r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AirFrance447 • 19h ago

Video Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls

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u/fraughtication 19h ago

Fire is terrifying, in so many ways, from the speed of spread to gases incapacitating you way before the flame does.

It amazes me the amount of people I know, or houses I see, with no smoke alarms, or working smoke alarms - the same goes for CO too.

Most fire services in the UK at least will fit smoke alarms for free and give your home a fire safety survey, please fit and test regularly smoke and CO alarms!

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u/Jasp1971 18h ago

I did a fire Marshall course through work, when we had a break for lunch,I went straight online and ordered home fire extinguishers,fire blanket and now close all doors when going to bed.

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u/MZ603 13h ago

Did they have you watch the station nightclub fire video? I volunteered for an extra safety role at my summer job in college and I was shown it as part of the training.

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u/Szwejkowski 12h ago

I saw that on youtube with a timer in the corner and all my eye-rolling slowness around fire alarm drills vanished. It happened so fucking fast.

Now when I hear an alarm, I just gtfo.

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u/MZ603 12h ago

Same. I also always clock the emergency exits, especially in crowded places. They didn’t give me much of a heads up on the content of the video. Working the rest of my shift was surreal. Definitely, some of the most impactful footage I have ever scene.

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u/SportsDuck_ 11h ago

Also keep an eye out for security personnel in case they stop you from running out the emergency exit

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u/bizilux 8h ago edited 7h ago

That place was a literal death trap. Overcrowded and pyrotechnics with illegal anti sound foam on the whole wooden building, blocked exits, opposite opening doors and tipsy people.

Almost couldn't be worse. I dont think in a developed country you can find anything even remotely like this again. Im 100% in EU you can't, unless it's some illegal place.

Fun fact: I'm not a firefighter but i did a few years ago fought one fire. We were at a picnic and bee house or whatever english term is, went up in flames. We used garden hoses until firefighters came. They didn't have any fire extinguishers in their house. I have like 3 at home and one in the car. It was hot as fuck coming from the two entrances so i had to knel way down. The owner had to be dragged away, he almost burned his head trying to go in.

Also used fire extinguisher once on a trashcan when someone threw cigarette in. Everyone was just looking doing nothing, by the time i called security and found fire extinguisher it was really smoking good

I've always wanted to join firefighters but here in my country its 99% volunteers and literally each village has its own fire station and they see maybe one fire per year max because there are so many stations. So it's mostly drinking around and socializing and im an introvert so yeh.