MASSIVE *Fully Involved* Apartment Building Fire Nashville Tn 2nd Alarm 6-25-22
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2022
- Location: Britishwoods Apartments
Call Description: 2nd Alarm Fully Involved Fire
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Date Filmed: June 25th 2022
Additional Info: Due to radio encryption I was delayed as I had to follow the smoke to the scene and I do not have a complete run down of who was on scene.
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It completely blows my mind that the ENTIRE complex went up like this, end-to-end… I’ve seen so many fires like this and even the most basic building codes and decent construction can effectively isolate a fire; at least to an extent where you don’t lose the entire structure or other exposures.
This is just an example of something that should be totally impossible. 😕
The American way of building surely has its advantages, but one serious setback is the increased fire hazard. The closeup at 4:50 pretty much shows that the entire structure is about 100% flammable! The building ITSELF is the fireload - not what's inside.
called bribing the building inspector in my neck of the woods
even with firebreaks, that vinyl siding will carry fire across the firewall and up into the attic space above uninvolved areas
@@hosedragger-2045 Vinyl sidings - just as styrofoam - must be banned from being used for covering the outer walls of houses. Just watch the footage of the Grenfell Tower fire. It was styrofoam that made the building burn like a torch!
@@jurgenkuhlmann9194 I'm a 5th generation firefighter. I've seen the grenfell tower footage
How does an ENTIRE building like this go up so darn fast, you may ask yourself? The answer is modern buildings are made of sawdust, glues, and plastic. Modern lumber is also grown really fast, and harvested very young. Therefore much lower density, and thus faster burning. All of that burns REALLY fast.
All garbage made in Chna materials that burn quickly if you look at it wrong. You couldn't pay me enough money to live any newly built building.
Saw this exact same burn pattern at an eerily similar looking apartment building inferno in my hometown in 1988. At the time the fire start was electrical and it spread through some sort of common attic construction from about 1970. A baby perished.
Literally no firewalls.
No firewalls, flammable cladding. Fire reaching the attic instantly spreads along the whole complex. Goes up in flames like a bale of straw.
Pretty much everything you asserted is false
I have a cousin who is a Firefighter. I don't envy him his job one bit. He fights what I fear. He has my lifelong respect, as does any other Firefighter, for risking life and limb to help keep our Communities safe. Thank you to ALL Firefighters from Coast to Coast. You know who you are.
Ditto! My cousin is with FDNY.
they do a job just like a garbage man - nothing special
@B87 Beveiliging tanks water doesn't last long bud, depending on where the hydrant is, you may run out minutes before you get a water supply established.
And world-wide too, respect from the UK!
I'm a volunteer FF and just like your brother we just do what we can when the alarm sounds. No matter what the weather or time of day we go and battle the flames that destroy the dreams of the people of our town. Sometimes we are lucky and little damage is done and times we lose, and the family loses everything they worked hard for. That is why I encourage home owners to have insurance to cover for this type of lose, even if you rent so that you can restart your life with a fresh start.
In 1979, Tulsa Oklahoma, we had 178 apartments go up just like this. Common attic spaces, limited fire walls that were breached, high winds, difficult access to buildings, long hose lay for supply. The fire ran faster than we could keep up. Residents were moving belongings out of apartments as the fire progressed. The apartment complex was down the street a couple blocks from the nearest fire station. Became an inferno within 10-20 minutes
My home just turned 100 years old. It is built with very thick wide boards. It's very solid. I hardly hear storms when they pass threw. My brother's house was like 25 years old, and I felt very unsafe in his cardboard house. I often told him that house was 2x4's and pressed wood. I would never live in a new home.
Obviously no “Firewalls” in attic!! It ran the attic space and consumed the building from there!! Sad, hope nobody was hurt, prayers to those folks who lost everything!! 🙏🔥
First thing I thought of from the start. I grew up in a two family house built in 1918. 12" thick solid poured concrete foundation, balloon construction, fire wall from the basement up but not all the way up. Loser cousin set his mattress on fire on the second floor. It got up to that common cockloft....and away it went.
I used to live in a townhouse that was in a row of eight. You had trap doors in the closet and you could go up in the loft and walk from end to end.
Yeah, a high school went up like that here in Guilford County, NC (Greensboro area). Fire started in a classroom closet. Spread above the drop ceiling, and took out the entire 2 story, 1,000 student high school.
They’ll probably need money more than prayers.
That is crazy ! Such a large structure fully involved. Great footage of the scene and responses.
Wow that's a horrific fire scene. We had one that was like this a couple weeks ago. It was actually a neighboring department that we assisted but nearly the whole county was involved.
This might be the largest 2 alarm I think I’ve ever seen!
Massive indeed!
I was thinking that too. If thats a second alarm, I'd sure hate to see what their 5th alarm is like....an entire city?
@@fdMT_EnGy lol…right!?
Well that looked like a very fast burn, hope everybody did get out in time, nice footage.
That’s so bizarre how the whole building was engulfed! It’s like every door to every apartment was pinned open and the attic didn’t have firebreak barriers. So weird to see. Hope all concerned are safe. 🙏
Tennessee fire/building codes DON'T require firewalls in attics.
Great video. Prayed for all the victims involved. Great pictures of all the units and US flags. NO BOREDOM IN THIS VIDEO.
Awesome, thanks for bringing this to us.
Thank you so much for watching
I'm amazed at with how fully involved it is, a fire alarm is still going off and functioning
S hoppe everyone and pets got out safely prayers are with you all
No firewalls, probably one continuous attic. That place was gone before the first engine arrived
Great building construction 👌
This is why I don't like these apartment complexes. They're built out of cheap materials and fire in them is highly destructive.
That’s why I Made sure I had renters insurance years ago when I lived in apartments. Back in those days it was 20 dollars a month and paid for a hotel and enough money to replace everything.
Renter’s insurance is affordable ( mines like $13/mo for my small apt) and ABSOLUTELY worth it. Last month there was a broken pipe in our building, luckily my apartment was fine, but it sure made me glad I had it when I saw how much damage just a few inches of water does. Where I live it’s required by our lease agreement.
@@johndeere8594 Insurance can't replace certain things like artwork.
@12:24
You know it's bad when you have to hose down the engine. Also an indication that you might need longer hose lines...or you parked too close.
Holy hell, if I were the other residents of the rest of the building, I’d be out of that place faster than a bat out of hell. It amazes me that building codes allow for these types of places to be built in the first place.
I guess building this way creates more profit, aka the american way of life.
Failing to adhere to lessons from the past. Stupid can't be fixed.
Direct result of having fascists in charge of state governments.
This was ABSOLUTELY PRVENTABLE had fire break walls been installed between those apartment buildings as they are here in north carolina
There was a fire like this a year or two ago near Pottstown,Pa. where an apartment building almost a block long burned from end to end. Biggest problem....no water supply...meaning no fire hydrants. By the time that tank trucks got set up, there was nothing to save.
Some ask how so much could be lost so fast! Sometimes you just have the perfect storm! Building materials, water supply, and above all building codes !!! In the early years of my career as a firefighter in the seventies we had a similar incident in Falls Twp Pennsylvania at Queens Gate Apts ,the only difference was a 10 degree temperature and 30 mile an hour wind.
Demonracer 2...fantastic job...Stay Safe, Bee Free...
I grew up in a small town and ended up on the volunteer fire department. If we had 11 firefighters at a scene, 10 were actually working the fire (assistant chief or chief is calling the shots). At this fire I see A LOT of firefighters standing around. I see fire equipment being under utilized. Granted, the building had no firewalls, but IMO, it looks like the firefighters have the opinion "Oh, we'll just let this burn to the foundation." We only did that twice, and ironically, these two houses were next to each other (but only one burned at a time). Both houses were only 20' by 20' and made entirely of wood and were at least 50 years old, and both were fully involved on our arrival. Glad I don't live in the Nashville area.
Spoken like a true volley.
@@kentcarter835 Hi. I don't know if your comment was meant as a compliment or insult. In the 1970's, we had booster reels on trucks and we used them on every single fire. Every time. Within 30 seconds of arrival, we were putting water on the fire. We aggressively fought fires. I see so many YT videos where they are pulling 2 1/2 lines, stretching them out all over God's creation and waiting 5 to 10 minutes to put water on the fire.
The way firefighters are trained today, to make an analogy, is tantamount to a football game where the offense takes a knee on every single play and then their defense watches as the other team scores on five straight drives before they actually do something about it. It's frustrating as heck to me.
SUPER COOL!
Awesome footage
Glad you enjoyed it
That’s Insane !
Amazing, the structure must not have had fire stops between rooms. Nothing left to save so tearing it down will be easier.
The biggest problem is fire stops usually end at the top of the partition walls leaving the attic/cockloft as an open void space that runs the length and width of this space as we see here.
In my opinion, fault lies with the city of Nashville, they decide what building codes and life safety codes to follow and it is up to the building inspection department to review the construction plans before construction begins. Then to make scheduled inspections during construction to insure compliance. It certainly appears changes need to be made. An adequate water supple also appears to be an issue.
Absolutely
Agreed, this is a common problem
With this type of construction. They need and new construction in certain states require these buildings to be fully sprinklered even in attic spaces and be compartmented thru out with 2 hr fire separation. Sadly the lax on building codes with allowing fully type 5 construction aka wood instead of ordinary or fire resistive due to cost measures. Plus fire alarm system monitoring water flow and tampers and any non residential areas with system smoke detection. Of course hard wire interconnected smokes thru out residences and co detection shall also be installed.
@@drjuicefire7025 A massive neighborhood in Colorado (it was something like 2k houses in 3 neighborhoods with man made lakes) had to be rebuilt due to fake sprinkler systems in the 3 story homes and toxic levels of carcinogens in the insulation. Only reason it hadn't been caught earlier was due to the county inspectors being bribed, until eventually one of them refused to be bribed.
It's all over the USA. Not that it's an excuse
It's a little more complicated than that. Code officials have a lot of responsibilities. For one, the codes are adopted by the state and the municipality can make certain amendments. It's not like the city is writing their own code. The IBC/IRC codes are also usually adopted later. For example: It's 2022 and some states might be using the IBC/IRC from 2013 (hypothetical). While there might be reasons for this, it's important to note there are usually critical changes to the int'l code which affects things. For example: we are in a seismic zone here. Products for anchoring brick-for example-require more reinforcement but the code is looking to limit how much steel reinforcement goes into a wall so they've made changes to the code as it's written every 3 years but that doesn't mean it's adopted every 3 years. This is out of the code officials' hands. The other thing is, they absolutely do review plans and specifications for conformance. As an owner of a building materials manufacturer I can tell you we are constantly sending product submittals, testing data, manufacturing COCs, QC compliances, CSI specifications, and even raw material COAs. We check, double check, then triple check that we send the correct building materials where the general and subcontractors are properly receiving materials and doing all installations and construction exactly how the manufacturer specifies. Code officials are just one part of the equation. There are a lot of people and procedures that go into building a structure of that size. Shit happens.
The one thing I believe you're saying is safety is paramount. If you're saying that, I agree with you 100%. Safety meetings are a big part of construction and there are a ton of OSHA and state-run department regulations and SOP to be in full conformance with. But code doesn't have everything in the prevailing code. That's why in the IBC or IRC they use trade codes such as the ACI530 for masonry or ASTM (American Standard Testing Materials) standards for materials.
Changes do need to be made but one thing is, with building codes, changes are made every single day in construction as well as fire codes
How did that get so out of control? No sprinkler system? No fire break walls between units? Slow response by FD? Always feel sorry for those displaced by a residence fire. It must be extremely heartbreaking to lose everything you own like that, and suddenly put out onto the street.
Someone in the comments said that they probably or could have had a water issue(s).
Where I live is the same way as these Apts. No sprinklers no break walls.
Article says no sprinklers and they did actually initiate an interior attack when they got there as they only saw heavy smoke at that time. So something changed between then and the time this video was taken
@@meaninglesscog My guess is it was in the walls already and once it hit the wide open attic space that was it.
@@meaninglesscog this is correct, and interior attack was attempted before fire ran the clock loft. Limited water supply within the complex delayed master streams
It looked like a losing battle regardless of the good will of all these firefighters!!!😥
I've watched new apartment buildings going up here in my hometown. No way would I live in one. Not even the one floor condos...no firewalls. And yes you can get decent renter's insurance at an affordable price, but the trauma of seeing this would give me months of insomnia.
There's an absolutely *massive* one (probably covering roughly about a half square city block) going up here in Huntsville, AL. Looks to be about 4 stories tall, all flimsy wood construction. All it would take is ONE small blaze in ONE apartment and the whole thing would be gone in an instant. Shocking poor design/construction IMO. I just pray they never have a fire there.
Wow. The entire apartment block ablaze!
They were hooked to a hydrant at least 50 yards with two pumpers.I drove past this it was HUGE.Antioch Tennessee.
This one sure was a wild one
It looks like they had some major water issues. I feel sorry for those who lost everything in that fire!!! That's why as a former renter I had renter's insurance and kept a thumb drive of the receipts for all my stuff
They sure did. Attacking a fire of that size with hand lines is silly. Glad they realized they had a deck gun. Sure wish they knew how to work it
@@TheFmmc ya, was wondering what the hell was going on with that deck gun. The master streams seemed weak as well. There wasn't much left to save.
Getting decent master streams in operation seemed pitiful!
@@TheFmmc Silly hand lines can do a lot when the water is applied in the right place. Remember the comment by Demonracer2 there were water supply issues that delayed using the master streams (deck gun is a master stream). In this case the goal is to contain until a water supply capable of supplying master streams is established, they were limited to making use of the 1.75 in lines and 2.5 in. lines. Learn before speaking.
I have a feeling that this would be my 5 story apartment building if the management would stop lowering the water pressure every year to save another dollar. It's so bad on the top floor that I have to shower at the gym.
Prayers for all the families involved in the fire. I hope everyone made it out safe.
Good lord!
Ok, I'm no firefighting professional, I have zero experience. I'm just an armchair gawker. However, in the first scene when I saw ONE hose on that fire, I about freaked! That is a fairly long building and it appears that the fire spread so fast that the entire building appeared to be burning evenly. As if someone had started it along the entire length at the same time. I realize that those attics are sometimes connected, but the entire BASE was burning pretty well. How would that happen?
Now you know why I'll never live in a wood-framed apartment building EVER. It's bad enough in a wood-framed house, but I can control fire safety in my house much more effectively than trying to control fire safety among 10 different families. You never know what fire risks your neighbors are presenting at any given time.... in a wood-framed building.
Nice catch brother hope everyone is ok
Thank you
That is so sad. I hope they can rebuild 🙏🙏
Prayers for goodness and safety
😱😱 hopefully no one was injured, things can be replaced...
You can almost feel the heat coming off of that. Wow
It was extremely hot filming this with the radiant heat
It seems a structure like this with no firewall at all and possibly vinyl cladding, cant really be extinguished. It effectively burns rapidly down to the ground. Building this way is crazy. You could find yourself waking up in the middle of a blaze.
Bless them all
Awesome Video, Great Work 👍 Honestly i thought that would’ve been atleast a 3rd or 4th alarm.
Not really.
I'm praying that everyone is ok hope so
Nice new engine!!!!! Rosenbaur!!!!
New construction is on Toothpick Avenue , wow 1 hose line
That was pretty involved to have that few companies there in the beginning.
Wonder why it was only a 2 alarm? Looked bigger. Great video, nice work
Those Smoke alarms Fighting for dear life to stay on in that heat LOL!
Amazed at how this was not built with better fire prevention between the apartments. This should make anyone cringe at the though of living in an apartment building.
The fascists in charge of the state government are afraid the developers won't deposit money in their offshore accounts if they strengthen the building/fire codes.
omg what a fire great work brothers pray to lord everyone and they animals made it out alive
There were no announced injuries
I feel for the ones who lost everything. The firefighters doing everything they can with what they have to put out this fire. These buildings they put up in to 2 weeks the compressed boards and builders grade materials they use is just a match box waiting to happend.
The radiant heat must have been really intense, as even the plastic covering of an apartment block some 100m away was scorched. Notice the camera swing at about 2:35.
Good eye
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That's what sucks about wood frame garden apartments, if they get away from you they are gone, Don't matter how many trucks and guys you have on scene.
What I don't understand is why the fire department didn't hit the fire on all sides of the building. I'm a ex-firefighter.
There’s usually no fire 🔥 breaks in any apartment complex. Even older apartments, but they do take on a safer design, due to the brick 🧱 walls between each unit. Even if one unit is engulfed, it usually won’t spread to adjacent units. If it does, at least the fire 🔥 will be greatly slowed down on its spread. Even newer day wooden 🪵 apartments still can be made safe by fire 🔥 breaks. Sprinklers are another option. I guess everybody wants to cut corners on safety of these buildings. Doesn’t make sense when human lives are lost. Your friend, Jeff.
Wow it melted siding on the other side of the parking lot.
Wow
thats the Problem with wooden structures , at a point there is nothing you can do anymore other than protect the surounding buildings
You look at the way they build houses and apartment complexes. Straight out of wood and they build them quick no far wall no brick no concrete just straight wood. If I was a tenant at this apartment complex I would be packing my stuff and moving out before your building catch on fire
Better late than never lmao. Bad news bears of Fire fighting
I guess this would be why fire break walls are required in some jurisdictions.
No wonder why the whole apartment row was razed to the ground - having those shabby firemen, you better have everything insured to the maximum.
Build Cheap , burning fast. No Fire Walls between the Apartments....One Match and 30 Min. later all is gone.
As a fire chief said here, these types of buildings are built cheap, fast and flammable.
Looks like it was being built.
Lived in an apartment complex in the early nineties where this happened, all caused by the maintenance man trying to defrost some pipes with a hair dryer!!
Judging from a couple of fire streme I saw water definitely an issue.
Whoa! Nothing like those cheap modern building materials and the speed at which they slap these places together, right?
How did the fire engulf the entire strip of apartments. How did anyone not see this before it got out of controlled?
This is what happens when you dont have strong stringent building codes in place. In North Carolina there wouldve been a firebrick wall between everyone of those apartments thus preventing the spread such as it did here
🫢 my thoughts and prayers go out too everyone involved 🥺
My prayers are with those who are being misplaced due to this 🔥. Hopefully Red Cross will help get them a hotel room or something. What apartment complex is this? I use to live in Nashville and I went to school there.
They're definately fighting water sourcing issues and pressure.
Mainly what I saw were very few fireman fighting the fire while the majority stood around socializing watching the apts burn down and spread the fire.
How did that get started? C.E.S.S. and Larry Murphy are onto something. The firefighters did the best they could with what they had; definitely not enough water.
They are throwing up those “match box “ apartments where I live in FL. We will certainly be reading about significant loss of life in the future, as a result of this type of construction.
Well, they could be "collapsing concrete" condos instead.
Surface material (Cladding, Paint or whatever) is combusting very well... Seriously though, the only way to get enough water on it was with air attack.
Looks like this was a lost battle when the FD arrived. All they could do was try to contain it and let the rest of it burn down. What a terrible loss for those residents. My prayers go out to them.
Honestly do they only have one water main for the whole area? There should never be pressure issues like this there should always be multiple mains to pull from anytime there's a very large multi-family structure like this. Also did anyone find out what kept popping in that far left unit? Was it ammo, lines arcing, possibly fireworks?
I'm not making any accusations or pointing any fingers, but if that was a fire with a single point of origin, how the hell did it get that big?
it spread.
Exactly!......everything is burning at once, there seems to be no progression of the burn trail.
@@sanddabz5635 You boys go off into the corner and perfect your arson assertion.
If it started in one apartment, then it should not have gone this far. If it started in the attic, then the construction is to blame (no fire walls).
@@davidhelsem8794 That makes a lot of sense and begs the question as to why the framing for each individual unit is not required to extend into the attic space clear to the roof. This would isolate a fire and contain it above the unit where it started at least long enough for fire fighters to contain it.
No sprinklers in a wooden apartment block with no effective firewalls? Poor building code and planning. Good job by the firefighters battling this inferno.
I’m not one to criticize, especially firefighters, because firefighters are the ones you can depend on the most, but ether the apartment complex was a fire boxes just waiting to burst into a Inferno, because of bad construction, or It had to be the dispatcher, that was the middle man between the caller and fire department. So what happened someone Drop the ball, on this one, I hope know one was hurt, or killed. The only thing I can see happening was know one called or wrong address, because this fire was going going a long time before water was used. Let’s hope this never happens again.
So how long did take for the entire thing to go up? Looks like it might have been pretty quick.
There most have been another fire somewhere because Ladder 17 is 17 minutes away without traffic .
This is odd, how long did it take for the first companies to arrive?
We seen a lot more action, after the fact.
Nashville's new equipment looked good.
Unknown their radios are encrypted so I have no information
The way these types of buildings are constructed. That’s where your answer is as to why this fire looks the way it does.
How did that building get to this point before someone from the fire dept.showed up
2nd alarm that should have been at least a 4th or 5th alarm fire.
Holy crap, an entire apartment complex on fire
Sadly yes
@@demonracer2 Jesus, hopefully everyone got out
Wow...thanks for spoiling it.
Those fire trucks and hoses all look brand new?
Yes, i would say that's fully engulfed , for sure. Hope nobody was hurt.
Ever heard of concrete? This can be made prefab for all specifications . Wood maybe cheaper but it's a death hazzerd/trap. Wood burns like crazy and build houses from it. A spark and wind and voila u get this. And insolation non existence or worthless.
That building must have been made out of toothpicks. What year was it constructed?
Another fine example of how cheeply the construction is today.no firewalls no sprinklers
Rip to that Apartment Complex and those peoples belongings and cars :(
I hope no animals, humans or firefighters were injured during this sad event.