L.A. Construction Site Inferno / LAFD / Part 2 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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You can feel the firefighters exhaustion. God bless them for their hard work and dedication.
. . . most of the FFs are wandering around and doing: nothing - as there is nothing they could do . . . and which god? there is no god who would care or bless . . .
Just watched LAFD put out a volcano
Man, the insurance company for the scaffold rental business must have been pissed...
Someone's not getting their deposit back !!!!!!!!
nope they will just pass the cost of the claim onto the construction companies insurance company then the construction company's insurance will be pissed and raise everyone's insurance rates to recoup their costs.
@@retiredarthritic2083 That is the living chain
Why ask fir 1
Why ask fir 2
Dude those Palm trees were frying!!!
Excellent filming.close enough to show how even water takes a long time to extinguish a fire that has got that big and hot, just turning to steam in places. Fire service did a great job WEll done and god bless you all.
Long way up those steep ladders and scary too ! Imagine their heat up there.... I'm surprised you were able to get that close for pics. Good job on it ,so sad some idiot put all these people's lives in jeopardy !
Another superb video capture. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family :o)
That was sweet how they put the aerial ladders through the opening of the freeway👍 guaranteed those firefighters were felling the heat up their,they kicked ass!!
Fantastic job by the firefighters! Also, great video footage - hope you didn't bake too much! Thanks to all of you for a job WELL DONE.
May God continue to bless, and watch-over our Firemen.
. . . which god? there is no god who would care or bless . . .
@@carmenschumann826 why are you being weird
Great videos as always.Thanks.
very nice fire...felt the heat here in my living room....THANKS
Great great footage! Nice pan from one side to next...
Just amazing! thank you for posting!!
Another great job by LAFD with overwhelming circumstances. Anyone know if the audio will be posted?
Great video. Keep up the good work.
Very scary fire. You can hear it growling and every now and then a roar. You'd never catch me up on one of those sprayers, I hate heights, but I would like to see what it looked like from there.
Hot as hell up there!
🔥 creates its own weather.
The most dangerous job on earth: firefighter!!! Let's tip our hats to them!
test pilot and bull rider come in ahead of them
don't forget miners, worrying about if the planet crushing them
Being president is actually the most dangerous.
According to Google Earth, 4 months later, the new building was rebuilt and under roof.
Great shots. Thank you
This is some awesome firefighting and videography.
Thanks, I couldn't get every angle and be "everywhere" but I sure tried...
"Hey Rocko, I guess the refinancing for your project fell through???"
Thank you for likeing my comment. Im a retired firefighter
JJs Dad?
They did not take long to rebuild it! Great progress .,
Great video! I've seen several construction sites burn to the ground. Most were caused by a careless worker. Can you imagine what the insurance payout will be for that fire!
Over the past year, several of these monstrous apartment buildings have gone up in flames. In march of 2014, another one in Mission Bay of San Francisco went up.
i think they have to do some renovations now ...
15 yrs in prison is not enough for this. He should have got life.
How long did it take them to put this fire out
For every hour it took them should have been a year.
All of that damage for someone being shot. The arsonist needs to spend the rest of their life behind bars! This type of hate is senseless!
Four years ago I worked Security at a Construction Sight for Condos being built in Summerlin area of Las Vegas on the far west side, and at times the winds there can get to 60-70 mph, and I knew that one crazy person could do exactly what you see here, if not worse.
even though this was quite the disaster, they got everything Rebuilt in about 3 years and must say it looks absolutely AWESOME......
Didn’t think it would collapse.
God bless all the men and women firefighters and their families
Many large scale building projects such as this apartment building contain both flammable and non flammable materials that why it takers so long to extinguish such a blaze. This particular fire was later ruled as arson by police and fire officials and the person responsible was convinced of first degree arson and sentenced to a minimum of ten years in prison
Nathan Lee. The Person or Persons who started the fire claimed to be Moorish Americans. And They also claim that They have Diplomatic Immunity and The Land is actually owned by Them.
How long are the fire fighter fighting the fire 🔥
Now that's a fire,!, wooden structured buildings is something that I always had my reservations about, I know they are very popular types of builds, but look at the outcome, it's just fortunate that it was under construction, and not occupied, can you imagine evacuating that building at the speed that fire spread, it's a frightening thought,!!!
Check out the fires at the Montrose apartment complex (Houston, Texas ; March 25, 2014) and the Avalon Bay apartment complex (Edgewater, New Jersey ; January 21, 2014). Huge wooden apartment complexes that became huge infernos.
. . . this was a nice one . . . the effects of the FF's efforts were mostly to cool the highway / surroundings . . . nothing at hands to put out such a fire . . . if they had targeted just to protect the surroundings the fire wouldn't even have lasted as long as it would have run out of fuel faster . . . .
Sometimes it is all about cooling it down enough that it doesn't spread. It is going to burn no matter what but cooling it down some keeps it from spreading. Pallet yard fires are the same way, infinite fuel with infinite air and not way to really cool it down except to soak the walls before they fall into the center. Then when they get low enough you can hit the core.
Does the fire dept have to account for how much water they use or it doesn’t matter?
It doesn't matter. On a larger scale I say no water really leaves planet earth, never wasted.
Do you know how many units responded to this call ?
Everything....... and then some more....... that's easily a 10 alarm right there
Did you get any footage of the fire that spread to the Lewis Brisbois building?
Sorry, no.
What abort to use a tankplane DC10
They would have needed flood insurance too.
Good materials that have been used for this large construction or not ;-)
how can it be possible to build such a large building in wood, and indeed in the center of town just up to other buildings, I can not understand it
but please tell me I'm interested. (indeed)
by the way, shows the scaffolding enough what is best to build in = concrete and iron reinforcement,
Is the cost of wood versus concrete that determines the build quality, and what with the cost of building insurance it should be cheaper with a more fire-safe construction.
It is not to be sarcastic but I'm actually interested in your building standards in relation to European standards,
so if anyone has some links I will be happy. Stay safe
In California building codes are different due to seismic activity, AKA eArtHqUaKeS !!! Lots of bricks is a no-no.
Yet the scaffolding held up..had to be one hottt fire
What cost the fire
Good job you guys to put out the big 🔥 fires
How long were you on scene for? Great footage btw!
they were there all night and most of the day putting out the fire and hot spots.
Crazy seeing those palm trees burning even though they are 30' from the building. Fire is such a wonderous yet terrible thing
30 feet ? try 100 or 200 feet !
That’s normal in 🔥 science.
Spontaneous Combustion: friction between real estate values, property taxes, insurance premiums, building costs, and poof, up in smoke. I'm impressed at how far those pumps can throw water off the tower ladders, that's a pretty long distance. Great job in keeping the fire from jumping the road where this was filmed.
MsPrincesspaulina The modern 👨🚒, best investment in tax payers money. Shouldn’t their equipment be as well?
Why do you keep changing how much light goes through the lense, it looks like the fire is all over the place the way you have it
It looks like that because it is all over the place
Had to watch again,,WOW>>>
Not a good finished product for the Owner/s and/or Stakeholder/s
Some say they are still fighting that damn inferno.
That scaffolding is tough !
that was insane first time I've seen it
Surprised they didn't call in one of those helicopter water tankers on that one. It's not like it had a roof.
What the the hell was this matchbox built out of?
OSB. I swear it burns hotter than gasoline. It's all of the glue and crap that's in it.
if that is a apartment structure the tenants are going to wait a little longer
Great video. At the end where you see the other office tower behind the freeway sign, you can see the fire alarm lights on all the floors flashing, thought it was lights from the emergency vehicles at first.
Your right, those are alarm bell-lights. I've seen them go off in buildings downtown before, usually a test or malfunction. Interesting light display when they do go off.
Anyhow, you posted some great video. Thank you for sharing
The fire was so big, it most likely detected the heat or the 💨 from the source. 🔥 gives of radiation, causing fire spread.
firelensman I’m told that in New York there was a dorm building next to an airport runway that when originally built, each floor’s fire alarm lights flashed in unison, one floor after the other. Drove the airport nuts (false alarms etc.) until they could get the school to make changes to that fire alarm system.
Wow, those scaffoldings are some allien technology! :O Human made-ones are usually disintegrating by the light breze..
That scaffolding company did a good job, it held up until the very end, then collapsed inwards.
Three times Grenfeld!
This building is (was) a shame to.
I'm impressed the scaffolding stayed up as long as it did
should of used concrete in the structure with steelstuds for partition walls and not osb thats what happend here ?
Just beautiful 😍.
Seeing this go up in flames makes me wonder how safe the completed building would have been in the event of a fire, although there might have been some fire retardant materials added later in the build. In Britain there have in recent years blocks of flats that have burnt to the ground, some of them timber framed. Luckily the fires haven't spread so fast and everyone has escaped in time, but these people will have lost everything. As nobody is killed, these fires don't make the headlines much, but eventually someone won't be so lucky.
Where is the air unit? This big fire
Well on a wooden structure like that there's nothing much you can do let it burn structure protect then when it collapsed in on its self start putting water on it.. really all you can do surround and drown
the only thing still standing is the concrete staircase at the back side of the building
Driving into work the morning of this fire it lit up all of LA....I WAS 20 miles east ON THE 10 FREEWAY in pomona on Kellogg hill and Ltd looked like a bomb went off in DTLA
cause?
+Kevin Byrne yes I have watched both, horrifying,!
Need to check the fire regs on all that dodgy material
Was this a 2nd or a 3rd alarm assignment????
More like a 10 Alarm Plus Assignment. 25 x 10 = 250. How about that?
Whoa!
firelensman Wow
I did not think that such large buildings are made of wood.
That’s the biggest fire I saw like the may 1 2019 fire
Hate to have had that water bill.😁
looks like it was the most flammable construction site in the world-burnt like rocket fuel
That's because it's all wood construction hmm with earthquakes in LA I'd think steel & Concrete be a better choice for a building being Constructed
Legend has it the fire vaporized so much water it rained the next day
couple things impressed me,
In the first video at about 9:30 you can see three master streams on the left side of the frame, It looks to me like things were hot enough that they were turning to steam by the time the water got close to the fire.
I don't see how, as a fireman, rolling up to something like that, and with my 3 inch master stream, thinking, how is this going to make a difference?
and third, the LA water system could keep up. It'd be an interesting piece of gee whiz information to know the GPM the fire department was flowing at the peak of the fire.
It's like they're pouring gasoline on it...
Water turns to steam when coming in contact with 🔥 lol. The men are smoldering the 🔥, suffocating it, and cooking. Not allowing it to create any more chemical reactions to sources near it. Basic fire science and behavior.
I believe fire is the most destructive elements on earth we had a fire in our home when i was 6 in 1971 my mom and step dad both burnt bad my mother survived my step dad lived one month died fire is a horrible way die
That fire wasn't put out at all, the Firemen were Totally ineffective, it just burned itself out.
Within seconds after arrival, I guarantee they knew they were not going to extinguish that fire/save the building.
Their main goal was to contain it, and prevent other buildings/vegetation from burning - which they did, successfully.
That's how it works with monster sized fires.
#TheMoreYouKnow
Looked at this area today on google and those are pretty apartments.
Those are actually very good apartments if you dont have a problem with traffic sounds
@@marcellagoston1984, I thought so too. I don't know anything about that area but very nice design & architecture.
The arsonist who set the fire only had a sentence of 10 years to life. That does not seem like enough to me he endangered the lives of over 200 firefighters and caused millions of dollars in damage how is 10 years possibly enough.
Plus, there was a major drought going on, wasn't there? Hope the "to life" is what this nasty bugger gets.
Terry Jerome that's just disrespectful. I agree with you 100%
Terry Jerome That guy won't make it ten years, every inmate will want to kill him.
How was he caught?
Arsonists never get long enough sentences.
A tad late to watch this horror; however, what did they find in the investigation? My guess arson. Thanks in advance anyone has any information.
Anyone else notice the razor wire on the road sign @ 9:42??? God damn graffiti...
Almost all the water evaporates before it hits the structure
I heard someone talking about being sunburned... you're not really being burned by UV rays, but I got the comparison. Do you ever wear sunscreen when responding to these large fires? Or would it even work, since you're being burned by radiant heat.... basically being cooked alive. Lol!
Can't even to begin to imagine how hot that fire was.
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Pretty embarrassing that scaffolding is holding up better in a raging fire than a nearly completed apartment complex isn't it? Might be a good time to move on from wood frame construction perhaps?
Dj Djero 🔥 weakness every and any type of material significantly.
Dj Djero its a pretty good chance that all that scaffolding was written off and hauled to the scrapyard after the fire cooled off. No way any of it was still usable afterwards.
Wow good job LAFD!
Purely for curiosities sake, I wonder how much water they used. This is insane.
Gadsdan Each truck can hold a thousand +
this makes three massive apt complexes that were under construcktion and burnt to the ground, makes me wonder if the cause was due to cost over runs maybe.
The similar Houston fire started on the roof in the middle of a work day; I can't imagine any competent arsonist would work that way. I *do* wonder if developers may start re-thinking using all-wood construction for projects of this magnitude
JGC Cincy Constructing buildings with the matchsticks that pass for 2x4's these days is the cheapest way to do it. Since we've collectively bought into the notion that the cheapest, most profitable option is always the right one, I doubt big developers will give the notion of constructing safer and less flammable buildings a second thought. Granted, this building burned extra quickly because it wasn't finished, but UA-cam is overflowing with examples of recently constructed houses and apartment buildings that burn so fast that firefighters can't make an interior attack safely and have no choice but to throw water on them from outside and try to protect exposures. Unfortunately, this has become the American way of doing things...cheap at any cost.
Jason Bogard Only way to stop this absurdity is more stringent building code, for this type of building.
A detached family home out of wood? Ok, as long as there's enough separation between them to prvent the fire jumping over.
A 500 apartment complex in downtown LA with a similar building on the other side of the street, entirely of wood? Insane!
There's no country in Europe where building code allows such type of construction.
Large buildings have to be steel (with adequate fire proofing) or concrete, walls must withstand fire for several hours, and they do, because a apartment fire is in most cases limited to the apartment where the fire started (in some cases fire spreads trough window and door openings to upstairs apartments)
Even for a detached wooden family home regulations are stringent (eg in Scandinavia were this type of home is common, the distance between houses is large) and in some countries like the Netherlands it's almost impossible to get permission for a wooden house.
A ban on wooden construction in citties has a long history in Europe, eg after the Great London Fire in 1666, and after many other medieval citties burned down to the ground.
But as long as the money from big companies dictates politics in the States, there's not much going to change.
That's the issue with California. Wood is the best for earthquakes on a performance/dollar scale.
To build a steel structure to resist the earthquakes we have is a very expensive venture. Concrete won't even survive an earthquake, just crack and crumble.
Not to mention if the "Big One" hits nothing will be left standing, regardless of quality, so wood makes for the easiest material for rescuers to preform rescues from.
You have to look at all of these factors, yes it catches fie easily, but it provides the best survival chance in in earthquake. You get one or the other, not both.
Reinforced concrete may be more expensive to build, but how much did this burned down building cost? and the cost of the new building? There are concrete buildings all over the world in earthquake area's. You are lying.
no firewalls? great planning
+James Weber Putting in the firewalls is part of the construction process. As the framing is done, the building is very vulnerable to a massive fire because the drywall and firewalls are not in place yet.
I google mapped this building, 913 W Temple Street, L.A., you would never know this was the site of a major fire..
The Pom tree 🌳 sparked on fire
I just don't get it. Why the houses in USA are made from paper? The structure of an apartment block made from wood? Where is the the steel? It's obvious the firefighters can't put out the inicial fire and save this construction.
In Portugal were i live all the houses and apartments are made from concrete, bricks and steel. So if a fire start in a floor the firefighters can save the building
where do you stand with the marshmallows?
behind the firetruck with a long stick lol XD
I bet this took all night and probably all day the next day to put out this fire
Keri Whitmire You think it’s out, but there could still be a source burning under all that, that you couldn’t see to the naked eye. So firefighters will normally stay on scene for an extended timeZ
I bet it's hot enough to fry eggs in those highrises
Would you butter the pan with butter of vegetable oil ?
this fire was just Wow
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This fire showed why the LAPD are a BUNCH of Badass Firefighters .
All that smoke set off neighboring buildings fire alarm systems.
Was that apartment building made out of wood or was that the wood just for the concrete forms. Boy was it built close to the interstate I hope they have good soundproofing