How to avoid a Backdraft

As a firefighter of 6 years these two backdraft videos provide in depth information and training purposes that will help firefighters understand and evaluate a backdraft more efficiently. Thank yoy very much!!!

When two people who used to throw molotov cocktails at there grandparents house start getting big productions. Huge respect to you two!!

You guys should try filming an ultrasonic vaporizer. I'd love to see how the broken capillary wave forms at the surface of the water, and at what point the vapor begins to be produced. Great video as always!

I think the "scruffy, adrenaline high, post-fire-helmet" look really works for Gav 👍

I like how Dan has protection for his arm and then just uses his other arm instead

Dan w/o eyebrows is a cursed image.

Hi ! Great video. I was surprised you guys didn't ask about the procedure they use to "disarm" a potential backdraft situation. I think they do something like punch a hole in the roof to control a potential backdraft.

My job is about promoting fire safety. We do live demonstrations of oil fires. If you ever get an oil fire, cover it to stifle the oxygen, turn off the heat, then do nothing else except for calling the fire brigade. The biggest mistake people make is taking the lid or cover off too soon. Never try moving it. Oh, and never put water on an oil fire. (Incidentally, that might make an interesting slow mo video).

One thing to note when Dan is pulling the lid of the BBQ off. He's pulling it "towards" himself to use the lid as a type of shield. Most people who get injured by this type of backdraft is tipping the lid to the right or left and they are looking into the grill. There is no projection/shield between them and the re-igniting fire. So the fire ball engulfs them and they end up looking like Dan at the closing scene, best case ending. Or they end up on their way to the hospital. ALWAYS open a grill top with the top between you and the grill if at all possible if it even remotely looks like it's just smoking and the flames went out. Better safe than looking like Dan.

Producers: How much craziness do you want in your video? Gavin & Dan: Yes

Am i the only one that thinks that gavin looks like the guy in “cloudy with a chance of meatballs” ?

I love this because my dad is a firefighter and he has been in 2 backdrafts during his career

Love that eyebrow gag at the end. Thought it were someone else first xD

This is why you respect firefighters

Самый страшный кошмар пожарных - когда их обзывают пожарниками. 😁

That ending, Dan eyebrow-less, hilarious!! Well done! Great video!

At normal speed the BBQ backdraft doesn't look too serious. In Slow Mo it is scary how big the flames were!

So no one really explained it completely, but without oxygen, combustion cannot occur, so instead pyrolysis happens. Pyrolysis is the incomplete burning of the fuel into simple carbon molecules and hydrocarbons/tars. That's what the smoke is. In complete combustion, the smoke is CO2 and ash - minerals like potassium hydroxide. That kind of smoke cannot set on fire. So basically the heat without oxygen evaporates the fuel into a gas, which looks like smoke, but can combust upon introduction of oxygen and heat (fireball starts where air meets heat source)

Such a good interview with the chief, wish it was longer!

I am a firefighter, and a rollover is indeed one of the things I have the greatest repect.