See the Dramatic Difference a Door Can Make
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- In a house fire, are you safer sleeping with your bedroom doors open or closed? See the dramatic, life-saving difference a door can make. #CloseBeforeYouDoze
For more information and resources, visit closeyourdoor.org.
Okay 53 seconds in and I kind of feels like I am watching a Chevy commercial.
I was hoping Mahk would start making fun of someone there.
HaHA - JD Powers award!
Real people, not artificial actors.
lol My school is making us watch this (On my main account)
especially at 1:18
I always close my door so a weird freaky thing won’t stare at me
😂 😂 😂
🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Your uncle too, huh?
"Shadow people aren't real"
Well if they aren't real then they can't open the door, so then they can stay outside.
My son is 15 and he always closes the door to his room and tells people not to open it. It's good to know he's so careful about fire safety.
Haha, nice one!
Does he also like to vacuum his room a lot?
U are so naive.. lol!
mine always locks it and blasts music for about 10-15mins before going to the bathroom
@@reaitayma Congratulations you got the joke!
I feel like one of the cool uncommon 29% of people that always have their door closed lol
My door is always closed except when I open it to enter and leave my room heh
my sister always locks our bedroom door and keeps me out for most of the day unless i start banging or kicking the door
Tbh I only keep it closed because I have horrible nighttime anxiety. It's weird because even tho I'm home, I still don't feel safe. But after this creepy PSA about something similar to this, I never keep my door open lol
Having had a firefighter for a grandfather this was drilled into my skull by the time I was in Kindergarten along with all the other fire safety rules.
my door is always closed because i look ugly as shit when i sleep
I'm alive today because my door was closed.
Good. Keep it that way.
My door was closed, and I'm still alive. Though, haven't experienced a house fire yet.
is anyone else here from the reddit video
yep.
I fricking reddit video taught me a fire safety lesson
... you read my mind
Yea
Yep.
Thanks for shutting the door to the bedroom with teddy inside
i saw that and was happy
I’m confused where’s all the Chevrolet’s with the JD Power Fire safety award?
That made me laugh :D
Signed up to be in this odd Chevy commercial only to be shown my own house getting set on fire for a demonstration SMH. Where's my free truck I was promised?!
Kmsl
As a retired Firefighter in Service for thirty years, I know that closing doors will save lives. I also know that "GET OUT", "ONCE OUT, STAY OUT". and "meet at a designated place and STAY THERE" Does in fact save lives.
I believe I learned this particular lesson watching Backdraft as a child.
Thank you for your years of service & hard work.
Why are you shouting tho?
We had fire safety door handles in my house growing up. You could always go outside without needing to unlock, but couldn't get back in
I learned it by my dad since he worked in the restaurant business before
@@caseysawyer6081 We often find what we are looking for in life. People use uppercase for emphasis. No one is shouting at you.
When a house made for fire experiment is nicer than your actual house...
fr
The government likes to burn nice stuff!
a bit unrelated, but in subnautica, when a fir breaks out in the cyclops, you can turn on fire suppression which closes all the doors. i thought this was a nice little detail showing how much work the devs put into it
So moody teenagers will live in a fire
My kids just asked me why I make them sleep with the doors closed at night. I told them it's to keep them safe in the event of a fire. They didn't believe me, so I played them this video. They do now. Thank you.
For those who leave their doors open at night because "I'm too hot!" Think you're too hot at night now? Just think how hot, and fast, those synthetic fibers burn. With less than 3 minutes of escape time from when the smoke alarm goes off, you may never have the chance to get to safety.
It depends. It's not really because of the hot feeling but lack of oxygen. If you have windows and doors open, there is more circulation of air meaning more oxygen for your brain and better sleep. That would be the only argument to having doors shut. But in the case of a fire having doors shut is definitely better. I personally still like to have my door and windows open; I have an alarm system which would help me wake up in the case of a fire.
Damm bro you burned down a whole ikea
hahaha
lol I was thinking about the house being filled with stuff from Ikea too xD
I always sleep with the door shut.
I dont like the thought of just anyone walking in when im sleeping.
And a door will stop them?
@@water9892 its more of a psychological thing than reasonable, having a closed box for a room with reassurance of the door being shut so a person can't enter without making a sort of alerting noise. Of fucking course it won't stop someone who wants to get in, but its an instinctual reassurance mechanism. Humans have a warped idea that anything that they can't see, can't hurt them. This is very subconscious and reasonably we know what wants to touch us will touch us no matter what.
@@water9892 Are you dumb?
@@Freedom-qf5jf yes
At the end, they mention the need for smoke detectors in every room. Many apartments and condos are built with them outside the rooms, so if a fire started in your bedroom while you were sleeping... well, you get the idea. Put one in your bedroom, too!
This is very informative and helpful in showing one part of Fire and safety. The furnace spreading fire, smoke, and carbon monoxide throughout the home is another issue that needs to be shown as a residential safety problem. A new invention called the Furnace Fan Interrupter is in the submission stage to UL for evaluation to reduce the spread of noxious fumes to help save lives and property.
That's a good point. Commercial HVAC systems have been required to be interlocked to the fire alarm system for decades, for that very reason...to disable ventilation in the event of a fire to prevent spreading smoke elsewhere and/or feeding a fire.
@@captain150 Thanks for the reply! Last year we sponsored the Colorado School of Mines Engineering students for further development on the prototype and filed for a second patent which is if the final stages of completion which is actually filed as HVAC Monitoring System name and on TH-cam. Also we are trying to get the NFPA to adopt this as a new safety requirement and save lives! th-cam.com/video/I69uzVz0v10/w-d-xo.html
It's amazing people don't know this. I learned it back in the late 60's in school fire drills.
Well people aren't taught basic safety stuff anymore. They're dumbing people down.
So true...
Well, they're certainly not teaching that, anymore... not in my state.
Any school kids that visit a firehouse are taught this. I'm pretty sure some places teach it. Every school system is not the same.
But, in that case it was close the door AFTER a fire starts to prevent it's spread.
WHO SLEEPS WITH THE DOORS OPEN?!! NO CONCEPT OF PRIVACY?
Right? C'mon in burglar
My mountain cabin just a sleeping loft there's no place to put a door. oh no, i'm gonna get burned up!!
A lot of people. A lot of my family members sleep with their doors open.
Bob P, your kids?
LM Djnchen No, not my kids.
My FD never had observers, but we burned just like that for training. I'd been taught forever to close my door all the time, but seeing that difference was always amazing.
damn why did they bother making the bedrooms look so good if they were gonna burn it :(
To make it look real
Just like an actual home
Any barrier is better than none - even if that barrier will eventually burn. Before it does burn, it can help save you by keeping out not only the fire itself, but the heat and perhaps even more important, the smoke.
They should do numerous videos with different living arrangements and fire escapes.
I'm surprised so many people don't know this, I was also surprised when I asked my children not because of their response but rather their confidence in their answer. Smoke inhalation alone will overcome a sleeping individual, any open room offers oxygen! Idk, I remember so vividly instructed to put towels around the door frame. God Bless to anyone ever in a fire!
I think it confuses people because they're afraid to get trapped in a fire, because we're also taught to not open a door in a fire or it could burst into the room you're in...if you're in a room where the only escape is that open door or a window several stories up I can see why people would thing open door would allow you to escape faster in the event of a fire.
Share the message in anyway that you can.
If you can’t get out. Wet towels around it and tell 911 exactly which room you’re in.
Pray you have good dry wall
I am completely confused as to how anyone could ever think they would be safer with the doors open.
This is why most modern buildings, including my own apartment building, has Fire Doors at regular intervals throughout the halls that automatically release when the fire alarms go off. The building I live in is pretty big, and it's crazy when they do fire alarm tests hearing *every single door on every floor* slam closed simultaneously.
The way this is filmed makes me understand the office even more
This is also good advice when everyone leaves the house for school or work to close all interior doors. If a fire starts in one room, it will slow down the progression of the fire into other rooms and confine it to one room for long enough for firefighters to arrive and put out fire reducing the total damage to the dwelling. Obviously that doesn’t mean that a house won’t burn down to the ground. If the fire is not noticed at all until it has started getting through doors of several rooms and the firefighters are a long way off. Or if you live where there are no fire hydrants and a water supply has to be established to fight the fire. This consists of drafting water from the nearest body of water into tankers that go to the fire scene and fill huge portable containers with their water and go back for more. The extra time those closed doors allow for more time to get the “wet stuff on the red stuff.”
Yes. And walls save lives as well.
I always sleep with my door closed but my parents always yell at me to open it and even when I close it they go in after I’ve fallen asleep and open it for me and they also keep all the doors and windows in our home open
Mann your parents are basically inviting in a burglar 😨🙈
Show them this video. They put a lot of effort into keeping you healthy and safe all the rest of the time: why would they endanger themselves, and you, while you sleep?
I always tell my parents when I’m sleeping to close the doors and whenever I’m gaming and I tell them that my doors will save my life one day
*Houses burn faster and hotter:* At 2:40, “What a lot of people don’t realize is that *the furnishings that in our homes today are made of synthetic materials. So they burn so much faster* than your old natural cotton filled furnishings used to be. The statistics that we’ve seen through our researches is that about 40 years ago, you had about *17 minutes* to exit your house after the smoke alarm sounded. *Now you have less than 3 minutes.”* - Steve, director of the UL Fire Fighter Research Safety Institute
A lot of that is by design
How are you supposed to get to your child or infant in the next room? You’ll have to open it eventually to get out and/or get to someone.
Fuck them. Save yourself first. You can always create more kids.
Greg Brady You’re going to be an amazing parent.
Edit: if they found out you left your children behind on purpose then you could be in trouble
Greg Brady
You obviously have no kids of ur own!
Or you are a teenager!
@@karsasbaby kids are lame. Marcia and I have dogs and a cat.
Greg Brady , lol, love your sarcasm (not sarcastic, in the slightest)! Not one iota. 😀
Well if my door is closed I will die of sleep deprivation as the cats go nuts unless it's open 😂
right
my cat used to do that until she took over one of the dining room chair’s.
Same. My cats usually want to sleep on my bed for part of the night.
I love my cats. but I'm not dying for them. They get used to it. Mine did.
I keep my door closed because I don't want my parent to hear me talking to myself and me watching yt
OK, but they should’ve decorated both rooms the same, for a better comparison
They should include this with the basic fire training they give to public school kids. I learned stop drop and roll, get out, and meet at a designated location, but not this.
It is recent research that established this.
This is what I teach people every time I do a class!
Does anyone else saddened to see that mockup home they are going to burn down is nicer than where you live?
we just had a fire about 2 months ago and I noticed the fire in the wall and thank god for smoke alarms.... had all about 10 minutes to get the dog out and some of our stuff house is a total loss
So that means I need an ac in my room
According to feng shui principle, leaving your bedroom door open when you sleep allows positive chi to flow out, and opens up your space to negative energy. Sleeping with the door shut promotes feelings of safety and security, bringing you calm and peace of mind.
Door closed is better confirmed.
Well if Chi bullshit is what it takes to keep you from burning to a crisp, then good!
Why the hell won't positive chi flow in?
Unbelievable ! Fires are terrifying and deadly ! Smoke Detectors are super important !
I can’t close my door because I don’t have a handle on the inside and would be trapped in my room
It's a safety hazard, you should consider to change the door knob.
@Van Because they are retarded and don't want to fix their house
@Van i used to have sliding doors , you we're pretty much fucked if that thing came off the hinges a child wouldn't be able to get it open
@@5gr i think they meant that they have a sliding door that has one nob
wth? you’re here too?
TFW your parents take away your bedroom door because you keep it closed.
Anyone else thinking about this is us while watching this?
The crockpot?
This is why you never take a kids door down as a punishment
lowkey i mess with the burnt room it gives me chill vibes
I have to keep my door closed because of my horrible nighttime anxiety. It only intensified after watching that old fire PSA with that girl being chased by that fire shooting tank. It's by Fire Kills I think. It was a British PSA I saw on TH-cam. We only get Smoky the bear in America. Not as effective in making me almost piss my pants but will nice reminder to be careful with fire.
2:26
4:10
Why wasn't the house door closed on the right of the building? Would like to know if that played into it.
it was to compare the difference of having a closed door to having an opened door
Queen gacha cat I meant the exterior door as opposed to the room door.
But you have to leave eventually and eventually the fire will burn your door down.
Red Poppy You can leave through a window if you have too and your supposed to get out before the fire can burn your door
If you’re aware of the fire, then yes, get out; if you’re asleep, a smoke detector should wake you up and not the smoke itself. Closed doors also give you more time to save those who can’t save themselves, like infants, before they are affected by the smoke. You are not encouraged to stay inside just because the room isn’t charred
This video I feel are for people that don't have smoke detectors.
Does closing the door change how fast all the oxygen is sucked out of the house? Most people who die in house fires are in a CO2 narcosis long before the smoke or fire reaches them. It would be nice to see that demonstration as well.
Earl Paige my question is how do you not immediately wake up to the smell of smoke? I wake up to the dropping of a pin
@@randomguy8461 i would not wake up by a nuke blowing
Hrm... I sleep with the bedroom door open, but the only reason I do is because I have cats.
Who, regardless of which side of the door they're on, will inevitably want to be on the other side of it. They will cry loudly. They will bang on the door - I'm not even sure how they do this, but I suspect they reach a paw under and PULL it against the door jam. Until I stopped closing the door when sleeping, they made it impossible to get any sleep.
How would a cat flap door affect fire safety?
And here I thought me sleeping in complete darkness with all the doors closed made me a monster.
No, it makes you a monster... snack.
Good thing i keep the doors closed. Also, what a well produced video! Damn.
As a firefighter my self, a fire needs 3 things to burn, #1 fuel, #2 oxygen, #3 ignition source, if you notice threw the walk threw, the room that was burnt the most was the ONLY one with the window open, now if the window was closed like in the child's room with the bear on the bed, then both rooms would have almost been equal, anotherwards, the one with open window got more oxygen than the closed room, but the window would have fed enough oxygen down the hallway to consume them both in a somewhat RAPID session.
My door is always closed to serve as a buffer in case somebody breaks into my home. guess it serves 2 purposes
As a firefighter from many moons ago I tell this to everyone. My wife thinks I’m crazy for so she’s been sent this video. Thank you
Does the door have to have a working latch?
I wish I knew this before my house fire 2 months ago, I didn't know any better, now I have a devastating loss on my hands!
And what happens if the fire starts within the bedroom? This video needs to state that it's only safe to sleep with the door closed if there is an alarm within the room. Fires can start from electrical outlets, faulty appliances, candles and any number of causes and if the bedroom door is closed and the person is sleeping in the room the likelihood of a fatality before the smoke gets out of the room to the alarm in the hallway is high
certainly you want to close the kitchen door/s hallway etc living room, im not keen on closing bedroom doors as that initial burst of fire when you open to escape could kill you.
Question, if a fire were to start in a room that had a closed door, how much extra time would that buy you?
Hollow core interior doors are supposed to last for 25 minutes with flame directly on them. Solid core interior doors are supposed to last for 45 minutes. Depending on the response time of the fire department, you should either have plenty of time to escape...or...if you needed to stay in the room, the firefighters would have plenty of time to rescue you. If there is a fire in your room...get out quickly - and CLOSE THE DOOR!
Most of the time, it would buy you around 25-35 minutes depending on the door, per door
I play this during training for all of my fire students.
My doors busted, it doesn’t stay closed. Guess I’ll burn ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I didn't know this. But wouldn't it make sense to have the doors open to hear the sound of the smoke alarm (if it's working), grab emergency bags/documents (if you have them prepared) and get out? What about pets?
I agree with you man! I'm opening my door regardless, to get my kids
Our alarms are wired together so if one goes off they all go off.
If you watch to the end, the UL guy said the message is to sleep with the door closed AND have smoke alarms INSIDE and outside each sleeping room. That's the take away from this.
@@JonnyFlash80 Yeah, that is the most important point. These videos show the dramatic side of a fire, but the idea is that you want to be outside by the time the fire or smoke gets bad. You don't want to be "safely" in your bedroom with the door closed and an intense fire on the other side of that door with your only way out being through your bedroom window. I think they emphasize doors closed so heavily because it is factually accurate but more so because it's easy for people to form the habit and do it. What's not as easy is 1) making sure you have working smoke detectors in all the right places and testing them annually, 2) teaching children who are old enough what to do in case of fire and how to escape their room if trapped, 3) potentially purchasing something like a safety ladder if bedrooms are on the 2nd or 3rd floor, 4) having working/charged cell phones in your room so you can immediately call 911 if needed and when safe....and I'm sure there are many more point.
if your fire alarm is quiet to where you cant hear it behind a closed door, you need a new fire alarm.
Some rooms don't have doors and can't be closed.
Guess you're fucked.
Well my door needs to be replaced
Sleep with door open is probably only happend in america? Let me know if i’m wrong 😂
our family all night and day our door when sleep alwsy close
The door to me and my sisters room isnt able to be closed... dear gosh I hope we don't have to jump out a window (it would save our lives but we'd hurt ourselves badly, jumping into the area were my dog is and from the second story)
If you can't close your bedroom door, that could be considered child abuse. Everyone deserves basic privacy.
I diddnt think to close my door i closed it cuz there's a pic at the end of the hallway of Michael Jackson
I always have my door closed.
My doors made of cardboard 😂 pretty sure that’s not going to help
We lock our bedroom door to ensure the fire can’t get in.
Seems like this big Chungus isnt dieing soon
Yeah that’s what fire doors do both stop fire and stop smoke
That Chris guy looks familiar is he from a tv show
Soooo, in the event of a fire if you don't have a ladder to escape of a second floor or if you have small children or if you don't have a a family fire escape plan most probably you won't make it
smoke detector wakes you up before the house is totally consumed hopefully. You could always jump out the 2nd floor window or tie some towels together
Had my door open but I got up and closed it
Usually I sleep with it closed but I opened it to let in air from the rest of the house
But Nah I’d rather be hot than risk this
3:35 Did that fire tint that window black?
We had a fire in our gas dryer…we weren’t home but I closed the laundry room door before we left. We came home smelled smoke and couldn’t figure it out. I looked in the dryer & it was black. I had a repair guy come take a look before we purchased a new drier. He said there definitely was a fire inside/under it but it extinguished itself because I closed that door. Had I not who knows what would have happened. I clean it regularly now & never dry clothes before bed or if we are leaving. After watching this I’m thankful both of our kids prefer to sleep with the bedroom doors closed
We always sleep with all doors closed 😊
Closing my door now.
I'm getting rid of all my furniture.
Fire can’t go through doors. Its not a ghost
now im scarwd, because of the other factor: i usually lock the room door when im inside (it keeps opening itself). Shit, ant it sometimes struggles to unlock fast...especially when you forgt where had you put keys...
The whole time my dad has been wrong. He always say to keep my door open so I could atleast save my dog which it’s cage that it sleeping in is right next to my room. But I still close it.
Critical information. too bad it cant be a public service commercial on TV during normal viewing hours -5-11 pm
Too bad every room doesn't have a return path for HVAC in a forced air system. Without the doors open, the room air can't return to the furnace/AC unit. Oh well, better to be too cold/hot than dead.
Bruh my bedroom door can't even close, there's like a 1 inch gap. I'd be toast in a fire like that.
Vaya dato
My doors is only open when people are going through it, thank you very much.
I would like send this to my mother when she visits, she doesn't let me close the door. Asking what do I have to hide.
Reddit video brought me here today
My worry is that what if a fire fighter opens the door to see if there’s a fire there sees there’s no fire and fire gets in
If the fire department is there, why would you be concerned. This is to keep you safe, not save property.
Good comparison however I noticed the window in the open door room was open and the window in the closed door was closed. This would make a big difference to fire spread.
I was wondering if anyone else had noticed this. Of course the fire will spread especially quickly into a room where there's an open door and window to feed air to the fire. I would have liked to see the comparison between door open/window open, door open/window closed and door closed (not sure how relevant the window is if the door is shut, but may also be interested to compare both options there too)
How do you figure? It is clearly closed, or there would be smoke coming out of it at 3:22.
Who else sleeps with there house door open at night? I will like to see this demonstration with the house door closed please
“House fire”
Me who lives in an apartment:😎
Who else is watching this in bed and just got up to close their door
Uncle is a firefighter and he confirmed this for me.