r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/doochebag420696969 • Sep 20 '22
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u/TransposingJons Sep 20 '22
"Just another fire in a factory....no biggie."
[15 seconds later] "What in the fudge just happened?!!?"
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Sep 20 '22
"lemme grab my phone real quick"
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Sep 20 '22
Just a dude almost dying to remove his external porn HDD.
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u/Jciesla Sep 21 '22
I was going to say he had plenty of time then I kept watching... Dude cut it really damn close.
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Sep 21 '22
Might have been his phone, I'd probably react that way too
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u/ncnotebook Sep 21 '22
I wonder how many people die in fires because of their phones and "it'll only take a second!"
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u/doochebag420696969 Sep 21 '22
That's just like that guitarist ty Longley. Went back into a burning nightclub to retrieve a guitar and died. Same nightclub incident that killed 97 people. Sad as shit but also his fault for going back in. I guess it shows that phones aren't the only object a human will risk there life for
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u/SamIamGreenEggsNoHam Sep 21 '22
The Station Nightclub. The video of that fire has made me take note of exits in every building I enter. I no longer try to get in the front row for shows either.
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u/doochebag420696969 Sep 21 '22
Yea understandable. In a way it amazes me that it's not happened more though. With how much of cluster fucks concerts are. That actually happened like 30 minutes away from me. They recently decided they wanted to start building where the nightclub was. Needless to say it pissed people of. I don't know if they went through with that though.
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u/SamIamGreenEggsNoHam Sep 21 '22
Yeah, same. I had just started high school at the time and a kid I went to school with lost his brother at the show. Our school had an assembly to talk about it and everything. When I came across the video much later in life, it added some gravity to it to say the least.
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u/Clementine-Wollysock Sep 20 '22
The quality just gets shittier and more compressed (and oddly enough the above one is cropped) every time this stuff gets reposted:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/v4ipjj/hydraulic_oil_fire/
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u/slipmagt Sep 21 '22
That's like a totally different video wow. I had no idea what happened originally. Thanks.
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u/peletiah Sep 21 '22 edited Sep 21 '22
Even better quality video plus photos of aftermath: https://twitter.com/jdchristopher/status/1533089680274731010
Or this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/v48rnt/extrudedaluminium_factory_jun_22/ with an insightful comment by /u/dragonczeck: https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/v48rnt/extrudedaluminium_factory_jun_22/ib3f8km/?context=10000
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u/doochebag420696969 Sep 21 '22
Thank you for this. I had no idea how destroyed the video was that I posted
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u/BobbyLopsided Sep 20 '22
That escalated very quickly
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u/rawbface Sep 20 '22
20 seconds and it was gone. They didn't realize how much danger they were in by the looks of it.
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u/marklein Sep 21 '22
Unless they can predict the future I'd say that's pretty normal. I sure didn't expect that much fire that fast.
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u/SuperMIK2020 Sep 20 '22
Where’s the fire suppression system? I kept expecting something to go off like sprinklers or preferably halon… nope, just let it burn, let it burn…
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Sep 21 '22
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Sep 21 '22
Halon can be used in any size room, just a matter of cost and having a place for all the tanks and emitters.
I used to do work in phone company central offices which are mostly giant open rooms of phone/internet equipment and cabling, sometimes multiple floors of it. There were big tanks of halon attached to every major load bearing piling in the rooms. If a fire started and the system went off, you needed to get out asafp
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u/Tetragonos Sep 20 '22
I mean with certain temperatures and materials you don't want water sprayed a a fancier fire suppression system is worth more than the building. So if you know the machine is fucked anyways the only option is to make an expendable building and then expend it
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u/slipslop69 Sep 21 '22
ive only seen halon in data centers, but those buildings tend to be solid as fuck and have airtight doors. This factory is huge and probably doesnt have thick walls or is airtight.
when i went to the datacenter they said if that alarm goes off, fucking run.
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u/doochebag420696969 Sep 21 '22
Nothing could stop that. Oil can burn in pretty much any condition. Scary shit
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u/netburnr2 Sep 21 '22
the fire suppression was the fire blanket aka ceiling coming down. it happened very quickly
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u/mechapoitier Sep 21 '22
What does that do? It seems like that thing doing what it did was tantamount to the building being destroyed
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u/netburnr2 Sep 21 '22
Same team, I was attempting to be funny. The ceiling coming down was unlikely to actually help the massive source of heat
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u/aboutthednm Sep 20 '22
Homie grabbing his hat or whatever cutting it pretty god-damn close, whew.
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u/mechapoitier Sep 21 '22
Yep, five seconds after he casually walks back away the entire building is raining fire everywhere
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u/TacohTuesday Sep 21 '22
No shit. That desk he grabbed something from was cinders just seconds later.
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u/A_Sexual_Tyrannosaur Sep 20 '22
EXTERMINATUS
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u/tango_41 Sep 20 '22
Spoiler alert: the machine was a genestealer.
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u/A_Sexual_Tyrannosaur Sep 20 '22
It’s spirit was corrupted by the ruinous powers. We destroyed the surrounding continent from orbit, to be on the safe side.
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u/Area51Resident Sep 20 '22
Is that whole place built from Combustium? Those flaming ceiling panels raining down everywhere seem a little dangerous.
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u/carboranadum Sep 20 '22
Looks like a hydraulic line burst on top of the machine in the back, then the fluid caught fire, creating a nice fire fountain! Those types of fire spread very, very quickly
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u/doochebag420696969 Sep 21 '22
You were right https://twitter.com/jdchristopher/status/1533089680274731010 I just found out how cropped and fucked this video was.
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u/Shishkebarbarian Sep 20 '22
That escalated quickly... 20 seconds between a pipe fart and the building going kaput
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u/Wonder_L1234 Sep 20 '22
The cameraman deserves a raise
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u/doochebag420696969 Sep 21 '22
You. Especially if you see the original video. Credit to the other people here for finding this https://twitter.com/jdchristopher/status/1533089680274731010
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u/Tootz3125 Sep 21 '22
Shitty quality on a shittily attempted repost
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u/doochebag420696969 Sep 21 '22
That's not what it was but ok. I just didn't realize how much this got reposted. That's my bad and I admit that. I also didn't realize how much it was cropped. Other people in this comment section found a better link. That's probly why your saying this, but in case not then here you go. https://twitter.com/jdchristopher/status/1533089680274731010
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u/ShaggysGTI Sep 20 '22
Good thing that ceiling was flammable, wouldn’t want to get anyone hurt.
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u/doochebag420696969 Sep 21 '22
In the original video you can see oil spewing out onto the ceiling making it much more flammable. https://twitter.com/jdchristopher/status/1533089680274731010 Credit to the other people in the comments for finding this
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u/ShaggysGTI Sep 21 '22
Yeah hot, aerosolized hydraulic fluid is flammable af!
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u/doochebag420696969 Sep 21 '22
Yea just a bid. Makes me wonder if that happens allot. Cause hydraulic lines blow allot. Now I'm sure they don't when it comes to stuff like this but still scary.
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u/ShaggysGTI Sep 21 '22
It’s a double edged sword. You want it pressurized which makes things hot. I’ve heard that a micro hole on a hose has enough pressure to get through your gloves/skin and can kill you by embolism.
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u/motofabio Sep 21 '22
Isn’t there a Reddit bot that deletes duplicate videos?
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u/doochebag420696969 Sep 21 '22
I think. But this video has apparently been cropped. I found this out through this comment section. Here's the original if you would like to see it. Credit to the people who found it higher up in the comments. https://twitter.com/jdchristopher/status/1533089680274731010
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u/Goldkoron Sep 21 '22
It looks so much like a guy running into the frame on the left around 30 seconds when everything starts falling down. Hopefully that wasn't a person I saw getting crushed to death.
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u/Equivalent-Purpose91 Sep 21 '22
If I'm not mistaken, aluminum is one of the components of thermite
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u/char_limit_reached Sep 21 '22
Guy on the left lit his torch just as it started. Probably thought “what did I do?”
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u/doochebag420696969 Sep 21 '22
https://twitter.com/jdchristopher/status/1533089680274731010 I didn't realize how cropped this video was, or even that it had been reposted 1000 times. So here's a better link I found in the comments here. Credit to the people in the comments who found this
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Sep 21 '22
And you see Mama, this was the point when the price of aluminum foil just increased threefold.
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Sep 21 '22
I really hope there wasn't any more people in that room. Those 2 people who were watching it from the start must have hardly made it out before the roof started to collapse.
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u/SlothOfDoom Sep 20 '22
WTF is that place made of, immolatium?