Came upon a burning home today...

[EddieWalker]

Thanks for sharing this. It's always good to hear some good news, and that you where able to help out in such a positive way. Makes me proud to be a member of TBN and such and amazing community of people!!!!

Eddie

 

[jonyyuma]

Looks like you did exactly right. I was a volunteer firefighter and can attest to the burning chemicals and plastics that can ruin your breathing.I have been in burning neighbors houses and have to follow the hose back out for the thick smoke.. Never enter a Burning building unless you have a respirator and turn-out gear or if you survive the fire you may still die.

 

[ultrarunner]

Looks like you did exactly right. I was a volunteer firefighter and can attest to the burning chemicals and plastics that can ruin your breathing.I have been in burning neighbors houses and have to follow the hose back out for the thick smoke.. Never enter a Burning building unless you have a respirator and turn-out gear or if you survive the fire you may still die.

I was thinking back to my Boy Scout Fire Science Merit Badge... Scout Master was a Fireman...

He would talk about what happens when a door or window is suddenly opened and how violently the flame can respond... scared all of us.

 

[jonyyuma]

We had some people hurt by the Backdraft? Do YOu remember the movie?As soon as it get a big gulp of Oxygen,Wham! I was amazed at the colors and varietys of the flames while inside.Also went to a cops house fire, we had to back up away from it as he was a reloader of ammo. The biggest was an Oxy-acydeline cutting torch set he had in the basement...It made a tall flame spout...

 

[RobertN]

I'm a firefighter, and reload. The reloading components by themselves just burn. Even powder. As for as the loaded rounds, they would be the same as any other store bought ammo. They will cook off; when they do, the heavier bullet will stay mostly stationary, while the lighter weight casing goes flying. Although I do not want to get hit by them, it is nothing like a bullet coming out of a barrel.

I'd be more concerned about propane bottle, gas cans, or oxy/acetylene cylinders. I've been at a commercial fire at a small candle making facility, Mom and Pop kinda place. They had a number of 10 gallon propane tanks inside; they had propane burners to melt wax. Flames had already breach the roof when we went first on scene. Those propane tanks made big flames when they bleve'd. And shrapnel was found a couple hundred feet away.

We had some people hurt by the Backdraft? Do YOu remember the movie?As soon as it get a big gulp of Oxygen,Wham! I was amazed at the colors and varietys of the flames while inside.Also went to a cops house fire, we had to back up away from it as he was a reloader of ammo. The biggest was an Oxy-acydeline cutting torch set he had in the basement...It made a tall flame spout...

 

[ultrarunner]

Years ago I witnessed a fire at the Pacific Oxygen Plant in Oakland CA...

Cylinders were being launched high into the air and came crashing back to earth...

Lucky, no one was killed...

They gave acetylene cylinders that had gone through the fires to the Voc/Ed schools... the steel jacket was peeled back like a banana.

 

[Bird]

Years ago I witnessed a fire at the Pacific Oxygen Plant in Oakland CA...

Cylinders were being launched high into the air and came crashing back to earth...

Lucky, no one was killed...

They gave acetylene cylinders that had gone through the fires to the Voc/Ed schools... the steel jacket was peeled back like a banana.

Yep, I got to watch a fire like that once. The firemen were actually laying in the borrow ditch spraying water on the building. One explosion looked like a smaller version of the mushroom clouds you've seen in the pictures of an atomic bomb. And some of those cylinders came out of that building like rockets.

 

[Western]

Bird, remember the fire at the gas company in Dallas 1-2 years ago? looked like the 4th of July in a BIG way! those cylinders where going every where.

 

[two_bit_score]

Years ago I witnessed a fire at the Pacific Oxygen Plant in Oakland CA...

Cylinders were being launched high into the air and came crashing back to earth...

Lucky, no one was killed...

They gave acetylene cylinders that had gone through the fires to the Voc/Ed schools... the steel jacket was peeled back like a banana.

In this last incident you were at the right place at the right time for what you had to do. That was not by accident.

 

[Bird]

Bird, remember the fire at the gas company in Dallas 1-2 years ago? looked like the 4th of July in a BIG way! those cylinders where going every where.

Yep, Dennis, I believe that one was on Industrial Blvd but I was thinking it was even longer ago. The one I was talking about would have been in 1965-66 off Luna Rd. north of Northwest Highway; I believe it was Ryan Rd. I was behind a building on the east side of the railroad tracks, peeking around the corner when one of those bottles came out like a rocket, cut the power lines overhead, and continued on; don't know how far it went.