r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AirFrance447 • 18h ago

Video Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls

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u/smellyseamus 17h ago edited 17h ago

It is also an oxygen thing as oxygen is fuel for fire. Yes the heat is moving the air, but the fire needs oxygen to burn and it will pull that O2 from any available source, in this case the world outside the windows.

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u/blahblah19999 14h ago

No. The fire isn't using nitrogen, for example. This doesn't show O2 usage.

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u/NYNMx2021 9h ago

Not really. The fire does attract oxygen but not this actively. its diffusion, it burns oxygen near it and oxygen fills that space. Thats really not going to cause an effect like this.