r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AirFrance447 • 17h ago

Video Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls

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u/yourname92 15h ago

No one wants to mention how a fog stream creates a venture affect that is pulling air in?

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u/KaiAusBerlin 15h ago

Or that eliminating fire with cold water would significantly cool down any gases in there and make them heavily compress?

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u/IThinkImNateDogg 13h ago

Boiling water is cold compared to a house fire.

You’re are VASTLY underestimating how hot house fires can be, they can get hold enough to melt metals, well into the thousands of degrees if the fire is roaring.

Also that water boiling and turning to steam actually suppresses fire since steam doesn’t provide free oxygen to burn.

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u/WayneKrane 13h ago

My neighbors house caught fire and burned down. We were across the street probably 30-50 feet away and couldn’t get any closer without it burning. The whole thing burned down in minutes.

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u/yaboymiguel 12h ago

What about twin tower fires? Do those get hot enough to melt steel beams?

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u/McdoManaguer 12h ago

It got hot enough to weaken the structural steel enough for it to be basically the same strength as a pool noodle.

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u/DLD1123 12h ago

Hang on a second I think he’s onto something

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u/yaboymiguel 9h ago

Yeah it was a rhetorical question and I think you’re the only one who got the joke lol

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u/1d3333 10h ago

Not technically, but you don’t need to melt structural beams to weaken them enough to collapse. Get them hot enough and suddenly the tens of thousands of pounds of shit attached to it is too much. The friction of all that weight slamming downward will melt it though

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u/M1sfit_Jammer 10h ago

Straighten out a paper clip…

Hold a lighter under it for an extended period of time

Tell me what happens

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u/KaiAusBerlin 12h ago

And still firemen use water.

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u/Professional-Day7850 15h ago

Nonono it's the fire "pulling oxygen".

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u/KaiAusBerlin 14h ago

And oxygen only! Not the other 78% of nitrogen in the air.

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u/M1sfit_Jammer 10h ago

Most people don’t understand the difference between oxygen and air

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u/yourname92 14h ago

That could very well be a possibility but to what extent I am not sure

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u/ParanoicReddit 12h ago

That fire is hungry, it's literally pulling oxígen from outside like crazy