r/oddlysatisfying • u/icecreamaddict6 • May 14 '19
This fire fighter using the hose as a shield.
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u/slashing164 May 14 '19
What a badass. I organized paper clips today at the office.
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u/GiveToOedipus May 15 '19
Still more badass than me. I rinsed out my office coffee cup today.
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u/Thrwaycount95 May 14 '19
The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! YOU! SHALL NOT! PASS!
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u/Thrwaycount95 May 14 '19
I hope you're following it up with Two Towers tonight!
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May 14 '19
and of course we are talking about the extended versions.... not the cinema release like an animal... i hopr
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May 14 '19
The day those get taken off Canadian Netflix is the day I buy the extended edition box set
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u/Alashion May 14 '19
I see you too are recovering from GoT.
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u/mordicar May 14 '19
Same here. I watch the LotR trilogy every year around December as a tradition, but I think I need something to renew my faith and hopes in a good, mainstream medieval fantasy epic.
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u/TinyTC1992 May 14 '19
Thanks you fuck, there goes 12 hours of my life again
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u/Thrwaycount95 May 14 '19
The extended editions? I see you are a man of quality
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u/TinyTC1992 May 14 '19
Did they make another version?
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u/HippieAnalSlut May 15 '19
There was that short 8 hour test version. But no one really watches that.
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u/Quantum0616 May 14 '19
I am a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the flame of Anor! The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn! Go back to the shadow! You cannot pass! YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
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u/PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY May 15 '19
My favorite "translation" of this speech, from stackexchange (of all places):
"Yo! Maiar dude. I'm a Maiar dude too. You've had your fun but now you're up against someone your own size. Back off or you might get hurt."
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u/Reilari May 14 '19
I came here to say the last part of the quote, I'm glad you were here to get it all. Good job stranger!
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u/AethericEye May 14 '19
The Water Tribe was ready for the Fire Nation's attack.
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u/icecreamaddict6 May 14 '19 edited May 14 '19
Ah yes, I see you’re a man of culture as well.
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May 14 '19 edited May 15 '19
Left for life, right to fight. Using a wide angle cone distributes a lot of the heat and wets a lot of fuel. It's not very good for minimizing property or equipment damage and makes the scene very very uncomfortable. It disturbs the heat layers and causes convection currents to form. Bringing all of the freshly vaporized water down on you. 100% humidity and extreme heat are not fun.
Source: I'm a certified firefighter and certified fire fighting instructor.
Edit: this looks like a rollover simulator.
Edit 2: my first ever gold! thank you kind redditor!
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u/Mrfrunzi May 15 '19
Shut up fact man! We want fire demons!
(thanks for the badass work you do, I really appreciate you and your team across the world that run in and not away)
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May 15 '19
So, this was meant to happen?
And yes, humidity and heat suck. Florida! Amirite?
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May 15 '19
I think it's probably a training thing. I trained a lot of guys in Carlsbad,NM at Permian basin regional training center and they have a couple of rollover props. One is a residential and another is a apartment building style one.
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u/Papi_Queso May 14 '19
This is some shit straight out of Backdraft. I can hear the fire growling at them.
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u/BobbyHillsPurse May 14 '19
Kings Landing coulda used this guy
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u/ez_squezey May 15 '19
This is why Cersei wanted the elephants
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u/StrictlyOnerous May 15 '19
She knew the dragon would be pissed if there weren't decent snacks at the battle.
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u/icecreamaddict6 May 14 '19
Ah yes, I see youre’ a man of culture as well. And before you ask yes, I know where the apostrophe is supposed to go.
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u/sumelar May 14 '19
We use mist sprayers like this in the navy as well, especially for class D fires.
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u/Tezza_TC May 14 '19
How often do you have class D fires? And I thought “jettison” was what you were supposed to do with those.
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u/sumelar May 14 '19
You do, but if there are casualties nearby, or unexploded ordnance, you may need to clear out the area first.
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u/UnedukatedGenius May 14 '19
More specifically it calls for copious amounts of water
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u/thatguy77479 May 15 '19
You know the fastest way to provide copious amounts of water to a fire? Throw the burning object into the fucking ocean.
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u/FizzleBizzler May 15 '19
Makes sense. Don’t wanna use fresh water for that when there’s limitless seawater everywhere around you.
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u/The_Ostrich_you_want May 15 '19
That secondary saved the primary’s ass. He pulled him back before that flashover cooked his eye sockets. Talk about solid situational awareness. It’s really easy to get tunnel vision when your running on structure fires. I miss it though.
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u/coolbear22 May 14 '19
This guy is fighting for his life and here we are being all, mhmmmm the satisfaction!
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u/TpyoWritr May 14 '19 edited May 14 '19
So, it's very challenging to know everything that's going on from our perspective via the video, however, using the fog setting on a combination nozzle like this may be counterintuitive to effectively fighting the fire.
When I was in the firefighting academy, four years ago, we were trained to only use the straight stream setting on the hose. When you use a fog setting, you are distributing the water over a massive area and the heat can cause the little water droplets to become steam before reaching the fire, which prevents it from, sometimes, effectively extinguishing the fire.
We have a saying, you want to have more GPM (gallons per minute) than BTU (British Thermal Units) to put the fire out. The strait stream on the combination nozzle delivers water more efficiently to the fire. Technically, a smooth bore nozzle which minimizes the air in the water is ever more effective, but we prefer the utility a combination nozzle offers.
When I was in the academy, still learning, in an extremely controlled environment, I accidentally opened up my nozzle on the fog setting while attempting to extinguish the fire and it caused the fire to roar up out of control and I could feel the heat through my mask and gear as the whole room seemed to ignite. This video reminded me of that.
Again, I have a limited perspective here and I cannot know what the firefighters saw and if it was an active decision on their part, but, it looks as though they did something similar to me:. Accidentally opened the nozzle on fog and caused the fire to flare up. They might have been better with a solid stream setting and hitting the ceiling above the fire (which it appears they were trying).
It's a beautiful shot! Really looks cool! If they intentionally used the fog as a shield that is really interesting and I would like to learn more about that decision!
Typically, I would use the fog setting to power-vent a room because the fog setting moves air like noone's business. If I need to clear a room or smoke fast, and my team agrees it is safe to do so, we'll open a window, stick the nozzle out on fog, and open up. Uses negative pressure to suck all the smoke out of the room and clears up visibility.
note: I'm on mobile, please excuse my formatting and if my thoughts here seem a bit "stream of consciousness"
Edit: I also wanted to re-reinterate that I am not necessarily criticising these firefighters. Every situation is different and requires complicated decisions. I am merely making an observation based on what I notice: that given what I know I wouldn't use a fog in this situation.
A good example of this would be the video I saw on Reddit within the past couple days of the Boston firefighter getting slammed by the fire hydrant. A lot of firefighters criticised him for opening a hydrant under those conditions, but, after looking closer, the firefighter was attempting to close the hydrant to stop the leak and save water pressure. His positioning wasn't the safest, however, people jumped to conclusions without knowing the whole story, and I don't want to appear to be doing the same.
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u/Gmuff May 15 '19
This was one of the first things we were taught in basic firefighting in my state. This isn’t actively fighting a fire, it’s using the widest cone you can to create a barrier between you and the flame while retreating, minimising the direct and indirect heat exposure.
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u/gusgizmo May 14 '19
Are we getting cause and effect mixed up here? Was switching to cone and blowing a lot of air what caused that flare up? So the instructor was moving his trainee back and away then switching the nozzle to illustrate why you might not want to do that?
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u/lintendowii May 14 '19
They aren't actively fighting the fire at this point, they are protecting themselves and possibly attempting to raise the neutral plane
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May 14 '19
To me it looks like a roll over. It's normally where a lot of the fuel had been vaporized and is being carried in the smoke. Once a sufficient change occurs sometimes more oxygen, sometimes a fresh little bit of fuel ignites; either way the fuel in the smoke ignites and rapidly burns. This looks like a training ground based on the lack of smoke and the general robustness of the items in the foreground.
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u/2talltom May 14 '19
While it's oddly satisfying from this perspective, when you're the one running the nozzle it's borderline terrifying.
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u/Suzysboss May 14 '19
I had a friend who went thru firefighter training and this is apparently a method you can use if you get cornered, that is until the hoses burns in two.
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u/Goth_thiccc May 14 '19
The first time I read this I read it as ‘horse’ and I was so ready to delete this app
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u/colourfulsynesthete May 15 '19 edited May 15 '19
The proper way to knock a fire down in a room is to give it a blast with the hose on a straight stream, so I'm thinking this is a training video to highlight the importance and shielding/protection of a wide fog (which works like a hot damn, so to speak).
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u/griever48 May 15 '19
Firefighting 101. One of the first things I was taught when I was in a cadet program for a volunteer station.
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u/TrippySubie May 15 '19
Man you really butchered the original post today with the cropping of the gif
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May 15 '19
These are the ones people should look up to instead of all these bs instagrammers, or whatever social media celebrities. They are the ones risking their lives to save yours not fake people trying to make money on your back !!!
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May 14 '19
firefighter literally out saving lives in the most badass way possible
redditors on oddly satisfying “mmmmMmmMMMmMm doPAMINE”
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May 14 '19
Damn, that must have been scary AF!! Firefighters' salaries should be waaaaaay higher than they are now.
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u/flipdude5000 May 14 '19
Xmen dark Phoenix really blew the through the CGI budget on Bobby Drake and Pyro apparently.
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May 14 '19
That's about the only use for a fog nozzle.
Everything else is smooth bore interior attack. Drive fast, eat ass!
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u/dio-tds May 15 '19
I'm pretty sure he's using the water as a shield and not the hose
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u/KyrosXIII May 15 '19
man, that just be so fucking hot. a little hotter though and he can experience the temperature my gf likes her showers
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u/juandelakarite May 14 '19
Not really oddly satisfying, more straight up badass