GoPro view of fighting a fire.

[RaisedByWolves]

Check out how many times he has to put the Kerosene heater out. It was probably still burning when he redirected his efforts to the rest of the structure.

 

[MontanaLon]

For some reason your video didn't open up. Let me try.

I was a firefighter for 20 years, my officers would have kicked my butt for going into a structure in that condition unless there was an imminent danger to life. The kerosene heater and any vessel containing a flammable liquid is going to be a serious problem to put out once it has been exposed to heating and the boiling point of the liquid has been reached. We had a barn fire once with a big diesel tank up on legs next to it. The fire was close enough and hot enough to get the diesel boiling and the vapor shooting out the top was catching on fire. It wasn't going to make the barn fire worse, it was already trashed, but it prevented us from approaching that side of the barn so we had to cool it down to get it to stop boiling. It took a lot of water to cool off the diesel and stop that part of the fire and then someone constantly on watch to keep it cool so it didn't light up again. The problem with knocking down the fire without cooling the boiling liquid is it keeps producing flammable vapors that will fill the available space and find an ignition source and then light off again, probably while you are surrounded by those vapors. Not a good situation.

 

[Just for fun]

I'm not even a firefighter and I was thinking the same thing. Then I got to thinking about it, it just doesn't look right. There is no roof on it, it's just a bunch of debris in a block enclosure. Probably some sort of training session or maybe something made for the GoPro thing.

 

[Nutfarmer]

The building was so far gone the sheet metal you see is the roof. Not smart fighting fire in an area with the over head is coming down. There was nothing left to save and needlessly putting firemen at risk. First clue that the roof had gone was the visibility was good and the firemen were able to stand upright. If this was an intact building the heat build up would have forced them to the floor and the smoke would have been layered from very dense near the ceiling to visibility only near the floor. Made a good picture for the uninitiated.

 

[mmcmdl]

Looks like the firepit on a good binge night ! I had to go thru the burn building down at UMs fire fighting training site every year . I could could go thru a 30 minute oxygen tank in 5 minutes .