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Hot Video as Baltimore 3-Alarmer Overtakes Rowhomes
WBAL TV in Baltimore has some amazing video of a fire running through a slew of rowhomes in Baltimore last week. The overhead footage from the news chopper shows just minutes after the fire is reported, residents evacuating prior to the fire department's arrival and then the first arriving units on what eventually became a three alarm response.
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Like last week's hot topic on 'SCBA on the Roof', just at about the four minute mark of the video, you can see a firefighter on the roof in heavy smoke conditions and a rapidly advancing fire without any SCBA.
Statter911 covered the story last week and additional information on the blaze can be found on WBAL's web site.
Click the screenshot or here to view the video (opens new window)
Like last week's hot topic on 'SCBA on the Roof', just at about the four minute mark of the video, you can see a firefighter on the roof in heavy smoke conditions and a rapidly advancing fire without any SCBA.
Statter911 covered the story last week and additional information on the blaze can be found on WBAL's web site.
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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on
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Amazing how these row home fires go. Without access to side C readily available the fire has a better chance to run unobstructed. With the volume of fire in the dwelling it would be mighty hard to run a line through to the rear. As for the SCBA on the roof in the last few frames of the video, we all know whats supposed to be and it doesn't warrant further comment.
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Permalink Reply by T.J. on
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I'm suprised on how well the fire walls held up with that type of fire, we had a 6 condo unit go up like that and we lost 5 out of 6 units once, but our fire walls did not hold the fire well at all.
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Permalink Reply by John on
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All I can say is WOW Smoke from one home and flames from the back of the other.
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Permalink Reply by Denise Co 29 on
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Amazing . All of us know we need to wear our scba and that firefighter was just plain stupid. I wonder if he was treated afterwards for the smoke inhilation
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how well the firewalls held up? Did you note the fire was in the center of the the row home strip and yet smoke was pushing from homes 3 to 4 away from the direct fire building? The fire wall was obviously compromised allowing the RAPID growth to this pig. I wouldn't say thats "holding up" at all
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I'd say they did pretty well considering the fire load, I've seen fire spread faster through complexs like that.
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Permalink Reply by Tony Trevino on
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Amazing. This is why it's very important for our local building code official to properly inspect these fire wall.
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Permalink Reply by Cedric on
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With all due respect that truckee at the end of the video should have been wearing all his PPE. No SCBA may or may not kill him today, but it will catch up with him during retirement. Too many of us die of cancer, lets play safe out there for our own sake.
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Permalink Reply by bonk on
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I watched the video again. That smoke doesn't appear to be coming from inside the exposure structures. It appears that it is smoke rolling along the front porch roof. Once the fire develops further on the fire unit, the dark smoke that was rolling from under the porch roof starts to disipate.
I was not there, so I can't say for sure.
What surprises me, is the delay in that video clip of getting exposure lines to the rear of the fire unit.
No SCBA on the roof, well what can you say.
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Permalink Reply by russ allen on
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again, why is there a guy on the roof without an air pack?
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Permalink Reply by John DiMartino on
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why do we think nothing can happen to us?
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