L.A. Construction Site Inferno / LAFD / Part 1 of 2 / Da Vinci Apartments Fire
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2014
- 12-8-2014 Over 200 Los Angeles Firefighters battled a dangerous blaze that ripped through a complex of apartments under construction on the 900 block of West Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles. Firefighters first on scene at the "Da Vinci Apartments" reported several floors with "fire showing" from the 7 story building. As the blaze intensified, radiant heat melted freeway signs and spread to vegetation and palm trees on the 110 (Harbor) freeway. All lanes of the freeway were shut down in both directions due to the dangerous situation. Several pieces of apparatus were repositioned due to possible building collapse, lack of water in one area and radiant blistering heat. Utilizing ladder pipes, wagon batteries and portable monitors L.A. Firefighters kept the roaring blaze from crossing Temple Street to more apartments under construction. There were reports that over 500 apartment units covering one million square feet were destroyed in the late night inferno. Miraculously there were no reported injuries, the cause of the fire is under active investigation. MNR #DaVinciFire #ConstructionFire #FireLensMan
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Engine "dispatch we are en route can you give me the location again". Dispatch " the big orange glow that looks like hell has landed on Earth".
You want to see a cool fire look up the firework Factory blaze
Pretty accurate actually, can't miss it.
So wow. I start dating a girl in June of 2014 (now my wife of 3+ years). We live in Atlanta then and now, but I take her to visit my godfather's house in Redondo Beach CA in late December of 2014. We are travelling to northern LA one of our days on the trip and I remember seeing an apocalyptic scene off the interstate and in fact, pulling off at that exit so I could try to get a better view of the burned out buildings I saw from the highway. She was not interested in investigating like I was, so we moved on. I'm always curious about this kind of stuff and had wondered about it ever since, especially because of the massive scale of the damage I saw. Now here I am almost 5 years later and I randomly come across this video on UA-cam and IMMEDIATELY realize this is what happened that lead to the aftermath we saw that day. Life's crazy. Great video.
i got chills, wow... remarkable coincidence
@@skitzochik I'll give ya chills
@@tommypasquale5150 you give everyone chills lol
@@thevalorousdong7675 that's bc its cold. its November and this is new New York
"Send me Red Truck with Red Light on Top until I say STOP"
8 hours later...
@@stephaniegallagher6457 Have I saied "STOP ??"
if anything ever deserved to be called an inferno, this is it.
Well actually now in 2019 the inferno title owner is The Camp fire Nov 11th 2018.
@@livingforJesus2120 That was horrible, and many lives lost :(
This one reminds me of the Marcal paper facory fire earlier this year.
@@patrickbrookings good thing is the arsonist is in prison
This and Marcel Paper in Jersey.
This fire was so large I could feel the heat through my monitor screen !
Mike12522 I had to take a shower half way through the video
@@cardiackidjones2848 I had to pour ice all over my body. I already turn up the heat in every room I walk into.😏
Note 7 users are worried....
Me too
@@cardiackidjones2848 probably because the heat of the fire made you sweaty and the sweat made you smell horrible.
A fire this intense is next to impossible to really fight. It's more about containment and preventing the fire from spreading than really fighting the fire within the structure. The heat had to have been super intense, the fire completely gutted the structure, there was no chance of saving anything in that building. I'm surprised it didn't spread but that's most likely due to firefighters keeping it contained
At least it was under construction and not occupied...
@Sasha Tamara Keegan yes but at least it was NOT OCCUPIED was the point.
Sasha Tamara Keegan And now they can build them again, so it keeps their economy rollin'
Lucifer'$ World!
Us humans can rebuild as many times as we have too.
Right man. Still upsetting for the workers who worked SO HARD to get to this point. I'm just glad all personal was okay.
I have never worked a fire this size, but I have worked some doozies. It is hard to explain to people the amount of energy, heat, the pure power of a fire this size. As long as everyone went home at shift change, that's all that really matters.
To my LA brothers and sisters, God bless, and bring it home safe.
Regards from Texas
+PoppaBlue59 Energy......heat...power.........people wonder why Chicago burned! The average person has absolutely no idea what this force is, feels like, acts, or whatever! The intake crib a mile out in Lake Michigan burned that night! The radiant heat igniting things hundreds of feet away! It defies imagination!!
+PoppaBlue59 It is hard to explain the waves of radiant heat. Your hair and clothing can ignite! Metal melts, iron twists, vegetation ignites, and concrete can explode!
Every city n state should have helicopter carry gallons of water in case of fire like this...
@@catrachaV4 agreed.and do a drop of water.plus foam would been more efficient something that big but they did what they could
Yes it was at least 5th alarm fire
FireLensMan, In my opinion your two part video series on the Da Vinci Apartments Fire is definitely one of the top ten fire videos on all of UA-cam and I've watched over one thousand of them. Congratulations on a dangerous job done very well on your behalf. Kudos to the LAFD for containing this inferno which could have easily become a catastrophic conflagration.
Thanks Tommy D. Even though this was a huge blaze it was pretty much confined to the building of origin. A big seven story building in the framing stage I must add. Definitely was an "inferno." What I can't stand is when writers loosely throw the word "conflagration" around. You obviously know the difference, like you said, "could have easily become a catastrophic conflagration." Conflagrations involve several to numerous buildings on several blocks. And I'm not talking houses, I'm talking buildings. Anyways, a big thumbs up and thanks for watching...every fire is different...always a new lesson...
FireLensMan, I totally agree with everything you said. Not only was I not at this fire I'm also not familiar with the area. Through the single camera view all I saw was one large building either to the left the fire building or behind it depending upon the angle of your camera when you were shoting the video so I had no idea what type of exposure problems the LAFD faced if any.
At one point during part one of your video there appears to be a wall of fire across the entire freeway but looks are very deceiving especially if you're not there viewing the fire in person. I still believe this particular video is one of the very best fire videos on all of UA-cam. You certainly did an outstanding job covering this fire and the LAFD did a tremendous job containing and extinguishing this blaze.
I went on this road a few years after the fire to go to a Clippers vs. Kings game and it was still under construction.
When you've shot scenes from "Volcano" the movie and your pyrotechs go haywire
The sight was amazing, the sounds tremendous, the size of this fire chilling. I thank God for the men and women who are able to fight these fires. I know I couldn't.
First Task Force that turned the corner was probably like ah shit
no they would have left the station and been like ah shit
National Anti Bullying Kids yeah very true
My dad just went on a fire call smoke and flames visible on arrival of first due second alarm here we go
+Sean Green he was like ah shit
That's right behind TF3 Div1 house. They didn't have time to think
You know it's real serious when the fire turned night into day
Ya know it's serious when a fire turns day into night, come to straya and we'll show ya what I mean
In London in the Second World War photographers were able to photograph the firefighters in action, as the huge fires caused by bombing made the night as bright as day. At the end of the Gulf War 1991, when the retreating Iraqi army set fire to all the Kuwaiti oil wells, a dark gloom descended over Kuwait City and the people were forced to breathe toxic smoke.
Wow, THAT is a real big fire. I guess, priority of firefighters is to prevent spreading of fire, a small chance to extinguish that fire at its base. That must have been an incredible heat.
Surround and drown my friend
Dunno about 500... 100 maybe. Considering each engine is staffed with 3 people you would need 30 engines on scene which is probably 1/3 of the entire city resource.
Nah. Its city of LA no mutual aid. They have the resources. Gear is good these days too.. not much going on there except surround and drown operation. If you had guys making interior attack that might come into play.
Yep no problem
LAFD has over 3500 employees, 92 engines 42 trucks and a budget over $633 million. There is also LA County Fire Dept with 4700 employees, 177 engines 4 trucks and a $1 billion budget. They could put more then 500 firefighters on one fire. The only city FDs larger then LAFD is New York and Chicago.
A friend of mine lived like 2 miles from here, and the next day, he's like "Fire? Huh? What??" lol
He also said dude WoW - I'm so lucky my stash is in a fire proof box...
One of the most insane fires I’ve ever seen in my life. The sheer magnitude of it plus the location makes it an amazing spectacle. Man that’s huge.
Props to the videographer. Unbelievable work and incredible footage.
I knew you was going to be there once I saw it on the news. This is the most intense fire I ever seen by far!
Great footage!
Wow, that was a nasty one. You gave it more life to see it with your superb coverage of this event. The news services did not show much except to say there was a massive fire in Los Angeles, and that was about it. I had a feeling you'd have the scoop on the fire in video form, way to go on the superb video, :o)
New subscriber from Australia, just saying hi and thanks for sharing these videos. Blessings, Dot
"Headquarters, I'm in the area...what were those numbers again please"?
Holy sh** that's huge I can't believe someone would set this on fire. I'm glad the guy got sent prison for it
Smoking dope & watching Beavis & Butthead might make someone like fire fire fire hehehe
good shot filming the fire but they must had an eq at the time cam keeps moving a round.
ALMOST 3 YEARS LATER AND THE DA VINCI APARTMENTS ARE BUILT! Expensive too.
Remember driving by the aftermath numerous times.
I never would desire anyone to get injured or killed in a fire. I hate to see businesses and homes destroyed by fire...BUT I sure do love watching lots of really big stuff burn, explode, and fall down! Thanks for these awesome videos! And, today I learned that one can get sunburned by a fire. Well, duh! The sun is a really big fire! Are they hosing the road to keep it from getting damaged?
The radiation, radiated heat, coming off that building could give you a light burn, LIKE a sunburn. Too close and your hair and clothes could catch fire. As for the road, no, water pressure sucked so the streams of water at first did not reach the building.
Madre de Dios, this was one of the most biggest fires I've ever seen in UA-cam and wow it was fascinating and astonishing how fast the entire building burned down to the ground! I love firefighters so very much and I adore them all together so very much! Thank you all together for your service and support in all kinds of situations like this one and may God bless you all together and hold his protecting hands above you all together, Amen in Jesus name, Amen 🙏💖🙏💖🙏💖🙏💖🙏💖lovely greetings from Sarah 🙋💖😍🙋💖😍🙋💖😍🙋💖😍🙋💖😍
wow... This is why multi story buildings should not be wood frames
Josh Roark
Tell that to the Euros.
Josh Roark 
Ships are made of steel & they burn - so make the couches & drapes out of asbestos, concrete chairs plus no painting of walls - what about spontaneous human combustion.
Please move to a mud hut w/ out a grass roof since wood is bad for millions of buildings.
Agreed!
Man that's the Biggest Fire I Ever seen Damn!
The Camp Fire on Nov 11 2018 is the worst ever in Cal.
Same here. That was crazy. Thank God that was under construction and nobody was in there. If safe to fly over and resources available thought they would have called in the firefighting water drop airplanes. They had a whole squadron of these airplanes at the local airport when I lived out west.
Thanks for showing this, I saw this before and it's very sad that the construction workers worked really hard to get this all most finished and it goes down in flames!! 🔥
You gotta thank the fire department for trying their best to control this devistating fire
Looks like trying to extinguish a volcano!
It blows my mind that permission is given to put a 500 apartment block entirely of wood down in down town LA!
I would never live in or near something like this that can burn down in 20 minutes and turns the streets into hell!
Hey it's California the people that run the show there are fucking idiots
@@DarrelltheWolf
If you think this type of constitutions is limited to California you're a moron. One of these things went up during construction near by in Raleigh like a year ago and looked pretty much exactly like this. It was melting the fucking facades of buildings and cars parked across the street from it.
@@Tk3997 Same. A couple of years ago, Knoxville had built a 5-6 story apartment complex, geared toward university students
All wood framing, for the interior. If that thing ever went up, it'd be like a bunch of matchsticks.
Amazing video! My mom used to work at 221 Fig Plaza
That is the most incredible fire I have ever seen. Wow.
Insurance company going to like this job. Wow! Great job FD
Dang the fire was so hot it caught the palm tree on fire from that far away? I would be terrified. Thank you to all the firemen and women everywhere. They saved my house this year from the Carr fire ❤️
Looks like (yet ANOTHER) construction that uses OSB - engineered lumber made up of sawdust, wood flakes, and highly flammable adhesives. They burn much hotter than conventional lumber, hence why the radiant heat can melt siding on houses a fair distance away from house on fire that is made up of this stuff (or set it on fire) - or, in this case, set a palmtree on fire.
In March of 2014, there was a huge fire like the one in L.A. in the Mission Bay development in San Francisco. It was a six story wood framed condo building and the fire happened before the sheet rock was installed.
YIKES ! Love the drive up and drive by.....You were so close ! I bet you felt the heat.
7:40 you can hear a guy scream F***!!! 😂😂😂
That must be an extremely hot fire with things combusting on the other side of the road
You got that right...
thanks for the video guy.
did they build this thing out of matchsticks?!
someone should do a meme, with the caption Gentrification this is how you stop it.
the heat had to be incredible, yet the scaffolding stayed in place
Ah chief, where do we start?
Go to heavy streams.
A R S O N......I pray no one was hurt...God bless the LAFD
Same thing recently happened in Tucson AZ it was insane! The flames were 500 feet in the air look up "The Mark Student Housing Fire Tucson Arizona" the flames were seen from 20 miles away!
Nice job. Video of the year.
That's about the biggest fireball of a complex as I've ever seen on UA-cam.
Radiant heat started the palms on the freeway center island on fire. wow.
Wow, anyone else watching more than four years later, like me? I wonder, what was the outcome of the investigation, and what caused this massive fire?
Reading through the comments it was arson and someone sent to jail. Some kind of dispute.
Can I use some of your video in a story I'm putting together?
That's nuts. It probably took a long time for the firefighters to get it under contro
Numerous indicators of radiant heat make spotting TDA apparatus a no-go on uninvolved end units. See 7:29. Notice re-positioning of TDA within a few minutes of setting up for water tower. Wow, I was surprised it was initially thought this was a good spot. Tough job. Not sure what the exposures were or where exactly the Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta sides were, but exposure protection of the high rise in background looked like a priority one. Good footage
Remember everyone, back east the massive low rent high rises were always built from poured concrete. Gee, I wonder why.....
Welcome to earthquake country.
Dang, That's crazy. Sorry for the lost, glad everyone were okay.
Can't imagine what it must be like to be killed by a structure fire. I'm pretty sure nobody here was killed but I'm speaking generally. This fire for example was burning so hot
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Anyone know what that building was or was supposed to be? I’m at the NJ shore so I’m not familiar at all.
Edit: I found out it was going to be the DiVinci apartment building. Someone correct me please if that’s not it. Thanks again!
This is terrifying!
Thank you for the in-depth description. I've seen other videos of fires on UA-cam where the viewers are left with a lot of questions. Maybe they are ignorant questions, because the public doesn't have a clue about how professionals bravely give their all to save lives and stop these fires from getting even worse. They don't have any idea of how many firefighters are on the scene (200 hundred? OMG! Wow!). Or how the one firefighter was instructed to get treatment for "sunburn" aka, 1st degree burns and let his team take over.
I live in the Southland. We cut the cord years ago and have managed to live without TV service. Although you can watch your favorite shows on Netflix and don't care about sporting events, you also sacrifice live news coverage and the local stations who obviously must have heavily reported this disaster. So I'm just seeing this now in 2016. If it shut down the 110 freeway in both directions (that's a huge deal for anyone who ever needs to drive through L.A! I mean, construction and repairs have to be done during the middle of the night with spotlights and clear everything by 6 AM. Even if you start work at 5:30 AM, there is still a traffic jam because one or two lanes had to be closed down.) I never knew about this fire (so thanks, you greedy cable and satellite companies for raping us!)
Firefighters are true heroes here in So. Calif. We have gorgeous weather more days than I experienced growing up in dreary Michigan. Plus we fortunately don't have entire abandoned boarded up neighborhoods just waiting to ignite like Detroit or New Jersey is cursed with.
We have wildfires that every surrounding county and then some, give their best to put out. They burn up expensive homes (who at least have fire insurance, but there are precious things that insurance can never replace) and anyone or anything that stands in their wake.
I've seen the dedication of firefighters to do a job few others could do. Climbing up smoldering hillsides loaded with all their necessary gear in the blazing heat to put out any hotspots after the blaze is out that could reignite if left unattended.
I will never forget 9/11! And the a-holes that say that the fires weren't hot enough to melt steel, haven't watched a single video like this to have that moronic opinion. Real people weighted down with their necessary safety equipment ran up all those stairs as people opted to jump and be splattered all over the pavement than to be incinerated alive. Your idiotic conspiracy theories make what the victims and the heroes that gave up their lives to try to save them into a cruel joke internet meme.
God bless the heroes who put their lives on the line to save people, their homes, vegetation, and everything else we treasure as a society!
+Laura S (laursaurus) How about you writing a book!? You seem to like writing LMAO.
Taunter Atwill LOL
Sorry for the wall of text.
I get a little chatty sometimes.
Good thing you are one of the normal writers.
Taunter Atwill I'm not sure if I can call myself "normal" though! LOL
just slap some aloe on and you will be good
I've never been to L.A. it looks like a beautiful city with all those big buildings
It is worth a visit . There is so much to see and experience, lots of history as well.
Hi firelensman,
This is a very spectacular fire !
The build is all in wood ?
I very good appreciate your videos. I have see all videos of your channel.
It's in the "framing stage," More stucco and dry wall will be added later. The buildings in L.A. use very little brick due to earthquakes...
tbh one of the most impressive fire related video i've ever seen.
Definitely a "big one" for Los Angeles.
that's right it's a big one also check out 10 alarm see jeff stang fire p4 marcal paper factory a must see unbelievable wow
Great job, LAFD!
i remember this incident. great video buddy.
Thnx. I videoed what I could...and then some.
Damn!!!! Something no fireman want to wake up at that time of day and face something that big. I looks like the city is on fire.
Seeing how hard those ppl worked so there job was burned down
Damn that sucks heart goes out to whoever their lost their property
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Good Luck & 10-4 !
Engine: Dispatcher we are on the route could u tell us the location again
Dispatcher: yes just look for the big orange glow that looks like hell has landed on earth
Engine: ok we see it
Amazing the heat bending the street lights. What was the cause?
The cause of the heat was a really big fire.
Arson... the culprit was a jerk named Dawud Abdulwali - he has been arrested and charged
Dallas Nyberg what a piece of shit. destruction is just mind blowing
Dallas Nyberg of course it was a fucking foreigner
Haha he is a muslim
@@kottonmouthkush4204 we have plenty of domestic firebugs
watchgoose This guy was domestic.
the fact that the metal highway signs, metal streetlights and even the surface of the road all caught fire is an incredible catch. wow, any chance of more footage than these two? or a longer footage?
Captain_Chris ...hwy signs are plastic
The light poles were melting and those signs I think we're aluminum panels you can see one street light at the beginning being it melt it began to loose it's shape and lean down.
"apartments under construction" - What did they use ? Paper or Wood ?
The construction site is in google maps.
I have see many videos of the Chicago Fire Department (CFD), Fire Department of New York (FDNY) and LAFD (Los Angeles Fire Department) of course.
The houses are all in wood in the USA ?
Great footage.
We had one like that a few years ago just north of Seattle. Were you filming from I-5? Looked like you was standing in the freeway for some of that...
110 freeway, west side of downtown L.A.
I just have to say that however much the LAFD makes it's not enough. They really put their lives on the line trying to put out something like this.
Firefighters put their lives on the line in this country every single day, day in and day out
Ken Desjarlais
1 second ago
you aint risking anything walking around a firetruck dude, or at the end of a 2 and a half inch hose blasting a hundred feet away
Wow!! And if I recall the news reports this was virtually across the road from a firehouse.
That's a big 10-4. Down the block from fire station 3, the "palace guards."
Yep, they do things big in LA. Even their fires. You listed some apparatus. What is a battery wagon?
A "wagon battery" is slang in Los Angeles for the mounted "water canon" on top of a fire engine.
Oh ok. Thanks. I know them as water cannons and monitors.
Does any1 have a idea on how long the firefighters stay on top of them ladder tillers that r putting the water on the inferno...
I don't think there is an exact time, when the job is done or if they get tired.
Insane! They should've used a bambi bucket. Master streams looked like a 5 year old pissing on a bonfire. Great video work. Looked like something out of a movie.
That's a real urban fire, there. Wow...
Yep, that's a good one. A fire of that scale here in my town (where I'm one of the 20 paid-on-call firefighters the town has) would result in an immediate call for a countywide tanker (or "tender" as you folks on the West Coast call them) taskforce and a immediate call for an engine or ladder from every department in the county. It would also likely result in engines and tankers from across the border in Canada (with whom my county shares a Firefighter's Association and has mutual aid agreements with) being called in for station coverage of departments around the county, and some to respond to the scene along with units from the county to the south of my town. (My town is on the border of the two counties.)
[For background, my county has 0 full time fire departments in it. All of them are either volunteer or paid-on-call departments, as are 95% of the departments in my whole state which is why a fire of this size would result in calls for mutual aid from so far out.]
"I'm so glad I don't have to be down there with the peasants." All celebs on the L.A. hills, probably.
We had a fire like this back in 2013 in Kingston Ontario it was about that size maybe alittle smaller but it made news all over North America. Only reason for that is because the had to call CFB Trenton to bring in a chopper to save the tower Crain operTor
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Thanks for the heads up on the video, I think I saw it on the news a few years back, the video footage went "world-wide" because of the crane rescue. The fire you alluded to was in a four story building, the one here in L.A. was a seven story building. The length here in Los Angeles seemed ten times the length of the Kingston Ontario fire. Still, all dangerous and very destructive.
firelensman very true and it was In December of 2013 not March so I’m correcting myself lol. It was one of Kingston’s largest fires on rivalled by the catarqui marshland fire only a year prior
I know the fire here was 7 stories but you also have to factor in the subzero temperatures we get in this part of Canada ( so lines freezing up ice on the roads and walk ways) the proximity of the retirement home to the building which cooked all the wires in rooms on one side of the building. There’s also pictures of the gas station acrossed from it covered in ice because they wanted to keep it from going up. All very scary considering how dumb that town was designed when built lol
God DAMN that is a MASSIVE ass fire. All that fresh exposed Timber of those 2x4’s, it’s actually real tinder. Just went up in smoke.
Very dangerous and burns very hot. Not to mention the seven story collapse danger.
how did the fire start?
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I'm just amazed that it took a while to get noticed and called in with that much illumination!! Great job getting that out.. I am no where experienced with a fire that size and only seeing 2 sides, but the ladder that was seen in this video clip was in the collapse zone at first.. The material didn't allow at first up close within the collapse zone unlike the concrete metal buildings in city's.. I'm glad they moved the units away. I could only imagine the heat radiating out from that fire... I feel for the contractor and the owner who is having it built both to money and time lost.
more wonderful light weight construction!
Who’s watching in 2020 from boredom
Fire-resistant building material is unknown in the US?
It may have been radical, but it looks like they could have used a couple of air drops!
BTW, damn good video!
I would have cried if i was the owner of that place being built. Thats terrible.. good thing no one lived there yet but its still sad. Hopefully they built something even better in its place
Does anyone know the where a bouts of Mrs. O'Leary and her cow?
I was there when Napoleon took the City...
What kind of materials are they using in USA... everything burns with so high intensity, it almost seems impossible to fight this fires...
Plywood...The developer intentionally kept the building under a certain height so he could get around codes saying apartments have to be built out of non-combustible material.
Hit a little snag during construction so the completion date on that apartment complex got pushed back a few days boss.
By the sounds of your scanner breaking out, I'd say an investment for an 800 mhz Motorola radio might be in order. That'll really get you better reception!
This is fire thing is really scary...Should not underestimate ever. I have personally felt it especially when you are alone. And no one there to help.