simkiller August 2, 2006 Share simkiller Member August 2, 2006 (edited) I had a hell of a night last night. We were called to a building fire around 9:00. We were on our way to the scene when radio traffic from the first in engine reported heavy smoke through out the whole building and made the call a 706 (which means its a second alarm fire...1 alarm fires consist of 3 engines, 2 ladder trucks, Heavy Rescue Unit and 2 Battalion Chiefs...so basically a 706 doubles that response). It happened to be a Foundry that casts metal for I believe engine parts so the whole building is basically a death trap if it catches on fire. Kinda funny because I made a fire last year at this exact same building where there was 1 fatality and another person who was burned over 95% of his body. (Both employees of the foundry). It took several days for that fire to burn itself out, because if you don't already know you can't put water on Molten Magnesium because it basically reacts and explodes like a bomb if you do. Anyways we got on scene and were given orders to set the ladder truck up and bring a fan to the front door. After that we went to the rear of the structure where you could see through a window that was busted out and see the seat of the fire. It was much much bigger than the fire last year and from my little experience on the job it told me we couldn't do crap but let it burn. But for some reason we had crews inside for a while. Luckily maybe a min or two before the huge explosions the 700 tones were sounded which means get the hell out of the building NOW. When the explosions went off there must have been 20 firefighters including myself not a foot or two from the building. (My crew was ordered to bust out windows on the four side and that is where we were when the whole building lit up.) It literally knocked down or threw all of us. Molten metal and parts were everywhere. I don't know how but no one died. Only a few minor injuries to a couple of firefighter. I still can't believe how lucky we are right now. News crews caught most of it on film. Here's a link to the news sight with 3 or so clips of it exploding. http://www.wane.com/ Edited August 2, 2006 by simkiller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whudats August 2, 2006 Share whudats Member August 2, 2006 Glad you guys are all safe man. Wow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow August 2, 2006 Share shadow Member August 2, 2006 WOw that's crazy. THank God all you guys are all right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magruter August 2, 2006 Share Magruter Member August 2, 2006 Hum, yes very glad there were no serious injuries. Sounds like they need better safety practices at the foundery. Or maybe a better surpression system. Foam, co2, i don't think a D fire extingusher would do any help for that blaze! Way to keep you head on sim, and yes this is another learning experience. Use/share it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief August 2, 2006 Share Chief Member August 2, 2006 WOw that's crazy.THank God all you guys are all right. ditto! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooDooPC August 2, 2006 Share VooDooPC Member August 2, 2006 Kinda funny because I made a fire last year at this exact same building where there was 1 fatality and another person who was burned over 95% of his body. YOU made the fire? I have a question, what do firefighters do when there's no fires? Just sit around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vovik August 2, 2006 Share Vovik Member August 2, 2006 magnesium fire...sounds very dangerous. wow. glad noone died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGeek August 2, 2006 Share TheGeek Member August 2, 2006 Kinda funny because I made a fire last year at this exact same building where there was 1 fatality and another person who was burned over 95% of his body. YOU made the fire? I have a question, what do firefighters do when there's no fires? Just sit around? I was wondering the same thing. Thank God your alright. Dont do something stupid like that again, nobody wants you to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discom August 2, 2006 Share discom Member August 2, 2006 Dont do something stupid like that again, nobody wants you to die. What does that mean?... he was doing his job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simkiller August 2, 2006 Author Share simkiller Member August 2, 2006 (edited) When i say I made a fire, that means I was one of the responding units to the fire to try and extinguish. And yeah what discom said..... Can anyone help me out and tell me if there is a way to save the streaming video from that site I posted above? I'd love to be able to save those video clips and keep them on my computer. I called the number on the website to see if I could get a copy of those and they said it would cost me something like 60 bucks for 1 clip! Help would be much appreciated. If you figure out a way and are able to save them my e-mail is sim651@gmail.com. Edited August 2, 2006 by simkiller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magruter August 2, 2006 Share Magruter Member August 2, 2006 Take a camcorder and record your computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simkiller August 2, 2006 Author Share simkiller Member August 2, 2006 I would so do that if my wife wouldn't have just left town and taken the darn thing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discom August 2, 2006 Share discom Member August 2, 2006 (edited) If you figure out a way and are able to save them my e-mail is sim651@gmail.com. I can get them without losing any quality. I'll email you when i get back from work in a few hours what would u prefer? .mov, .mpg, .avi ? Edited August 2, 2006 by discombobulated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simkiller August 2, 2006 Author Share simkiller Member August 2, 2006 Sweet! Umm I guess as long as I'm able to watch them with Windows Media Player it doesn't matter to me a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek-Almighty August 2, 2006 Share Tek-Almighty Member August 2, 2006 Magnesium, like phosphorus, has a very high flash point and oxidizes very rapidly. Not only that, but magnesium burns hot enough (4000 degrees F) to cause hydrolysis, releasing free oxygen and HYDROGEN from water...which causes a heck of an explosion. TG you're safe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmerisme August 2, 2006 Share farmerisme Member August 2, 2006 Glad to hear you are safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simkiller August 2, 2006 Author Share simkiller Member August 2, 2006 Thx farmer and everyone else. Hey discom I don't know how long that site will keep those streaming videos up seeing how it looks like they are rotating new news stories in so I hope you allready downloaded or are going to soon. I don't think they'll be up to much longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discom August 2, 2006 Share discom Member August 2, 2006 (edited) i was able to get 2 of them... an extended clip and the wednesday noon update clip. i'm encoding them now. they're DivX. windows media video format was being evil Edited August 2, 2006 by discombobulated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simkiller August 3, 2006 Author Share simkiller Member August 3, 2006 nice that will most definitely work for me! thanks so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ash- August 3, 2006 Share Guest ash- Guests August 3, 2006 Can anyone help me out and tell me if there is a way to save the streaming video from that site I posted above? I'd love to be able to save those video clips and keep them on my computer. I called the number on the website to see if I could get a copy of those and they said it would cost me something like 60 bucks for 1 clip! Help would be much appreciated. If you figure out a way and are able to save them my e-mail is sim651@gmail.com. If you have firefox, you can use the VideoDownloader extention to save video clips in the future. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rashad August 3, 2006 Share Rashad Member August 3, 2006 Glad yer ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo August 3, 2006 Share anonymo Member August 3, 2006 Holy smokes! Glad to hear you made it ok sim... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xterminator August 3, 2006 Share Xterminator Member August 3, 2006 simkiller! glad your safe. Firefightening is dangerous enough with regular fires, adding in Magnesium is just unfathomable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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