew the science behind a backdraft, but had no concept of the reality involved. The instantaneous ignition is amazing, but what really blew me away was the power of the wind. Backdrafts have been described as a "flash of fire when the air ignites" and its weird to think of air burning, however it really IS air burning, (or at least the oxygen), that is burning. You don't think about it but oxygen is extremely flammable; that's why you never smoke around anyone who is using an oxygen tank! Still, that wind, oh my oh my. Stay safe out there brothers.
Is it just me, or does Gavin look like the guy from Cloudy with a chance of meatballs?
i am the unprettiest youtuber ever why do you ask
Nah, he looks more like that guy from achievement hunters
Why did you take so long to say this!? 😆
Blueboy5678 couldn't be, that guy is too much of an idiot to be one of the slo mo guys XD
Everybody asks this.
I along with so many others have had a flashover, not a backdraught, pass completely over my head to curl down the wall behind me. Your friend is your PPE and your hose. You MUST keep the water on. Drop the hose and try to exit and you probably won't make it without serious injury. All you can do it keep cooling the air until the gases have burnt off. It is terrifying the first time and not much better in subsequent events. The lazy orange flame covering the ceiling is quite spectacular. Prior to the issue of flashoods and Nomex gloves to us in the 80's hand and facial burns, especially the ears, were very common. Even with the hoods and gloves you would still boil in your own sweat and suffer heat syncope. We lost a young guy from one of my old stations in Greater Manchester after he suffered debilitating heat syncope and dropped on his way out. Absolutely tragic, a fire started by two young girls messing about burning brochures outside and pushing them under an external door to a hair dressers. Fire can be quite beautiful especially filmed in slow motion but we obviously never forget just how deadly that beauty can be. Thank you for demonstrating the dangers we face.
Crazy, my dad was a Volunteer fireman. After watching this, a visual representation of the complete and total danger that he potentially was in in many situations. Brings new understanding to just how dangerous fire is. And how dangerous fighting fire can be. Thank you
I imagine that the footage you shot on this will also be quite helpful in their study and understanding of Backdrafts.
richb313 why do you think the fire department let them do it? I know they have a large budget now, but I can't imagine they could afford to pay the city back for all those fire fighters' time alone.
The fire fighters got the better deal with free slow motion analysis. Saved them a few thousand dollars
Why didn’t you slowmo the egg splattering and cooking
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Email this footage to all the cgi software engineers this is gold
That fireman is surely an expert
"oh, this extremely dangerous thing hasn't happened yet, lemme just walk where it's supposed to go down"
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Stuff like this happens without warning or dose not happen at all.
Funny that the whole point was the sudden and violent explosion that they're trying to create and the fireman just walks face first up to the opening and misses the fire ball by about 8 inches. I mean dude, come on.
Being infront of the backdraft isnt the really dangerous part. Being INSIDE the room that backdrafts is the serious killer.
Patrick Earthridge oh God. I hadn’t thought of that. I guess things can always be worse.
Yeah he's either new or he needs to be retrained
This serves as a great training video AND a great Slo Mo video. That was pretty impressive, the sheer power is tremendous! Can't imagine being inside at that point!
I don't believe in negative reinforcement.... but that fireman needs to get reemed out.
I'm no expert, but I would not have expected a fireman to walk into the killzone like he didn't know what was going on.
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it looked like he knew the limits (hopefully) and just avoided the actual hitbox by a few pixels.
He was starting to duck as he was stepping through, but I bet it didn't feel like enough.
This is the first time I have ever heard of this channel or got recommended something like this. I have to give you props on the filming and editing part of this video. I have never seen something like this before in my almost 26 years of life and it is very educational.
Must be so cool to discover the Slo Mo Guys for the first time, one of the greatest things to come from TH-cam.
5:50 I love how you can see the cool air rushing in the bottom of the doors opening as the hot smoke races out the top. Gotta love them thermodynamics!
Yes totaly
Firefighters: Carrying out backdraft demonstration
Slow Mo Guys: Haha let's throw eggs at it
Many eggs with developing chicks on it are wasted though :(
@@elbenezermirabuena7755 factory eggs are typically unfertilized ^^
Chickens can lay eggs even without them being fertilized first!
@@l.zevicreations Is that so? What a relief, thanks.
@@l.zevicreations I can see your favorite vids are Minecraft, me too
@@elbenezermirabuena7755 about the Minecraft vids one, I'm slightly confused as to where you got that? i don't watch Minecraft or play very often, I mostly watch science videos with the exception of perhaps this kind of stuff, if it makes any sense?
Can you slow mo my life? Is going too fast
Cause just that video itself is probably about 50 gigabytes of footage, perhaps it wasn't worth it...
Aye and seems to get quicker the older I get😖
Lmao
You know the saying "Time flies when you're having fun"? Spend more time doing things you hate.
Can you slow mo my suicide?
I have heard the term "backdraft" all my life and never really understood what it actually was, its rather amazing! When you think a bit about it the whole time that the fire is smoldering/little burning the materials inside the box its also creating unburnt gasses from the smoldering material and suddenly you intro oxygen and all those gasses along with everything else GOES very fast! Rather amazing to say the least! To all FIREMEN: Be Careful!!!
As a Kid I learned it from the movie......what a Great depiction
04:33 : Temperature Clunks
- scientific terminology
-the SlowMo Guys, 2019
-my laptop
The fact that Gav was caught unaware, and still managed to track the head of the backdraft so well, really shows his expertise.
I'm convinced he sees the world at quarter speed. It's not slow enough to be perceptable mostly, but it gives him quick reflexes.
Dan, sees second backdraft: Wow, that was a real one!
First backdraft: _Am I a joke to you?_
Zacynthius - 😂😂😂
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Yes. Due to poor performance, it was fired.
1:55 I loved how as they mention the couch is going to get cooked up they say aww and relax one more time on the seat to give it some love and enjoy it before its toast lol.
As a volunteer firefighter I've never clicked on a video so fast.it was definitely interesting to see
My grandfather was a firefighter, and this happened to him once and he got blasted through a door
Was your grandfather alright?
That’s how they got to school
Firefighters are a special breed of human. I'm humbled by their bravery and seeing this, it gives me an even greater respect for them! Incredible! Good footage. Very well done.
5:26 I’ve heard so much about fire being a living thing and watching the smoke come out you can almost make out some creature in it. 7:13 and how he sees a dragon in this. I was always taught to respect fire which I’ve passed on to my kids when we burn brush.
RIP to all those firefighters who lost their lives protecting us
you need to get two opposing containers and time them to fight each other *street fighter* style
Only if they look like dragons.
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You need the ghost of another container encouraging the younger one.
On March 30, 2019, 30 firefighters lost their lives when putting out a forest fire in Sichuan, China due to sudden changes of the wind causing explosions. R.I.P.
@VanderbiltQuinn this comment dosent make sense.
@@ryansturm5959 Shoplifted the eggs.
@@danburch9989 what ???
@@ryansturm5959 He removed the egg carton as if he shoplifted them. It's a joke!
@@danburch9989 got it now. Thanks.
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@@fristime.o90 can't speak english huh? this is a foreign channel
@@fristime.o90 Use easy-to-understand language
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That's a freakin good capture of the fireman about to approach the door!
It's like what Adam Savage said about explosive duds...
"It didn't go off. Let's get closer! Let's get closer! Let's get cl- BOOM!"
@@tomfoolery4490 Omg hahahaa
He knew that even if his mask went up his mustache would afford him another 45 seconds or so of safety.
4:46 That firefighter there got real lucky. For a second there he didn't have his face burned off.
Perfectly cooked
The guys do this in their typical light-hearted manner but this is a very angerous and very real phenomena in fire-fighting. Good vid guys, thanks!
It's awesome to watch this in slow motion)).
Anyone else remember the film Backdraft? It’s a classic!
it's in part why I became a firefighter. Not per se because of the movie. But because of a coincidence when I watched it for the first time and on the very same moment elsewhere in town a big hotel fire had a backdraft in which my uncle died... He died because he went in to carry out more people. In total he carried 17 people to safety, he died with the 18th in his arms... I was 16 at that time and I decided I wanted to be prepared for such scenarios, to be like hime but not die...
Luke Arts wow stay safe!
Rather than a Geyser, that footage looks to me, to be a sideways version of a volcanic eruption.
Pyroclastic flows
or a nuclear mushroom cloud.
Considering backdrafts carry superheated air, it's almost the exact same principle in its danger.
Horizontal mushroom cloud
The second one looked like it was going through a cobweb that never broke.
TH-cam is constantly recommending this from 1years....and finally i clicked on it
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After causing numerous backdrafts dan has finally discovered the perfect level of roastiness for a marshmallow
I appreciate the idea behind this video, Backdrafts are such terrifying things. thanks for teaching people! ^^
And they can be much faster depending on the situation and location of a fire.
This might be my favorite thing you ever filmed
The reaction is so intense it almost looks as if the pressure is shattering the smoke like glass as it escapes.
From the thumbnail, it looked like you were filming something about water
Oh how I was wrong
It's fluid dynamics either way.
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A fan of Mythbusters: "I understood that reference."
Excellent timing! Was just in the mood for a slow mo guys video!
WHO watched this years ago and just remembered you liked the video and wanted to find it
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4:47, the red stripes on his jacket would mean in my country that he is a sergeant meaning he’s an experienced firefighter ) But the mistake he made could have been a lethal one for a firefighter, one step faster and he would have had the flame right in his face.
I was a bit surprised he didn't go around the back or at least a but further away. I mean they were deliberately setting up the conditions for a backdraft.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade to be fare it was just a very small backdraft with this small container ------ imagine this x 5 in an apartment or time 500 in a factory hall
You guys should try and film top fuel drag racing
a close up of an engine unassembling itself woul be cool.
Damon M I 9000% second this. Top fuel NEEDS (multiple!!) slow motion videos at the quality level of The Slow Mo Guys.
Parachutes opening and the bigass back wheels spinning would be awesome to see.
OH YEAH
Your content can be use by Students at school for their science class reference... Respect
Good thing he passed his dex save, avoided 10d10 fire damage.
Too many firefighters threw a 1 IRL.
His save was 18, and he rolled a 19. Also he prob would have failed his death saves cuz he is a normal mortal and has like 4 health
@@wesg2466 I'd say fire-fighter class starts with 1d8 HP.
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4:48 Why would you try to walk across the front. Jesus Christ, the guy almost melted the right side of his face
If you keep watching it curves just before it hits him
It's like walking up to a firework that failed to go off in order to see what went wrong.
If you watch his hand it looks like he was reaching to unlatch the door from the side. He was starting to reach out for the latch and crouch down the second or so before the backdraft.
@@johnpatz8395 Yep and if I remember correctly it was said that they were going to open the bottom door then boom. I don’t believe for a second he was planning on walking in front of it either!
Had that torch hit him, chances are it would have been fatal. The velocity and temperature of that would not be survivable after a blow to,the head with it.
Firefighters: “never go back to a firework once it has been lit.”
Also Firefighters: 4:48
They destroying the ozone layer and if you think the fire was hot you should see how hot it is when the ozone layer is destroyed 😠😠😠😠😠
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EXCELLENT footage! 👍 you guys Rock!
Cool video, cool footage and you learn something new! I had no idea about Backdrafts! :)
There's a decent movie with that name, if you like seeing Patrick Swayze as a fireman.
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Gav: That's giving me an idea for part two
**LOOKS AT DAN**
Dan: What?
😂🤣😂
When I was a volunteer fireman back in the early 70's, on one of my first drills in a multi-story building, one of these hit me before I had a chance to put my oxygen on, I ended up being knocked out and had to be carried down stairs.
Must’ve hurt
Dummy. Glad you made it though.
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@@FlawdaBwoy07 you really still think that's funny? Hasn't that meme been dead for a solid few months by now
@@sydious_s_snake no its still funny, just misused in this instance. hence: no likey.
Oh my goodness! The first firefighter that got the first blast, I hope he is okay. I remember the movie Back draft. But now I know what it means. I will keep the firefighters in my prayers. This video really opened my eyes to the dangers the firefighters face.
Who else tought this was something with water when seeing the thumbnail
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It's basically superheated air! The mushroom shape makes sense because it's the same concept that occurs when an atomic bomb is detonated! The superheated air expands upwards faster than outwards, causing the mushroom shape!
GhostShipSupreme a fluid moving through another fluid will make that shape. Water will do the exact same thing just by pushing your hand through it. This backdraft is caused by pressure where a bomb is like you said hot causing it to rise but they do the same motion
Was cool of them to allow the smg to be on-site to film that.
I'm sure the firefighters could use the footage for research and demonstration and such.
I watched this 3 years ago, still just as satisfying today.